ThisDrinkingLife and The World Cup: Argentina

I think Group D in which Argentina share with Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria is pretty tough. When you consider that Argentina always start slow, a defeat in this group could really give a team a hard task of making it to the second round. Yes I know Messi is the star but we have seen before that this team is very brittle and if hit hard can crumble very easily.

I thought they were well lucky to get so far in the last World Cup, I feel they were a poor team and without Messi they wouldn’t have even made it out of their group. Getting hammered 6-1 recently by Spain and only just about getting qualification (once again thanks to Messi in the last game) doesn’t bode well for this years games. They already lost to group rivals Nigeria recently as well.

But you can never discount Messi. The 5 time World Player of the year will surely once again drag his team kicking and screaming over the line. I expect them to get out of the group, just about. With a tough second round game against either Denmark or France that might cause issues to them, and if they get trough that they have Spain or Portugal in the last eight. It wont be easy and it seems every game is a challenge. I don’t think they can do it as Sergio Aguero is carrying a niggly injury and Gonzalo Higuain is a crock of shit.

I always love watching Argentina, ever since the Maradona era they are one of the teams I always root for in the World Cup, always Argentina and never Brazil, so I hope they do well but alas I dont think it so!

Check out my chat of Argentina’s chances with blogger Sivan John, Malaysia’s number one Argentina (and Huddersfield) fan and from the excellent Mundo Albiceleste, the number one English language site on all things football related to do with Argentina.