Argentina The Great

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Argentina did not glow but surely grew their offensive abilities to defeat the all powerful South Korea with a score of 4 - 1 with three goals from Gonzalo Higuain and the great tactics of Lionel Messi, which gave him chances to advance to the next round. The Argentinians passed to be leaders of Group B with 6 points, in which is followed by Greece, who defeated Nigeria with a 2 - 1 score, leaving Nigeria with 0 points since the debut against Argentina. The Argentinians started suffering the game with an ajusted 2 - 1 at the Soccer City Stadium in front of 82,000 fanatics that were present to witness the sweet victory. The first goal was an own goal by South Korean Park Chu-young in the 17 minute, the second goal was from Real Madrid striker Higuain in the 33 minute, but the South Koreans managed to score a goal by Lee Chung-Yong at the end of the first half. Gonzalo Higuain demonstrated his potential to score in this tournament that gave Argentina the hopes to win the World Cup.

Higuain has shown the world the ability to score just like Messi and hope to become one of the best players in this World Cup. Higuain has all the qualities of a striker shown in Real Madrid being at the right place at the right time, just what Diego Armando Maradona settled his schematical tactics that simply worked with Maxi Rodriguez and Lionel Messi counterattacking constantly. When a striker like Higuain is always at the right place, it gives the strikers the facility to score. Then, after the first two goals from Argentina, Lionel Messi finally came out of his shell and scored the third goal at the 76 minute and Sergio Kun Aguero assissted the fourth goal scored by Higuain at the 80 minute. If Argentina leads Group B, the actually will play against the second of Group A which is Mexico at the moment, but if Argentina is second in Group B, the actually will play against the leader in Group which in the moment is Uruguay.