Day 18: Croatia vs Brazil | Netherlands vs Argentina (QF 1&2)

France, England and Portugal licking their lips if they get to the final
As much as anything, that’s both quarters from that bracket which have gone the distance.
 
Why does a team throw everything to get back into a game and then just retreat as soon as they do?
 
Martin Keown is such a dope :lol:
 
This sadly has the air of heading towards a Messi penalty miss in the shootout and (less sadly) Holland going through.
 
Argentina to get knocked out. Messi's tears. And Portugal win the WC without Ronaldo. That would be nice.
 
Never seen Messi roll around as much as today.
 
Frankie De Jong looks decent, did I not read that Man Utd were interested him in the summertime?
 
Back to pedestrian passing out the back between the defenders from the Netherlands. Stick to your strengths - booting it up front and running off the big man winning second balls.
Absolutely. They were all over Argentina when they played hoof, why go back to trying to outplay them? I think they’ll lose with this tactic.
 
The Dutch are bit stuck in between here and there now.

Probably need a change upfront if they want to play on the counter more.
 
Why does a team throw everything to get back into a game and then just retreat as soon as they do?
Good question. I guess they fancy themselves in the pens? Or they feel they'll get a good chance or two on the break as Argentina have defensive mistakes in them.
 
Cant believe how much Argentina fecked this up.
 
Netherlands weirdly threw away momentum in that 15 minutes. Both teams look to have settled for penalties.
 
Argentina have completely switched off. Don’t think they’ve registered what happened in injury time with that Dutch freekick. Still seem so stunned by it. They’ve been playing with hardly any urgency in this extra time.
 
Because one situation is get the goal/s or go home.... the other isn't.
Yeah, but it’s been shown they’re more effective that way. Playing this way lost them 2 goals. Playing the other way got them two goals.
 
LVG hates us.
De Jong told us to Feck off
VVD plays for the dippers
Yet
The CAF is definitely pro dutch :lol: :eek::wenger:
 
Btw Lahoz isn’t even the worst ref in Spain.