Day 3: Argentina vs Saudi Arabia | Denmark vs Tunisia | Mexico vs Poland | France vs Australia

matsdf

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Are they actually starting to take shirt holding seriously? Nice.
 

bosnian_red

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Why is that your go-to comparison every time? :confused:

At the start of this season you were saying Sancho is Messi compared to Saka. Can you not just say one player is better than another without having to use Messi?
HES MESSI COMPARED TO THEM

One of these days the comparison will work. Also, it's a Bosnian thing where we say things like that
 

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VAR is so inconsistent. I don’t get it. What is deemed a pen changes from game to game.
 

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Shame they missed it for England yesterday but absolutely the correct call and very good that they're doubling down on these types of fouls with corners and free kicks early on in the tournament.
 

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Some Saudi zillionaire must have bet that Messi would score before the 10th minute mark.
 

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I hope they don't start giving out penalties for things like this now. It will just ruin the game even more because every single corner there are penalty situations.
 

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The Maguire one had both players grappling each other perhaps that swayed the decision
 

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VAR is being used on a biased basis again. It was meant to take out inconsistencies but it’s got worse. If that’s a foul, 100% England should have got the penalty yesterday.
 

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VAR is so inconsistent. I don’t get it. What is deemed a pen changes from game to game.
This exact offence will now fail to be penalised in the Argentinian box and 100 times during the group stages. Stupid penalty. They'll have long stopped giving pens for this stuff by the knockout stages
 

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The Saudi did not even look at the ball just tried to wrestle him down. Completely fair pen.

If they are starting to crack harder down on time wasting (long extra time) and these constant impeding fouls on corners more akin to wrestling I am all for it

Just feel like Maguire should've got one yesterday too by this standard
 

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Even if they don't get every occurrence, if they can get 7/10 of these situations, defenders will have to think twice about what they're doing.
 

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The Saudi did not even look at the ball just tried to wrestle him down. Completely fair pen.

If they are starting to crack harder down on time wasting (long extra time) and these constant impeding fouls on corners more akin to wrestling I am all for it

Just feel like Maguire should've got one yesterday too by this standard
Agree with all of this.