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Goatseye on 23 June 2016
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DakonBlackblade said:
Goatseye said:

Argentina only supersedes Portugal in the front. Rojo plays in the back, what a fraud. Argentina defense is as rickety as it comes, except Otamendi. 

They haven't had a team in a long time. They're bunch of talented midefielders and attackers but coaches can never glue them together.

And they just lucked into 2014s finals (with one of the best defenses in the turney mind you) and the last 3 Copa Americas finals ? Their problem is just that they manage to suck at finals, their team has been realy solid for quite awhile, since 2006 to be fair (wich was without Messi, he was in the team but was super young).

In 2014 World Cup they had Bosnia, Nigeria and Iran in their group; only ok team there was Nigeria.  Then they played Switzerland in the 1/8, they won 1-0; followed by Belgium ok team with a lot of hype behind it at the time (again 1-0), then they got a competent team in Netherlands that pushed them to penalty decision. In the final, they got Germany a solid team all around and they lost.

Argentina is everything but a solid team, everytime they play against compact teams like Chile or Uruguay they shake at their foundation. Their defense suck major balls.