With the legendary Diego Maradona in the stands due to a sanction imposed by FIFA, his Argentina side were beaten 4-2 by Catalunya in their final match of 2009 at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona on Tuesday. Argentina struggled a great deal, and suffered another devastating defeat.
Catalunya´s goals were scored by Sergio Garcia, Bojan, Sergio Gonzalez and Moises Hurtado. While Javier Pastore and Angel Di Maria converted for los Albicelestes.
After an even first half, where Argentina played some decent football, Catalunya went ahead two minutes before half time, after a strike from Garcia.
Los Albicelestes were without the presence of FIFA World Player of the Year Lionel Messi, who was injured.
Bojan doubled Catalunya´s lead ten minutes into the interval, while Pastore pulled a goal back for Argentina with a sensational long-range missile eight minutes later.
Minutes later Garcia restored Catalunya´s advantage from the penalty spot, before Di Maria scored Argentina´s second of the night with a fine crossed shot.
But Hurtado put the result out of Argentina´s reach moments later, to cap off a motivating night for Catalunya in Johan Cruyff´s official debut as coach of the side.
Argentina, on the other hand, continued to disappoint, and will have to improve a great deal in the coming months in order to have chances of progressing from the group phase of the 2010 World Cup.
The two-time world champions will take part in Group B, along with Nigeria, Korea Republic and Greece.
Gregory Sica
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I dont know, i usually expect argentina to win everygame, now they are playing even worse than uruguay for instance. i like maradona, but i think its my heart talking- what i see on the field is shocking, nothing compared to how bielsas team or pekermans team played.
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luuzzzzzzzzzzzzzers!
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we suck big time. even if the starting line up wasn´t the best team they should have won…i mean this is argentina!!! mabye arg should play against teams like scotland and wales so they can some matches and not look like losers
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What you must worry about is not the present but the future.The sad thing is that Argentina has no young players to pull the strings in the future.After Messi , Aguero , Tevez and Higuain , is the complete chaos in defense and middfield. The new talents are crap. Me…i don;t blame Maradona for trying out all these players.Something good came out of it.The new generation has no talent compared to older generations.In the 2010WC Argentina still has players to put the weight on their shoulders , but after the WC i don’t see a future for argentina for many years coz after the messi-aguero generation , there’s no big talent.
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Argentina tiene q empezar a trabajar. It’s time for them to put things together and start calling the same players and decide how are they going to play. I love Argentina, but I think Diego is not ready to put Argentina on Finals. A mi parecer el equipo tiene que estar formado de: Sergio Romero, Zanetti, Demichelis, Samuel & Heinze; Mascherano, Cambiasso, Veron & Jonas; Messi w/ Higuain. The other 12 on the list: Andujar, Carrizo; Coloccini, Cata Diaz, Burdisso, Monzon; Gago, Lucho Gonzalez, Maxi Rodriguez, Di Maria; Carlitos Tevez & Licha Lopez. But he needs to do some work ASAP, also decide between Bilardo or Mancuso. In other words,make sure there are pulling together to the same objective.
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