Catalunya 0-1 Argentina (25.5.2008)

[lionel]

next Sunday, The Argentinian National Team will face the Catalunyan National Team in Barcelona!

the Squads:
Argentina: Gonzalo Higuaín y Fernando Gago (Real Madrid); Fabricio Coloccini (Deportivo A Coruña), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Ustari (Getafe), Marco Rubén (Recreativo), Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol), Sergio Agüero (Atlético de Madrid), Fazio (Sevilla), Ever Banega (Valencia), Di Maria (Benfica), Cristian Ansaldi (Rubin Kasan), Lavezzi (Nápoles), Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar), Biglia (Anderlecht), Zárate (Birmingham) e Insúa (Liverpool).


Catalunya: Victor Valdez(Barcelona), David García, Chica, Ángel, Corominas y Jonathan(Espanyol),Sergio Gonzáez y Verdú (Deportivo), Bruno Saltor y Carlos García (Almería), Morales (Terrassa), Belenguer (Getafe), Santi Triguero (Vilanova), Gerard Piqué (Manchester United), Óscar Serrano (Rácing Santander), Luis García (Atlético Madrid) y Gerard López (Recreativo).


the catalunya team will miss 6 players(Puyol, Xavi, Cesc, Capdevila, Fernando Navarro y Sergio) who are wanted by the spain NT plus bojan who is not likely to participate.
while in argentina, the local players were not called because they have more important duties to do with their teams in the clausura with 4 more matches to go...

[lionel]

Catalunya 0 - 1 Argentina

Basile's line-up was very attacking which inluded all of: la pulga, pipita, el pocho and kun. but non of the four could convert the many chances we had in the first half... while in the second half we dominated the match and at last scored after a nice attack: Banega sent a long ball to aguero who stopped the ball and then sent a strong pass to biglia who tried to shoot but managed a cross that Lavezzi continued to the net with a beatiful volley.

the performance was very unsatisfying. this team needs trabajo - work - in order to defend the Olympic gold medal in Beijing.

[Pat Murphy]

Nice to see Valdes get a callup for something. The 1-0 scoreline looks quite good for Catalunya, shame for me that they didn't get a result.

Catalunya had some good players there in Verdu, Valdes, Luis Garcia, Bruno Aitor, Pique, Belenguer, Serrano, Jonathan and Coro.

It's also nice to see Fazio get a callup for Argentina.