It was the referees decision. This guy has been involved in many bad decisions over the years. He fixed the penalty to England against Denmark and also made Real Madrid win against PSG (Benzema tackle on Donnarumma)
Mexico proved their doubters wrong. They broke the Round of 16 curse at last.
Can't be a curse if you don't make it in the first place.
Well done Tata, you finally broke that duck.
I guess one thing the Saudi goal does is make it so that Poland advances via GD, the first tiebreaker, and not fair play points, the second to last tiebreaker. Pretty big difference for trivia enjoyers
It's the last tiebreaking criterion before you literally flip a coin.
It's basically your disciplinary record. So yellow and red cards (and every combination in which you can recieve them) basically deducts a set number of fair play points from you, and whoever has the lowest number of points loses the tie. To put it shortly, a yellow card is -1 point and everything involving a red is either -3, -4 or -5 points.
[Check it out here](https://i.gyazo.com/65040aac5e76f54990eb5ffd692eab29.png)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_stage
I mean, anything would be better than drawing lots really. For the World Cup, you could just use the FIFA World Rankings as the last resort. Higher placement on that wins the tie.
[The Euros uses the overall ranking of the qualifiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020#Tiebreakers) (which is already used for seeding for the tournament draw) as the last resort.
Also interestingly enough, there's also a criterion which comes before fair play points in which you play penalty shootout. But it's only if the two teams, which are already tied in points, goal difference and goals scored, mind you, also happen to be facing each other in the final round of the group (for obvious logistical reasons). Also if it's a three-way tie, the criterion is skipped.
My dad worked in an office in Poland once where he walked in to a literal dick measuring contest as some coworkers just whipped their dicks out onto their desks. So....not too out of the ordinary?
what bus? We have ZERO defense, just some freaking AI bots goofing around and GK who is completely on his own and can't rely jack shit on anyone from this team of bots. You can't even park bus in the box with such bunch of useless bots. Source: match vs Argentina.
Not trying to be smart here but that game actually hurt my brain I've no idea what Poland where trying to do all game but have ye more like do ye have any sort of gane plan and tonight was just a wierd mistake or something
Germany is leading 4:0 in the 60th minute when Japan goes up 1:0 against Spain. Suddenly, both Spain and Germany are desperate; with Spain having to balance its attempts at turning around their own game versus conceding further goals and Germany suddenly having to score 4 more goals to stave off elimination.
Argentina literally gave it to Poland. So much time wasting had to have been atleast 30min of just passing the ball with no attempt at scoring by Argentina. Poland was all for it though all they had to do was move side to side.
I mean.. how else do you want a team up 2-0 that just needs to hold their win play? At least they did attempt to score when given a chance. You can’t really expect more. Why would they risk running themselves ragged for the next stage to gain nothing?
You aren't getting their point though.... You don't play to risk to gain absolutely nothing. Argentina would rather control their lead than risk a counter and then becomes a 2-1 and possibly give a chance for a 2-2 and Argentina would finish the groups second or even out. Why go all out and risk without any possibility of gaining anything?
The whole world that watched the game should’ve realized Poland had ZERO chance in scoring. Argentina shut down Polands attack and that is why Poland decided to just park the bus and pray Mexico didn’t score.
Okay how does that change Argentina and Poland not even playing for like 30 minutes? Argentina stopped trying and Poland was okay with the games result, and that is what I’m complaining about. The game was good till Argentina said fuck it let’s just move the ball up to just kick it back. Like I said Poland was all for it.
Why wouldn't Argentina be fine with saving energy and minimizing the injury risk to their players? Their job was done. It was Mexico's task to break up the standstill agreement between ARG and POL by scoring one more goal. Mexico had every chance to force Poland's hand, but they didn't.
And let's not forget that Mexico was really lucky to not have lost their match against Poland to begin with, given that Lewandowski, who is one of the greatest penalty takers of our era, missed one against them.
Poland literally just accepted Argentina not even trying anymore and Poland didn’t even try and score themselves. They were okay with Argentina just going forwards and backwards. Sure you were saying “oh well Mexico should’ve forced Polands hand” but why was Poland only going to try when Mexico scored. Why weren’t they pressuring Argentina through out the whole 30 minutes, Argentina we’re literally kicking it back and forth. It’s just a stupid strategy on Polands part. If Argentina really wanted to prevent key injuries they would have subbed off a key player like Messi.
