Shak

Dunno what you're talking about, mate. Set us off to romp our way to third in the group, going undefeated the rest of the campaign and pipping Luxembourg on goal difference. Sealed on the last day by beating them in their own home, avenging the hard fought loss in Dublin. Went into Luxembourg and played them off the park, frankly. Duffy the hero again with the opening goal in a 3-0.

Best/Favourite match: The Final Best/Favourite goal: Di Maria in the final Best/Favourite player: Messi Best/Favourite moment for your team: Shane Duffy scoring a late equaliser at home to Azerbaijan to get Ireland's first point of the qualifying group stage in our fourth game of the campaign. Was such a proud moment after they'd been unlucky to lose by one goal margins away to Serbia and Portugal and at home to Luxembourg. Best/Favourite 'other' moment: Korea's late winner to get through the group stage. Worst/Least favourite moment/anything: Brazil going out undeservedly to Croatia and robbing us of the ideal semi-final.

Would love to know what he said to his team at full time in the Netherlands match and yesterday. Both games they had in the bag and then out of nowhere they conceded two goals to force extra time. You could see yesterday their heads were gone, really thought France would win it after they equalised. They were all over the shop against Netherlands too before the equaliser. Yet remarkably in both games Argentina were comfortably the better side in extra time. Incredible job by him.

Yeah I don't think this will be the last winter World Cup. Worked out fine really. I'm hoping that the World Cups of the future will follow the model we're seeing in 2026, with them being shared across multiple countries. The practice of building stadiums that immediately become useless once the tournament ends has to stop.

I'll be honest I don't see myself remembering that.

Aye, when he went through I thought this was the tragic ending we'd all feared was inevitable. Would have been incredible had Lauturo buried the header up the other end when they broke forward right after.

Foiled in his attempts to stop Messi winning the trophy, Lauturo is now trying to ruin his post victory celebration pictures

Thought the ref was genuinely a huge part of why the game was as good as it was. Anything borderline he just told them to get on with it. Football is supposed to be a physical game and it felt like it today. So many people seem to think going down when you are contacted should entitle you to a free kick and it just makes for such stop start shitty games so often. Plenty of refs would have blown for a foul on Messi for that second France goal and it would have cost us a wonderful goal from Mbappe.

Dunno, in Fernandez and MacCallister they've got a couple of quality CMs and if Scaloni stays put you figure they'll show up and be a well organised team that's hard to beat. Contending will come down to whether Alvarez can turn into a top class CF. Doubt they'll be favourites any time soon but could see them being dark horses.

Imagine if that cross nobody got a touch on had snuck in right at the death and he'd scored 4 and the last minute winner

Just watching the goals again, fucking criminal by Laurturo to not square it to Messi on the 3rd goal. Had a tap in. Luckily it worked out for them but man, what a shit world cup he had and he gets a medal

No Infantino and the Qatari guy. Walking over towards the team with Messi FFS.

How soon do you think the Argentinian team can get somewhere where it's ok to start tearing through pints?

Gonna find out it's considered a legally binding contract there tomorrow

The two lads trying to hold onto the trophy as long as possible too

HBK pyro behind them. Was hoping Di Maria would do his pose.

Holy shit I've just remembered Messi's penalty in the shootout. Guy's balls must weigh a tonne.

Di Maria seems to have stopped crying at least.

Held the pose like a man who really want to make sure someone gets the perfect picture

Shitey Mag more like.

What did he do? I wasn't looking, what did he do?

They've basically built a Superbowl Halftime show venue on the field

Two guys carrying out the trophy together