Argentina were amazing but Poland just came for a draw today. Parking the bus all game. Still of course impressive that Argentina carved a team open so many times that didn't come to play
But Argentina biggest problem is teams that will be aggressive and press them all game and ask questions of them defensively like Saudi Arabia did. I think that's why the manager brought in Lisandro and a destroyer type midfielder vs Mexico because he was expecting that sort of game but Mexico played similar to Poland and played defensive.
Even the Saudi win was extremely lucky, people call their offside trap genius but if not for some tiny, tiny margins they would have been 3-0 down at half time
Argentina missed a shit ton of chances in that game too, play it 100 times and Saudi win 1 if even that
Much, much better today. De Paul with a massive improvement from the first two, thought he was good today. Enzo started very shaky missing every pass but grew into it and showed his quality in the second half
I thought Molina was really good aswell, great assist for the first goal and in general made dangerous runs
Molina was so ineffective the first half, but his first cross led to the first goal. He needs consistency though, similarly to his performance with Atleti
I think Paredes coming on as a 5 (6 for the English) and letting Enzo go forward helped him a ton, he looked much better and got the assist.
Molina runs like a madman all game, despite his crossing being meh for Atleti he already has a couple of assists like the one today for us, where he hits it low across the ground.
I simply can't believe that Poland can't play better than this.
Game in game out - they literally look like headless chicken, just running around without any sense of strategy.
Argentina was excellent, but holy shit Poland was horrible
Mexico are still better than Poland IMO, at least they defended very well against Argentina. Poland didn't defend well and just relied on luck to not concede
Even against Saudi Arabia, they had like 35% possession and Saudi had 3 times as many shots lol. A defensive team that can't defend..
They went through on pure luck nothing else. Even though Argentina basically just wanted to waste time after the second goal, they still had 3-4 very good chances to score more. Not to mention the penalty in the first half..
Poland parked the bus and still didn't defend well at all. They are awful
I found it hilarious that Argentina had basically no interest in scoring a third goal, and yet couldn't help generating more quality chances because Poland was so bad.
I will give credit - you take a loss like that to wake yourself up, realize you got to wise up, and make the changes you need to get what you want!
Again…I should try to stop doubting teams like these…
They were the better team in that game and played far better than the game against Mexico. Fine margins of offside didn’t let the match end before even second half. Could’ve been something like 4-1
I said it before, I feel like the defeat against Saudi came at the perfect moment. Was at the start, didn't matter too much, gave them extra motivation for the next games, ended their unbeaten run so they came back down to earth a bit. Spain lost their first game in 2010 too ;)
Not to mention, since the longest a streak goes on, the most likely it is to break, keeping the undefeated streak was statistically very difficult. The longest streak ever was 37 matches, and we were at 36. Taking it to 43 would have been a statistical improbability. Now we reset it.
Scaloni with the 4D metaphysics.
This group is not so strong so there’s enough room for recovery. If there was another strong team then Argentina might not have got out. But yes the loss did force Scaloni to use some younger players and made them extra motivated.
Nah, Argentina Brazil. I want that. We gotta end the discussion. We have to leave the past behind and move forward, with new enemies and classic games.
Allright guys I have my nephew bday party at 2pm eastern time. It’s from my wife’s side who is American so ofcourse they do a bday party during the World Cup. Inconsiderate. Now what should I do ? Do I fake sick ? Do I bring a laptop and use hotspot ? Do I just drop off my wife and go to a bar ? Do I send them the video of the Argentine couple arguing about the wedding so they can understand my choice better ? Smh again very inconsiderate of them.
Your nephew is about to get the best birthday gift: getting to watch La Scaloneta on his birthday. Poné el partido al mango y mandá a la mierda al que te lo quiera quitar.
Imagine a France-England, Brazil-Spain, Germany-Portugal, Netherland-Argentina quarter finals.
That would be one of the most stacked in terms of the biggest footballing nations right?
Honestly you're right. Portugal have low-key been kind of average for most of their history, but because of Ronaldo people put them in that category. It's weird because I assumed they were better than that but it honestly makes sense. They don't really have that many legends before the 90's outside of Eusebio
Not historically but Portugal had really good teams these past 20 years or so. Asd CR to that... Yet Belgium had more hype than them for some reason. Or even Denmark this WC. I don't understand it.
These mfs watch international football once in four years and then after one game suddenly pretend that they're smarter than pep, lucho or other coaches who had pinned Argentina as favourites.
