I’m excited to be here in my new role as a Messi stan.
Day 3: Argentina vs Saudi Arabia | Denmark vs Tunisia | Mexico vs Poland | France vs Australia
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He's starting actually
You should be in the Ronaldo thread then.
And in goal, 2 positions.
South American coaches are so dumb with their loyalty sometimes. Otamendi over Martinez... Come on. That's like picking McTominay over Casemiro or something. Surely Martinez will work his way in before long and it's just a show of loyalty for the opening game?
It's not the best team on paper Argentina have ever had but it's the best one I've seen in my lifetime when watching them play. No team in the tournament will outwork them.
Although I'm not a big fan of Argentina, I hope they beat this lot by a hundred.
Did everyone’s picture go off there? 
Not really. If anything, Romero is the odd choice here.
ITV censoring the Saudi Anthem?
Yeah for 5 seconds
I expect Saudi to keep it close for about 6 minutes.
Looked like that didn't it.Argentina - Newcastle.
Come on you Argies!!
Come on you Argies!!
Martinez is Messi compared to either. But they were the coaches pair over the previous years, so he never had a proper chance to supplant them at international level... Still though. Sometimes you just don't overthink it.
Did not know that. Well, if it ain't broke ...
Argies have my favourite football national anthem
Great atmosphere....Argentina are here to win the cup!
Argentina supporters creating a wonderful atmosphere
Get up Martinez wtf
Messi with a shot on target.
Already high standards for the current version of Ronaldo to live up to.
Already high standards for the current version of Ronaldo to live up to.
Messi should have scored that good save though as well
Why is that your go-to comparison every time?
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?
No pen on Maguire though?
Close enough.
Feck sake, inconsistency again. They give that but not the Maguire one.
That's a similar incident to the Maguire one and the ref gives a penalty this time.
Penalty
Penalty!!!! That is penalty?
And the Maguire one wasn’t given
Zero consistency
Zero consistency
come on
Wait a sec they took the free kick and then they pulled it back again? that's a bit of a farce
The Maguire incident is going to get more scandalous with each match.
Argentina going down like puppets cut off their strings at any hint of contact. This is going to be fun.
Pelanty!
Pen!
That's a pen, yesterday Maguire too, wish ref would have been more consistent
Crappy Asian referee.
Oooh wait
Oooh wait
So rugby tackle on maguire was not a penalty but this is. Got it.