Preview: Argentina vs. Serbia and Montenegro

June 16th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

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Argentina vs. Serbia and Montenegro, Gelsenkirchen, 15:00 CET
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THE BIG PICTURE
It is do or die time for Serbia and Montenegro. Following a 1-0 loss in their opening match against Netherlands, the Plavi need to get a result from this match if they harbor dreams of advancing from the Group of Death to the next round. It won’t be easy, as they take on an Argentina side that looked very good at times during their 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast. It is Argentina’s offense versus Serbia and Montenegro’s defense, which suffered a blow when central defender Nemanja Vidic was ruled out for the rest of the tournament after injuring knee ligaments in a training session on Monday. This is one game you don’t want to miss. Group C table

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Teams:

Likely formation; shirt numbers; name, caps, goals, coach:

Argentina (4-4-2): 1-Roberto Abbondanzieri (23-0); 4-Fabricio Coloccini (23-1), 2-Roberto Ayala (101-6), 6-Gabriel Heinze (30-1), 3-Juan Pablo Sorin (72-11); 18-Maxi Rodriguez (14-3), 8-Javier Mascherano (16-0), 5-Esteban Cambiasso (23-1), 10-Juan Roman Riquelme (32-8); 7-Javier Saviola (32-10), 9-Hernan Crespo (56-30) Coach: Jose Pekerman

Serbia & Montenegro (4-4-2): 1-Dragoslav Jevric (41-0); 4-Igor Duljaj (38-2), 6-Goran Gavrancic (26-0), 20-Mladen Krstajic (46-2), 3-Ivica Dragutinovic (27-0); 17-Albert Nadj (43-3), 10-Dejan Stankovic (59-11), 11-Predrag Djordjevic (35-1), 7-Ognjen Koroman (26-1); 8-Mateja Kezman (48-17), 19-Nikola Zigic (12-3)

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Argentina

Argentina won its opening match against Ivory Coast on June 10. The two other times Argentina played in the World Cup were in 1978 and 1986 – they won the tournament each of those year.

Argentina is the second largest country by area in South America and the eigth largest in the world.

Argentina’s teenage prodigy Lionel Messi is again likely to be on the bench.

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Serbia and Montenegro

In 2006-07, the Serbian domestic league will be cut from 16 teams to 12 teams. Seven teams are being relegated with three being promoted from the lower leagues.

Light beer is the beer of choice in Serbia and Montenegro. A poll in 2004 indicated that the best beer is Jelen. I’ve had it. Not bad.

Montenegro uses the Euro for its currency while Serbia uses the dinar.

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cubeboy101

i think argentina will be in full swing and show a bit more in attack against s&m there a very good side but there defence can be slow and squre i think saviola will be used as a defence beater and crespo to remain as target man s&m have the abillity to fight and beat anyone but i think argentina will be far more clinical and meen for them to handle if all goes well we wont see tevez or messi untill 3rd /4th game
Wayne

Argentina will have to be poor to not win this one. With the quality they have on the field they should win without question, get ya bets on this.
http://www.xanga.com/oneeyeddeer Mike

Actually, Lucho Gonzalez will be starting today in place of Cambiasso.
BrendanLee

Argentina would want to win this match to enable them to have the option to choose their next round’s team and better still they can rest some players while giving the others on the bench a run-out.
Divya(India)

Good day for messi,the way he played is something extraordinary and superb.Good start by Argentina,hats of to whole team.Compared to last world cup,this year’s performance of Argentina is fabulous after a long gap.More hurdles to cross.Good luck to whole team.
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