Argentina vs Switzerland 5pm / Tue 1st

LightningBlue

Awful effort by Drmic. There was no-one near him.

Romero was very lucky.

GavRedKing

Where was romero?

If that was neuer there was no danger

That_Guy

Billy86 wrote: »

uuummmmmmm... when did I call Romero overrated?

Think you quoted the wrong post. :pac:

He shoots... He misses.

Totes devo xoxox

AllGunsBlazing

Oh dear ...that finish.

Say Your Number

Ah he made a balls of it

born2bwild

C'mere, Jim Beglin, STOP TALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sugarlumps

He bottled that.

Stevecw

What a chance! What was he at trying the chip.

Utopia Parkway

Drmic went for the Hollywood finish when he should have just put his foot through it.

Biddy_61

He tried to do a Messi!

Darkglasses

Good lord.

SantryRed

The lesser quality teams just can't finish their chances. Argentina will sneak through this purely because the Swiss won't take their chances.

That_Guy

What in the fook was that finish?

The Backwards Man

Did Pearce just say he should have put a skirt on?

Oat23

Hahaha €7m hahaha.


Worst attempted shot of the tournament.

tigger123

Like Argentina's previous games in the tournament I'm sure Messi will be the difference come 90 minutes.

Johner

Higuain is having an awful tournament.

Boskowski

I like the way the Swiss are playing this. They are inferior to Argentina and they have the added Messi problem. They're dealing with both very well. And they're not even parking the bus or anything.
You feel that class will probably prevail but they might have a very real chance here.

That_Guy

Do you remember a time when the World Cup was crawling with goals and teams didn't give a flying fúck about defending?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

DubDani

So far all the group winners have made it through, but except for Columbia none of them had a convincing game. Very tight tournament, and IMO no clear favourite at all right now.

letowski

Argentina are very vulnerable on the counter attack. Surprising considering they have two holding/defensive midfielders.

That_Guy

It's not exciting but Switzerland have set up very well. They've had the best chances.

Di Maria looking good so far.

In a world cup match against arguably the world cup favourites, for a player of any age or experience to be so stupid as to try the Hollywood is complete idiocy when it would have been more pragmatic to just run a bit further perhaps and just shoot.

Pro. F

Johner wrote: »

Higuain is having an awful tournament.

Strange. He was great any time I saw him for Napoli this season.

Muff Richardson

Quality analysis from the pundits, emphysema down the mic, billo away with the fairies, dunphy without a f*ckin breeze what the clip they are playing is supposed to be emphasising

Billy86

F**k off Donal Skehan, and tell that auld one that a tomato from Ireland doesn't smell any different the a tomato from anywhere else, the feckin' bint! :mad:

Why in the hell do they insist on pushing that programme non stop during football? It's awful audience targeting, unless you expect Erin McLove fans to be a primary demographic for the World Cup.

The Little Fella

what is the backing track rte have on after the commercial breaks? can't figure it out

That_Guy

Billy86 wrote: »

F**k off Donal Skehan, and tell that auld one that a tomato from Ireland doesn't smell any different the a tomato from anywhere else, the feckin' bint! :mad:

Why in the hell do they insist on pushing that programme non stop during football? It's awful audience targeting, unless you expect Erin McLove fans to be a primary demographic for the World Cup.

You are aware you don't have to watch it right?

Billy86

Richie nails it, again. Only moments from Messi for the most part, but that's all they've had going for then in this tournament. Great players individually but as a whole, for all of them including Messi, it just isn't coming together outside of those moments.

Biddy_61

Why is it that when taking a corner they can't beat the first man and when in front of goal they hit the ball 50 feet over the bar???

Billy86

That_Guy wrote: »

You are aware you don't have to watch it right?

And I don't (I figured that was kind of implied) . But that ad just sucker punches me, time and again!

Darkglasses

Keeper please..

AllGunsBlazing

Nice Charlie Chaplin impersonation there.

Drmic please!

I see the manager shouting at Lavezzi again at that throw in. If he is not careful he could be blasted with piss this time :pac:

Cypher_sounds

Surely Argentina have a better midfielder than Gago? He offers absouletly nothing at all.

Washington Irving

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

Surely Argentina have a better midfielder than Gago? He offers absouletly nothing at all.

They do, but he's not in the squad.

Cypher_sounds

Cypher_sounds wrote: »

Surely Argentina have a better midfielder than Gago? He offers absouletly nothing at all.

He's not alone. Messi and Di Maria aside the Argies havent set the world alight by any means

newballsplease

That_Guy wrote: »

Di Maria looking good so far.

Ehh wha ?! We watching same match?!

Corholio

Billy86 wrote: »

Richie nails it, again. Only moments from Messi for the most part, but that's all they've had going for then in this tournament. Great players individually but as a whole, for all of them including Messi, it just isn't coming together outside of those moments.

We hardly needed Sadlier to tell us that in fairness.

Nuri Sahin

Oh dear.

Darkglasses

The **** was that :eek:

If the Swiss are knocked out then Drmic who is only a young player will probably carry the can which would be harsh but fact is that the Argies are well beatable today. They were well beatable against Iran and both Nigeria and Bosnia made them look very ordinary.

newballsplease

Di Maria.... You clown.

Lightbulb Sun

That was silly from Di Maria after beating his man.

Billy86

Corholio wrote: »

We hardly needed Sadlier to tell us that in fairness.

You would probably be surprised how much I've heard people calling Messi player of the tournament, flawless so far, then.

Lightbulb Sun

Nice save.

ricero

This tournament peaked at the group stage

AllGunsBlazing

School yard carry on from Di Maria with that attempt at a cross.

Pro. F

Just put Di Maria on the left wing so he can cross the ball. I hate this inside out winger crap.