Brazil and Argentina square off in a crucial World Cup qualifier for both teams in Brazil tonight. If you will be watching the game, and will be online, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action.
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38th minute- Okay folks. i’m bagging my commentary until the second half. I will be back though and will post directly in the comments section. Enjoy the match.
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36th minute- Still scoreless.
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27th minute- And there goes my feed again.
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24th minute- Brazil applying some pressure.
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21st minute- Juan gets a yellow card for a foul on Riquelme.
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15th minute- Still no score and my feed is still hit or miss.
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9th minute- Having some issues with my feed of the game. And it’s back.
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6th minute- Interesting to see how Brazil’s attack works without Kaka or Robinho.
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4th minute- Brazil on the attack early on.
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3rd minute– We’re underway in Brazil.
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PRE-GAME– We’re close to getting under way and Riquelme is in the middle while Aguero is on the bench for Argentina.
I did my best. Thanks for the feedback guys, it means alot to know that people read my commentary, and I wasn’t just doing it for nothing. It was my pleasure, and also very flattering to get a compliment from Ives himself. It’s a shame no TV station this side of GolTV decided to buy the rights for this game.
Hey Drew D, thanks for picking up the slack with the commentary. It’s greatly appreciated.
No problem man. Thanks for the feedback.
Drew D, thanks for the great work on the minute-by-minute updates.
Cheers,
Ugly game overall. Dunga played Gilberto Silva and Minero in the midfield, which pretty much killed any offensive flow from Brazil and seemed to concede that they wanted a result, not necessarily a win. Riquelme looked a little lost, Messi was active but ineffective, and Cruz just isn’t getting it done. Games like this remind you how good absent Kaka is now (and to a lesser extent, absent Tevez), and perhaps more importantly, how unreal absent (but in the stands) Ronaldinho was a few years ago. It also reminds you that, for all his talent, Robinho cannot will the team forward like Ronny used to, and that as great as he is in Germany, Diego never quite gets it done for Brazil. Dunga, I think, is in trouble. When was the last time Brazil went this long without scoring? If you are Argentina, you have to be happy with the away tie against a side that has murdered you recently, but I still think you realize that you are still second-rate to a decidedly third-rate Brazilian performance.
did anyone else think this game was incredibly boring?
both teams gave each other so much space, it looked like both teams were playing in La Paz or something the way they were lazily walking around in the second half.
Dunga is on very shaky ground….A loss would have definitely put him out.
Final Brasil 0- Argentina 0, and the boos shower down from the stadium. Good play by both keepers but it feels as if both Argentina and Brasil could have made a little more of their chances. As a Brasilian myself, I am disappointed. With all the cards in this game, it looked more like England-Germany than Argentina-Brasil
Messi. FTW. I don’t care if he didn’t finish that. He made something out of nothing, he’s amazingly talented.
Oh man, Messi needs to finish that chance.
92nd- Messi with a great shot saved by Julio Cesar, deflected back to messi who shanks it.
Now rodrigo palacio in for lionel messi
whoops, sorry for the typos fellas, abuela*
88th- Yellow for Jonas Guttierez for pulling an abuleo and grabbing on dani alves’ ear it looks like. Lots of cards in this game. Less cards, more goals!
86th- Mineiro fouls messi about 22 yds away from goal. FK argentines.
Its got to be a crime against humanity for a Brazil-Argentina game to end in a scoreless draw.