RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On the eve of the World Cup final, Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said he saw some "parallels" between his team and the Argentina that became world champion in 1986. Instead, Sabella's squad looked more like the Argentina of 1990, which also lost the World Cup final 1-0 to a German team. That outfit was a defense-oriented team built around Diego Maradona, who never found the blistering form he had four years earlier when Argentina became world champion. This year's Argentina relied heavily on four-time world player of the year Lionel Messi, and when he stopped scoring it scraped by with a robust defense making up for a lack of goals — just like Maradona's team in 1990. "It is impossible to find anything positive about second place," defender Martin Demichelis said.Read more on NewsOK.com