Argentine NT: News, Stats & Players [R]

Ocampos is starting for Sevilla. BeIN is making this match almost unwatchable. They’ve added some digital background where they’re trying to make it appear that there are people in the stands. Not to mention, that horrible fake fan noise. But you can turn that off, and hear the players, which is a bonus.

And to add, Ocampos has been very lively. So much skill and talent. Had a great run and hit the crossbar.

 

PK goal and a great assist for Ocampos.


The assist.

After scoring the opener on a penalty, Lucas Ocampos sets up Fernando with a *sweet* back-heel to help Sevilla double its lead over Real Betis in #ElGranDerbi

(via @IntChampionsCup)https://t.co/rn4R8fJyPm

— SI Soccer (@si_soccer) June 11, 2020

 

Ocampos will probably be a starter come Copa America 21

 

If he continues playing like this? No doubt. Ocampos has always been a talented player, at the U17’s he was a star. It took him a bit of time finding his feet but the last couple, he’s been quite good, especially this season, 11’goals and 6 assists in league play. But I hope he continues this level of play. For example, Tucu was great last season and had a breakout season but has stumbled this season. High level of consistency is very important.

 

But as far as their goalkeepers, Musso should be starting instead of Armani

 

He needs minutes so it was a good move to get away from Spurs and away from the spot light for a bit. It could do him some good to iron out the wrinkles in his game. His potential is probably on par or better than Perez. So, hopefully this works out for him but I'm not holding my breath.

 

2008 Olympic Gold Medal team. What a team it was. Messi wearing 15 because of the big boss man standing behind him in number 10. Wow. Those were the days. I remember in the Copa America around those times too when we had boss man, Messi, and Crespo all on the field together.

Zabaleta with hair

Some good discussion here and interesting perspective from a different crowd:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FIFA/comme...quad/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

 

Zabaleta with hair? I can top that.

 

But if he goes to Leeds he gets to play under a great Argentine manager in Bielsa so

 

Juve-Milan.

Milan is such a shit-show, if Gaich is going to Italy, he’d be better going to someplace like Atalanta or something.

Dybala has been rather quiet.

 

AC Milan actually would not be such a bad move

 

Milan is a dumpster fire. Not a good movie if he ends up in Italy.

 

The 2008 team also beat Neatherlands earlier in the tournament but yea, the 2004 team was crazy good. Tevez & Saviola alone has 10+ goals and clean sheet for the whole tournament was just spectacular. However, Brazil actually put a very strong squad in 2008, there's the likes of Thiago Silva, Ramires , Anderson, Ronaldinho, Pato, some of those already playing for big sides like Milan and MU.

I think those period was the very peak of Argentina youth teams. 5 WYC & 2 olympics gold medals in less than 15 years span is simply unmatched.

 

I just think back to Russia 2018 2 years ago and I laugh so hard mainly because of Sampaoli and his tattoos or his tight shirt...like I don't understand how Sampaoli was a great coach for Chile when he managed them but with his own country Argentina he fails

 

Sampaoli system needs time and the personnel for it to work. He had Sevilla playing some great futbol prior to taking the job as our DT.

He wanted the job of the CAC but Tata sat on his ass and didn’t make a choice about returning or leaving. Sampa signed on with Sevilla and Tata stepped down a short time later. Sampa didn’t have the time to get the team going. It is a system that needs time for it to work. Had he taken the job right after the CAC things could’ve been different. A wasted opportunity IMO.

 

But I heard also that Messi didn't really like Sampaoli as coach nor did some of the other players on that team

 

AFA made mistake by not appointing him right after Copa 2016, instead they picked Bauza the clown to ruin our qualifier run and then replaced him with Sampa in last quarter of the qualifier when the team needed the points badly so he couldnt experiment.

 

Well, I don't want to judge on people based on their appearance but. Being a manager over Argentina NT is totally different than chili that's because it needs identified behaviour & attitude which are always needed to lead such quality of players which personally I don't believe that Sampaioly have them.

As far as sufficient time is concerned, Pekerman Is a good example of coach who needs only some training & lecturing sessions in order to create a competitive & strong team. Unfortunately, one of the best coaches over the world with wide history & his country doesn't have the clue of having him back.

 

I know if Pekerman came back as national team coach, he would do a better job this time around

 

Yea, we'll reach the final next year under Pekerman. We gonna scores a brilliant early team goal, and then he'd replace our key midfielder & forwards with defensive players , trying to protect 1 goal lead for remaining 80 minutes, and then conceided late goal and lost another shootout.

 

https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...lter-benitez-nice-open-to-playing-for-france/

Walter Benitez has been one of the top goalkeepers in Ligue 1 for the past year now. I think Argentina should call him up and cap him. It would be a shame to lose him to France.

 

If Benitez is capped by Argentina, that gives you another world class goalkeeper

 

Tactically the 2018 World Cup was a complete nightmare.

4231 against Iceland with a right flank of Meza and Salvio
343 against Croatia with Acuna and Salvio as wingbacks and Meza as forward
442 against Nigeria with Perez as a wide midfielder
433 against France with Pavon and Di Maria flanking Messi

There were no tactics. Sampaoli was just making it up as he went along.

If you compare that to France, the difference is night and day. They had the same starting 11 and the same tactics every game. They knew what the plan was and stuck by it.