Argentina won the confidence by winning Costa Rica

• CORDOBA, July 12, 2011 (AFP) - Argentina coach Sergio Batista said the rout by 3-0 over Costa Rica, on Monday, served to "restore confidence" to his team.
  
  "We needed a game like this to restore the confidence of the players", said Batista after the match in Cordoba. "We could not do what we did in the other two matches. Today, Messi was brilliant and I was pleased by the application of the team, this is the game we want. "
  
  "We needed to have security as a team and keep the ball. Lionel knows how to overcome these situations and he showed today, made a tremendous start, barbaric."
  
  
  
  In the quarter-final, Argentina will play on Saturday in Santa Fe, against the second of the Group C, which can be Chile or Peru, both already sorted, or Uruguay.
  
  Batista did not confirm whether will use the same team that faced Costa Rica on Saturday: "You have to have alternatives, but today everything went well, now let's see the next opponent, how the players are, we'll look."

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