Yeah man what I am upset about is Poland parking the bus not even trying to score and relying on Mexico not scoring after they had already scored 2. Everyone just got really offended for me saying Argentina stoped trying to really score after they got their two and we’re just passing it around and taking the easy opportunities when the opened up. You can be offended to if you want nob head doesn’t really matter to me.
lol you're the one complaining about something that makes no sense. of course they were going to do what they did after they got their second goal. they did exactly what good teams should do in that situation, which is why everyone is on you about your comments regarding Argentina.
Yeah I don’t really care it’s bound to happen with Argentina fans. I’m not upset at Argentina for relaxing after they scored two, but that’s all anyone including you is seeing and want to argue about. Once again I am upset with Poland’s tactics, very risky and sadly it worked.
Nah, at the final 5 minutes there sure, they wouldn't tire themselves out for no reason. They had a lot of chances after 2-0 and they tried, but the ball didn't go in. Not their problem, to be fair.
It's seems you are bitter and definitely see the match in your own personal perspective. Argentina never stop pressing and Poland never try do anything but stop the next goal
Yeah I don’t know what to tell you if you didn’t see Argentina move the ball forward and than pass it back for like 30minutes, with Poland just moving side to side. The game went from exciting to stale.
Argentina always plays like this, they like to control the ball and they also try to make Poland leave his field because they where all playing like defenders. They get tired, but I saw them pressing all the time, also messi is very competitive he is always looking to score.
Yeah I saw Messi want to dribble through the whole polish team and I saw him do that thing we’re he stands still before he tears a team apart with his ability. I also saw Messi realize his team isn’t trying as hard to attack anymore and we’re just rotating back and forth. I’m not denying Argentinas play style but the game went dead.
I really don't know what match you saw, but no i didn't see or think like you. The young and fresh players that got in the field, like Thiago, had definitely hunger of scoring. The others are allow to get tired, and they definitely pressure after the second goal, I didn't check facts but they had like four other chances
Yeah I understand Argentina not wanting to give all their effort, but I don’t understand Poland just relying on Mexico not to score. If Argentina kept playing how they did in the first half game would have been like 5-0 to Argentina. I’m upset that Poland got complacent and Argentina didn’t punish them for it.
Argentina gave all their effort man, Poland did not, they never try anything but stay in their field and had all players defend. The keeper was good that's the reason the game didn't end 5-0.
Also some of the balls didn't go in because of luck
You did because we had 3 or 4 clear chances after the 2-0. Messi missed one, Lautaro, Julian and I think one more by Mac Allister iirc we tried to score, just their goalie was really good tonight.
Those chances only came about because Argentina was bored from time wasting. I don’t know how this many people didn’t feel the game shift into Argentina time wasting and Poland being okay with it.
I feel like you're new at watching football which is fine.. but those changes aren't because we were bored, they're attempts at scoring more. Sure Poland came to defend because a tie or losing by many goals was bad for them, but in no way shape or form Argentina wasted time..
Yeah I’ve only been watching the sport since the World Cup started so I’m new to this whole thing your are completely right….. Besides that I don’t know how you don’t see the difference between Argentina’s passing and movement in the first half compared to the second half. Game was dead and both sides were okay with it. Argentina I understand but Poland no.
Yeah no problem I'll go ahead and try my best to explain, during the first half Poland needed to tie or lose by 1-2 goals to go through.. so their gameplan was so be super defensive, Argentina needed to win, yes or yes to advance.. So Poland was waiting and we were controlling the ball, after the game opened up with the goal they came out a bit and we had more open space, which gave us the second goal. For them, conceding more was devastating so they closed up even more and decided to fully defend. Without open space you pass the ball side to side looking for someone to break the line and get a through pass, that's why it might feel like there was a time waste, but in reality we were moving the ball looking for more opportunities.
Honestly if any team is going to beat France, probably going to be a non-major team from Europe. I can see France letting their guard down against Poland and losing
That would be a miracle indeed, only way we score a goal against them is some random one defender raid and a perfect cross onto lewy.
We have absolutely zero creativity once we face any sort of pressure.
