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

[the_cliff]

Every single match has had an insane amount of extra time. I haven't followed any so what is the reason for them? It's almost unfathomable to me to see one match go beyond 10 mins of ET but this is the fourth to go this much distance I think.

Collina the chief of Referees said that they are cutting down on time wasting so this world cup there will be regular extra times of 5+ minutes.

In this game there was 8 mins of injury team because of the extra time which is fair, there was then a 5 min stoppage for the injury to the defender, so 13-14 mins was fair.

 

[lawliet354]

Garnacho would have flourished with Messi as playmaker, nobody in this Argentina side are quick enough to capitalize

 

[Bangor_Red]

Kinda seemed like the ref was rooting for Argentina there. Was so quick to get yellows out within seconds of dwelling on frees etc. Refused to stop play for a head injury. No protection for keeper. Terrible ref performance I thought in second half. Didn't watch first

 

[cyberman]

Souness loves the sound of his own voice m.

 

[RedDevilMachine]

Biggest upset I've seen in WC

Man...I am still in shock. Just imagine how many people would have lost money today.

 

[horsechoker]

nothing warms my heart more than seeing that snake cnut fail

Harsh on @Pexbo

 

[ha_rooney]

Well done to Saudi. Very impressive team performance.

 

[rollingstoned1]

Argentina's national pool of players as bad as italians? Who'd have thought

International football going through a lull? Even Netherlands are no great shakes atm based on what I saw against Senegal. Argentina playing a bunch of 35 yr olds just makes you scratch your head.

 

[Lay]

I've seen Di Maria have some stinkers, but this has to be his worst ever performance

 

[The Boy]

Iceland England vibes at Euro 2016

 

[Isotope]

Saudia Arabia goalie thinks he Jackie Chan

everybody kung-fu fighting.

 

[kouroux]

It’s crazy but Messi has truly been on the wrong side of some of the worst/biggest meltdown defeats in modern soccer history

- Argentina VS Chile where he missed the penalty causing them to lose and then Quitting on his national team (that was not goat behavior)

- Meltdown VS Roma in the 3-0 defeat

- meltdown vs Liverpool once again surrendering a 3-9 defeat and disappearing

- loss to Saudi Arabia at the World Cup

8-2 vs Bayern too

 

[Pink Moon]

De Paul, Di Maria and Gomez shouldn't play again in this tournament. Utter dog shite.

 

[horsechoker]

Saudi Arabia were playing for their lives

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Every single match has had an insane amount of extra time. I haven't followed any so what is the reason for them? It's almost unfathomable to me to see one match go beyond 10 mins of ET but this is the fourth to go this much distance I think.

Collina going to war against timewasting. It was announced before the tournament started. They are accumulating the time wasted during each half. Loving it so far.

 

[Djemba-Djemba]

Iceland England vibes at Euro 2016

Even down to taking the lead early with a penalty yeah.

 

[FreakyJim]

Argentina are just too slow and lazy.

 

[lefty_jakobz]

What makes this victory all the better? Graeme Souness melt down

 

[Tarrou]

Senegal 2002 - is a bigger shock than this, beat the holders 1-0.

I don’t know for sure but I think it terms of betting odds this was a bigger upset

 

[massi83]

Italy keeps their unbeaten world record. That's how they are doing @TheReligion

 

[GifLord]

To be fair they are also almost on recording breaking undefeated run

Yeah but they still played like shit at times. I even questioned them a few times on this forum the last 2 years when they played qualifiers and everyone said they played better then with all their stars from the past.
Take Messi, Di Maria and Lauataro out and they're so painfully average it's incredible considering Argentina's history of producing great players.

 

[Pink Moon]

Collina going to war against timewasting. It was announced before the tournament started. Loving it so far.

Which makes 8 minutes added on in this one all the more bizarre. Their time wasting was unbelievable all game yet this game got less time added on than the England 2nd half for example.

