Argentina beats Netherlands and is poured into the semifinals
The selection of Olympic soccer semi-finals Argentina will be measured in 2008 from Beijing to Brazil in a new edition of the classic South American, after classified tonight in Shanghai after a game in which he suffered beat Holland 2-1 in the extension.
The match began with a game loaded with nerve and speed on both teams, although Holland tended to cede some space to start the Argentinians to try to recover the ball in the closing defense and betting for a swift and forceful counterattack.
Despite an early opportunity to Emanuelson (min. 6), Argentina reacted quickly and Lionel Messi, alone, was responsible for the 1-0 mark.
After snatch the ball to a defence, the striker escaped from Rosario and Marcellis, followed by Jong-A-Pin, arrived to driblar to Vermeer to mark a pleasure crossing shot from the left of the goal (min. 14).
The goal was warmly celebrated in the gallery of personalities by Diego Armando Maradona, who had lunch today with the Olympic selection argentina, according to Efe was able to confirm, and who witnessed the match sitting to the right of the president of the football associations of Argentina (AFA) , Julio Grondona.
After several arrivals with danger for both teams, and shortly after a lack of Babel that earned him the yellow Young, a new shot of lack favourable to the Netherlands ended up bringing the goal of a tie (min. 36).
Emanuelson, instead of throwing to door, he passed the ball to Sno, who knew how to send it over to the heart of the area Ustari, where he appeared Bakkal, right in front of the goal for the 1-1 mark with ease without the Argentine goalkeeper reached to react.
The game hardens In the Last minutes of the first part of the nerve Netherlands intensified and the game was tightening, but the rest came without further goals, with three shots to door by two of Argentina versus Holland.
In the second Argentina began to look over his good touch and approach the area Vermeer more slowly, trying to create more danger, as in a header from Agüero (min. 54) that went off, but while still insisting, the marker was they resisted.
The difficulties for albicelestes worsened in minute 71 when Ustari injured left foot to try to hit a ball that came in deep and had to leave and be replaced stretcher at the door by Romero (min. 74).
Shortly after Messi saw the yellow card for a dangerous entry that finished pounding the knee Zuiverloon (min 80).
The Madrid Drenthe was about to give them the shock end, when De Guzman served a ball between the defense just before the door Romero, though his finishing high cross by left little (min. 86), and if Messi came close to mark similarly immediately (min. 89) also achieves what almost immediately after Babel (min. 90 ).
With the 1-1 at the end of regulation time, had to resort to the 30-minute extension.
The Argentines showed again broader than its rivals, but without being decided the match, until a providential long pass from Messi, which Cole diagonally between the Orange defense allowed Di Maria, pursued in vain by Beerens, signing 2-1 in the final minute of extra part.
The combined albiceleste won today with the emblem of the AFA booted his shirt, despite lucid and in the three matches prior to probably not contradict the Olympic standard by which should not jump to the field with the coat of his national federation but with the symbol of the committee Olympic his country.