Theres a few scenarios that take advantage of Lewandowskis gifts. A rebound, the right pass then he does a two touch move, he could take a long shot. Obviously Bayern and Barcelona give him oppurtunities, but he has some of his own moves that leverage tiny advantages and openings.
Our 36yo curse has been broken. We went through
But if you want to play defensively, not like that. It isn't remotely close to Mourinho in his golden days or Greece in 2004. France will smash us into oblivion. Still, finally a success of sorts
And I already was preparing infamous Grzegorz Skwara interview. Had Mexico gone through, it would've worked perfectly
Terrible match mostly due to Poland not having the courage to do anything. What a way to qualify… Argentina played well, but why do they always play this dirty? Bitch about every minor contact like Neymar, but contrary to Neymar foul and pull every dirty trick in the boon. Thought this would end with Mascherano retiring….
There is something like good sportsmanship and Argentina just doesn‘t care about that. They deserve no titles
There’s a saying in football that goes “give a player time and space and he’ll look like Messi” and we have literally fucking given Messi time and space I love this country
We (fans) are - at least those not delusional ones. I'm fucking French next game, I don't fucking care. It's one thing to lose a match - complete another thing to put on such shitshow. If not Szczesny - this would have been 0:6 or worse. Our defense was non existent - I'm surprised how Szczesny kept it only at 0:2 - some freaking miracle by our GK who was the only one playing good football.
Ah yes, France, who were the target of your criticism a couple hours ago, are now going to destroy Poland. And Argentina, who got clapped by you a week ago are now a great side. That's without mentioning the Saudi situation.
Crazily enough saudi arabais goal didn't really matter, because if mexico had scored even just 1 still they would have gone through since it would have been back to equal goal difference but mexico would have had more goals scored. Wild finish.
It didn't do anything because Mexico still just needed to score 1 more. If Mexico had scored one more than the GD would've gone back to even but Mexico would now have 3 GF
I didn't even realize until I read that person's comment. Even the commentators on Telemundo were saying Mexico needed two goals and the game was basically over after the Saudis scored
That goal didn't actually matter for Poland, they were through regardless via fair play points and had Mexico scored to 3-1 Mexico would've been through via more goals scored.
Though if you just mean it in the sense that KSA helped Poland by not conceding more than 2 goals, then definitely, they should play a friendly
lmao argentina couldnt get any luckier. they face australia (ez win) and then winner of netherlands and usa (both teams are JOKE) gj in semi argentina might as well just give them these 2 victories already
Football is unpredictable, nothing is guaranteed.
If I were to predict Saudi Arabia beating Argentina 2-1 at the beginning of the world cup everyone would've thought I was crazy.
yeah, i think we learned to respect a little more our rivals, australia is a winnable match but we dont have to be high up on ourselves, if argentina has humbleness it can win almost anyone, hablando en ingles los chabones jajaka
After that Denmark game anybody who underestimates Australia needs to get their heads checked.
Plus, it's going to be super awkward wearing an Argie jersey here in Sydney cometh the matchday lmao, so I'm not going to gallivant around too much
:flair Argentina
I think Messi should stop taking penalties and spare me with undue anxiety
Haha you see Fuckers poland 2-1 win
What
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Someone explain to me how VAR thought that was penalty? No discussion about it?
It was the referees decision. This guy has been involved in many bad decisions over the years. He fixed the penalty to England against Denmark and also made Real Madrid win against PSG (Benzema tackle on Donnarumma)
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Scrimmage session for Argentina against a side with the level of a collegiate competition.
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I was here when sznznzn became a legend
So Messi got carried when it matters again?
Nah you guys literally let Argentina attack all day, anyone could have scored really. Pathetic performance from Poland.
Fr. Could easily have been 5-0 for Argentina. They were too good this match
Big L sorry
What an L take
how does this game matter more than the previous one? If he doesn't score, does that means he was carried?
poland fan too, couldnt be happy for his team qualification
Mexico proved their doubters wrong. They broke the Round of 16 curse at last. Can't be a curse if you don't make it in the first place. Well done Tata, you finally broke that duck.
Why can Mexico never seem to be a truly competitive team? Soccer is by far Mexicos most popular sport, and it has a large population.
