Brazil undresses the reality of the Argentinean team (Yahoo)

Not the most pessimist of the Argentinean fans would imagine such a scenery; its most important rival in the football’s World, the powerful team of Brazil, undresses the tactical failures and the difference in stature between both teams, and the triumph was clear by 1-3 in front of 42 thousand persons that came very excited and went away in silence, worried for the future each time more complicated looking towards the World Championship in South Africa.

Scarcely one year after having tied 0-0 in Brazil for the same eliminatory for the World Championship, everything seems to have changed a lot on both sides. The Argentinean team changed the coach due to bad results and a certain indifference of many players who seemed more dedicated to their life in Europe and from Alfio Brazil passed to Diego Maradona who tries to transmit the enthusiasm of his own character, though he never found a valid system to avail of so many stars.

Maradona, advised by Carlos Bilardo, National director of teams of the Argentinean federation (AFA) and almost without experience as coach, preferred to use the system 4-4-2, with the four midfielders very far to his habitual two forwarders, Lionel Messi and Carlos Tévez, sometimes substituted by Sergio Agüero. The distance between the line of midfielders (two laterals and two centrals) was one of the principal problems to what the team should have to confront..

On Brazilian side, to the contrary, their coach Dunga, questioned for low render of some of his players and for his cautious scheme, found not only an adequate system with a 4-3-1-2, with Kaka as axis of the attack, and the duple Robinho-Luis Fabiano, but he was affirming on the defensive part, with a great goalkeeper as Julio Cesar, two centrals as Lucio and Juan (vs Argentina substituted by Luisao) two potent and offensive laterals and a midfielder as Felipe Melo, who put balance to the team.

Helped by some good results, as having surprisingly won the final of the América Cup a Argentina in Venezuela in 2007 by 3-0, and winning in the Confederations Cup in South Africa in 2009 and an improvement in the eliminatory, the Brazilian team arrived to the match vs Argentina with calm as to handle the times of the match.

Argentina, in change, seemed to be playing a great part of the direct classification for the World Championship 2010 in this match and it was so that in the previous three months, Maradona insisted much in the need to change the Stadium in which Argentina plays traditionally as local (River Plate, in Buenos Aires) by Rosario, justifying it for the nearness of the boxes to the field.

All this could be appreciated in the ninety minutes of the game. The Argentinean team came out to make pressure with all their force Brazil, but their ferrous defense impeded Messi or Tevez to come near the goal of Julio Cesar and was sufficient one air center for Luisao, with his big stature to mark the first goal availing himself that in the Argentinean team, one the two central defenders, Sebastián Domínguez, was in his debut in a match too transcendent as to innovate, substituting the injured Martín Demichelis.
Since that moment, the match entered in a logic up to the final: Brazil reaffirmed their assurance in the back and in every counterattack could mark, always managed by Kaka and with a great response of their goaler Luis Fabiano, who not only concreted two excellent goals but lost a third. Meanwhile Argentina every time was more nervous, losing in the lack of scheme, what resulted that Messi, Tevez and in some measure Veron or Jesus Datolo, on the left lateral individually made what they could to discount. Neither this time, Javier Mascherano could measure himself with Kaká, and the two lateral defenders, Zanetti y Heinze failed.

When in the mid of the second period, Dátolo could mark the 1-2 by a shot from very far (the only way to win over Julio Cesar), immediately Luis Fabiano, in another masterly counterattack, located the 3-1 leaving the result in its just measure according to the difference existing today between both teams.

The Argentinean team should be grateful to the results of the other matches of the South Africa eliminatory, because they could maintain, in spite of everything, the two point of advantage over Equator, though now Colombia and Venezuela also threat in the same distance, and the possibility to go to the World Championship do not seem clear only three rounds from the final and mid of the weak they should visit Paraguay.

But resides the results, Maradona must correct in the scarce time that is left, the fact that the team has no goal chances because the forwarders need more company of the midfielders and must have more coordination among the central defenders because it would be incredible that with such stars, the classification is in danger and that after forty years, an Argentinean team might not take part in a World Championship.

Brazil, in change, is already classified, and those times when Dunga was criticized by the press and the fans of the county seems remote.