Michael Owen scored both late goals for England and had another ruled out for offside with the score at 0-0 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Newcastle striker equalized in the 86th and then jumped to meet Joe Cole's cross for the winner in the second minute of injury time.
It was Owen's third goal in three games against Argentina.
"It was cracking excitement, so much more to it than a friendly," Owen said. "Even when they scored, their fans and their players were going mad."
Wayne Rooney also scored for England, while Hernan Crespo and Walter Samuel scored for Argentina.
Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira substituted more than half of his starters in Abu Dhabi after halftime to observe players and scored seven of its goals in the second half. Substitutes Juninho and Fred each scored twice. Kaka, Adriano, Lucio and Cicinho added the others.
In other friendly results on Saturday, it was: Scotland 1, US 1; South Korea 2, Sweden 2; Bulgaria 6, Georgia 2; Finland 2, Estonia 2; Belarus 3, Latvia 1; South Africa 2, Senegal 3; Liechtenstein 1, Macedonia 2; Ivory Coast 2, Romania 1; and Portugal 2, Croatia 0.
The Netherlands lost their first match since coach Marco van Basten took over in July 2004. Italy got goals from Alberto Gilardino and Luca Toni, while Netherlands defender Ron Vlar netted an own-goal. The Netherlands scored through Ryan Babel.
"We still have a few games to play before the World Cup and that's a good thing," Van Basten said.
"They put pressure on our back line, and then we didn't have enough courage in the counters."
France drew 0-0 with Germany at Stade de France, extending coach Raymond Domenech's unbeaten run to 17 matches. In a match of few chances, Germany's Bastian Schweinsteiger had the best opportunity in the 53rd minute when he ran onto Michael Ballack's defense-splitting pass, forcing goalkeeper Gregory Coupet into a smart save.
"Two solid teams, who both wanted to win the match," Domenech said. "They were more dangerous on the counterattack, but we were solid and didn't show any weakness. Tactically we were very mature and this is interesting."
In Coimbra, Portugal, Armando Petit scored from a free kick and Pedro Pauleta added the second against Croatia.
In Glasgow, Josh Wolff gave the Americans the lead and Andy Webster equalized. Wolff scored with a penalty in the ninth minute before 26,708 at Hampden Park.
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