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The second goal of Brazil starts directly from a possible foul and penalty on Agüero (he gets triped by Dani Alves inside the area). Few minutes later there was a clear elbow of Arthur on Otamendi during a corner. 
 
The first one is debatable (I think it is a pen though). The one of Arthur is an scandal. It's unbelievable that VAR didn't even ask the ref to watch it. 
 
Anyway, my consolation is that I got perfect prediction points from this. 

You know i'm not the type to say positive things about our team but Argentina was better than Brazil today and got screwed by the referee (two penalties that VAR ignored for whatever reason).
 
 
That being said, Brazil has world class players, better than ours, and that's why they scored two goals against the run of play and won. 

I can only imagine the turkish pitcher...  

A run? What is this, baseball?

Exactly two hours from now.

A run? What is this, baseball?

A run? What is this, baseball?

Semifinals set:
 
Brazil - Paraguay
Argentina - Chile
 
Starting in around 2hs, there is stream in Facebook as stated before but also on YouTube if you search the chile rugby channel.

Uruguay out lol
 
 
The level of this tournament is terrible. Only 2 goals between all quarterfinals.

Uruguay out lol
 
 
The level of this tournament is terrible. Only 2 goals between all quarterfinals.

Unlikely? Literally was an overtime away from happening with Germany last year.

to Tokyo. Congrats.
 
I wonder just how many people won money betting today.

to Tokyo. Congrats.
 
I wonder just how many people won money betting today.

Argentina World Champions after an exhausting 10 innings-long battle!! 
 
history made.
 
Now we have to win the pan am games and also develop the women's team in long term. 

Argentina and Japan will play the final of the men's World championship.  
 
Historic first final for our team  

I really hope you didn't follow today's game... 

The main problem is the south america-africa play-off. It should be a world qualification tournament with an european, asian and north american team as well.
 
It's likely that we will see France needing to beat USA to qualify, which is extremely tough but also very arbitrary.

What a waste, now you have to beat Korea and Ireland to qualify.
 
Same happened to Chile in women's today, they wasted their win with Japan by losing to Russia. 

I wouldn't be surprised if they tie or lose to Paraguay or Qatar. This is simply a complete disaster of a team. There is no tactics, weak players in key positions (CDM, CBs), and worst of all... no attitude in most players. Today only Messi, De Paul and Lo Celso looked like they cared a bit about the match.

Because there is overlap with pan am games and the priority is the games for any of our athletes. From this year on our NOC has a new policy: if you don't win a pan american medal you lose all funding. The only exception is winning a World championship medal, which she can do with a mark like this, but it's far from sure, so.... better play it safe.  
  
Also it doesn't help that WCH is Korea, exactly the opposite side of the world. If they were in USA or west Europe I think our swimmers (or at least her) would have tried both.

I wouldn't be surprised if they tie or lose to Paraguay or Qatar. This is simply a complete disaster of a team. There is no tactics, weak players in key positions (CDM, CBs), and worst of all... no attitude in most players. Today only Messi, De Paul and Lo Celso looked like they cared a bit about the match.

Very likely one of the following: 
-either Korea or China (whoever is ranked lower by that date)
-USA
-Belgium
-South Africa or Chile (whoever is ranked higher by that date, I'm assuming RSA will reject continental quota though )
 
I would say that out of these the only team I'd favor against Ireland is Belgium.
 
Something important I found out recently: it won't be a home and away play-off, it will two leg play-off in which the highest ranked team hosts twice. Which means Ireland will be hosting both games.

In fact, it's better. Look at last few years with France and Russia wasting energy in this meaningless tournament then underperforming in serious stuff.

That's nothing Argentina play Nicaragua today  one of the weakest team in the entire world ranking. The federation just wants to boost the players' confidence because it is at an all-time low.

To play this game you need to be invaded by the british at some point