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Stoke striker Odemwingie: Defence Argentina's weak link

Stoke City striker Peter Odemwingie wasn't overly impressed by Argentina this week.

Odemwingie's Nigeria lost 3-2 to Lionel Messi's World Cup favourites.

"Defence is not the strongest part of their game," said the 32-year-old forward.

"The quality they have is all up front: the movement of (Gonzalo) Higuaín, (Sergio) Agüero and (Ángel) di María, who surprised us with long-range shots.

"Defence is their weak link. They have to take the game into the other half of the pitch. They know they have to do that because if they play in their own half then they are going to be in trouble. But we got two goals and could have got more.

"We went into this game knowing we could score goals. Even Iran had success against Argentina. We also saw that when Argentina played Bosnia - there were chances for the opposition."

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