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The 2017-2018 Football Thread
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If Argentina foul, that France scores 3 in the first half, and Argentina are out of the match completely. Don’t kid yourself into thinking those were not necessary. Argentina were overmatched.
Just treat it like the apostrophes missing when you typed ‘don’t’ and ‘won’t’ in your post... Sorry for the offence this autocorrect error has caused.
I did read it. You said the obvious foul in the 90’. Again that doesn’t matter. The game would not have been 3-3. Those early fouls stopped goals. It would have been worse for Argentina without them. What you don’t see is that Argentina were completely outmatched.
I know what you said. I said all those things. I am saying your wrong. That 1 foul doesn’t change anything.
Are you asking me if you said they were poor? Again it doesn’t matter what you believe, they were poor. Offense was the best we have seen all tournament, but the defense was as poor if not more then they have been. Those are not debatable.
? How is that? What foul changed the score line? Mbappé scores both his goals in the second half in the run of play, so no foul played any part of that. If your talking about the foul in the box in the first half, France should have already scored that goal on Mbappé break away that he taken out on.
Again in no world does Argentina get that game to 3-3 without playing dirty.
You don't know that he would have scored if he had not been fouled. He had already been pushed to the end of the field.
If you can’t see that Argentina only were in the game because of the fouls, then we have nothing else to talk about. Go look at the stats. France were the much better team, and could only slow down France with dirty play.
If you think Mbappé was pushed to the edge of the field, you are just seeing this game one way. Seriously, I get your an Argentina fan, but open your eyes. You have to be realistic, and if you are, this game wasn’t close. Just as I like Portugal, but they didn’t deserved to win that game. They played like garbage. Sometimes your teams aren’t as good as you want them to be. Yesterday was clearly not Argentina’s day. Well none of this tournament was.
Nope, you may want to look back at what you wrote. I was going based completely off what you wrote. You suggest this game was 3-3 at 90’ if they didn’t give away a penalty. That makes zero sense based on what we saw. Maybe you need to learn how to assess a football match.
Yeah I understand that. I am telling you how it was never going to be that. Not unless the dirty play was allowed to continue.
You also have no clue that Argentina score 3 goals if they hadn’t committed the penalty. The game would be completely different. We can play the what if game all day.
True; they lived off their reputation from the past, and rode their luck.
Dirty Sergio Ramos being credited with an early goal for Spain, but it was an OG by the Russian player covering him as both fell.
Yes, but while Ramos is undoubtedly dirty, he is also opportunistic and able actually to play football, as Spain are far more able and sophisticated than Russia on the football pitch.
Ironic that Russia are undone trying to foul a player as accomplished in the black arts of filthy fouling as Ramos.
I'll be astounded if this does not end in defeat for the hosts.
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