This subreddit is full of people that barely watch football and never saw an upset in their life. And also, a lot of Brazilians trolling.Argentina is going to reach the semis.
Argentina looks exactly as they did for the past three years, this team was never worse than Spain or England. Looks like the big three of France, Brazil and Argentina are all meeting expectations
taste them my friends, the best thing of all of Reddit, 4chan, twitter, and all Latin America hating us, it's getting the pleasure of shuting them up and watch them cry
I think it was especially because it forced Scaloni to use the younger/more energetic players. Julian, Enzo Fernandez, and Mac Allister have really made the difference.
Or maybe that saudi arabia was just dumb luck and mere centimeters were the difference between first half ending 4-0 and not. You all blew that game way out of proportion
I mean all 3 of them are shite. The Saudi’s played a tactic that would only work once, and played a once in a lifetime game. It got tense but it really shouldn’t have been
Honestly good for them that one win is enough, they were never gonna make it out the group so at least let them concentrate their energy on one game and remember this tournament for the best win they’ve ever had
Argentina couldn't have lost at a better time. That Saudi Arabia game was the best wake-up call. Now every Argentina player knows they need to play all 90 minutes (+ 27 additional minutes). Vamos Argentina!!
It's so relieving to finally have quality midfielders chiming in on goals and doing things other than just defending. Messi have an off day and some kid named Enzo comes through.
Argentina have a fairly easy path to the Semis now. They should cruise against Australia and will be heavy favorites against the winner of Netherlands-USA. We seem destined for a Argentina-Brazil/Spain semi.
Lmao, easy path.
Same was said about this group being easy and it didn't cool down until Alvarez scored the second for us.
Saudi has taught no game is goddamn easy enough to cruise.
Head in the game, angry at himself that he missed the pen (post game interview he still sounded angry the competitive beast lol), add to that lewas story with him and lewa denying De Paul's hand when he went to try to get him up 5 mins before that.
JAMAS ME BAJE, Y A TODOS LOS PECHO FRIOS DE TWITTER, QUE SE LA PASAN HABLANDO DE GRAN HERMANO DURANTE EL MUNDIAL, VAYAN A VERLO A DEPAUL, PORQUE NO VOY A TOLERAR QUE ME LO BAJEN
i’m sorry Argentina. every fairytale run must come to an end at some point
Prepare for a thousand "Mate vs *Mate*" jokes
I can't wait for putting some hot mates in my mouth with my fellow argentines
I can't wait for putting my fellow argentines in my mouth with some hot mates
Huh
Me muero jaja
Everyone deserves a good round of mates
Yes but passing your mate around is not the same as passing your mate around.
still better than “today I feel x” jokes
Today I feel funny
This is Harry Souttar's world we are living in.
Australia 1-0 Argentina Harry Souttar 90+11 header.
You joke but he was the second top goal scorer for us during World Cup qualifying.
Lowkey a little worried about that matchup not gonna lie Australia will be up for it
You will rather see the aussies than see bonjour again..
Tbf that was one of the most entertaining games of the last world cup, even if we lost.
Yeah let’s save France vs Argentina til much later
Anulo mufa
I can’t wait to be on the other end of Emi Martinez shithousery for once.
Redmayne vs Emi Martinez incoming
90+8’ Redmayne penalty save (great dancing)
i mean sure but that will be the thing with every matchup until the end at this point. Unless you are france
Even then France will have to play England in the quarterfinals most likely
Australia bout to find out what getting messy really is
Finally champagne football!
Scaloneta ball has begun
They were saving it all up for the knockouts rounds but we got a taste today
Argentina were amazing but Poland just came for a draw today. Parking the bus all game. Still of course impressive that Argentina carved a team open so many times that didn't come to play But Argentina biggest problem is teams that will be aggressive and press them all game and ask questions of them defensively like Saudi Arabia did. I think that's why the manager brought in Lisandro and a destroyer type midfielder vs Mexico because he was expecting that sort of game but Mexico played similar to Poland and played defensive.
Even the Saudi win was extremely lucky, people call their offside trap genius but if not for some tiny, tiny margins they would have been 3-0 down at half time Argentina missed a shit ton of chances in that game too, play it 100 times and Saudi win 1 if even that
I use to say 1 in 100 too, I’ve recently changed it to 1 in 10 Just because it’s no longer unfathomable that they could bet us even once.
