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“Oh Bugger” (Everybody except Argentina, 2006)
Mike Martin hopes Argentina’s thrashing of Serbia & Montenegro will spur on the rest of the tournament’s big contenders. After about seventy minutes, Argentina started to play games with the Serbians in Gelsenkirchen. They were playing the ball around without a care in the world, showboating and generally bullying the Balkan side. It looked [...]
Mike Martin hopes Argentina’s thrashing of Serbia & Montenegro will spur on the rest of the tournament’s big contenders.
After about seventy minutes, Argentina started to play games with the Serbians in Gelsenkirchen. They were playing the ball around without a care in the world, showboating and generally bullying the Balkan side. It looked for all the world like the game would end 3-0, as Argentina warmed down, making sure they didn’t acquire any unnecessary injuries or yellow cards.
That theory was destroyed in the following twenty minutes. Substitute Lionel Messi, to the evident glee of the watching Diego Maradona, ignited an already special Argentinian performance by setting up Hernán Crespo and scoring himself late on. There can be no doubt that Messi has an extraordinary talent, a quality he shares with attacking colleagues Carlos Tévez - scorer of the fifth, an outstandingly cheeky solo effort - Crespo and the seemingly omniscient Juan Román Riquelme.
How the other main contenders for the World Cup will react to Argentina’s seminal performance will be interesting, there can be no doubt the pressure is on Brazil, England, Italy and the rest to show they are also capable of playing such scintillating football. Cautious football is often punished in international tournaments, a fact England and Italy know only too well. From a spectator’s point of view, if Argentina’s 6-0 win brings the shackles off some of the other talented teams in the tournament its aesthetic value will rise further.
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