Wullie

Aye I know what you mean, been very lenient so far. Having said that I'm still having whoever from CR will be up against Neymar, think it will be Gamboa, kicking him up in the air has proved a useful tactic at World Cups and he'll be diving every two minutes anyway.

http://global.espn.com/football/fifa-world-cup/4/blog/post/3538471/argentinas-world-cup-struggles-not-surprising-given-the-sides-widespread-problemslack-of-direction

Fancy a Xhaka red at 18s given the Serbia/Kosovo thing, he's a walking card at the best of times.

I think Argentina lost almost every qualifier Messi didn't appear in. It's just a really poor all round side. Players like Aguero carry more blame than Messi, he's one of the best and most prolific strikers in the world and yet he doesn't look any better than the ringers from Boca.

Gutted for Messi but not surprised. Tim Vickery's been adamant for ages that Argentina are absolutely shit and by God he's right. Midfield's a total joke and the less said about the defence, the better.

Quiet you.

Fuck off Mbappe, you absolute cunt. That's Giroud FGS out the window. Just leave it you toad.

Start one?

The laws say it has to be deliberate don't they? Don't see how that could possibly be considered deliberate.

Dzyuba's got 2.

Just hoy it up VI.

Prefer a poor side trying to defend against a really good one than the other two games we saw today: good sides with lots of talent getting an opener against an inferior one and sitting on the one goal lead.

Note to self: moan about my betting luck in here more often. 2 minutes after I posted, my double of Costa FGS and the Iranian number 9 to be booked came in, £60 back. Should have been more but I halved my stake at the last minute, a welcome relief nevertheless.

Just can't catch a break. Portugal not getting a second, only 2 cards instead of 3 in the Portugal game and making the Cavani>Suarez mistake on that treble all cost me over £100 each, and I'm now about £150 down for the tournament.

This has been fucking dire.

I'm just haemorrhaging money at this point.

I was in the same position at the last WC when Enner Valencia had 3 in 2 games, there's always someone. To have had Cheryshev on the list, I'd have to have had about 300 players.

FFS

You said strong favourites actually.

Colombia are a very good side. They were missing their best player and down to 10 men for 87 minutes today. The other three teams are better than that Tunisia side England struggled against England will be strong favourites against any of the 4 teams they play in the r16, if we make it of course. On paper it's a mismatch. You can never tell with international football though, sum of their parts don't always make an ideal mix and we have an extremely green coach. I think Colombia would beat England if James Rodriguez is fit. Not remotely a mismatch Yeah but your Irish and obviously biased, player for player, we have a much stronger squad. They've got one world class player and one decent CB who had a poor game in the opener. Kane, Ali, Sterling Rashford, Vardy even Henderson, Stones, Walker and Lingard would walk into their team. All too easy to think a team is much better than another one when they have one world class player. Personally I would take Kane over Rodriguiez any day of the week right now. I'm not biased. Just because you don't watch enough football to know the rest of their players doesn't mean they aren't good. You said you hadn't seen much of a player who plays for one of the best teams in Europe earlier and called him "turd" so you clearly don't watch enough football to have an opinion on Colombia's players. You're the biased one in this conversation Fuck off dude, lets just wait to see the betting odds, and you can tell me if I am wrong there. This forum is just getting worse by the day, for some reason people like to jump down my throat all the time, I didn't say anything controversial just that England ON PAPER are stronger than all four of these group H teams. What odds do you think England will be if they play Colombia like?

Hello

Far too much "better sit down because my foot's a bit sore" at this tournament.

Think Poland are good value today. 13/8 to score twice, they tend to be fairly free scoring.

If the ref starts getting his card out his pocket, I'm looking decent for £180.