 

[slored1]

Where does this rank historically as a surprising WC result? In my following (after 2006) I'd say only Costa Rica winning the group in 2014 could top this one.

 

[Dazzmondo]

Biggest shock since Argentina lost to Cameroon in the opening game of 1990. Argentina went all the way to the final that year so still wouldn't rule them out.

 

[Hanks]

Not too surprised at this. I was talking to a Polish friend of mine on Sunday and said watch out for Saudi. They will make a surprise.

They topped a very tough qualifying group including Japan and Australia, and most importantly they have RENE HAVARD.

What a coach. Was so incredibly unlucky with Morocco 4 years ago, but glad for him.

Shows up Queiroz and his anti-football brand of football with this result. Well done Saudi

 

[RedDevilMachine]

Collina the chief of Referees said that they are cutting down on time wasting so this world cup there will be regular extra times of 5+ minutes.

In this game there was 8 mins of injury team because of the extra time which is fair, there was then a 5 min stoppage for the injury to the defender, so 13-14 mins was fair.

Good call.

 

[Pink Moon]

Yeah but they still played like shit at times. I even questioned them a few times on this forum the last 2 years when they played qualifiers and everyone said they played better then with all their stars from the past.
Take Messi, Di Maria and Lauataro out and they're so painfully average it's incredible considering Argentina's history of producing great players.

That's why they were one of the favourites though. Because they were playing like shit and still getting wins. Something that previous Argentina sides lacked.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

That’s got to be the biggest shock result ever?

There has been bigger I think, N Korea v Italy 1966 USA v England 1950, Scotland Holland 1978, Cameroon 1 Argentina 0, Italy 1990, France 0 Senegal 1, Japan and South Korea 2002, but it is right up there.

 

[FattyFooty]

That knee to the face was really brutal,

Ok. That was kinda funny.

 

[FrantikChicken]

Love it! This is what the WC is all about!!

 

[Stadjer]

It’s crazy but Messi has truly been on the wrong side of some of the worst/biggest meltdown defeats in modern soccer history

- Argentina VS Chile where he missed the penalty causing them to lose and then Quitting on his national team (that was not goat behavior)

- Meltdown VS Roma in the 3-0 defeat

- meltdown vs Liverpool once again surrendering a 3-9 defeat and disappearing

- loss to Saudi Arabia at the World Cup

But also part of that come back against PSG for example. It is just what you want to focus upon.

 

[lefty_jakobz]

Best game of the tournament so far

 

[SportingCP96]

8-2 vs Bayern too

Oh wow, yea that’s a big one too.

For the supposed “goat” it’s some really bad marks on that resume.

 

[cyberman]

Souness didn’t like Keane jumping in there.

 

[TheNewEra]

Nuts but games like this is why football is fun

 

[FootballHQ]

Where does this rank historically as a surprising WC result? In my following (after 2006) I'd say only Costa Rica winning the group in 2014 could top this one.

Good shout. Costa Rica 1-0 Italy in terms of a relative minnow defeating a giant would be up there in recent times.

That was pretty much a home world cup for Costa Rica so this has same feel with the number of fans at the ground supporting Saudis.

 

[Dumbstar]

This is why Argentina will forever have more muriels of Maradona than Messi plastered all over the land. There will hardly be any Messi ones left in 10-20 years time.

 

[Big Ben Foster]

What makes this victory all the better? Graeme Souness melt down

Has he blamed Pogba for Argentina's result?

 

[GifLord]

International football going through a lull? Even Netherlands are no great shakes atm based on what I saw against Senegal. Argentina playing a bunch of 35 yr olds just makes you scratch your head.

It's crazy. Almost each decade you had multiple amazing Dutch, Argentine and Italian players yet now in the past 5-10 years nothing. Where are all the prodigies?

 

[BarstoolProphet]

ITV commentary called it robbery

KSA completely destroyed them in the second half - well deserved. Their high line tactic paid off in the end, although very fine margins.