Last 16: Argentina (1F) vs Switzerland (2E)

pheww.. what an escape that was.

that last minute miss by the Swiss. pretty unreal.

Zealous wrote:This world cup has been very unfair on the "smaller teams" imo.

Well hopefully at least for once no refereeing accusations from the defeated or is that asking for too much. Fate we cannot control. Maybe this time Lady Luck smiles on Argentina. As an Argentine fan one is bound to feel very relieved right now because a penalty shootout can go either way.

Hatred for Lichsteiner has seen a drastic increase.

New found hatred for Drmic originates.

Di Maria is an amazing player. You will never see him missing from big games like other players. Even if he is having a bad game like today he still wants the ball. He still wants to play.

Argentina is trolling their way to the semis, and then the Dutch will curb stomp them

Robespierre wrote:This Argentina is similar to  1990. It is just a player.

Why can't you say 1986 instead?

windkick wrote:Argentina is trolling their way to the semis, and then the Dutch will curb stomp them

The Dutch are also trolling their way to the semis. The big question is who's not.

messixaviesta wrote:

windkick wrote:Argentina is trolling their way to the semis, and then the Dutch will curb stomp them

The Dutch are also trolling their way to the semis. The big question is who's not.

Dont think so. The Dutch have looked convincing while Argentina is just bleh + Messi's magic.

Columbia is in fine form as well, no trolling with them

Post said no is Swiss. Second team to fall this way. No shame to Swiss NT. Argentina getting lucky once again. Maybe Lady Lack wants to see Argentina Vs Brazil in the final?

DAT haircut

windkick wrote:

messixaviesta wrote:

windkick wrote:Argentina is trolling their way to the semis, and then the Dutch will curb stomp them

The Dutch are also trolling their way to the semis. The big question is who's not.

Dont think so. The Dutch have looked convincing while Argentina is just bleh + Messi's magic.

Columbia is in fine form as well, no trolling with them

Well in the knock out match the Dutch looked anything but convincing. Group form can often be deceptive.

Colombia is the ONLY exception so far but my concern is they are a team with less pedigree and the lack of know how will see them succumb in the quarter finals.

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That was some Oberyn bullshit

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Di Maria is playing an Unreal year.

he played Liga, the Champions League till to final , and he is still in great form to WC and he can pressing till to 120'

For the rest, I don't see many differences between Argentina and Brazil.

2 squads who were going to lose against chile and swtizerland simply because their opponent were more organized than them

argentina can convince more than brazil just because they have more better players

I have a question. Switzerland is ranked 6th in the world, just one behind Argentina. and yet why they are considered a weak team and how come people were expecting Argentina to thrash the Swiss today?
If Swiss would have won, it wouldnt have been an upset therefore I guess.

Robespierre wrote:Di Maria is playing an Unreal year.
he played Liga, the Champions League till to final , and he is still in great form to WC and he can pressing till to 120'

In the top three for Ballon D'or especially if Argentina win this world cup. Suarez has anyway thrown his chance away. So even with the usual two suspects there is a third place empty on the podium.

windkick wrote:

messixaviesta wrote:

windkick wrote:Argentina is trolling their way to the semis, and then the Dutch will curb stomp them

The Dutch are also trolling their way to the semis. The big question is who's not.

Dont think so. The Dutch have looked convincing while Argentina is just bleh + Messi's magic.

Columbia is in fine form as well, no trolling with them

Netherlands looked so convincing?

lol

Lumiere_Blanche wrote:I have a question. Switzerland is ranked 6th in the world, just one behind Argentina.  and yet why they are considered a weak team and how come people were expecting Argentina to thrash the Swiss today?
If Swiss would have won, it wouldnt have been an upset therefore I guess.

That's because very few take the Fifa ranking seriously.

The Swiss really screwed this up. Had two great chances to score in the first-half (Xhaka and Drmic) and then held their ground almost until the very end only to concede an unnecessary goal. The free header onto the post was just the icing on the cake.

The Swiss lost the mental battle, imo, just too much inexperience to be decisive. The Argentina players were just more assured in their actions.

Popularity, I suppose. People outside of Europe don't usually follow teams outside of your traditional big teams. Therefore their support is more local and don't really have international recognition.

Messi with the same amount of tackles as Zabaleta   dat defens

Collblanc wrote:Messi with the same amount of tackles as Zabaleta   dat defens

Even the Dutch and German defences are no less laughable.

Robespierre wrote:
argentina can convince more than brazil just because they have more better players

you can't compare Argentina with other top NTs in terms of performance simply because they are stuck with a bunch of teams who are technically pretty limited.They faced Boznia,Iran,Nigeria,Switzerland and are going to face Belgium/USA.When you look at who the other top NT's faced you see the likes of Spain,Chile,Mexico,Portugal,Colombia etc

if anything Argentina have been the worst of all the favorites.I mean,they won every single one of those matches with only a 1 goal difference over those scrubs

messixaviesta wrote:

Lumiere_Blanche wrote:I have a question. Switzerland is ranked 6th in the world, just one behind Argentina.  and yet why they are considered a weak team and how come people were expecting Argentina to thrash the Swiss today?
If Swiss would have won, it wouldnt have been an upset therefore I guess.

That's because very few take the Fifa ranking seriously.

yea man. but still there must be a reason Swiss is ranked no.6 above big teams such as Italy, and France.

I have heard today the commentators saying they only lost 2 of their last 21 games or something (please note I dont know which all teams they have played against in those 21 games btw). even still thats pretty impressive. So even the records say they are good, so how come the respect and expectation is low then.

Lumiere, you are right. They do deserve some credit for such a high rank. One possibility is that they mainly played weak teams but still they deserve some credit. I think people did respect them at the start of the tournament but after that game against France they began to be treated like laughing stocks.