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

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This World Cup should really shut the Ronaldo and Messi chapters in elite football. More so Ronaldo
To be fair they are both old now, personally I didn't expect much from both.
 

ha_rooney

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Effort & energy from Saudi’s players has been really good.
 

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Messi can't handle the speed of this game. It's a shame to see the GOATS getting old
 

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Argentina and Brazil get so overrated every tournament I swear. No control, no system, no sustained pressure, just chaos and individualistic play. Been saying it from before the tournament. They're unknowns until they prove they can actually incorporate systems to compete with the European elite
Aren't Argentina unbeaten in 35 games or so? They must have something about them.
 

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These teams need to understand time wasting tactics will not work in this work cup.
Think most players need to be lobotomized in order to get the time wasting and cheating out of their system. Too ingrained.
 

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Argentina and Brazil get so overrated every tournament I swear. No control, no system, no sustained pressure, just chaos and individualistic play. Been saying it from before the tournament. They're unknowns until they prove they can actually incorporate systems to compete with the European elite
To be fair Brazil look very good and have a stack load of attacking talent.
 

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This Argentina can't possibly win the WC. Between England and Brazil.
Brazil will be overrated in the same way. Great records in shit qualifiers mean nothing. South American teams haven't managed to incorporate systems to compete with the big European sides for 20 years where football has changed loads. Every year people overrate them, every year they come up short because their play is all chaos and individual focused.
 

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You know what I actually really like how strict the referees have become with time wasting, it may genuinely end up with teams cutting the bullshit.

Is this collina's idea?
 

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8 minutes is pretty light. No way there was more stoppages in second half of US-Wales than this.
 

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You know what I actually really like how strict the referees have become with time wasting, it may genuinely end up with teams cutting the bullshit.

Is this collina's idea?
Apparently so yes
 

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For all the talk of Ronaldo being finished, Messi walking about the pitch doesn't really help Argentina at all. Maybe it works in the French league.
 

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To be fair Brazil look very good and have a stack load of attacking talent.
Look good in the same games that Argentina looked great in, except looked shit in the very few tough games in their qualifiers?

Load of attacking talent, and a very suspect defensive group. Don't get fooled. The top European sides will beat them, just like Belgium did last time with the same manager
 

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Ref on a mission to book everyone :lol: