Argentina's World Cup camp descended into chaos on Saturday night with reports that Jorge Sampaoli would stay on as coach but be stripped of effective power before Tuesday night's vital fixture with Nigeria.
With 2018 billed as the last chance for Lionel Messito win the World Cup, the
fallout from a 1-1 draw with Iceland and the 3-0 defeat with Croatia has seen senior players take concerns to AFA general manager Jorge Burruchaga.
And Argentina's 1986 World Cup winner Ricardo Giusti has claimed that he has spoken to Burruchaga, who has admitted that the players would be consulted for the Nigeria game.
Giusti said: 'The players will decide the team, that's a fact. If Sampaoli wants to sit in the bench, he can do it. If not, no problem.'
Sampaoli was reported to be in talks with Argentine FA president Claudio Tapia late on Saturday night but looked like keeping his job, though having to take account of the players' concerns.
Messi and Javier Mascherano, as the senior players, would be most likely to be consulted to revive the campaign, with Argentina needing a win over Nigeria to take second place in the group, assuming that Iceland don't beat Croatia and better Argentina's goal
difference.
Messi and his team-mates were embarrassed by Croatia at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium on Thursday night.

On the night, it was a horrific goalkeeping error that sent Croatia on their way to victory and marching into the last 16 as Willy Cabellero's attempted clearance fell straight to Ante Rebic - standing a matter of yards away from him - who volleyed in the opener.
Captain Luke Modric rallied his team as they smelt blood. He took matters into his own hands by bending in a second from outside the box 10 minutes before full-time, while Ivan Rakitic added a third in stoppage time.
Argentina are fourth in group D, two points adrift of second, and need a win against Nigeria to stand any chance of
progressing.

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This team is so confused, Nigeria should beat them comfortably

We will thrash them..Messi should continue behaving like a soft bread until we win them.

May the God of Nigeria answer is against Argentina also

No matter what they do, they'll still lose

Go Eagles!!!!!!

Foolishness. It is obvious the team has lost it. Two things now. 1. Because of their revolt against the coach collectively, they can give their blood just to win the remaining matches same way Chelsea players won the champions league for themselves not the technicality of the coach.

2. It might end up very badly for them because it is going to be each player for himself not receiving orders from a coach. Everyone decides what he does.

Conclusion, make naija capitalise on this divided house and hammer solid free 3 points.

Oops

Let them decide and bench Messi, since he cant score..
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Eyah!

Nawa oo
On top naija

Olalan:
This team is so confused, Nigeria should beat them comfortably

I wouldn't bank on that if I were you

Argentina can’t beat us, the worst of the match is draw.

Nigeria can win the match self if u put more effort.

North and South, Christian and Muslim, left hand and right hand, Moses and Musa. We need each other in this country for it to be truly great

Messi should be on the sidelines and coach them mbok


And all those Nigerians I saw on Twitter supporting Argentina over Nigeria cos of Messi, Thunder Fia Fia!!

Messi
Drag them out of trouble?

Argentina should keep fumbling like they have been doing. It's better for us.

Operation Argentina must fall don start the moment we defeated Iceland

Anyway
Happy birthday to me

Coach Rohr and his boys should just stick to the plan. With that last game formation and some discipline we will surely beat this team.

Our greatest undoing will be playing defensive for a draw. Let's go for the win and hope Iceland also beats Croatia. We can still win this group and get a better second round draw.

Nigeria winning this match is like Buhari losing 2019, this guys get complacent when thier ovation is at the loudest. They just qualified Argentina

Aye n shey Argentina team sha...

Will be a tough one. Nigeria for the win. Straight win

I suspect that this might be a mind game to divert the mind of the super eagles team from effective preparation. Our coach should better not use a back 3 this time around coz this people will use a front 3. A 4-3-3 formation with Etebo, Ndidi and Mikel in their middle, then a front trio of Simi, Musa and Iheanacho

How Nigeria can beat Argentina, I am not a football analyst, just a crude observer
To beat an opponent in football is not rocket science.
It depends on the coach and the players, of course they make up the team.

