[Eurotwit]

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.

[romanesq]

Argentina did well for a bit when they played balls high percentage properly out of bounds. But they erred when they failed to take balls they could control and then turn the play around.

Agree on the subs as Messi was lost when the keeper had to come out.
A shame actually.