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#1 Argentina must rue missed chances
This World Cup is clearly showing that there is no difference between the two opponents, even team are China and Ireland are surprising the experts. Argentina got the taste of it too harshly against France.
While analysing the defeat afterwards, Los Leones must true the chances which they missed so easily into the game.
They controlled the game in the first quarter and should’ve been ahead when Matias Rey utilized huge spaces on the right side and passed it to Joaquin Manini, who was standing at the centre of the goal and had only the goalkeeper to beat.
To everybody’s surprise, Manini failed to get a connect the ball and a golden chance was wasted. Manini was again at the receiving end when he missed a sitter before the end of third quarter.
Agustin Mazzilli showed some brilliant stickwork and got into the baseline and lofted it Manini. The strikers, standing at the right post, made a complete mess of it.
He had an open goal and all he would’ve to do was to guide the ball and he again failed to connect the ball with his stick.
Gonzalo Peillat, despite scoring two goals, should take the responsibility. He scored brilliantly from two penalty corners in the third quarter but missed two in the second.
If he would’ve taken that more seriously and scored, then the scoreline could’ve been different.
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