I think Argentina really lucked out Colombia somehow lost to Switzerland. None of their 3 knockout wins is impressive in the slightest. Being taken down to the wire by Cape Verde and Egypt and then tonight. Their bubble is going to pop. Then again, they face England, who probably should have lost to Congo, struggled to beat a Mexico team that, despite their intensity, was not very good. I thought Norway had a decent chance today, but oh well. World Cup will be decided on Tuesday.
It was a weird situation where a yellow was originally given to the Argentina player and VAR was looked at. They couldn't rescind the yellow against Argentina unless there was a flop ( which there totally was). Since there was a flop, it requires a yellow card which sent him off. It was unfortunate especially since he was a striker and their best player. Strikers seldom get yellows let alone 2 in a game.
It was weird how both Norway and Argentina almost went out of their way to not give their best players touches near the box. I swear Argentina isn't much better than the USMNT if you subtract Messi. Lots of lazy passes and holding on to the ball and waiting for pressure to come before passing.
I do not feel like the US team has an Alvarez....to be honest.....or Lautaro.... Argentina really plays a dry style of futball, outside of Messi it is boring and slow...... US is fast, total discrepancy. Argentina lives off big moments, no athleticism pure passion and WILL......they have 5'10 defenders ffs, who has that? I do think they are similar to USMNT that they out counterstrike you but while the US do in in the 50-60th minute, you can bet Argentina does it in the 80th minute or the 95th minute and in Stoppage time! In a truly compelling and slow grinding way.
The dude flopped. The computer showed it. There’s no room for empathy. Trust the VAR over humans unless a computer itself can prove the VAR was wrong. The only acceptable argument would be to imply a gravitational constant because nobody has any idea about those fudge factors.
No, the real question is would they have send off an Argentinian player for the very same instance and I think we know the answer.
Agreed. Somehow calls always fall their way (luck I guess ) at least while Messi is still playing it will go that way for sure
They had to. He got a legit yellow in the first half. This wasn't some conspiracy. Landon Donovan even mentioned the situation before it became official. They couldn't rescind the yellow against Argentina without giving a yellow to Switzerland.
Thing is, I can't remember VAR intervening against Argentina just once, even though there were several occasions where "they had to".
