Monday, August 20, 2007

Wales 27 Argentina 20

Hayman's Beard had picked Argentina to win this one, and they were also our big hopes of the World Cup. No, they can't win it. But advancing as far as the semis had not seemed beyond them, and few results would be as good for the game worldwide. Wales have cast doubt on that with their win on Saturday, where the Argies played like utter bollox in the first half.
Wales were relatively clinical in their approach, a much improved performance from the English whipping of 2 weeks ago, yet against a Puma's side playing this badly you would expect little else.

It wasn't until the second half that Argentina started to play with some structure instead of helter-skelter football, and made a real contest of it.
Neither team look like serious World Cup challengers, and with Argentina especially having a gold opportunity to qualify second on their pool, both have a lot of work to do and not much time to do it in.

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