The Saudis play good high energy football 

will be an interesting second half 

Mbappe speed is just something else. Chris is rapid but Mbappe is even faster 

The crossing from France has been brilliant.

Was McCoist being ironic when he described Giroud as "not easy on the eye"?

20 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

The crossing from France has been brilliant.

This has probably been the best goalless 45mins in this World Cup. This is also the most balanced French team in a while, the injuries to Benzema, Pogba & Kante might have been a blessing in disguise.

Is anyone else confused by the brief offside graphic that flashes up ?

Two clearly offside Argentina goals. The graphic shows a line that lines up with the Saudi players foot with the caption flashing " offside" above the Saudi players foot ?

the Argentine player seems to have lost part of his body in the graphic. The other offside was similar, but the players body looks intact , but offside flashes on the Saudi foot again ?.

and I've only had 1 pint so far😀😀😀😀.

The question is who can beat the French, last time they made it look easy but now even without some top players they're still looking unbeatable... Well so far, maybe things change in the knockouts but Saudi Arabia finish second in their group that's once again an easy task for this French team.

Andreas !!!!

Hahaha no f**king way

7 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

The question is who can beat the French, 

Denmark at this rate.

Oh hes fit now his country needs him.

For f**k's sake Joey Cole, you're talking about the difference in pitch quality between eras of football just after they've shown a clip of the 1986 World Cup which featured Ray Wilkins several times; that was the perfect opportunity to tell the 'playing on bowling greens' story!

For context:

 

México has never won against Argentina at the World Cup and their coach is Argentinian, Martino. He chose to play a back 3 this match, 3-5-2 or something like that, after a 4-3-3 against Poland. Not sure if he wants Argentina to have an easy time or if this is some immortal match for him as a coach...

1 hour ago, coco said:

Oh hes fit now his country needs him.

He plays when he wants. And as we know, he doesn't play when he doesn't want to

 

This Argentina team is just so bad. They can't do any build up whatsoever. 

 

It just got Messi.

Disappointing from Mexico. They normally give a better effort and account of themselves.

17 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Disappointing from Mexico. They normally give a better effort and account of themselves.

Martino is from Argentina, there was no way he would have put a decent tactic against his own country.

Think Mexico were playing for a draw and then went to sleep and left Messi unmarked on the edge of the box.

If right Mexico will go all out for the win against KSA, which might put the KSA out.

Kudos to Messi and a good finish from Fernandez.

Edited November 26, 20223 yr by strider6004

Enzo Fernandez just quality. 

Well Canada need at least a draw to have a chance to progress.

Hopefully we can see a similar level of performance but with much better finishing. Croatia have a huge experience advantage, you never know when the underdog may strike though.

Either way nation is proud of them.

Argentina get the win, but they still look like a bunch of individuals rather than an actual team. There is no build up play, it's just pass to that guy and see what happens. They are no different than they have been for over a decade. The last proper Argentina team we saw was in 2006.

14 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Argentina get the win, but they still look like a bunch of individuals rather than an actual team. There is no build up play, it's just pass to that guy and see what happens. They are no different than they have been for over a decade. The last proper Argentina team we saw was in 2006.

They look weak in defence for me.