Meanwhile the United States smashed six goals past the St Vincent and the Grenadines in World Cup qualifying.
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“I wanted to win the game against Argentina, even playing away from home, we wanted the three points”.
“We met with match officials and the Argentine representatives and there’s no way the game can go on”, Brazil’s assistant coach said Gilmar Rinaldi last night.
The fixture was rearranged following flooding to the pitch in Buenos Aires earlier this week, however that hasn’t dampened the odds on Argentina to win the tie, with the hosts 6/4 with bet365.
South America’s two biggest global sides Brazil and Argentina will this weekend face each other for the first time in the build-up to the 2018 World Cup in Russian Federation.
Coverage starts at 7 p.m. Eastern on beIN Sports in the US.
As such, the decision was made to postpone the match and have another stab at it on Friday evening. “We hope that we can keep the competition at top level”. Just once in that time has one of them managed a win on the road, that when Brazil beat Argentina 3-1 in Rosario in 2009.
The Brazilian will link up with his Chelsea teammates next week as they return to domestic action against Norwich, who now sit one place and one point better off than Jose Mourinho’s troops.
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Both sides have struggled so far in their quest to reach Russian Federation in 2018 with Argentina failing to find the net in their opening two matches and Brazil losing one, against Chile, and winning one, against traditional whipping boys Venezuela.
