World cup is slowly turning into a just fun friendly set of games, like a festival or something. Players with high earnings really have no incentive to push it hard. FIFA using World Cup as a test bench for VAR also shows how serious they consider these games.
Day 17: France-Argentina, Uruguay-Portugal.
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Rojo a nightmare
Excellent defender tho. Also good on the ball.
Another good ball from Pogs to Gressman
Rojo's is going to give away another penalty soon
This will get ugly.
How did the linesman not spot that offside and that foul on Umtiti?
He goes down that could have been a penalty.
Finish them already. Pogba's passing 
Very impress with Mbappe... are people sure Rashford and Martial are not far from Mbappe level?
Little surprised Argentina hasn't started throwing themselves to the ground yet at every contact near the box. Then again - they haven't been near the box much.
Poga hitting some nice long range passes now. Argentine defence was like this v Nigeria second half so not sure why there's this shock they can't handle rapid players. Nigeria just couldn't control a game like France can.
Pogba another defence splitting pass
Colombia- japqn
Yo kante be everywhere. Thats cheating
Really dont see the logic in dropping higuain/aguero here. Argentina arent Barcelona where they can play messi as a false 9 and still get him in good positions.
Only Messi as their attacker is so stupid 
I would take DiMaria off now. Been complete shit
Should be a corner at least.
It's worth remembering that without Messi, Argentina won one of seven qualifiers. It's pretty obvious why. They are f*cking dreadful. They wouldn't even have got close to qualifying without him. They're almost shambolically bad. Messi is truly great, but one player cannot win games at the highest level single-handedly. It's totally unrealistic.
It's hard to understand how a major football nation could be so bad. But then I'm English so I suppose I should understand.
It's hard to understand how a major football nation could be so bad. But then I'm English so I suppose I should understand.
Di Maria is such a fraud of a footballer.
To me it's obvious Argentina do not have much of a plan for the attack.
Sanchez for Colombia in the first game
Anybody else got reception problems on BT??
how the feck was that not a corner?
The people that know all three players do, the rest is still pretending otherwise.
This will end 4-0 like against Germany 2010
Giroud ffs
Messi as false 9 is the wrong decision. He's not seeing the ball.
Sampaoli is still the manager? Not sack?
Giroud controlling the ball like a log.
Benching Aguero while constantly starting Di Maria is the height of incompetency
Argentina very poor so far
Created next to nothing
Created next to nothing
Dybala, Aguero and Higuain on the bench. Mental.
Sampaoli is too thick to move Messi away from the false 9 position and get one of Aguero/ Higuain/ Dybala on.
I think it will be in excused because of his terrible supporting cast.
Plus I doubt any player will perform as well in a single game as he did that day. Tends to stick in the memory.
No, messi and mascherano are managers. Sampaoli just have best seat to watch the game. Pay attention ffs
Wonder who in charge of Argentina team now? Messi? Sampaoli?
I'm not well at the moment.
And I see Dybala's still not playing. The best national sides seem to have some of the worst managers. This game is a fine illustration of two of these. Belgium is another.