[Miraz]

Six goals conceded in their last two friendlies against World Cup-bound teams have Argentina fans fearing the worst in Germany.
Argentina led both England and Croatia 2-1 yet ended up 3-2 losers in the two matches, four months apart, that have constituted the only serious warm-ups for Jose Pekerman's team.
The coach said after Michael Owen struck twice in the final four minutes in Geneva in November that such a performance by Argentina would not do in a World Cup.
"We learnt a lesson: we mustn't get disorganised at the end of a match," said Pekerman after three late substitutions affected the team's backbone of Roberto Ayala, Juan Roman Riquelme and Hernan Crespo.
"This is useful, since we cannot make this mistake, for example, at a World Cup," he added.
Yet, back in Switzerland again on March 1, this time in Basel, Argentina, having dominated the first half as they did against England, faded in the second and conceded Croatia's winner two minutes into injury time.
Fans in Argentina, excited by Pekerman's team when they beat Uruguay 4-2 in his first match in charge in October 2004 and again when they booked their passage to Germany with a 3-1 home win over arch rivals Brazil last June, have grown pessimistic about their World Cup chances.
Injuries to key defenders such as Gabriel Heinze, Ayala and Javier Mascherano have not helped although all three have been named in Pekerman's squad and hope to be fit for the tournament.
Pekerman, a triple world champion at under-20s level, is working under the added pressure of having to prove himself with the senior team, no small task after Argentina's first-round elimination in 2002 in Japan, their worst finals in 40 years.
Added to that is his awareness, as he remarked shortly after taking charge, that Argentina, World Cup winners in 1978 and 1986, have gone 13 years without a major trophy since their last Copa America victory in Ecuador in 1993.
An advocate of Argentina's traditional attacking game based on ball skills and short-passing movements popular with the fans, Pekerman has handed the reins to Riquelme, a mere fringe member of former coach Marcelo Bielsa's squads.
Riquelme, linchpin of Pekerman's 1997 World Youth Cup-winning team in Malaysia, has responded with some fine performances and in particular the first hour of three games, the home qualifier wins against Uruguay and Brazil and the 3-2 loss to England.
A good World Cup will also help him to banish the nightmare of his last-minute penalty miss against Arsenal in the semi-finals of the Champions League at the end of April. German Jens Lehmann saved his spot-kick, which will give him added reason to want to make amends against Germany later in the tournament if he gets the chance.
Pekerman's refusal to take notice of Juan Sebastian Veron's claim to an Argentina comeback may be because he regards the Inter Milan playmaker as too closely related to the failed 2002 team he captained, although the coach would never say so.
Two 1998 and 2002 veterans who saw little action in Japan, Ayala because of injury and Crespo, Gabriel Batistuta's understudy for two World Cups, are also major players in the side Pekerman is grooming for Germany. Pekerman may have found, too, a talisman in Barcelona's Lionel Messi, who could inspire Argentina in the manner of Diego Maradona in 1986. He is battling to be fit after a late-season injury, but should make it in time.