[football] Argentina Defeats Russia 3-2 in a Friendly

Argentina might have come out of the shock of continuous defeatd in the hands of their continent rivals when they defeated Russia 3-2 in a practice match. Argentina was without the service of their star player Lionell Messi, who has got a muscle pain and may even miss the Super Cup match for his club Barcelona. The Russian took the early lead at the 18th minute by Semshov but the South American giants came back to put 2 goals on both sides of the halftime through a wonder strike from Aguero at 45th and a clean shoot from Lopez at the 46th minute. They extended their lead at the 59th minute when Datolo scored another goal for them. However Roman Pavlyuchenko put one back at 79th minute raise some hopes for the home side.

Brazil defeated Estonia by the sole goal of Fabiano at the end of the first half.

England came back from 0-2 down to draw 2-2 against the Netherlands. Kuyt and Van der Vaart put the Dutch forward in th efirst half while Defoe put them back in the second half.

Spain recovered from 0-2 down with two Goran Pandev strikes by scoring three goals in 5 minutes by Torres, Pique and Riera to win the match 3-2.

Results:

Russia 2-3 Argentina

Macedonia 2-3 Spain

Netherlands 2-2 England

Estonia 0-1 Brazil

Czech Rep 3-1 Belgium

Switzerland 0-0 Italy

Ukraine 0-3 Turkey

Liechtenstein 0-3 Portugal

Armenia 1-4 Maldova

Korea 1-0 Paraguay

Oman 2-1 Saudi Arabia

Albania 6-1 Cyprus

South Africa 1-3 Serbia

Bulgaria 1-0 Latvia

DR Congo 1-2 Senegal

Hungary 0-1 Romania

Luxemborg 0-1 Lithuania

Malta 2-0 Georgia

Sweden 1-0 Finland

Singapore 1-1 China

Denmark 1-2 Chile

Austria 0-2 Cameroon

Ireland 0-2 Australia

Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-3 Iran

Montenegro 2-1 Wales

Northern Ireland 1-1 Israel

Iceland 1-1 Slovakia

Poland 2-0 Greece

Algeria 1-0 Uruguay

Morocco 1-1 Congo

Ghana 4-1 Zambia