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at what time is this???

 

at lunch hour .........i will watch the seocnd half

 

Scaloni has some guts...…..I'll give him that.

Or maybe he know he is out regardless, so he can be afford to be bold.

Nice looking line-up.

 

Crap start from us, no attacking play at all.

 

Lo Celso is dissapearing. Needs to implement himself more

 

Battaglia and Paredes need to be replaced. Asascibar and Palacios are far better. No control from deep or accuracy. Lo Celso has been excellent. Saravia needed to show Neymar down the line and did get caught out once but other than that impressive and offers width.

A pity the two deep lying mids cannot move or switch the ball quickly enough.

 

Pity Martinez

 

Other than a Lo Celso shot, we really didn’t create anything.

I realize Brazil is a very strong, technical team — but I expected us to impose ourselves a little more.

Defense has been good so far, and midfield is protecting it better — but not really creating anything.

 

Saravia has been great. The midfield has struggled mightily.

 

What is Scaloni thinking when bringing on Salvio. I just don’t think he provides much.

 

Friggin Romero.

 

Typical. Nevertheless excellent from Saravia. Battaglia and Paredes need to work on their game. Asascibar and Palacios are better. Caseres offers more as well. Excellent effort from all. Untroubled for the most part against a full strength Brazil minus Costa despite just rebuilding.

Let Scaloni, Aimar and Samuel continue as far as I am concerned.

 

Romero being Romero.

 

Well aside from Armani this looks to be our Achilles heel. We don't apart from Franco have a top class keeper. Looks like defence is being reborn along with the midfield and strikers. And we look like a team again.

 

Palacios and Asascibar are the way forward. Far better anticipating in defence and far better able to do things with the ball when they do have it. Paredes is far too slow in body and mind for me. Battaglia looked rather clumsy for the most part. Next match Caseres also deserves a crack. Leandro and Rodrigo should be told they need to improve if they are to make it next time for the games against Mexico.

 

I thought these kids were extremely disicpline and have guts. They hung around until the ultimate substitutions happened. This was a very good showing.

 

I don't know.....we were under a quite bit of pressure in the last 20 mins or so. Lo Celso and Saravia were decent. The rest...hard to say.

No real service again to the forwards from the midfield. Our mid just cannot create anything.

 

-----------------------------Armani ---------------------------------------------
Saravia------------?----------------Pezzella-----------Tagliafico(c)----
-----------------Asascibar-------------------Palacios--------------------
----------------------------------Lo Celso----------------------------------
----De Paul---------------------------------------Dybala-------------------
-----------------------------------Icardi-----------------------------------

These three impressed me for inclusion. Need to find a new centreback pairing soon in preparation for 2022 post Otamendi.

 

I'm not even upset. For what was really our second game against a real opponent, I think there were a few positives. Saravia won his spot, IMO, him keeping Neymar down was great, plus a few kicks to that clown were great to see. It also showed that Armani needs to be our #1. What an amateur mistake by Romero.

Brasil took this game far more serious, they didn't sub our majority of their stars, while we began to withdraw later from the second half.

The negative was our forwards and midfield. As I stated, you cannot play Dybala out of position, he simply does not function well, he cannot adapt. Icardi needs to be a lone striker up front. That needs to be figured out. Maybe, we play with a 4-4-2 and have Lautaro and Dybala start until Icardi and Lautaro find their partnership at Inter. We have the right names in the midfield but they're just slightly off in their rhythm and teamwork. Maybe a couple tweaks and we can get there.

 

Brazil have arguably the best team in the world, and they had a full strength team out there today. Taking that into consideration, these players did OK.

- Paredes and Battaglia are a bit slow. Ascacibar's intensity was missed.

- Saravia won his spot today. His defensive display against Neymar was great.

- Otamendi is still the best centerback Argentina have.

- Dybala doesn't work on the wing. He needs to play in the middle or not at all.

 

From what I saw, (work limited) and given the horde of marauding MFs on the that Brazuca squad, I am happy, on the whole, with the progress of this squad, namely that they did not go out and get slaughtered. Far better rendition and display today than the a55 kicking in Brazil during qualifiers. I realize they are quite distinct, but the kids did well for the most part.They passed their way out of Brazil pressure on several occasions in the 1st half. Not creating & going forward as I would have liked, but given the youth of this squad & the fracaso qualification & WC, I'll take not looking like shite ... for now.

Battaglia, loosely translated from Italian to Criolla, means Biglia.

Lanzini, please get fully recovered soon. your spot awaits.

Banga would have been nice/useful today. Scaloni.

As long as all the subs were being made, Kanneman should have been in at the end. Bet he keeps that one of Miranda's head.

Very excited about the prospects of Saravia & Tagliafico FB combo for years to come.

Hey @Albiceleste2010 - Welcome back sir, How was your trip/sabbatical over to our side of the world.? Hopefully a memorable one.

 

Watched the first 70 minutes. It was a disciplined performance but IMO nothing more than that... It's still a new team that will need some gelling, but I also felt that aside from Dybala, the team could have been out there for 180 minutes and never picked a pass or made any movements between the lines, instead passing sideways and backwards until they launched a long (innaccurate) one forward.
I might be alone in this but I think Lanzini & Messi either side of Dybala is the way to go come next year. The midfield didn't look too good but they were up against an elite side and there wasn't much being offered between the lines. The defence looks really good.