It was intended as a light-hearted joke, delivered with a smile, but the reply given by Lionel Scaloni, Argentina´s interim manager, to a question about how he would approach Tuesday´s friendly against Brazil was not greeted with widespread mirth back at home. `We´ll put a bus in front of the goalkeeper,` Scaloni grinned, `and just defend." The South American superclasico has been transported to Jeddah, where the temperatures are high and the shadows long as a wounded, brittle Argentina take on a Brazil in apparently much better health, four months after both suffered disappointing exits from the World Cup. Argentina went out in the last 16, against the eventual winners, France; Brazil...
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