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Quarter Final | Argentina v Belgium | 5 July | ITV 5pm KO |
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referee might as well be wearing an Argentinian shirt
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Give us a decent corner lads
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in all three of the quarters so far the games have been kinda ruined with the "wrong" team scoring the early goal and then trying to just shut down the game
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How's that not a foul?
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This ITV commentary team far better than the so-called first string.
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Argentina conveniantly have a lot of players injured.
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That guy looked like a tortoise trying to flip itself back on to its front
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I know. We are right on schedule for having three semi-finalists - Germany, Brazil, Argentina/Belgium (it really will make no difference) - none of whom has had to play anything more than very average in the quarter-finals to get there.
Neither do I agree that here have been any players who have particularly lit up the tournament, with the possible exception of Rodrigues and Robben. Have Messi and Neymar really dominated games or simply had a few superb moments amid often anonymous performances? Falcao, Eder, Socrates, Zico. Platini and Tigana did more breathtaking things in one match than we've seen in the entirety of Brazil. '82 had at least two great teams and two titanic matches that have gone down in history, 74 had the ground-breaking Holland side and Johan Cruyff, and 86 had Maradona, Platini and others. How many of the matches we've seen will be repatedly played in 30 years time like Brazil v Italy and France v Germany? In my opinion, for those and other reasons (Northern Ireland knocking out the hosts against the odds for example) while I've enjoyed this World Cup far more than the largely disappointing international tournaments we've had in the last thirty years, '82 was a better tournament in my opinion. |
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another shocking cross from de bruyne , he had three in the box to aim for there as well
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Good save!
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Messi denied, it probably won't matter, probably.
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Still hasn't scored past Courtois.
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Higuain man of the match for me. Belgium have had no one playing in the same class as him and the intermittently impressive Messi.
Wish Holland had a goalkeeper as good as Courtois. |
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belgium have been rank this game ..... and AGAIN it should have been all over!
argentina not that better ..... oh lukaku!!! |
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Messi denied, it probably won't matter, probably.
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"Just" over the top? It was miles over!
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Game, set, match.
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Can anyone see Argentina not winning this WC??
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Well, not a classic, but Belgium were simply poor....
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Lukaku looked like he was scared to shoot first time there. So he took another touch and then delivered a dreadful cutback.
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that was a good block from garay there from the dink back across the box by lukaku , there were 2 Belgians just waiting to roll it in if he had missed it
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Can anyone see Argentina not winning this WC??
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Can anyone see Argentina not winning this WC??
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Belgium pretty much did a France. Got what they deserved IMO.
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You knew Belgium lost the match as soon as they started to hoof it to Fellaini.
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