The_jagster

The big that got me was Souness moaning that a lack of definitive images would mean people will consider it a conspiracy, when only he was suggesting it was a conspiracy I don't know why they need to show why it was definitely in, surely they need to find a still showing it was definitely out to disallow the goal?

Losing to Costa Rica and beating Germany and Spain Great tense game, until that late chance Spain didn't even create another big chance. I don't watch Spain much but I'd heard they were more positive in possession now, that was mostly quite stale.

Japan are stretching to control every ball, are they all knackered?

That was when they absolutely needed a goal, Germany made loads of chances against Japan without one.

Not resting the midfield though. After all the talk of Germany it would be weird if it was Spain that went out.

They could have an appealing round of 16 tie or a dreadful draw though

I don't really like that argument - should countries have offered to repatriate black or coloured people in South Africa while the apartheid system was in place and let the politicians do as they wished? Rather than put pressure on the country to change their discriminatory practices?

People aren't expecting Poland to outplay Argentina. But they aren't all bad players, the team is still mostly footballers from the top 5 leagues with the exception of central midfield. But Poland had no serious intention of scoring yesterday, in the most part any chance of a break was refused in favour of keeping everyone back and hoping Lewa would somehow keep the ball and do something despite the attentions of the entire Argentina defence because they didn't need to worry about covering supporting runs. And it's not like there were no chances to break, Argentina had some lazy passing in the first half.

Just seen the free kick, absolutely brilliant.

Compare Mexico Vs Argentina with Poland, at least Mexico put up a fight

Check that Polish player's bank account for pesos

Come on Mexico, Poland facing France playing like this would be such a waste

That's three times they've done nothing apart from hope Lewandowski dribbles past 5 defenders.

Argentina somehow looking slower than Poland. Poland clearly going for the narrow "don't allow midfield space" option so far.

How old will Glik look in 10 years

Like to see a big gun rattled but I don't want to see any more of this slow Poland team, hopefully the Saudis take the lead and both teams have something at stake.

And doing ok in the Nations League. They are the sort of team that might not break down a packed defence every game but they should be better than this.

Doesn't sound like a classic although it has been punctuated by work calls

He was very strange on a Football Weekly where he was answering questions on his book.

I think we have a chance if we face France, just a matter of who actually scores their set piece.

It's clear that Southgate doesn't want to take risks, that's why Rice doesn't go on any runs for England.

Difficult to tell as the Senegal group wasn't that strong, a bit like ours. They don't look rubbish but I have only seen their full match against The Netherlands. In other words, Southgate will be wary but I'd still expect a normal time victory. Gueye being suspended is also a help.

Do you think it's a tactical decision or just tiring in the second half, in all three matches you've looked more dangerous in the first half than the second.

Deserved win for USA, probably made it much more difficult than they needed to

That was close and still a quite bad free kick, nobody can hit a decent dead ball for Iran