Argentina cruises to 4-1 win over Spain
The Argentina national team destroyed Spain 4-1 at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires on Tuesday afternoon.
With fans packed inside of River Plate stadium, Argentina showed talented passing and fantastic offensive skill, taking care of the World Cup champions with ease.
Spain, coming of their first World Cup championship, were looking to continue their impressive run of results. However, Argentina struck the first blow. The South Americans opened the scoring in the tenth minute with one of the top goals of the international fixture.
Carlos Tevez dribbled towards goal, found Messi on a through ball, and Messi did the rest.
The Barcelona star, from the left side of the box, blasted a shot into the top right corner, leaving Pepe Reina with no chance.
Minutes later, Argentina added its second goal. Tevez, once again, played a brilliant through ball. This time, the Manchester City star found Real Madrid scorer Gonzalo Higuain on the left side. Higuian took the ball to his left, dribbled by Reina and found the right corner of the goal with a left footed shot to put Argentina up 2-0 only 13 minutes in.
After dominating the Europeans in the first ten minutes, more soon followed.
Tevez, with his two brilliant assists, got on the score sheet with ten minutes left in the first half. Tevez beat Reina to the ball, sliding and getting a touch to find the right corner with a fortunate shot.
Spain got one back with five minutes go in the game thanks to Fernando Llorente. The Bilbao star found the bottom right corner from the left side, with Pedro getting the assist.
Argentina added it's fourth goal when Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero headed home a cross from Gabriel Heinze, leaving Victor Valdes helpless.
Spain, who had more possession than Argentina, had 22 shots in the game, but only four were on goal.
Argentina registered seven shots, with six on goal.
In total, eight yellow cards were handed out in a physical match.
Garbiel Milito, Esteban Cambiasso, Angel Di Maria and Gabriel Heinze received cards for Argentina. Alvaro Arbeloa, Cesc Fabregas, Nacho Monreal and Carlos Marchena were giving yellows for Spain.
Both teams played the majority of their national starts in the contest.
On 8 October, Argentina will travel to Japan for a friendly. On the same day, Spain will host Lithuania in the group stage of the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.
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