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WombaT
Northern Ireland27406 Posts
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gTank
Austria2667 Posts
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justanothertownie
16342 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:01 Jockmcplop wrote: The conspiracy theorists are gonna go mad Sure, but there is really no good reason based on this game alone. | ||
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gTank
Austria2667 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:04 justanothertownie wrote: Sure, but there is really no good reason based on this game alone. Not just this game, all of Argentinas game so far. Starting with the red card foul from Messi that he shoukd have gotten in the first place. Also dont forget 2022. | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9999 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:07 gTank wrote: Not just this game, all of Argentinas game so far. Starting with the red card foul from Messi that he shoukd have gotten in the first place. Also dont forget 2022. I do wonder how Argentina ended up with such an iron like grip on the actions of every single referee in the world. It'd be nice to hear exactly how they did it. Because otherwise I'll just blame the cognitive dissonance of the people watching. | ||
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Malinor
Germany4758 Posts
The progress is very slow. The extra Ro32 really gives a wrong expression about what is happening in the tournament. With the 8-best-3rds advancing from the group stage, it pretty much felt random to me. But Ro16 and Ro8 is more or less how it has been for the last few decades. Egypt just imploded, that was sad to watch. Disallowing the goal for a foul that happened 30 seconds earlier feels wrong to me, but I can understand the other side of the argument. Still, when you are up 2-0 after 78 minutes, you cannot blame anyone but yourself. | ||
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8927 Posts
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mAKiTO
Colombia4177 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands22618 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:12 Malinor wrote: Yeah its a damn shame, Egypt deserved that win but they gave it away themselves.African Nations at the World Cup The progress is very slow. The extra Ro32 really gives a wrong expression about what is happening in the tournament. With the 8-best-3rds advancing from the group stage, it pretty much felt random to me. But Ro16 and Ro8 is more or less how it has been for the last few decades. Egypt just imploded, that was sad to watch. Disallowing the goal for a foul that happened 30 seconds earlier feels wrong to me, but I can understand the other side of the argument. Still, when you are up 2-0 after 78 minutes, you cannot blame anyone but yourself. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18752 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:12 Malinor wrote: African Nations at the World Cup The progress is very slow. The extra Ro32 really gives a wrong expression about what is happening in the tournament. With the 8-best-3rds advancing from the group stage, it pretty much felt random to me. But Ro16 and Ro8 is more or less how it has been for the last few decades. Egypt just imploded, that was sad to watch. Disallowing the goal for a foul that happened 30 seconds earlier feels wrong to me, but I can understand the other side of the argument. Still, when you are up 2-0 after 78 minutes, you cannot blame anyone but yourself. But wasn't there a foul before Argentina's 3-2? | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10566 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:33 sharkie wrote: But wasn't there a foul before Argentina's 3-2? No, Martinez gets the ball first at Salah's feet, then there's contact after the fact that he had lost control of the ball, so it's just a coming together at that point. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27406 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:12 Jockmcplop wrote: I do wonder how Argentina ended up with such an iron like grip on the actions of every single referee in the world. It'd be nice to hear exactly how they did it. Because otherwise I'll just blame the cognitive dissonance of the people watching. Yeah it’s mostly bollocks. Not saying mistakes haven’t been made but why would FIFA instruct referees to specifically help Argentina? Brazil are a bigger South American nation numbers wise. If it’s a matter of preserving the biggest nations, or best teams overall so they don’t exit early, plenty of good European sides have had decisions go against them. This kind of shit is just utterly tiresome. | ||
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Slydie
2007 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:33 sharkie wrote: But wasn't there a foul before Argentina's 3-2? Could have been penalties right before the last goal. I understand the frustration, but they were not quite obvious. | ||
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gTank
Austria2667 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:39 WombaT wrote: Yeah it’s mostly bollocks. Not saying mistakes haven’t been made but why would FIFA instruct referees to specifically help Argentina? Brazil are a bigger South American nation numbers wise. If it’s a matter of preserving the biggest nations, or best teams overall so they don’t exit early, plenty of good European sides have had decisions go against them. This kind of shit is just utterly tiresome. It is probably bollocks but still this WC is the one with so many obvious mistakes and they all leave a sour taste, especially when goals were disallowed when in another game the same doesnt happen....also it both times benefits one team. Or when presidents of some countries can interefere and make FIFA suspend red cards because of personal favours. Still a good performance in the last 20 minutes from Argentina and they have enough class to make such comebacks, so they deserve to advance. | ||
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Dan HH
Romania9246 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:28 Gorsameth wrote: Yeah its a damn shame, Egypt deserved that win but they gave it away themselves. Eh, Egypt were pretty lucky to find themselves up by 2, keeper made some wonders in the first half and they were way behind in every other metric. Senegal's loss was much worse, they were genuinely better than Belgium and just lost their heads for 2mins. It's also a shame the African qualifiers are so early and unforgiving and caught Nigeria out of form, they're better than half the CAF teams that made it. | ||
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Poopi
France13021 Posts
On July 08 2026 03:03 WombaT wrote: Argentina are looking pretty mortal, I think both England and Norway might fancy their chances in the Ro4 If we manage to beat Morroco / Spain or Belgium, I would like to face full strength Norway Haaland is a monster England so it’s coming home song can be memed But probably not Argentina given their « luck » | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9999 Posts
That's not going to calm down the conspiracy theories. | ||
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Poopi
France13021 Posts
On July 08 2026 05:00 Jockmcplop wrote: Argentinian match officials have been selected for the France Morroco game lol That's not going to calm down the conspiracy theories. They can’t be worse than the referee vs Paraguay, + Morroco don’t play as aggro / cheating as Paraguay or Argentina iirc? | ||
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justanothertownie
16342 Posts
On July 08 2026 05:07 Poopi wrote: They can’t be worse than the referee vs Paraguay, + Morroco don’t play as aggro / cheating as Paraguay or Argentina iirc? Depends. Do you rely on the availability of towels? | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18446 Posts
On July 08 2026 05:00 Jockmcplop wrote: Argentinian match officials have been selected for the France Morroco game lol That's not going to calm down the conspiracy theories. Do you suspect them of being pro-France? Or pro-Morocco? Or just whatever the outcome is, that was what the Infantinati wanted to happen? | ||
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