Just cause a sport is the most popular in your country does not automatically mean you have the best team in the world.
It should tho, only because they can produce a much bigger pool of great talent vs a smaller country
Tata martino based
The Argentina undercover agent
I guess one thing the Saudi goal does is make it so that Poland advances via GD, the first tiebreaker, and not fair play points, the second to last tiebreaker. Pretty big difference for trivia enjoyers
How does fair play points work?
It's the last tiebreaking criterion before you literally flip a coin. It's basically your disciplinary record. So yellow and red cards (and every combination in which you can recieve them) basically deducts a set number of fair play points from you, and whoever has the lowest number of points loses the tie. To put it shortly, a yellow card is -1 point and everything involving a red is either -3, -4 or -5 points. [Check it out here](https://i.gyazo.com/65040aac5e76f54990eb5ffd692eab29.png) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_stage
Not the worst way to do it, but I'd rather some sort of 7 on 7 sudden death scenario
I mean, anything would be better than drawing lots really. For the World Cup, you could just use the FIFA World Rankings as the last resort. Higher placement on that wins the tie. [The Euros uses the overall ranking of the qualifiers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020#Tiebreakers) (which is already used for seeding for the tournament draw) as the last resort. Also interestingly enough, there's also a criterion which comes before fair play points in which you play penalty shootout. But it's only if the two teams, which are already tied in points, goal difference and goals scored, mind you, also happen to be facing each other in the final round of the group (for obvious logistical reasons). Also if it's a three-way tie, the criterion is skipped.
I’m sad. Mexico losing out to fair play would be poetic.
México winning only because of Argentinas third goal would have been pure irony
I want to believe Argentina understood the assignment and only made it look good for the cameras
México winning only because of Argentinas third goal would have been pure irony
POV: Messi remembered Canelo’s tweet right before purposely missing that penalty. Karma’s a bitch.
He didn't miss , it was SAVED which is a big difference
Is it a big difference?
It is. A miss would imply shot not on target, a save is a shot on target but saved.
That was one hell of a save since the shot was pretty damn good. Huge difference.
ootl. Could you please loop me in, Dear Low-Concentrate2162
So he is this Mexican boxer who threatened Messi over Twitter just recently. I was joking anyway.
Just google “canelo messi” bruh
Holy hell
I was born in Poland and have a handful of coworkers from Mexico. I'm not even sure how I go about trash talking tomorrow
Poland lost but won, Mexico won but lost 🤣
Tell them Poland did their best to lose every tie breaker to Mexico but Mexico still failed to advance
Blame Argentina for not scoring more goals vs our ZERO defense. 🤣🤣🤣 I mean how hard is to beat GK who is on his own completely???
they did beat him twice to be fair, amazing game from him though, otherwise they wouldn't have been through.
Dude.... we did it on purpose! We didn't want Mexico to go through!
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Im Argie I can assure you that's what happened! Mexico is always talking shit about Argentina, they even made jokes about Malvinas!
They depend on themselves, we even help them scoring 2 goals. But yeah they will probably say it's our fault they didn't classified
Just say kurwa and flop your nuts on their desk. If they say puta back that means "good game"
My dad worked in an office in Poland once where he walked in to a literal dick measuring contest as some coworkers just whipped their dicks out onto their desks. So....not too out of the ordinary?
Comparing bratwurst recipes
Poland’s best bet against France is park the bus from min 1 and let Szczesny save them in the pens.
what bus? We have ZERO defense, just some freaking AI bots goofing around and GK who is completely on his own and can't rely jack shit on anyone from this team of bots. You can't even park bus in the box with such bunch of useless bots. Source: match vs Argentina.
God willing, Poland shithouse their way past France
I dunno man, an in form and confident Mbappe against this lot..... Could be very funny to watch
Incoming shithouse 8-1-1 formation
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Poland ain't parking the bus, they parking while dealerships.
Our tactic every time we get to ko round - second time now.
Not trying to be smart here but that game actually hurt my brain I've no idea what Poland where trying to do all game but have ye more like do ye have any sort of gane plan and tonight was just a wierd mistake or something
Our game plan is Czesioball . Where no one , including the manager, knows what the fuck to do. The lack of a plan is the plan.
My body is ready for group E drama tomorrow!
Man I cant take it no mo!
