Intro:

Argentina midfielders Angel di Maria and Enzo Perez reflected on their team's narrow 1-0 Group F victory over Iran and looked ahead to taking on Nigeria in Porto Alegre in Belo Horizonte on Sunday (22 June).

Script:

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angel di Maria, Argentina midfielder:

"I believe that we are doing a terrific job. We do our best to win the game, that is the most important thing and to win the World Cup you have to win (these matches). You have to get the result no matter how. As I mentioned before, it's hard to play when the opposition are all defending. We knew that in the first phase this will happen, but however we have top players to win these games. We try playing up or down or anyhow in order to win these games."

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angel di Maria, Argentina midfielder:
(Concerning Lionel Messi)

"We are can count on Messi. We're happy with the fact that he's playing well. And that he's showing that all the criticism of him is not true. And again happy because he's among us and he is playing very well."

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Angel di Maria, Argentina midfielder:
"Yesterday we watched the Nigeria match (Nigeria beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-0) and the truth is that they have played a good match, they have good players. They won and I believe that they are going to give their all (against Argentina in Porto Alegre on 21 June). They will give everything playing against us because, a win can take them to the next phase."