Apparently Requelme did not recover well from the short rest. He was shot.
They had no choice but to take him off. But not seeing Messi and Saviola really hurt Argentina. Germany benefitted a great deal with the keeper being injured. That was a big sub that Argentina never saw.
And we all lost out seeing Argentina out without Messi making an appearance.
Poor Argyles.
I agree.
I guess I got really angry when I realised I was not going to be seeing Messi tonight.
I cursed the Argentinian coach, and started rooting hard for Germany,
Too many Norwegian Piltzners too probably :-)
Pekerman was a coward. Taking of Riquelme. OK. Put on Saviola or Messi then. He did not.
Then he subbed Crespo.
This was a man clearly going for the 1-0 win, by defending and "running out the clock".
I like to see offensive cavalier approaches succeed, and cowardly strategies to fail.