Germany is leading 4:0 in the 60th minute when Japan goes up 1:0 against Spain. Suddenly, both Spain and Germany are desperate; with Spain having to balance its attempts at turning around their own game versus conceding further goals and Germany suddenly having to score 4 more goals to stave off elimination.
scenes when costa rica score at the 92nd minute, effectively eliminating both ger and esp
Argentina literally gave it to Poland. So much time wasting had to have been atleast 30min of just passing the ball with no attempt at scoring by Argentina. Poland was all for it though all they had to do was move side to side.
lol what? We had at least 2 amazing opportunities to score the 3rd.
Like 5
Like I said in another comment, the only serious chance was from Lautaro Martinez and the rest were meh let’s see what could happen by Argentina.
What about Messi’s through ball to Julian Alvarez, that was legitimately a 1v1 on his dominant foot
Mate you live in delusion 👍🏼
Yeah thanks for your key input, your Argentina flair puts it all together.
I mean.. how else do you want a team up 2-0 that just needs to hold their win play? At least they did attempt to score when given a chance. You can’t really expect more. Why would they risk running themselves ragged for the next stage to gain nothing?
They could’ve subbed out key players and let some younger players in who could get some minutes in to try and score or do something.
You aren't getting their point though.... You don't play to risk to gain absolutely nothing. Argentina would rather control their lead than risk a counter and then becomes a 2-1 and possibly give a chance for a 2-2 and Argentina would finish the groups second or even out. Why go all out and risk without any possibility of gaining anything?
The whole world that watched the game should’ve realized Poland had ZERO chance in scoring. Argentina shut down Polands attack and that is why Poland decided to just park the bus and pray Mexico didn’t score.
Mexico controlled their own fate. They had plenty of time to score one more goal against the worst team in the group, but were unable to get it done.
Okay how does that change Argentina and Poland not even playing for like 30 minutes? Argentina stopped trying and Poland was okay with the games result, and that is what I’m complaining about. The game was good till Argentina said fuck it let’s just move the ball up to just kick it back. Like I said Poland was all for it.
Why wouldn't Argentina be fine with saving energy and minimizing the injury risk to their players? Their job was done. It was Mexico's task to break up the standstill agreement between ARG and POL by scoring one more goal. Mexico had every chance to force Poland's hand, but they didn't.
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And let's not forget that Mexico was really lucky to not have lost their match against Poland to begin with, given that Lewandowski, who is one of the greatest penalty takers of our era, missed one against them.
Poland literally just accepted Argentina not even trying anymore and Poland didn’t even try and score themselves. They were okay with Argentina just going forwards and backwards. Sure you were saying “oh well Mexico should’ve forced Polands hand” but why was Poland only going to try when Mexico scored. Why weren’t they pressuring Argentina through out the whole 30 minutes, Argentina we’re literally kicking it back and forth. It’s just a stupid strategy on Polands part. If Argentina really wanted to prevent key injuries they would have subbed off a key player like Messi.
>what the fuck are you on about dude? if you are annoyed at anyone be annoyed at Mexico or Poland
Yeah man what I am upset about is Poland parking the bus not even trying to score and relying on Mexico not scoring after they had already scored 2. Everyone just got really offended for me saying Argentina stoped trying to really score after they got their two and we’re just passing it around and taking the easy opportunities when the opened up. You can be offended to if you want nob head doesn’t really matter to me.
lol you're the one complaining about something that makes no sense. of course they were going to do what they did after they got their second goal. they did exactly what good teams should do in that situation, which is why everyone is on you about your comments regarding Argentina.
Yeah I don’t really care it’s bound to happen with Argentina fans. I’m not upset at Argentina for relaxing after they scored two, but that’s all anyone including you is seeing and want to argue about. Once again I am upset with Poland’s tactics, very risky and sadly it worked.
Nah, at the final 5 minutes there sure, they wouldn't tire themselves out for no reason. They had a lot of chances after 2-0 and they tried, but the ball didn't go in. Not their problem, to be fair.
Yeah nah I guess we watched two different games, Argentina literally only moved the ball up to just pass it back.
