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Copa América 2011

boxhead

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Di Maria has been playing well, I don't really rate the guy but he has impressed me, he certainly moves off the ball a lot and he has nice skills and a decent shot on him.

Higuian was poor against Costa Rica, he hasn't played much football in the past couple of months for Real Madrid so he is very rusty, Messi set him up with a couple of one-on-ones that he couldn't put away. He should improve with more game time, I like him in the side as he provides the team with a genuine target up front both to hold the ball up and in the air.

The guy who has impressed me the most though is Aguero, I've never rated him, thought he was all hype, but he has been very good

Good to hear, thanks. On Aguero, I was jumping around in excitement when I heard he wanted to sign for Real; he is a fantastic player. It's too bad we missed out on him, but whoever signs him (he wants to leave Atletico I believe?) will be very pleased, I can assure you.
 

Twizzle

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Aguero hasn't gone anywhere yet so no one has missed out on him.

He's talking to a few clubs and RM is one of them.
 
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Cause your persistant mocking of a 2nd string national team, they sent a whole team of unknowns with exception of a few players and all in all they didn't go to bad,

Hernandez if he had played would of helped hugely and actually finished off the chances they created

0 points

:lol:
 

boxhead

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Aguero hasn't gone anywhere yet so no one has missed out on him.

He's talking to a few clubs and RM is one of them.

I thought the Atletico president came out and said they won't sell him to RM? Of course, we can offer more money than anyone else so it wouldn't surprise me if they gave in.
 

Twizzle

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I thought the Atletico president came out and said they won't sell him to RM? Of course, we can offer more money than anyone else so it wouldn't surprise me if they gave in.

translated = We will sell him for a lot more money that is currently being offered.
 

abpanther

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SBS is showing all games live from now till finals, Argentina vs Uruguay is on at 7:45am, should be a cracker!!!
 

boxhead

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Man City will probably come along and steal him for 60 mil :lol:

Unfortunately for them, even with Aguero they still won't score goals.
Jokes aside, if Tevez leaves I would bet on them throwing that much at Aguero.

translated = We will sell him for a lot more money that is currently being offered.

Hmm, he's not worth that much though. Of course though, he will be in a few years, no question.
 
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SBS is showing all games live from now till finals, Argentina vs Uruguay is on at 7:45am, should be a cracker!!!

Awesome news. Hopefully this game lives up to the usual hype and spite of the past. The tournament needs a rocket up the arse tbh.

Current Gold cup winners

Yeah, prestigious competition that :lol:

Cuba
Guatemala
Jamaica
Guadeloupe

Doesn't get any better than that :lol:
 

aqua_duck

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Argentina suffer from having too many players who play the same positions, Tevez is one of the most over rated players in the modern game, if he's worth €50 milllion than Messi is worth €400 million, Higuain should've scored 3 or 4 but didn't have his finishing boots on, and I can't understand why exactly Pastore gets so little game time and a useless hack like Gago starts
 

HowHigh

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Haha..too bad Argentina
I missed the game cause I was sleeping but it was nice to wake up and see the result.
 

abpanther

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What a terrible performance, talk about a group of individuals, there was no chemistry or cohesion, our play consisted of passing it to Messi on the left or Di Maria on the right and hoping they could do something. It shouldn't surprise me anymore how pathetic our defenders are, it's an Argentine tradition, but seriously Burdisso and Milito were shocking.

Messi did all he could, set up one goal, was the sole attacking and creative thread in the side, but there's only so much one person can do when they have to receive the ball very wide or on the halfway line.

I've never rated Aguero or Di Maria and both showed why in this game, Di Maria either makes a selfish run or he plays backwards, no creative spark. Meanwhile Aguero is the kinda guy you don't want in your side when things get tough, deadset he disappears. Argentina badly need a creative central midfielder, until then they will continue to struggle.

Congrats to Uruguay, but seriously not being sour or anything but that was not a very good advertisement for football. Uruguay played very dirty and very defensive, just trying to score from free kicks (which Argentina continue to not be able to defend), meanwhile without Messi I think this Argentine side would struggle to break the top 20 worldwide at the moment.

Oh and Gago sucks so badly
 

hellteam

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Geez Suarez was being a little bitch this morning. Hadn't watched soccer for a while, forgot how big tournament games turn into farces. It was tough to watch.
 

whall15

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Just watched Brazil play Paraguay, christ Brazil are terrible at taking penalties and they are out.
 

hybrid_tiger

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Argentina do have a creative midfielder, his name is Javier Pastore and he sat on the bench.

Brazil out against Paraguay after a 0-0 draw, they missed every single one of their penalties haha.

The quality of football at this tournament has been dreadful.
 

abpanther

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Well Pastore didn't do much in the 40mins or so that he was on.

Venezuela just beat Chile 2-1, like seriously WTF is going on
 
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