Tbh a part of me hopes ARG is eliminated now. It could provide the much needed wake up call for change (pretty much what 7-1 meant for Brazil)
I think a tie is a more preferbale result. If Nigeria wins tomorrow that would give them 3 points and they will surely try to play conservative against Argentina in Matchday 3 since a draw might be enough to get them trough.
A Draw Iceland is a 2points, Nigeria is at 1.
Both teams needing to win their last game to advance.
So I called it on Croacia. Those mofos can play ball.
Argentina is out pretty much. They made a mistake with Sampaoli. They don't need to play attacking and passing football to win. Get Sabella back again and build the team from the back out.
Those 3 finals and runner ups are thanks to Messi. Argentina doesn't have a young program anymore that can create elite players for the future. The last 10 years have been pretty bad.
Sampaoli is one of the greatest hacks in the history of Argentinian football and most Argentinians who believe they win before playing fell for his spell.
Be humble or be humbled
Not to mention he was a no-nonsense guy and in total control of the lockeroom..Nobody ed with him whereas players are already ting on Sampaoli publicly..
damn, Simeone going in... check the last part of the audio...
Either Simeone or Sabella has to be in charge at Copa 2019 in Brazil; maybe Argentina can salvage something from the Messi era (that is if he doesn't quit again)..
It is clear that the profile of the next coach has to be "a pragmatic disciplinarian that commands respect in that circus of a lockeroom"

Argentina will have it pretty easy with Nigeria, just to undiscipline in tactics and stuff. So, if they get something against Iceland it all looks a lot better.
Argentina is finished. If Iceland gets a draw against Nigeria or loses, Croatia will play their B team for the final game. Argentina won't be able to make up for the goal differential.
Why r ppl speaking about Argentinas chances to advance??? The real talk should be that they better play a decent game 3 and have at least a 2 goal lead and be able to ho home. Otherwise if they have another ty gutless showing vs Nigeria then they can forget about going home and go directly to their adopted European cities
The meltdown in argentina is epic right now. They are even seriously considering firing sampaoli tomorrow
Plus, if they get through via a miracle, they would face a hungry france. The germany brazil 7-1 would be one of the most likely endings to such matchup.
Just play good and go home without risk of getting skinned alive back home![]()
If they don't beat Nigeria, there's no way they're flying back to Argentina. No way. 90% of them live in Europe anyways, they'll just go back to their clubs.
They can't fire him coz it costs $20m to let him go, and they're ing broke, and after this shameful world cup, they're not going to cash in as easily playing friendlies (especially after ing with Israel, tbh).
Sampalobby is a terrible coach anyways, but what everyone is expecting is that he walks away after the cup.
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