Argentina were the better team against Australia, but they cut it finer than they’d have liked after it looked like they were cruising through with ease. twoht
Argentina were the better team against Australia, but they cut it finer than they’d have liked after it looked like they were cruising through with ease.In the end, football is a game of fine margins. Much of the second round game between Argentina and Australia was a pedestrian affair of mis-placed passes and the ball moving primarily sideways.
On this occasion, Ryan was very much the architect of his own literal and metaphorical downfall. Receiving a backpass have been a major issue for the goalkeeper, but De Paul was straight on his back and as he turned past him he ran into Julian Alvarez, who managed to spin and get a shot across and into the empty goal. This sort of intelligence, that instant move to a razor-like press, is why these guys earn the big bucks.
But the rigid structures that dictate so much of football tend to melt away in the last ten or twenty minutes of matches, and with the safeties having come categorically off, the whites of the eyes of the Argentinian players were clearly visible. Argentina did waste a couple of half-decent chances on the break as the game moved into seven minutes of stoppage-time, but even then there was an opportunity for one last piece of heart-stopping drama.
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