2012 International Friendlies

Full time 4-0
Arguero assist from Di Maria
Gonzalo H. assist from Messi
Messi assist from Gonzalo H.
Di Maria assist from Sosa.

Drew against the best side in Latin America, away. 1 point away from Chile and 2 from Argentina who are top...



Nada mal.

Happy for Venezuela, but I want Columbia to qualify too

Hopefully Mehgentina chokes

Why is that match being discussed here? It was an official game lol.

Gomez83 wrote:shocking how easy yellow cards come to Argentina and not Ecuador..

The entire stadium kept calling him an "hijo de puta" for every wrong call he made. Even the 8 year old girl sitting next to me

my thought exactly Barrilete...

we have a World Cup Qualifying thread stickied at the top to discuss WCQ games like these for a reason.

Denmark 2 - 0 Australia

Aus played crap. Denmark was pretty meh too. Only highlight was Eriksen's pass to Agger that led to the penalty for Denmark's first goal.

Argentina always performs like GOATs in friendlies tho'

Anyway, I don't think it's neccesarry to drop anyone from the starting lineup today vs. Brazil. I don't know much about the other players but both Higuain and Di Maria work their asses off and hassle their opponents... But I doubt Argentina will be able to handle Brazil's attack with that defence.

Brazil will win imo.

Arg match wasn't a friendly mate.

Higuain played well so did Di Maria. I'll watch them against Brazil. Hopefully, no one gets injured.

LOL Messi was the best player on the pitch by an absolute mile, every single attack went through him but that is'nt unusual for Argentina as he almost always is..... what people cant seem to grasp is for Argentina he is a creator not a goalscorer.... because he does'nt score dont make him shit just look at how many chances he creates every game for Argentina not his fault that the forwards dont finish it off.

In any case the lop-sided 4-3-3 worked fantastically last night but it did leave Zabaleta exposed quite a lot and you have to think that Marcelo and Neymar will exploit that.

I would drop one of the strikers for Gaitan.... unfortunatly it gives one less option for Messi and Di Maria ( who was outstanding too) to pass to but it's probably too much of a risk to let Zabaleta deal with Marcelo and Neymar by himself

Also yeah, it was'nt a friendly it was a WC qualifying match so i dont know why it was discussed here either but seeing as everyone was discussing it here i followed suit

Tbf Ecuador were terrible. The amount of space they gave Messi... smh.

Who does Argentina face next in the eliminatorias?

Paraguay, but not until September.

i expect a lot of goals next week,argentina will score at least 2 vs us

Argentina will win it without a doubt.

halamadrid2 wrote:Missi did a choke job if it wasnt for Higgy and DiMaria Argentina would never have won

Let Portugal have Higuain and DiMaria and throw them Nani and Almeida in return lets see how good Argentina do

Not sure if serious. But all Messi did was move the ball 95% of the way up and Higgy did a simple 1-2 pass back to messi for his goal. Also Di Maria is class though.

Chicha bout to merk T.Silva

Rafael, Danilo, Juan, Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Sandro, Rómulo, Óscar, Leandro Damiao, Hulk & Neymar

Corona, Rodriguez, Salcido, Torres, Moreno, Meza, Guardado, Barrera, Zavala, Dos Santos & Chicharito

Brazil XI v Mexico: Rafael, Danilo, Juan, Thiago Silva, Marcelo, Sandro, Rómulo, Óscar, Leandro Damiao, Hulk & Neymar

Mexico XI v Brazil: Corona, Rodríguez, Salcido, Severo, Moreno, Torres Nilo, Barrera, Dos Santos, Zavala, Guardado, Javier Hernández

Too late.

That was a penalty for Brazil... but the ref doesn't want to hear. Hulk is freakin scary.

Brazil 0-1 Mexico

Dos Santos eurogoal