Comments on: WCQ: Argentina to host Ecuador Tomorrow

By: day1star

day1star — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:52:46 +0000

Well, i suppose we should all live in the hope that they were saving everything for the game against Brazil.

By: day1star

day1star — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:50:28 +0000

Quite frankly, that was unbelievably bad. We were slow, even turtles are faster than the pace we were playing at. Where was the closing down, where was the hustling.
Bad game for Riquelme, looked a bit out of sorts.
Burdisso terrible passing.
Pato instead of being on his line was too far forward so couldn’t stop the ball.
Demichelis made some great interceptions.
Heinze ok but slow, not enough pace.
Zanetti played ok in spurts.
Veron some nice passes but lacks pace.
Mascherano played well, hopefully it’s not a bad injury
Messi slow to get going but once he did was our most dangerous player.
Maxi didn’t play too badly.
Gago played well when he came on.
Aguero missed some chances but assisted Palacio at the end.
Cruz missed chances also but sort of expected that after the US game.
Our passing was terrible, i know that we were being closed down really quick but we were playing really slow. I said b4 this game that the line-up that Basile picked didn’t have enough pace, i hope he doesn’t pick a similar line-up against Brazil. We need pace in the midfield and the defense.
Sorry, Maradona that i couldn’t answer your question, i was downstairs watching the match on TV, i only just came up now and saw your message.

By: maradona

maradona — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:28:44 +0000

Looking back:

- Argentina’s offense did not click because Aguero and Riquelme were not in form.

- Mascherano had to substituted and Argentina’s defense looked very shaky from then on – probably shows how Mascherano dependent the team has become.

- Burdisso and Heinze were terrible.

- Zanetti was well below his usual but still better then most others.

- If required Basile needs to be able to substitute his main offensive players like Riquelme and fall back on a different plan at any point in the game. Riquelme has not recovered from his injury and it is stupid to make him play all 90 minutes. Today he completely disappeared after 60 minutes.

- Pato Pato Pato: WTF is he doing in the NT colors? He was called into play only once in the game and the ball literally flew over his head before he could react. This guy is a freakin’ comedy show.

- All is not gloomy btw. Argentina kept fighting till the last kick and that payed off big time. Their game was completely ineffective but they had self-belief.

By: maradona

maradona — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:14:27 +0000

That is what they get for wasting time nuff’ said.

By: ajNYHC

ajNYHC — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:11:51 +0000

FINALLY – atleast we didn’t lose.

By: ajNYHC

ajNYHC — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:11:35 +0000

GOAAAAAALLLL!!!!!!

By: Debasish

Debasish — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:07:11 +0000

It will be a 0-2 at the end a counter attack. This sucks.

Argentina is going thru a Barcelona syndrome. Cannot score goals.

By: maradona

maradona — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:04:17 +0000

Riquelme and Aguero should have been substituted long ago. Basile has screwed up no doubt.

By: Debasish

Debasish — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:02:12 +0000

Too many misses. Again we deserve to lose. No urgency unless you concede. More than urgency its like panic. I would drop Riquelme and get Palacio in

By: ajNYHC

ajNYHC — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:00:21 +0000

I think we should bring Battaglia for Riquelme, push Veron forward.