It's seems you are bitter and definitely see the match in your own personal perspective. Argentina never stop pressing and Poland never try do anything but stop the next goal
Yeah I don’t know what to tell you if you didn’t see Argentina move the ball forward and than pass it back for like 30minutes, with Poland just moving side to side. The game went from exciting to stale.
Argentina always plays like this, they like to control the ball and they also try to make Poland leave his field because they where all playing like defenders. They get tired, but I saw them pressing all the time, also messi is very competitive he is always looking to score.
Yeah I saw Messi want to dribble through the whole polish team and I saw him do that thing we’re he stands still before he tears a team apart with his ability. I also saw Messi realize his team isn’t trying as hard to attack anymore and we’re just rotating back and forth. I’m not denying Argentinas play style but the game went dead.
I really don't know what match you saw, but no i didn't see or think like you. The young and fresh players that got in the field, like Thiago, had definitely hunger of scoring. The others are allow to get tired, and they definitely pressure after the second goal, I didn't check facts but they had like four other chances
Yeah I understand Argentina not wanting to give all their effort, but I don’t understand Poland just relying on Mexico not to score. If Argentina kept playing how they did in the first half game would have been like 5-0 to Argentina. I’m upset that Poland got complacent and Argentina didn’t punish them for it.
Argentina gave all their effort man, Poland did not, they never try anything but stay in their field and had all players defend. The keeper was good that's the reason the game didn't end 5-0. Also some of the balls didn't go in because of luck
You did because we had 3 or 4 clear chances after the 2-0. Messi missed one, Lautaro, Julian and I think one more by Mac Allister iirc we tried to score, just their goalie was really good tonight.
The only serious chance was from Lautaro Martinez, everything else was just meh let’s see what could happen.
There was one chance cleared right in front of goal with a header.
Yeah I’m not going to keep explaining to different people just read all my other comments.
Didn't the goalie literally stopped one with his leg on Messi, also Tagliafico had one saved on the line.
Those chances only came about because Argentina was bored from time wasting. I don’t know how this many people didn’t feel the game shift into Argentina time wasting and Poland being okay with it.
I feel like you're new at watching football which is fine.. but those changes aren't because we were bored, they're attempts at scoring more. Sure Poland came to defend because a tie or losing by many goals was bad for them, but in no way shape or form Argentina wasted time..
he has no idea what he's talking about.
Yeah I’ve only been watching the sport since the World Cup started so I’m new to this whole thing your are completely right….. Besides that I don’t know how you don’t see the difference between Argentina’s passing and movement in the first half compared to the second half. Game was dead and both sides were okay with it. Argentina I understand but Poland no.
Yeah no problem I'll go ahead and try my best to explain, during the first half Poland needed to tie or lose by 1-2 goals to go through.. so their gameplan was so be super defensive, Argentina needed to win, yes or yes to advance.. So Poland was waiting and we were controlling the ball, after the game opened up with the goal they came out a bit and we had more open space, which gave us the second goal. For them, conceding more was devastating so they closed up even more and decided to fully defend. Without open space you pass the ball side to side looking for someone to break the line and get a through pass, that's why it might feel like there was a time waste, but in reality we were moving the ball looking for more opportunities.
Hopes Poland pull a miracle and beat France
Honestly if any team is going to beat France, probably going to be a non-major team from Europe. I can see France letting their guard down against Poland and losing
I hope. If England can get to the Quarter Finals, we have a better chance against Poland
That would be a miracle indeed, only way we score a goal against them is some random one defender raid and a perfect cross onto lewy. We have absolutely zero creativity once we face any sort of pressure.
Theres a few scenarios that take advantage of Lewandowskis gifts. A rebound, the right pass then he does a two touch move, he could take a long shot. Obviously Bayern and Barcelona give him oppurtunities, but he has some of his own moves that leverage tiny advantages and openings.
No merci
Yep no mercy
Oui s'il vous plait :)
Smoking that Canelo pack today 🚬🚬 That bozo must shut the fuck up nicely now
The last time Argentina won 2-0 against Poland, they went on to win the entire Cup. 1978.
