Argentine coach made seven changes in the side compared to the previous meeting • Has swears · Highlight Lionel Messi also trust all group · think that Spain will get into knockout stages
Diego Armando Maradona confirmed on Monday it will introduce seven new faces in the side that will align against Greece in the final game of the first phase of the World Cup, but noted that Lionel Messi will start because "it would be a sin" let out.
Messi "always wants to play and I love that," said Argentine coach, who acknowledged that was raised to rest against the Greeks because the classification is virtually assured. "But having a player the likes of Lio, the world's best no doubt, by far, and leave it out ... it was a sin not to give the team, people, ourselves," said Maradona, who confirmed Barca's title. What would not confirm is whether it will also the captain against Greece, as the owner of the bracelet, Javier Mascherano, the meeting will start on the bench. "We will see tomorrow," he said.
Maradona said he would like Messi repeat the while the coach now scored in Greece in the 1994 World Cup, his last goal for Argentina before testing positive for cocaine. "I wish that was Lio which take a goal like that, especially in the play, the wall with Fernando Redondo ... There we were with match in our hands. Lio hopefully can make a goal like that, more beautiful or paste on the stick and between, but is scoring "he acknowledged.
Faced with those who say that Messi is on a roll because they have not seen goal, Maradona said he was very quiet. "If this is the slump that followed, I am thrilled about its performance," he said. "It comes out to play, you play your peers, is likely to score, he was not given. But that will come. In 1986, against Korea South Ruggeri goal made two Valdano marked Gurruchaga and I appeared when I needed the computer. We are on that path. When we need to Messi to define a match we will see progress, "he said.
Blind faith in the group
The coach said that the changes introduced to Greece, seven from the last meeting, demonstrating their confidence in the whole group. "I have 23 guys who will play the skin in every game. If I change it for fear of sanction Mascherano and Heinze, who do not know rather than risk their lives in each ball and the referees are jealous of contrast, those who go to the ball hard, "he said." We have prepared a team that is going to attack Greece, know how to play, and that's going to give people as much satisfaction as the previous two, "added Maradona, who said that those who rushed the field can earn a spot in ownership" if they prove they deserve the knockout contest. "
Maradona insisted that Argentina is "neither candidate or favorite" titles, descriptions that the coach will not listen because "any team nailed the ball into the square and throw you across the ground work training." "I do not like favorites, they always fall. We are the same as when we arrived, we are here to give joy to the Argentines, to go out and play as we like, as it amuses us, and for now we are going well," he said.
Go to Spain eighths
He recalled the problems they are having some of the favorite theory, such as Spain, "where they now say there are to be classified as and before that had seemed to give the cup to themselves and others playing for second place." "In football often that the computer guy with the big gets bigger," said Maradona, who, however, said that Spain "will have no problems" to get round.