It wasn’t a footballing spectacle but the tempo was excellent. I enjoyed it myself.
Now it actually feels like the World Cup is underway. I’m actually looking forward to waking up at 3:30am tomorrow to watch Argentina v Saudi Arabia of all teams..!
Remember when Argentina score 4 or 5 that no one in the tournament is worse than Iran. Wibble wibble Southgate wibble 😜
You are aware England are allowed to be good AND Iran are allowed to be bad right?
It's not an either/or.
England were very good, Iran weren't allowed to be. They are no worse than most of the other teams we have seen so far.
The results will tell us over the next week, we won't agree on it until then. I know your view, you known mine. Only time will prove either right, if it ever does, as 4 draws won't prove either way.
England never stopped Iran from being good, they did it all by themselves.
If they are the 20th best team in the world football is fucked.
It wasn’t a footballing spectacle but the tempo was excellent. I enjoyed it myself.
Now it actually feels like the World Cup is underway. I’m actually looking forward to waking up at 3:30am tomorrow to watch Argentina v Saudi Arabia of all teams..!
Remember when Argentina score 4 or 5 that no one in the tournament is worse than Iran. Wibble wibble Southgate wibble 😜
You are aware England are allowed to be good AND Iran are allowed to be bad right?
It's not an either/or.
England were very good, Iran weren't allowed to be. They are no worse than most of the other teams we have seen so far.
The results will tell us over the next week, we won't agree on it until then. I know your view, you known mine. Only time will prove either right, if it ever does, as 4 draws won't prove either way.
England never stopped Iran from being good, they did it all by themselves.
If they are the 20th best team in the world football is fucked.
you're right... we should have won 10-0
how crap were we...i bet brazil would have done it....
i'd do an eye roll emogee but A (i don't know how) and B ( if my eyes rolled any further back at your comment it would elicit zombies to spawn like it was the evil dead)
Not sure what you are waffling on about but no part of my comment referred to England or the way they played. I was replying to a previous comment relating to how bad Iran were
Watched the last 5 minutes, how good was that seeing the Argies getting frustrated by Saudi time wasting. Hope some shots surface of Messi crying to round it off.
Denmark: Kasper Schmeichel, Joakim Andersen, Simon Kjaer (c), Andreas Christensen, Joakim Maehle, Pierre-Emil Hojbjerg, Thomas Delaney, Christian Eriksen, Andreas Skov Olsen, Kasper Dolberg, Rasmus Kristensen
lol! Sorry do have to laugh a little bit at the Danish pundit on ITV describing Eriksen's pacemaker - Saying he's the safest player on the pitch, as he'll be warned with a little electric shock if things get too dangerous for him.
I don't get all this "Argentina were crap" stuff. They cut SA apart in the first half many times & had THREE goals rules offside (2 very marginal). Without VAR I expect Argentina would have been 2 or 3 up at half time (excluding the penalty). Once SA had something to defend they dropped a lot deeper & Argentina couldn't get in behind them.
- beat Argentina in a shocking result in their first match - lost to England in the quarter final
Saudi Arabia’s path makes it possible that they could meet England in a quarter final… 🧐
I still remember loving every minute of that cameroon performance, but man, they made some hideous challenges on the Argentines. Really should have been a few red cards, but everyone was happy as the favourites got beat.
Football did the talking today. That was an absolutely quality high tempo game. Argentina in a bit of a messi situation now.
That Saudi number 10 take a bow son.
Also Saudi keeper that jump for their last header to also catch that ball was sublime.
Fair play, I wouldn't want to face them in a quarter final game.
I would absolutely love to face Saudi Arabia in a World Cup Quarter final.
One game at a time but a team that plays a high line against England would play into the hands of Kane, Sterling, Saka, Rashford, etc as long as the runs were timed correctly.
Argentina still have the ability to win against Mexico and Poland. They recovered from losing the first game against Cameroon in 90 so no reason they can't bounce back this time.
Football did the talking today. That was an absolutely quality high tempo game. Argentina in a bit of a messi situation now.
That Saudi number 10 take a bow son.
Also Saudi keeper that jump for their last header to also catch that ball was sublime.
Fair play, I wouldn't want to face them in a quarter final game.
I would absolutely love to face Saudi Arabia in a World Cup Quarter final.
One game at a time but a team that plays a high line against England would play into the hands of Kane, Sterling, Saka, Rashford, etc as long as the runs were timed correctly.
Argentina still have the ability to win against Mexico and Poland. They recovered from losing the first game against Cameroon in 90 so no reason they can't bounce back this time.
Great for the group though.
And IF Argentina can win both those games well, then having to play must win games under pressure will benefit them, as it did England (and Pakistan) in the T20 WC.
- beat Argentina in a shocking result in their first match - lost to England in the quarter final
Saudi Arabia’s path makes it possible that they could meet England in a quarter final… 🧐
I still remember loving every minute of that cameroon performance, but man, they made some hideous challenges on the Argentines. Really should have been a few red cards, but everyone was happy as the favourites got beat.
My abiding memory of that match was that they took three attempts to poleaxe Cannigia - he rode the first two but got absolutely smashed with the last one!
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That’s the last time I trust Lalas.
If we did, they'd just lose them to someone else within a week
- beat Argentina in a shocking result in their first match
- lost to England in the quarter final
Saudi Arabia’s path makes it possible that they could meet England in a quarter final… 🧐
That was an absolutely quality high tempo game.
Argentina in a bit of a messi situation now.
That Saudi number 10 take a bow son.
Also Saudi keeper that jump for their last header to also catch that ball was sublime.
Fair play, I wouldn't want to face them in a quarter final game.
1/8 they were argentina.
looking at the rest of todays games
denmark win
poland mexico draw
france win
🙂
Expected goals: Argentina 2.23 - 0.14 Saudi Arabia
Statistically speaking, given the chances each team created, the Saudis win that match around 1-2 times in a 100.
The statistical chance of a 1-2 full time result would occur once every 500 matches roughly.
Argentina went to around Evens (1/9 pre-match) when they went 2-1 down - in-play went barmy!
One game at a time but a team that plays a high line against England would play into the hands of Kane, Sterling, Saka, Rashford, etc as long as the runs were timed correctly.
Argentina still have the ability to win against Mexico and Poland. They recovered from losing the first game against Cameroon in 90 so no reason they can't bounce back this time.
And IF Argentina can win both those games well, then having to play must win games under pressure will benefit them, as it did England (and Pakistan) in the T20 WC.