Mole_Toonfan

I thought he was fairly poor, tbh, by his ridiculous standard. It does not help that 90 percent of his teammates seems to be staring at him waiting for something to happen the majority of the match. What happened with the obvious penalty for Argentina that did not even get checked by VAR? I do not understand this thing at all? Does the referee ask for it or is it called for by the VAR referees? It seems bizarre. Aye, i was shocked how little initiative his team mates took tbh. It's like it was a bunch of kids looking up to their idol.

Everyone in football has a memory of a goldfish, Messi scores in the next game and they'll forget it ever happened.

Quite liked the look of Pavon mind, think he should start in the next game as one of the few players who were direct and looking to create something outside of Messi.

Messi stop taking penalties please. Also Argentina's players need to grow some balls, even when Messi was in terrible positions they ignored better options to pass to him. I get he's your best player but showing a bit of individualism would be nice.

Argentina can't defend whatsoever Also i like this ref.

Hopefully Argentina are better to watch, although forwards aside their team doesn't inspire much confidence.

Aye, Sidibe and Mendy are both injured.

Based on today's evidence Dembele and Tolisso should be dropped. Both quite awful. Yeah, but Dembele's blatantly not awful, so a change in formation might help. They've all been fairly rubbish. What ever it is they need to find the right balance, what they put out today just felt like it restricted everyone.

Embrace it, it just makes it hilarious. He's at the greatest footballing spectacle on earth, has no skin in this game at all, and yet he's still absolutely devastated. I can only ever hope to attain that level of misery. After club football making me incessantly negative, the last thing I need is a man who makes me look like sunshine and rainbows tbh.

Lawrenson is such a downer, negative at every fucking turn.

He not allowed to celebrate his team scoring?

Aye Deschamps is disgustingly negative, even teams on paper which look promising play so slowly.

The lass in the BBC studio was saying before the game they play CB at club level and just cover at full back. Makes an awful lot of sense watching this as clearly have no attacking threat.

France need to figure out this Griezmann and Pogba stuff, Pogba plays best in a midfield 3 and Griezmann is best off a striker. It's just a weird fit to seamlessly put them in the same team and not restrict one of them.

Don't get the outrage over the France penalty tbh, he clearly tripped him.

Love that front 3 France has chosen, thought they might be a bit more conservative but glad they haven't.

Free kick was class, as was the play to win the penalty. Pretty stupid to try and marginalise that.

Was thinking earlier he looked like he was coming out of the navy.

Don't think Ronaldo does either tbh, there's way too much storyline bs made up in the media on both sides.

It's a brilliant goal, thought he fucked up and took too many touches in the moment. Shut me up.

Does that get anymore pre Madrid Ronaldo? Step over into a penalty, long range hit, free kick. Sort of stuff he would do all the time before Madrid.

2008 Ronaldo is back for one night

I heard that, wouldn't be surprised if they do well.

If they are stronger and more gifted they didn't show it IMO, they were really sloppy most of the game and didn't look like they know how to unlock a well organized defence. Were much better in the last 30 minutes but i suspect subs and Egypt tiring were bigger factors there. Going forward i would look to try and get Cavani in the box more often as he's playing with a lot more confidence than Suarez is atm.

Argentina when Maradona was there qualified on the final day and got to the Quarter Finals and probably would have gone further if they didn't face Germany in quarters. Argentina this year barely qualified and i'll bet they get to the Quarter finals at the very least, it definitely does happen. It's not CONMEBOL and not the same argument but Spain were awesome in qualifying for decades and when the WC came before 2010 they did nothing of note. Not telling you what to do But personally i don't take much stock on what happens during qualifiers.