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Top Match Preview: Underachieving Argentina on the brink of crisis

by Peter Coates at Monday, Nov 14 2016 16:50
Top Match Preview: Underachieving Argentina on the brink of crisis “We are in a difficult situation but we know that qualification depends on us,” declared Edgardo Bauza in the aftermath of the horror show in Belo Horizonte on Thursday.While many had hoped that last month’s home defeat to Paraguay was the lowest point, the manner with which Brazil...
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Top Match Preview: Brazil aiming to exorcise Mineirao demons against Argentina

by Jack Lang at Wednesday, Nov 9 2016 17:36
Top Match Preview: Brazil aiming to exorcise Mineirao demons against Argentina Even two years on, the memories remain fresh. It was a harrowing, indelible night, one that continues to be spoken about with a vague sense of disbelief. There are defeats and then there are defeats, and Brazil's World Cup capitulation at the hands of Germany – 'the 7-1', as it has come to be ...
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Hot Streak: Is Racing's Marcos Acuna ready to fill Di Maria's boots for Argentina?

by Peter Coates at Tuesday, Oct 25 2016 12:15
Hot Streak: Is Racing's Marcos Acuna ready to fill Di Maria's boots for Argentina? Argentina’s abject displays in the previous two World Cup qualifiers resulted in a fortunate draw with Peru, a humiliating defeat on home soil to Paraguay and several of the senior members of Edgardo Bauza’s squad coming under intense scrutiny. With many questioning how much longer La Al...
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Player Focus: Can Di María Replicate his Copa America Form for United Next Season?

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Jul 6 2015 17:00
Player Focus: Can Di María Replicate his Copa America Form for United Next Season? When you become the most expensive transfer in the history of a league, the pressure to succeed from the get go will always be high. That was the case with Ángel Di María who, after much speculation, put pen to paper for Manchester United in a deal worth £59.7m last summer. The A...
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Match Focus: Chile & Argentina Battle to End Trophy Drought in Copa America Final

by Jonathan Wilson at Thursday, Jul 2 2015 12:14
Match Focus: Chile & Argentina Battle to End Trophy Drought in Copa America Final The Copa America probably has the final it deserves. Chile were the team of the group stage, while Argentina, having promised so much without delivering once again, finally caught light in the semi-final with their 6-1 evisceration of Paraguay. These are the two top scorers in the competition, the o...
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Team Focus: Argentina Must Be Wary of Pragmatic Paraguay's Resilience

by Miguel Delaney at Tuesday, Jun 30 2015 14:48
Team Focus: Argentina Must Be Wary of Pragmatic Paraguay's Resilience It wasn’t so much a match summation from Paraguay’s Osvaldo Martinez, as a mission statement.After his team had so deservedly eliminated Brazil from the quarter-finals of this Copa America, the midfielder attempted to describe how they’d done it, only to assert their defining quali...
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Match Focus: Argentina & Colombia Must Remove Shackles for a Memorable Game

by Miguel Delaney at Friday, Jun 26 2015 10:30
Match Focus: Argentina & Colombia Must Remove Shackles for a Memorable Game As an Argentine managing Colombia, Jose Pekerman couldn’t conceal his envy at those not directly involved in Friday night’s Copa America quarter-final.It’s attractive, the 65-year-old said on the eve of the game. It would excite me as a supporter because of the adventure of the two...
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Tournament Focus: Copa America 2015 Group Stage Roundup

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Jun 22 2015 14:40
Tournament Focus: Copa America 2015 Group Stage Roundup The culmination of the group stages of the 2015 Copa America eventually saw few surprises, despite both Mexico and Venezuela falling at the first hurdle, and ultimately those expected to progress did so. Heavyweights Uruguay and Colombia navigated their way through Group B and C respectively by the ...
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Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina?

by Miguel Delaney at Wednesday, Jun 17 2015 11:11
Team Focus: Will Much Needed Win Spark New Life into Ambling Argentina? On Tuesday night in La Serena, you would imagine, Leo Messi slept a lot more soundly. Argentina meanwhile might finally wake up. The story after their 2-2 draw against Paraguay was that Messi couldn’t rest, so frustrated was he with the manner of his team’s collapse. That could be felt t...
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Player Focus: Lionel Messi - World Cup 2014 Player of the Tournament

by Alistair Tweedale at Monday, Jul 14 2014 16:47
Player Focus: Lionel Messi - World Cup 2014 Player of the Tournament It speaks volumes about the Lionel Messi's talents that the World Cup he has just enjoyed could still be considered such a catastrophic failure in so many quarters. Despite providing the strikes to all-but carry an otherwise goal-shy Argentina into the knockout stages of the 2014 World Cup, Messi st...