Will Argentina be able to play with three forwarders? (Yahoo)

Being near to the World Championship, the event that makes crazy the Argentines to such a point that a State educational plan has bee resolved with regard to the football thus to avoid the absences at schools, there also increases the popular expectative about the dilemma of the coach, Diego Maradona whether to dispose of three attackers or to continue with his conservative scheme of two lines of four players and only two forwards in the vanguard.

In this column we have already referred to that meeting of Maradona and Lionel Messí in Barcelona and the desires of the player that the team allows him to be somewhat more behind than the two forwarders and to allow that by the two sides the laterals pass to him as it happens in his team and which have given him so many sport and esthetic results.

If it is what we saw in some matches during 2009 and early 2010, it seemed that Maradona went back on his words of that supposed promise made to Messí to bear in mind his wishes and he continued with the scheme 4-4-2, having recognized that after the win of the friendly match 0-1 over Germany in Munich it was decided to defend with four players that originally are all central backs (Nicolás Otamendi, Martín Demichelis, Walter Samuel and Gabriel Heinze), and his general conformity was such that it seemed that this total scheme will not revert anymore until South Africa.

However, sources very near to Messí insist that Maradona maintains the promise made to the player as to try to be more offensive, specially in the matches in which the rival has another connotation of initial inferiority (as could be in the World Championship vs South Korea or Greece, just giving an example), and would take another tactical drawing as the one realized vs the weak Canada played the last May 24 in farewell of the team whitelightblue in front of their public in Buenos Aires (5-0).

Though for many from this match there is very little of seriousness to be extracted due to the low exigency of the rival very limited in the technical and tactical, there are some deals much more interesting to analyze. For instance, to use as the first team player Javier Pastore, the youth that shone a year ago in Huracán of Angel Cappa in the Argentinean league and who also had until now, a good step at the Italian Palermo.

Pastore is most similar to Juan Román Riquelme who is in the Argentinean team among their twenty three players that traveled to South Africa, and the fact. that Maradona turned to him means that he continues to trust him in a place of the game field that requests a team management, interval and thinking to pass just in the indicated moment..

Pastore could reach to be of great help for Messí, though Maradona decided not to put the genius of Barcelona to preserve him of a hit received in the training during the week and in that form there was no way to see them together, but in change, to count with a conductor determined that in the defense he will stand with scarcely two centrals (more Argentinean classic), as Nicolás Burdisso and Otamendi, and that he will leave the right flank for the midfielder Jonas Gutierrez to run over it, more inclined to the mid of the stadium..

It is known that Messí asked Maradona to play the most similar possible to what he does with the Barcelona with such a pleasure, and this goes moreover to count with one point forwarder more to what the Argentinean team was producing in the offensive in the last times, namely, that Diego Milito or Carlos Tevez ought to join Gonzalo Higuaín, to be added to them starting from somewhat behind, floating.

But to this request is added another one and it is as it occurs with Daniel Alves in the Barcelona, to have a possibility of another pass clear for the right lateral for which Maxi Rodríguez is indispensable who was, for many months far from the convokatory.

If it is for what was seen in Canada, Rodríguez could play forward Gutierrez as attack option , due to his capacity of short of medium distance and arrival to the rival goal with a good power of definition and this would generate another chance of clearing besides of the two points, of Messí himself and for what by the left Angel Di Maria could concrete.

Who will sacrify in this class of matches? Possibly it will not be necessary to count all the match with Juan Sebastián Verón, meanwhile that in the defense, one of the four central backs will rest.

Does it mean that Argentina prepares a system 3-3-2-2? (With Pastore-Messi and two pointers). Everything indicates that this may be true, as Plan B for determined matches, conserving the 4-4-2 for the most exigent.

The richness of players of his team permits it, will Maradona be brave to concrete it at the World Championship? It is not long to prove it.