The 5 keys to Argentina-Iran, a party to look for the second round standings
From the 13, the selected plays in the Mineirao in their second World Cup after debut win over Bosnia; success will give the pass to the next round
It was time for the second match in the World Cup. From 13 TV Channel 7 and DirecTV TyCSports, Argentina will face Iran in Belo Horizonte Mineirão following the debut with a narrow win against Bosnia, at the Maracana. With a win, will be in the second round, but there are more keys to analyze.
It was time for the second match in the World Cup. From 13 TV Channel 7 and DirecTV TyCSports, Argentina will face Iran in Belo Horizonte Mineirão following the debut with a narrow win against Bosnia, at the Maracana. With a win, will be in the second round, but there are more keys to analyze.
The schema change
The last Sunday before the Argentina Bosnia debuted with a 5-3-2, little liked the players, represented the voice of Lionel Messi, who asked not to play well. For the match against Iran, Alejandro Sabella back to 4-3-3, and went out to play the second half at the Maracana. Ie with Romero; Zabaleta, Garay, Federico Fernández, Red; Gago, Mascherano, Di Maria; Messi, Higuain and Agüero. Such training does not start a game since Oct. 12, 2012, when the team defeated Uruguay 3-0 in Mendoza, by knockout. Yesterday, Pachorra said did not bother him the words of Leo, but does not rule out returning to put five defenders. As before, Iran does not appear as a measure to draw conclusions. It will be a matter of waiting.
The last Sunday before the Argentina Bosnia debuted with a 5-3-2, little liked the players, represented the voice of Lionel Messi, who asked not to play well. For the match against Iran, Alejandro Sabella back to 4-3-3, and went out to play the second half at the Maracana. Ie with Romero; Zabaleta, Garay, Federico Fernández, Red; Gago, Mascherano, Di Maria; Messi, Higuain and Agüero. Such training does not start a game since Oct. 12, 2012, when the team defeated Uruguay 3-0 in Mendoza, by knockout. Yesterday, Pachorra said did not bother him the words of Leo, but does not rule out returning to put five defenders. As before, Iran does not appear as a measure to draw conclusions. It will be a matter of waiting.
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If Iran beats Argentina, will be classified to the second round and face the final Group Wednesday against Nigeria with the insured ticket. Today, at 19, the Africans are measured against Bosnia, on the second day of Group F. If the team wins and the other party is a tie, the national assembly also will keep the top of the area, with the possibility of be on the side of the box knockout with more affordable rivals. However, still lacking to futurology.
Fantastic Four, with a defense of another level
Angel Di Maria, Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Sergio Aguero. Fantastic Four return to play from the start in the selection, with an encouraging statistic: never lost when shared field and scored 25 goals between them. Everyone plays in the best clubs in the world and today will face a goalkeeper and defense of another level. They will form the first line with players from the following clubs: Aireza Haghighi (goalkeeper, Sporting Covilha, second from Portugal), Pejman Montazeri (Um Salal, Qatar), Halal Hosseini (Perspoli, Iran), Amirhossein Sadeghi (Esteghlal Tehran, Iran ) and Mehrdad Pooladi (Perspolis, Iran).
The biggest game in the history of Iran
Players of Iran do not have much experience, but his coach, the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, 61, who led Real Madrid, was assistant to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United and the Portugal coach at the World Cup in lusos that fell in the second round against the champion, Spain. The coach was clear yesterday: "It will be the most anticipated match in the history of Iranian football so far never played against a team as prominent as the Argentine team and players do not change anything.". And he continued: "I bet all I have for Iran because that's my personality I do not want to win a little, it's all or nothing, it's my risk or win everything or gain nothing.".
100 matches of Mascherano
Given Iran, Javier Mascherano will be 100 games in the largest selection, with 30 years. The July 16, 2003, he debuted with the shirt of the national team in a 2-2 draw with Uruguay. By then, I had not even dating at the First River. Masche is playing his third World Cup, after being in Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010. Anyway, it is far from Javier Zanetti, the player with most appearances with the Albiceleste shirt, with 145 matches.
- Lanacion.com.ar
