What is happening?

there is no problem in having two playmakers but usually playmakers are given low if no definsive role. remember offensive midfielders like gerard in liverpool particularly is given a lot of defensive duty but can we say he is a playmaker …the same thing goes for lampard….so who is the coach that will free two of his midfielders of the dirty work?

i agree with you that a deep playmaker like pirlo is becoming more attractive nowadays..remember veron in inter…however i think such scheme needs good midfielders in both defence and offence like maxi rodreguiez who is one of rare argentinean midfielders who can do both jobs with excellence…lucho and cambiasso are not rounded as this player that i wish i see him soon with the NT…

http://www.myp2p.us/Matches/Match3.htm

Regarding Cambiasso ,Masche & Gago are the first choices for Basile.

Cambiasso is a very good player maybe he could play in a more advanced role as he has done with sucess at Inter at times.

Give Aguero time and a sucessful u20 World Cup (similarly for Higuain next season )as we saw with Tevez as I mentioned it takes time even form the best palyers to settle into a new country & footballing pysche.

As for Aimar he can’t shoot ,his shooting accuracy percentage is on a par with most strikers.

He has never had confidence placed in him by the coach at NT level. As for Riquelme it’s no co-incidence that when he was withdrawn against Germany the midfield started to collapse & pressure started to build.

He’s an artist .His vision compensates for his lack of pace & quite a few of the assists for our WC goals came from his boots. So let’s not discard him or lambast him for the team’s perceived failures.

We played superb Argentinian football last summer but Lady Luck was not there.

Btw Maxilopez have you compiled your analysis of that game esp. the challenge on Maxi by Lahm ?

“Gago can be considered like a playmaker but not in Argentina”.

Mistakes!