2022 World Cup Qatar: Group C - Argentina vs. Mexico

Ya everyone does it but I think we're worse than most in starting young players.

Experience is an excuse. Picking top players on current form will always give you enough vets. In our case we would still have Messi, Di Maria, Otamendi, Dibu... actually almost everyone in our team is a vet except Enzo and a couple others. Real reason is people don't want to drop fan favorites.

You're right about Scaloni. Only mistake I see was Paredes rathe than Guido when the former is way out of form and Guido has been great. But even this is understandable given our winning run. Second is Garnacho who is a tactically perfect fit

 

Let me ask you this. Who is not at the World Cup that should be here? I see Garnacho’s name mentioned but I said this a few times already, if Garnacho came to the season prepared, he would’ve had more game time and would likely be at the World Cup, like Enzo. But he caught on fire a month ago or so and it was a bit too late for him to come along. At least in the eyes of Scaloni. Personally, I would have taken him but I cannot really fault Scaloni for leaving him out.

But who else is missing that should be there?

 

Almada since we don't need another attacking mid. We have Correa for that. On the other hand we have no pure left winger which is the gap that Nico left.

Don't care if he only has played a month. He's was named Manchester United player of the month. But you can just watch him play. It's obvious he is in top form, plays on the left, has pace, can dribble his man.

WC is a snapshot of most in form players at the moment. Not a career accomplishment reward. That's how I see it. No reason to think a player who has been poor for 6 months will suddenly regain form for the few world cup matches. Especially this one with no gap between club and tournament.

 

So, going back and watching highlights v our last match v Mexico… Lautaro scored a goal that probably would have been called offside by this VAR. This made it 2-0 and pretty much put the game away. Look at the time…



Messi’s goal… that was called back(Perhaps rightfully) the time was almost the same, which would have made it 2-0… Look at the time…

 

mexico won’t have anything to play for in their final game though as they’ll be eliminated once they lost to us of Saudi wins their second match

 

Reminds me of the clearly offside goal Tevez scored against Mexico in our 3-1 win. I normally like Mexico. We've normally beaten them... hopefully their gods don't take revenge tomorrow.

 

That's exactly the thing though. Of course you can't fault Scaloni for not taking a kid with a handful of games. That's the easy thing to do.

Taking a young kid is obviously a risk. A wild card that'll give you nothing or a big reward. A risk we never have the balls to take.

 

Again, no. Mexico will still have a chance in qualifying even if they lose tomorrow.

 

Not really. Let's say after 2nd match, both Argentina and Saudi Arabia win

Saudi Arabia 6
Argentina 3
Mexico 1
Poland 1

All final group stage matches occur at the same time, so Mexico still has something to play for depending on the GD.

 

Our success should not be predicated on an 18 year old who had a hot month.

 

Come on, you know I never said such thing. You are better than that.

 

We have disallowed goal in 2006 when Roman played the ball fo Aimar and Airnar assisted Messi. Replay showed it was ONside.

Its forgotten incident because the magnitute of Maxi's goal. It just wiped the rest of the game from memory lol

 

I was at that match vs Mexico in 2006. Sensational goal.
Back to that game tomorrow, Romero has no business starting, either Paredes or De Paul should be benched as well, if not both ,and ADM should be a supersub. Lisandro and Julian should start!

 

Decent line up although De Paul is an issue. He was terrible vs SA and has been a shadow of his former self at Atletico Madrid this season.

 

My prediction, Lautaro, Messi & ADM will score. Its 3-0 or 3-1. I feels that our defence has yet to reach their usual level. Cuti isnt fit, Acuna fitness is question mark aswell, Tagli is always limited , Dibu tend to sleep if he's not busy.

 

He has relationship problem , I think his former GF took him to the court or something like that. It might have more impact on his personal life than I thought.

 

Saudi draw Poland will be the best result.

 

I would have brought Garnacho and Medina. Garnacho is incredibly raw but all it takes is one bursting run to create a cutback and goal. A pinpoint cross or a moment of trickery or sheer pace to earn a penalty or free kick and a card for the opposition.

He's completely unafraid. It's like England bringing Owen in 1998.

As for the result between Poland and Saudi Arabia a draw would be ideal. We just have to make sure we do our job and focus on our ninety minutes irrespective of that result. However it would mean going to the last game Poland would have to come out which always favours us.

 

Owen dived in both 98 & 02, even admitted to Poch who tackled him in 02, albeit in joking manner.

 

Actually, I would prefer a Poland win vs SA. If we beat Mexico, it could be a better situation since a win vs Poland may give Argentina the top spot in the group, assuming that Mexico can win or tie vs SA.

 

This is what I was thinking