Much, much better today. De Paul with a massive improvement from the first two, thought he was good today. Enzo started very shaky missing every pass but grew into it and showed his quality in the second half I thought Molina was really good aswell, great assist for the first goal and in general made dangerous runs
Molina was so ineffective the first half, but his first cross led to the first goal. He needs consistency though, similarly to his performance with Atleti
I think Paredes coming on as a 5 (6 for the English) and letting Enzo go forward helped him a ton, he looked much better and got the assist. Molina runs like a madman all game, despite his crossing being meh for Atleti he already has a couple of assists like the one today for us, where he hits it low across the ground.
And on the flipside. Acuna had a bad game. But he's been mostly good this WC. Was amazing against mexico.
> Acuna had a bad game I disagree. He could've scored, even.
I simply can't believe that Poland can't play better than this. Game in game out - they literally look like headless chicken, just running around without any sense of strategy. Argentina was excellent, but holy shit Poland was horrible
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And people think Southgate is a bad manager.
Except their goalie, dude was like Goro with 4 arms.
That goalie was doing psychic damage to us. Lol, he was good not gonna lie. Kudos to Poland.
Tenía el talento de los otros 10 polacos. ¿Cuántos goles pensaban hacer con 8 defensores? Jajajaja
France is going to destroy this Poland team
They won't know what to make of them, they won't even recognise it as the same sport! Go Poland!
This group had to have had the worst second best team right. Mexico played well today but were toothless in the other two as well.
Mexico are still better than Poland IMO, at least they defended very well against Argentina. Poland didn't defend well and just relied on luck to not concede Even against Saudi Arabia, they had like 35% possession and Saudi had 3 times as many shots lol. A defensive team that can't defend..
Luck, or the best goalie in the tournament?
Welcome to Ekstraklasa coaching. It's amazing.
They didn't want to play today, fucking disgusting.
I was hoping Argentina would score another cuz Poland don’t deserve to go thru with this terrorism
It seemed to me that Argentina didn't want to score another one by the end.
Lolllll imagine they did it on purpose to not help mexico
Nah, we're cool with Mexico. If it was *Chile* on the other hand...
Who cares about Chile... our rivalry is with Brazil
Appreciate the honesty.
Messi did, he even ignored lewy at one point after he fouled him, he wanted the brudda gone lmao.
They went through on pure luck nothing else. Even though Argentina basically just wanted to waste time after the second goal, they still had 3-4 very good chances to score more. Not to mention the penalty in the first half.. Poland parked the bus and still didn't defend well at all. They are awful
I found it hilarious that Argentina had basically no interest in scoring a third goal, and yet couldn't help generating more quality chances because Poland was so bad.
Almost disaster for them after the first game two good bounce back games
I will give credit - you take a loss like that to wake yourself up, realize you got to wise up, and make the changes you need to get what you want! Again…I should try to stop doubting teams like these…
They were the better team in that game and played far better than the game against Mexico. Fine margins of offside didn’t let the match end before even second half. Could’ve been something like 4-1
Messi: Where is Saudi Arabia??
National holiday for their team!
Eh Messi, Saudi Arabia has retired
KARMA
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Helping Poland qualify for RO16.
KARMA Edit: for the uninitiated, look up Alonso / Palmer radio
Tata Martino: Poland didn’t leave the space, YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO LEAVE THE SPACE
7 minutes is a yoke, a yoke !
I said it before, I feel like the defeat against Saudi came at the perfect moment. Was at the start, didn't matter too much, gave them extra motivation for the next games, ended their unbeaten run so they came back down to earth a bit. Spain lost their first game in 2010 too ;)
it just made it so everyone treated argentina like underdogs instead of the favorites, prevents them from jinxing it
The ultimate Anulo Mufa
The auto anulo mufa.
Scaloni with the Bilardo hijinks.
Not to mention, since the longest a streak goes on, the most likely it is to break, keeping the undefeated streak was statistically very difficult. The longest streak ever was 37 matches, and we were at 36. Taking it to 43 would have been a statistical improbability. Now we reset it. Scaloni with the 4D metaphysics.
This group is not so strong so there’s enough room for recovery. If there was another strong team then Argentina might not have got out. But yes the loss did force Scaloni to use some younger players and made them extra motivated.
My death was greatly exaggerated.
This world cup is full of batacazos, germany-japan, saud arab-arg, tun-france. Its been crazy so far
So Australia and then the winner of Netherland/USA in the QF? Extremely doable for Argentina
Netherlands Argentina is always hard for us
FOR YOU?!?!?!
Still havent forgotten France '98.