1. THE FIRST HALF IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE SECOND HALF: This is one of the issues of mindset. I can remember a certain commentator referring to Nigeria's Super eagles as a second half team, and this is a consequence of we not performing in most first half of our matches. The first half is the time you have to destabilize your opponent. This was the first mistake made by Iceland, they fail to destabilize us from the first half by preferring to seat in their box and play on counter thereby allowing us to grow in confidence which begin to become evident towards the end of first half but actually materialize in the second half

2. DISPOSSESS THEM: We have dribblers and a lot of them in the Argentine National team, the likes of Dybala and Lionel Messi. But it is actually very possible to dispossess these wizards. We blacks are known for our Strength, and this is one thing we have to use to our advantage here. When an opponent player is holding on to the ball, two of our players should rush to tackle him, while the other player around that part of the field should mark, one-on-one, other opponent players nearer to the player in possession of the ball should in case he passes to any of his teammates around him. This tactic will prevent Argentina from having much needed time on the ball, and consequentially reduce their chance of scoring.

3. DON'T PLAY OLD TIRED LEGS: This is actually a message to the coach. The likes of Onazi, Joel Obi and Ighalo have done well for Nigeria in the past. I can remember the Confederations cup in 2013 or 2014, where Onazi was our star player and Mikel Obi was on fire after they had helped us win the Nations cup in 2013. These guys are past their prime now. And you can't expect them to start running around the field to actualize the step number 2 above. To implement the step two above, we need young players who can run tirelessly for a whole of 90 minutes. Mikel Obi can still be used because he is a reliable defending midfielder.

4. COMPLETE PASSES: No player should hold on to the ball for too long, except if he is pressing forward with the ball. Even if na just to pass to the person beside you and take the pass back in a second. Pass the ball around, distribute the play and always find a way to move forward. This would destabilize the opponent.

5. DON'T FORGET TO PLAY AS A TEAM: This is the most important part of this write-up. The code is Massive-Attack, Mass-Defend. When you mass defend, you automatically implement the step two. When you mass attack, you expose their defense and give them a tough time. However, we must be careful not to expose our defense when we mass attack. There must be, at least three of our defenders should be at the midfield in case of counter attacks.

I recommend a 4-3-3 formation.
Moses-Omeruo-Leon-Ekong.
Etebo-mikel-Ndidi
Simi-Iheanacho-Musa

This should not make our technical team go to sleep o.

Nigerians i can't help but laugh at you guys if you think you stand any chance against Argentina.

I was so ashamed of the way you people celebrated super chickens because they managed to win common iceland like they know or play good football.

I shame for una naija.


Every world cup una must do permutation, una no dey shame.


Celebrating a win against common iceland as if it was the world cup that we won. Mediocres celebrating mediocrity.

I just can't wait for argentina to beat us and end all these nonsense hopes you people are having.

Your super chickens are as good as dead. Make i bend say Argentina no finish those weak players life.

Celebrating a win against common iceland as if we were the first country to win a match in the world cup.

I dey shame for una.

After Argentina don wound una finish on tuesday, on wednesday the chickens go from Russia move go dia clubs. All of una wey dey form patriots, i hope say Dem pay una money for the unnecessary celebrations. Ndi ara

happy birthday Leo

All the best Argentina

Nigeria, proud people with an undying spirit that are ready to fight to the finish. Africa knows us, the world knows us

Happy birthday to every nairalander celebrating today...wish u all long lives and prosperity
You will live to see 9ja carry 2018 World cup
please dnt tell me to wake up from this sleep

Eagles will make it outta group of death

Amen

why make him look inferior in the eyes of the players instead of to just sack him or make him resign.

The Argentinian team want to use their confusion to confuse the Nigerian team yet they are the ones claiming we are confused.