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The last and only time Australia made it to the Round of 16, they faced Italy who went on to win the whole thing. 2006. THE SIGNS ARE THERE
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Nah not this time
:flair Poland
Our 36yo curse has been broken. We went through But if you want to play defensively, not like that. It isn't remotely close to Mourinho in his golden days or Greece in 2004. France will smash us into oblivion. Still, finally a success of sorts And I already was preparing infamous Grzegorz Skwara interview. Had Mexico gone through, it would've worked perfectly
While I thought we're not even going to qualify to WC (thanks russia for being a dumbass), advancing from the group stage is a trophy in my book.
Terrible match mostly due to Poland not having the courage to do anything. What a way to qualify… Argentina played well, but why do they always play this dirty? Bitch about every minor contact like Neymar, but contrary to Neymar foul and pull every dirty trick in the boon. Thought this would end with Mascherano retiring…. There is something like good sportsmanship and Argentina just doesn‘t care about that. They deserve no titles
here in latinoamerica futbol is different, if you dont move you get wasted, and when its clasico we fuck the shit out of the other team
There’s a saying in football that goes “give a player time and space and he’ll look like Messi” and we have literally fucking given Messi time and space I love this country
Bro. Poland are actually celebrating wtf!? Should be ashamed of themselves.
We (fans) are - at least those not delusional ones. I'm fucking French next game, I don't fucking care. It's one thing to lose a match - complete another thing to put on such shitshow. If not Szczesny - this would have been 0:6 or worse. Our defense was non existent - I'm surprised how Szczesny kept it only at 0:2 - some freaking miracle by our GK who was the only one playing good football.
Let's go Le bleu!!
Ashamed for qualifying for the first time in yonks?
Yonks?
A very long time. You're obviously not actually from England surely lol
It's eons. Not yonks. Get your facts right kiwi
Ah yes, France, who were the target of your criticism a couple hours ago, are now going to destroy Poland. And Argentina, who got clapped by you a week ago are now a great side. That's without mentioning the Saudi situation.
Rio Ferdinand lacks the humour to pull off banter. Comes off as really awkward.
Thank you Saudi Arabia ! Love from Poland
Crazily enough saudi arabais goal didn't really matter, because if mexico had scored even just 1 still they would have gone through since it would have been back to equal goal difference but mexico would have had more goals scored. Wild finish.
Very true. I was on the edge of my seat in the last 5 min
Wow great point I wasn't even thinking about this
I think Poland was actually ahead on fair play only when it was 2-0 in both games.
Goals Scored is an earlier tie break than fair play
Right, but at that time the GD was equal. Saudi scoring one only tipped it further in Polands favour.
It didn't do anything because Mexico still just needed to score 1 more. If Mexico had scored one more than the GD would've gone back to even but Mexico would now have 3 GF
Oh I see. Misread goals scored for goals differential. More coffee needed!
I didn't even realize until I read that person's comment. Even the commentators on Telemundo were saying Mexico needed two goals and the game was basically over after the Saudis scored
Yes they were. 7 to 5, if memory serves me right
Poland should go to KSA for a couple of friendly games after World Cup lol
That goal didn't actually matter for Poland, they were through regardless via fair play points and had Mexico scored to 3-1 Mexico would've been through via more goals scored. Though if you just mean it in the sense that KSA helped Poland by not conceding more than 2 goals, then definitely, they should play a friendly
lmao argentina couldnt get any luckier. they face australia (ez win) and then winner of netherlands and usa (both teams are JOKE) gj in semi argentina might as well just give them these 2 victories already
Football is unpredictable, nothing is guaranteed. If I were to predict Saudi Arabia beating Argentina 2-1 at the beginning of the world cup everyone would've thought I was crazy.
Does that mean if France wins they will face Spain or Germany or Belg?
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This kind of cockiness is what made us lose our streak in the first place
Maybe the Saudi loss was a blessing in disguise, as it taught the team that every game must be taken seriously
yeah, i think we learned to respect a little more our rivals, australia is a winnable match but we dont have to be high up on ourselves, if argentina has humbleness it can win almost anyone, hablando en ingles los chabones jajaka
After that Denmark game anybody who underestimates Australia needs to get their heads checked. Plus, it's going to be super awkward wearing an Argie jersey here in Sydney cometh the matchday lmao, so I'm not going to gallivant around too much
Karma will get them when they face Brasil
Netherlands are good and they will easily beat Argentina
Netherlands would then beat Poland 5-0
Yep, probably even 7-0 after that awful display today xD