Why be so literal. Chill out. Just tryin to fit in a joke there.
Day 14: Nigeria vs. Argentina
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Who's defence is good enough? No standout defenders so far this tournament.
More like applying CLEAR anti dandruff shampoo.
In all seriousness though, that could make for a great advertYeah.. been an appalling WC when it comes to defending.
Really nice game (except for some kicking by our nigerian players). It could have been easily 2-4 or 3-3. Ok france here comes the first surviving African team.
What was it when he was on for you? A wankfest?
Heated argument on RTE about that. Gotta agree with eyebrows in that it shows a complete lack of respect to the manager when he's giving serious instructions and you react by squirting water on him.
If I was a manager and a player disrespected me like that I'd drag him off the pitch.
I totally agreed with Cunningham on this too
Could you imagine a player doing that to Fergie?
They'd probably never play for the club again. Shows the manager to be a bit of a coward if he lets that kind of stuff go on.
Best player to ever live producing the goods again. Not long left til he lifts the trophy!
My bad, I just saw the Neymar bit, then saw the joke on BBC
Messi carrying Argentina, Neymar carrying Brazil... British Airways carrying England.
Hahaha
I doubt he'll lift it though, the rest of the team is letting him down. perhaps I'm mistaken, but I remember reading about how Sabella finally got it right, but I just don't see it and I'm really disappointed with Aguero and Higuain.
Di Maria is carrying Argentina
It would take a huge improvement by Argentina to win this World Cup. They just look a decent team to me, without the solidarity that often comes with well managed decent sides.
Seen a lot of people praise Di María today, just me who thought he was poor then?
Some threatening long shots but dire decison making, sloppy touches and an out-of-character selfish display. He, Agüero and Higuaín all look out of form to me.
Some threatening long shots but dire decison making, sloppy touches and an out-of-character selfish display. He, Agüero and Higuaín all look out of form to me.
They didn't look like winning material to me either. But when they've probably got the easiest passage I can remember to the semi-finals, anything is possible.
in 2006, Pekerman was too conservative and decided to defend just 1 goal lead by subbing Riquelme off. he also didn't play Messi.
Tonight Sabella could have paid the price by resorting to the same policy, subbing his star player off with 30 mins to go. it was an open game, Argentine defence is far from being a rock and I wouldn't have been surprised if Nigeria scored twice to send the albiceleste to the France/Germany(probably)/Brazil bracket.
He's not at his best and made many bad decisions in the second half today but he's still the only other threat Argentina have other than messi, and adds a great deal given his skill, pace and energy.
Switzerland or Ecuador will be a safe passage in the next round, USA or Belgium could be tricky.
Aye, that's the same as what I think. I'm a big fan of Di María and Agüero (Higuaín not so much), that's why I'm so disappointed they aren't at their best. Kinda got the feeling today that he wanted a goal so much that it was having a negative impact on his performance. Not often you'd see him shoot from distance as much as he did today.
Lavezzi should start the next match instead of Aguero, more dynamic and pacier. Higuain has been playing like shit, slow and rusty, even worse than Fred in this tournament. Has he taken any decent shot in the three games? If Sabella keeps playing Aguero and Higuain in the knockouts, it probably will cost them the world cup.
Di Mario was very good in the first half, but quite bad in the second one.
Di Mario was very good in the first half, but quite bad in the second one.
Argentina won as expected but their defence seems shaky and this is the reason why I don't think they will win the WC.
Yes, argentinians are THAT stupid-
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