nairalanders, the ball is in your court

Me self I fear this hiqwain O.

what of Milito, the champions league final hero, or messi the world footballer of the year and the best dribber presently in the world

None.

The four are in the category of the best attackers in the world. That does not mean we should dread them, even my club barcelona that is adjudged the best club in the world was beaten by rubbin karzan. We need to prepare to play agains the best to become one of the best.

Even if the whole eleven payers of Argentina are the best in the world, We will meet them in battle nonetheless.

since mikel is not available to stop them, what is our hope?

@op
There is a player we all seem to be forgeting, his name is Angel di maria. With Eyeama's evident poor positioning, that guy can surprise any team with a 30 yards shot.

The four players won't play together at the same time.
You guys are just obsessed with messi, tevez, milito higuian, that you have forgotten about Di maria.
Pls refer to the olmypic 2008 final and see why one tactical mistake ended our dreams.

I dread their number two. All attention is going to be on messi attacking from the right, he is going to drag our defenders with him leaving grounds for the right full back to do the damage.

Ask dani alves in barca.

^^^ The right full back(Otamendi) won't attack. Their back four is just as flat as you can get, consisting mainly of center backs.

The problem is that messi will try and draw his marker (i.e if the person is a center back) out of position for their wingers, especially Di maria to utilise the space left behind.

all will be known on saturday

All of them,

all of them what?

@ snowdrops

All the Argentine players (Not Player) shd be feared, every member of that squad

is talented,

i cant agree more. i believe man marking will be a mistake then in that light.

we need to play as a cohesive unit. mass attack mass defence as the old saying goes.

sultan003:

^^^ The right full back(Otamendi) won't attack. Their back four is just as flat as you can get, consisting mainly of center backs.

The problem is that messi will try and draw his marker (i.e if the person is a center back) out of position for their wingers, especially Di maria to utilise the space left behind.

Perfect observation. thats their game plan. i hear they are deploying a 4-1-3-2, with Messi playing from the midfield, and Tevez starting upfront with Higuain. Exactly the same plan against Germany. Its a very offensive plan but puts a lot of pressure on Mascherano. Obviously, they believe we cant do anything or we are so slow.

I think we can win this game if they play that style and if we play a 4-3-1-2 or 4-3-2-1 (Brazil's style). This will mean we may need all our four defensive midfielders. However, Lukman will play as an attacking midfielder, staying in front of the Ayila-Etuhu-Kaita combo. Ayila and Kaita are needed to cover for the fullbacks effectively with only Lukman allowed to rove from the attack to the defense at will distributing to Nsofor and Osaze (my choices) + Yaks / Martins /Kalu / Ideye. He needs to break down the effects of Veron, while etuhu should simply handle Messi with support from one of the centre backs where needed.

I hope we get a win. It will be refreshing like a vacation .

Aguero is my dark horse, However, if we play as a team as Yobo the SE skipper said then we have a chance of limiting them n then we take d few chances we might have,