Diego Maradona wants his Argentina team to stay focused on the job at hand rather than worry about who they may or may not meet later on in the World Cup.

The South Americans took a major step towards qualification from Group B with a commanding display against South Korea on Thursday as Gonzalo Higuain scored the first hat-trick of the competition in a 4-1 win in Johannesburg.

Maradona said: "We've seen my team play, we have evaluated the players, we've taken a look at what may be in store for us, but we want to concentrate and go on playing this way.

"We want to follow this path. We don't want to think so much about possible opponents and other teams we could perhaps meet afterward."

Maradona, who has been criticised as a coach from several quarters during his tenure, does not share sentiments that leading Argentina to the brink of a round of 16 place with a game to spare has made him a better coach.

He continued: "I don't know to what extent I've been growing as a coach.

"I've always been there to help the players, guide the players and everything that has happened to me in football and in life, I have a good experience.

"I have learnt enormously along the years. If it means I have improved as a coach, that's for the players to say. But if you have such a sensational team, that's easy."