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Draws now, Argentina in two days!

Sunday, 09 September 07, 05:22 AM

Melbourne Victory drew with Adelaide on Friday night 1-1 after Rodrigo Vargas scored, then conceded a penalty which was converted by Travis Dodd.

But with Argentina already in the country and playing against Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday night (eastern time) there is a lot of excitement about seeing the likes of Messi, Tevez and company in the flesh.

Note that the excitement is about seeing the Argentinians, not about Australia playing the Argentinians. Because if Argentina treat Tuesday as anything more than a glorified holiday it will get ugly.

Although he's not the best player to have graced the MCG - Zidane played here for France in 2001 - Messi will be the most interesting player to watch. If it means Australia losing 3 or 4-nil i'll happily watch him go on a run from the centreline to the box, ball at his feet, weaving in and out of opponents.

So back to the Victory, three draws from three games and they conceded immediately after going in front in the 80th minute. Again, a draw was a good result given Nathan Burns who had enjoyed a flawless season to date put an open-net header against the bar when it was harder not to make the score 2-1 to Adelaide. Melbourne are improving, our latest signing Sebastian Ryall is impressing, and up next is the 3-wins-from-3 Central Cost Mariners at the Telstra Dome.

It's not quite Argentina at the MCG, so I won't lie to you and say "how interesting" - let's see the Argies first and worry about the A-League come the weekend.

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