The two greatest South American teams Brazil and Argentina will clash in a friendly at the Beijing National Stadium in China on Saturday. Brazil have not forgotten their terrible exit from the World Cup, they were thrashed 7-1 by Germany in the semi finals. The Brazilians then picked up 1-0 wins over Ecuador and Colombia last month but the match against Argentina is their first big chance to redeem themselves in the eyes of the fans, at least partially.
Argentina on the other hand managed to avenge their World Cup final defeat by recording a spectacular 4-2 win over Germany in a friendly last month. Brazil and Argentina have met more than 15 times since 2000. Argentina have won two of the last three meetings against Brazil.
Kaka is expected to make his first appearance for Brazil since 2013 after he was called up to the squad by new head coach Carlos Dunga. For Argentina, Angel di Maria is expected to play alongside superstar Lionel Messi and Manchester City's Sergio Aguero in attack.
Probable starting line-ups:
Brazil: Cesar - Dodo, Dante, Alves, Luiz - Gustavo, Souza, Hulk, Kaka - Fred, Neymar
Argentina: Romero - Garay, Demichelis, Fernandez - Zabaleta, Pastore, Mascherano, Messi, Di Maria - Higuain, Aguero
My prediction: Argentina to win 3-2.
Here are the odds for the match at Bet365:
Brazil win - 15/8 Draw - 23/10 Argentina win - 7/5
madzgos 9 years ago
This is one of the greatest matches in foodball, but my opinion for last 10 years is that is not high qualitty match. Last good game was in Copa America 07, when Brazil won, bit Argentina plays very good. Now, for me, Argentina is much better selection, however that Brazil won this match.
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aleksandar vlaisavljevic 9 years ago
this is cream od football today. love both teams, but I think that Argentina is the team of future, between these two. The failure in World cup will reflect on Brasil in such a bad way. Brasil is stil force, dont get me wrong! But still, Messi, Di Maria , Aguero - my dream team when it comes to South America. Still, no...
this is cream od football today. love both teams, but I think that Argentina is the team of future, between these two. The failure in World cup will reflect on Brasil in such a bad way. Brasil is stil force, dont get me wrong! But still, Messi, Di Maria , Aguero - my dream team when it comes to South America. Still, no matter what, this is THE EVENT!
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Snoop 9 years ago
This will be great game, big derby... Yes, it is friendly game, but when these two teams are on the field, it doesn't matter, both teams will give their maximum to win this game, two biggest rivals from South America, everything is possible tonight, we will se a lot great actions and I hope a lot of goals, currently Argentina...
This will be great game, big derby... Yes, it is friendly game, but when these two teams are on the field, it doesn't matter, both teams will give their maximum to win this game, two biggest rivals from South America, everything is possible tonight, we will se a lot great actions and I hope a lot of goals, currently Argentina have better team and I think that they should win in this one... Dunga is new coach of Brasil, he will need time on the bench to fix some things that doesn't work...
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galata86 9 years ago
this is something special, always when brazil and argentina plays never mind that this is friendly you can expect a lot of goals and great great match. For me argentina is favourite and they will win but concede goal for sure. A match with a lot of goals and argentina wins 4-2 :)
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