Argentina defender Ezequiel Garay has singled out Edin Dzeko as Bosnia-Herzegovina's most dangerous player ahead of the two teams' encounter at the World Cup.The sides square off in the opening match of Group F on Sunday when they meet in Rio de Janeiro.While claiming that the Bosnians have a number of talented players in their ranks, Garay believes that Dzeko is their biggest threat."We know they've got some fine players, not least the centre-forward Dzeko, but the main thing for us is to avoid Read more [...]

The two Manchester City stars go head to head in Rio tomorrow just six weeks after lifting the Premier League title together.But their friendship will be thrown out of the window at the Maracana as Argentina begin their quest for World Cup glory.Zabaleta knows the City hitman will cause plenty of problems for a Bosnia side who have nothing to lose.He said: "Of course we spoke about this match at the end of the season when the squads were announced."But since I have been in Brazil, we haven't spoken. Read more [...]

It is tempting, looking ahead to Argentina’s World Cup opener against Bosnia and Herzegovina, to take the wilfully perverse approach, to focus on some aspect of this mixed and talented – if slightly ageing – Argentina squad that is consciously non-Lionel Messi. The range and spread of Fernando Gago’s passing, perhaps. The indomitable spirit of Pablo Zabaleta. Or the triple-lunged stamina of Ángel di María, a player who in Argentina’s formation must almost be in two Read more [...]