Because it still needs a referee's discretion to get it rolling.
Because it still needs a referee's discretion to get it rolling.
Iceland there, bettering our last twenty years of World Cup performances in their first.
I thought they did it in the background regardless and advise him if he’s missed something?Originally Posted by Shindig
My understanding is, they check it and if they feel the ref made a wrong decision then they inform him? I haven't looked it up in detail mind you.
Well then I have no idea why that wasn’t given.
I would put my life on Mark Clattenburg wearing brown shoes in that fucking bin they've got him in.
What a time to be alive.
Interview man: 'Gary Neville says we only have one world class player: Harry Kane.'
Bronze Jamie Vardy: 'I disagree. We're all here on merit.'
Haven't caught up on thread but that Pavon trip not being called back for a VAR review is exactly why VAR is fucking useless.
Buddy of mine said "he went down soft that's why they didn't call it" I replied "he's literally stepped on his foot what the fuck is the point of this shit?"
There's too much discretion as to when it's used and when it isn't. I hate to bring it up again but this shit happens in MLS every week. Last week they said one of the Orlando City players stepped on a guy in the box, replay clearly shows he won ball and didn't touch him, but since they didn't call for VAR nothing was changed. Later in the same match, they looked at what seemed to be a pretty straight forward foul, went to VAR, and while they did nothing but uphold the decision to give a yellow, it's too inconsistent.
If there's a referee supposedly watching the screens and in contact with the official on the field how can it be such a pick-and-choose exercise?
I pray that it doesn't happen in that way where a pretty obvious thing that should've been reviewed and reversed is ignored but something else isn't. The VAR-pocalypse really is imminent if they're half as incompetent as our refs (unlikely but possible).
People are still setting off fireworks.
lol
I feel sorry for Messi, really. I cannot wrap my head around a nation like Argentina not producing another playmaker to shoulder the burden. Nobody decided to inject any pace, show a bit of width and it was all so bloody predictable.
I don’t think creativity is their problem, somehow.
Bring back riquelme.
Amigo. I've no other experience of them.
Who forced him to miss the PK?
Who decided penalties were guaranteed goals?
Cantona.
I'm a twit
It feels like Nigeria have been in Argentina's group for like the last 5 or 6 tournaments or something.
Third in a row, this one.
Edit: They were in the same group in 2002 as well.
They've played and lost to Argentina in 4 of their 5 World Cup appearances is the statistic I think I heard.
edit: Checked it and it's right. The only time they didn't play them was 98.
I remember an earlier one too. Like 1998 or 2002.
Edit: It's the 94 one I remember where we got smashed by both of them in the group stages.
Yeah, 2002. Edited the post once I'd seen that too.
Mad, that. Is it because of seeding and only being able to meet certain teams they keep ending up together or what?
Africa used to be in the same pot with the other South American teams and Argentina couldn't be drawn with them. It's still quite the coincidence though seeing as they haven't been in a group with Brazil for example.
Had to double-check Modric had only been charged of perjury. Bang goes my idea of a suspended sentence XI.
Bit dull, this.
It's fucking awful.
Is Mikel Nigeria’s creative midfielder here? Oh lord.
He has been like this since day one in a Nigeria shirt. Kakaesque
Two Croatian players clashing into each other and losing the ball describes this game best.
Hahahaha the Croats barging into each other and the Nigerian emerging with the ball
Moses is shit at diving. Should really be gone by now.
When's the last time Croatia played good football in a tournament?
They normally look great for two games to get the n00bs frothing before the inevitable collapse comes.
Good decision, that.
I mostly remember them looking great at qualifiers and then just bombing in the group stages.
Wouldn't Nigeria be the hipster team in this one?
They were great in the euros in 2016 group stages. It's just when they hit Portugal they went south.
They seem to play worse when modric and rakitic play together in the centre, slows the pace right down. That's certainly what I saw in France. Perisic is class though.
Their world cup record, aside from 1998, is much worse than I'd have thought. Never made it past the groups and only beaten Italy and Cameroon.
And they haven't gone past the 1st knockout round in a Euro.
That's why he has to part the sea before crossing it.
Yeah but they've beaten German and Spain in sort-of-recent group stages, and they're the games that get people excited.
Jose Mourinho being a pundit on Russia Today is so, so him.
So are Nigeria largely here to decide who wins the group based on who they're least shit against? They were pretty crap last night and with Croatia ahead in the group I don't see Argentina or Iceland having any dead rubbers.
I'm sure they had headlines when USA "beat" England 1-1 too. Good to see they're learning as they embrace the sport.
That basically is a loss for Argentina mind.
Watching Messi being deployed as if he was as ready for the knackers yard as Rooney was painful to watch.
Nigeria are going to refund any supporters who attended yesterday's game due to the poor performance.
All anyone needs to do is send on their bank account number and card pin.
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