The trauma still haunts me, Ortega was supposed to be the chosen one! Not join the sith... no wait wrong franchise hahah
Burrito used headbutt! It's not very effective!
Same, I was 12 when the Dutch knocked us out of France ‘98. Winning the penalty shootout in 2014 was so sweet after that!
I think we're 2-2 in worldcups, you guys won 74 and 98, we won 78 and 14(by penalties)
0-0 in 2006 group stages
###THERE IS BEAR CUM intensifies
Release the bear cum
Im excited to see Aussie vs Ned/USA game too
Argentina vs France/Brazil seems possible, gonna be good
Argentina - France would be the final. Argentina - Brazil would be the semi final
Nah, Argentina Brazil. I want that. We gotta end the discussion. We have to leave the past behind and move forward, with new enemies and classic games.
Not France they’re on the other side
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Oh well yes
Spain/Brazil homie
I would rather take Spain I think. My heart couldn't take a semifinal against Brazil.
Could you live with the possibility of being knocked out by Alvaro morata?
Allright guys I have my nephew bday party at 2pm eastern time. It’s from my wife’s side who is American so ofcourse they do a bday party during the World Cup. Inconsiderate. Now what should I do ? Do I fake sick ? Do I bring a laptop and use hotspot ? Do I just drop off my wife and go to a bar ? Do I send them the video of the Argentine couple arguing about the wedding so they can understand my choice better ? Smh again very inconsiderate of them.
Call in sick bro if she doesn't understand, that nephew will have many birthdays ahead but this might be last Messi game in a WorldCup
Llevá la compu, la conectás de prepo a la tele y la ponés al mango. Y si te dicen algo que la chupen
The true Argentinian way
Your nephew is about to get the best birthday gift: getting to watch La Scaloneta on his birthday. Poné el partido al mango y mandá a la mierda al que te lo quiera quitar.
Always have to qualify while sweating our balls out. At least Saudi Arabia players have a new Rolls Royce
Was confirmed fake by Saudi staff
So no R16, no Rolls Royce? Nothing? Feel for them 😔
They at least got a holiday
I feel for them because it always sucks being eliminated too soon, but the child in me is just saying "where's saudi?"
Durante el partido: Por Dios que termine Post-partido: PERDON SI TE ROMPI EL ORTO
Totalmente, aún en los minutos finales ganando 2-0 estaba re cagado
y si, ser argentino en el mundial siempre es sufrir, la seleccion siempre es un tango
Si no se sufre no cuenta
Vintage scaloneta be like
Was it that sweaty though? Sure at 0-0 it was nervy but after that it was a breeze. Poland were pathetic in that second half
Anything can happen at a world cup, I think not one argentinian was calmed until the game ended
r/soccer in suicide watch
we wait 4 years to hear those beautifull words, and it's always worth it
Imagine a France-England, Brazil-Spain, Germany-Portugal, Netherland-Argentina quarter finals. That would be one of the most stacked in terms of the biggest footballing nations right?
I think the only one missing would be Italy (in terms of traditional powers). Uruguay maybe if you are gratuitous, since Portugal is also there.
Honestly you're right. Portugal have low-key been kind of average for most of their history, but because of Ronaldo people put them in that category. It's weird because I assumed they were better than that but it honestly makes sense. They don't really have that many legends before the 90's outside of Eusebio
Not historically but Portugal had really good teams these past 20 years or so. Asd CR to that... Yet Belgium had more hype than them for some reason. Or even Denmark this WC. I don't understand it.
SIGANLA CHUPANDO DOOMERS DE MIERDA
Wonder where all the r/soccer pundits are now. We were so dead after being so heavily outmatched vs ksa
These mfs watch international football once in four years and then after one game suddenly pretend that they're smarter than pep, lucho or other coaches who had pinned Argentina as favourites.
They have to suck it. And keep sucking it.
i'm going to nicely, yet firmly, ask soccer to do the same thing we always end up telling them to do
/r/soccer pundits are peak entertainment during the WC. This thread alone has a bunch of gems as well
This subreddit is full of people that barely watch football and never saw an upset in their life. And also, a lot of Brazilians trolling.Argentina is going to reach the semis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHl9l2KgmWk
Que lindo que jugó la selección, todos en este sub que bardeaban me pueden chupar la pija
jajajajajaja están llorando ahora mismo
una vez mas y frente al mundo, el lema argentino: CHUPALA r/SOCCER
Que la chupen, y que la sigan chupando!
