Category: Sergio Aguero

Golden booted Guerrero destroys Venezuela

24/07/2011

Paolo Guerrero destroys Venezuela with an excellent hat trick in the third-place play off final at La Plata.
Guerrero´s three goals made it five for the tournament, putting him two ahead of his closest rivals - Suarez and Aguero - for the title of golden boot. Peru won the match 4-1.
Only Suarez can conceivably match Guerrero´s goal tally when he takes to the pitch for Uruguay against Paraguay in the Copa America final on sunday. The match kicks off at 4pm local time (8pm in the UK, 9pm CET, 10pm in the Baltic states)

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Aguero set to sign for Manchester City

20/07/2011

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Rumours in Argentina suggest that Argentine star Sergio Aguero is close to signing for Manchester City for 40 million pounds. The Atletico Madrid player was one of the few Argentine players to enhance his reputation during the Copa America.

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Argentina 3 Costa Rica 0

11/07/2011

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Argentina progress to the quarter finals after beating Costa Rica 3-0, thanks to a brace from Aguero and a third from Di Maria.

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Poor Argentina lucky to remain in Copa America

07/07/2011

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Argentina are fortunate to still be in the Copa America after a dreadful performance against Columbia.

There was a much improved atmosphere from the opening match in La Plata with noisy fans in the terraces behind each goal at the Colon Santa Fe stadium upping the sound levels and painting the ground blue and white prior to kick off.
Argentine manager Batista decided to stick with the seemingly out of form Lavezzi despite having the likes of Higuain, Sergio Aguero and Milito on the bench; players that would surely make the starting line-ups in most national teams.

The game should have been over by half time, with Ramos missing from six yards out and then Moreno guilty of the miss of the season as he failed to side foot the ball into an empty Argentine net from just 10 yards out. It was the kind of miss that should have galvanised Argentina but, aside from Lavezzi's one-on-one chance with the Columbian keeper, it was a solid and well-drilled Columbia that continually threatened to steal the points with chance after chance; Argentina's Sergio Romero and some disappointing finishing the difference in the end between Argentina remaining in the Copa America.

The Columbian man-of-the-match must surely have been central midfielder Carlos Sanchez, who played Lionel Messi out of the game, barking like a terrier at Messi's heels every time the world's number one had the ball. On this evidence Sanchez will be snapped up from French football by one of the top European clubs.

The match ended 0-0 with Argentina booed off the pitch and Batitusta openly abused by the Santa Fe fans. Argentina look short of ideas and ended the match with four strikers in a puzzling line-up that lacked balance and a midfield ball winner. They will likely need to beat Costa Rica by several goals in their last group game to have any chance of progressing to the quarter finals.