Olympic Football Tournament: Argentina 2 – 0 Serbia

Posted on Thursday, 14 August 2008 by hastaelgolsiempre

Argentina rounded off their Olympic Football Tournament group campaign with an academic defeat of Serbia on Wednesday. Having already qualified for the quarter-finals, Sergio Batista rested Juan Román Riquelme, Javier Mascherano and (to the disappointment of a Chinese crowd who’d turned up specially to see him) Lionel Messi, and was rewarded with a 2-0 win from two set piece goals: a first half penalty from Ezequiel Lavezzi, and a scorching free kick from Diego Buonanotte. To see those goals, click here.

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2 Responses to Olympic Football Tournament: Argentina 2 – 0 Serbia

  1. Johnny says:
    Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 12:39 am

    Hi Sam-actually Mascherano played today and was his usual one man blockade. A real nice performance by the team given some of the big name absences.

  2. hastaelgolsiempre says:
    Thursday, 14 August 2008 at 12:44 am

    Sorry he did didn’t he, as a defender. I’m being an idiot and trying to write from memory (about a match I wasn’t actually able to watch). I shan’t update the post or your comment won’t make any sense, Johnny, but everyone – he’s right.