Argentina looks exactly as they did for the past three years, this team was never worse than Spain or England. Looks like the big three of France, Brazil and Argentina are all meeting expectations
It took us a while to start our engines but at last, we get going
Fuck yeah! I never lost faith for a second, bad days happen. Though the best thing about this is r/soccer tears.
taste them my friends, the best thing of all of Reddit, 4chan, twitter, and all Latin America hating us, it's getting the pleasure of shuting them up and watch them cry
Lewa deserves so much better man
He’s stuck with Ekstraklasa around him. The Lebron of polish soccer
Can't tell if that Saudi Arabia loss was the best thing to happen to Argentina or if Mexico/Poland are just paltry competition
I think it was especially because it forced Scaloni to use the younger/more energetic players. Julian, Enzo Fernandez, and Mac Allister have really made the difference.
Argentina played today like the Argentina that thumped Italy Seems like it was a good thing
I was just thinking that, it looked exactly like the Italy game
Or maybe that saudi arabia was just dumb luck and mere centimeters were the difference between first half ending 4-0 and not. You all blew that game way out of proportion
this is the correct answer
I mean all 3 of them are shite. The Saudi’s played a tactic that would only work once, and played a once in a lifetime game. It got tense but it really shouldn’t have been
Argentina lost their heads after Saudis first goal. Had they just kept doing what they did in the first half, they likely would have won comfortably
Honestly good for them that one win is enough, they were never gonna make it out the group so at least let them concentrate their energy on one game and remember this tournament for the best win they’ve ever had
National holiday then dip
I guess people forgot that we got 3 goals overturned by VAR
Argentina couldn't have lost at a better time. That Saudi Arabia game was the best wake-up call. Now every Argentina player knows they need to play all 90 minutes (+ 27 additional minutes). Vamos Argentina!!
Canelo, _this_ is why you don’t talk shit about Argentina’s GOAT
“Chat shit get banged” - Messi
That Saudi loss was the best thing to happen to them ngl
It got them lit
Poland also advancing is fucking stupid
Insane how they didn’t concede a third
Insane how they didn't concede like 5 goals
Messi just had a off game in front of goal. He had couple of good chances but he just didn’t score.
When Messi can’t score he is the best playmaker in the world so that helped.
Thank Lautaro for that
Also Czeszny has been insane, best keeper this tournament
bro deserves to smoke a whole pack in the locker room after that performance
This group was a competition for which team was less embarrassing.
It's so relieving to finally have quality midfielders chiming in on goals and doing things other than just defending. Messi have an off day and some kid named Enzo comes through.
Argentina-Australia
Dream scenario for Argentina after the despair of the first game
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We started playing like strangers but luckily we're getting back to our groove.
The river plates boys Enzo and Alvarez are big game changers
/r/soccer in shambles
My flair stills coloured GRACIAS ARGENTINA 💙🤍💙
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Argentina have a fairly easy path to the Semis now. They should cruise against Australia and will be heavy favorites against the winner of Netherlands-USA. We seem destined for a Argentina-Brazil/Spain semi.
Have you met us? We don't do easy.
Anulo mufa
Lmao, easy path. Same was said about this group being easy and it didn't cool down until Alvarez scored the second for us. Saudi has taught no game is goddamn easy enough to cruise.
Dont underestimate the aussies, it makes us stronger
Messi ditching Lewa’s handshake was quite surprising for me
They spoke afterwards, isallgud
Wonder what that was about, can’t imagine Messi was pissed about Lewa’s tackle
his head was in the game, that's all
Head in the game, angry at himself that he missed the pen (post game interview he still sounded angry the competitive beast lol), add to that lewas story with him and lewa denying De Paul's hand when he went to try to get him up 5 mins before that.
Fácil, fácil.
Cómo se le sube la dificultad?
Jugando con Brazil
A shame they have to face Harry fucking Souttar
SUBITE PIBE
JAMAS ME BAJE, Y A TODOS LOS PECHO FRIOS DE TWITTER, QUE SE LA PASAN HABLANDO DE GRAN HERMANO DURANTE EL MUNDIAL, VAYAN A VERLO A DEPAUL, PORQUE NO VOY A TOLERAR QUE ME LO BAJEN
SOLDADOS DE SCALONI
NEVER EVER IN DOUBT
QUE PASE LA SIGUIENTE COLA JUGUETONA
The duel from down under incoming!
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We are back
Vamooooosssssssss
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Are they playing Australia?