Flip

True. Extremely important. Without him the midfield hasn't really worked.

As expected Tevez left out. Mistake. An injury to Messi, Di Maria or Aguero and they're deeply f***ed. That defense is pure meh. Germany, Brazil and Spain all have stronger squads in my opinion. Defence isn't as bad as made out considering they have a very hard-working midfield. Zabaleta, Garay & Demichelis are all very decent from what i've seen. Campagnaro from Napoli? He's not terrible at all. Demichelis will drop out I'd imagine. Was utter toss the last time* he played for Argentina and it's the first time he's been picked in years. *Pretty sure he left the field in tears last time he played because he was so calamity bad he cost a goal or two. Saying that, Basanta and Mercado Their defense is shambles no doubt about it. But man if Di Maria, Higuain, Messi and Aguero can play at their best they're unstoppable.

Poor Argentina, was karma enough of having Diego Armando Maradona pick Jonas ahead of him at the last World Cup He was overlooked in 2006 as well for Scaloni. Remember him?

Poor Argentina, was karma enough of having Diego Armando Maradona pick Jonas ahead of him at the last World Cup

I agree with that, problem is Argentina's CBs are all very slow no? would help to pair him with someone more athletic. They're all slow and their left-backs are non-existent.

I hope he has as well, because if he has Willian is the next Garrincha somehow having performed the way he's done this season despite being held back.

21 goals between 3 of those in the league this season. Also tons of injuries, two of them adapting to a new league. Also, you're going by statistics on that one, if you want statistics see how many points Chelsea won with Willian on the pitch and how many the won with Hazard on the pitch in average per game. You'll see Willian is much better than Hazard.

He's not as bad as he's made out to, but CD is out of his mind comparing that defence to Oscar, Hulk, Bernard, Neymar, Willian.

Where have anyone stated otherwise? I personally said their play hasn't been convincing, and the bad results have been in altitude. They're a clear top 4 side, but for them to win it they need Messi to perform. As Aguero has been injured and they don't have their defense to turn back to in case their strikers don't perform.

They were strong, but not very strong to be completely honest. While they only really lost points in the altitude their play wasn't very convincing a lot of the time for the players they have at their disposal. Their friendlies have also been very average this year. Still see them as big favourites, but that is for me all dependent on Messi showing up.

Sammir is in the Croatia preliminary squad. Why hasn't Feilhaber been picked either? Isn't he like born in Brazil, should guarantee him a spot in Klinsmanns squad.

Actually realized what you meant, but still disagree.

As expected Tevez left out. Mistake. An injury to Messi, Di Maria or Aguero and they're deeply f***ed. That defense is pure meh. Germany, Brazil and Spain all have stronger squads in my opinion. Defence isn't as bad as made out considering they have a very hard-working midfield. Zabaleta, Garay & Demichelis are all very decent from what i've seen. Campagnaro from Napoli? He's not terrible at all. We'll have to agree to disagree, having watched plenty of Argentina I can promise you that if you also have and keeps to that opinion of yours then you're expectations are far lower than mine for a national team like Argentina. Tbh i'm just looking at the names. On paper the defence and midfield is no weaker defensively as Brazil are on paper in attack in midfield when it comes to attacking. But granted I haven't seen Argentina very much at all. Actually scratch that, I agree with you, you are definitely right.

Pardew is so proud to have helped these guys reach the World Cup.

As expected Tevez left out. Mistake. An injury to Messi, Di Maria or Aguero and they're deeply f***ed. That defense is pure meh. Germany, Brazil and Spain all have stronger squads in my opinion. Defence isn't as bad as made out considering they have a very hard-working midfield. Zabaleta, Garay & Demichelis are all very decent from what i've seen. Campagnaro from Napoli? He's not terrible at all. We'll have to agree to disagree, having watched plenty of Argentina I can promise you that if you also have and keeps to that opinion of yours then you're expectations are far lower than mine for a national team like Argentina.

Seriously? Is he any Good?

Shola, Krul and Good could still be cut before the World Cup though can't they?

Scolari announced the 7 reserves for the World Cup from which he according to FIFA has to pick from in case someone gets injured. Diego Cavalieri Rafinha Miranda Filipe Luis Lucas Leiva Lucas Moura Alan Kardec ALAN KARDEC? So if Fred gets injured we're going to see Jo and Alan Kardec at the World Cup :lol: Also what I expected regarding Coutinho, he was never even close to going to the World Cup.

You must also rate Jonas very highly too. Jonas was a poor man's Park at his peak, and I rate peak Jonas pretty highly. They are both good pros with a high degree of work rates but as footballers they are very much meh for the levels theyve played at for me. If Park was a meh player Alex Ferguson would not have kept him around for seven seasons. Obviously he's not Ronaldo or Rooney, but he was a very, very good player who's underrated because he always did what the manager asked and never agitated to get more minutes or more of the ball. He was a completely different player for the national team. Every single attacking move went through him. The one thing I dislike about him was that he was content to be a squad player at Man United instead of a star for a smaller club.

That's why I've been saying that I think Chile and Spain might go through comfortably. Unfortunately Vidal might not be matchfit come the first games of the World Cup but hopefully that doesn't affect them too much. The dutch look really weak on paper and on the pitch. Even France beat them 2-0 in a friendly. You do love spitting Karma in the face, don't you.. Don't worry your team is still better than Brazil in case we play you in the last 16

Di Santo will be cut but Tevez is mainly not picked because he's a tosser and has invariably been s**** for Argentina, Sabella doesn't win many friends for it either since the Argie folk love the 'rough c*** done good'. Tevez said the other day that he's never even spoken to Sabella but that he wishes to return to the team one day. Nothing to do with Messi either according to him.

Same.

Nah, you made it seem like he somehow betrayed or spurned Brazil to play for Mexico. Don't think that was ever in the cards for him, despite who his father is. Yeah I actually respect all from the NFL thread We respect you too Felipao. You weren't actually one of the ''idiots'' I rarely read your posts on this side of the forum. Was that.. Is that a compliment? What is that? It feels like it should hurt. Definitely compliment.

Could he technically have played for anybody he wanted? No idea about flip has already claimed him as a Brazilian. I mean he's named after the most beautiful city in the world.

The guy does have a hot gf tbf to him