ARGENTINA V CHILE

Less pace and more composure and goals will surely follow. As it is, I'm just gonna wait for someone to break the deadlock first. Argentina looking the more likely at the moment, but they have a dodgy goalkeeper, so...

Red card Chile now. That sucks.

bajbaj chile

Game ruined.

what an idiot, game ruined

LOL....red card & then going to doping control....literally taking the p1ss

WOW...that ref's got attitude

Ffs

0-0 looks a good bet here

hahaha another yellow

going to be anoer red card at some point

Can we hire this ref for big matches in europe?

Luvvin this ref...star of the show so far

Don't think this referee would've given the Republic of Ireland a penalty...

Jun 27, 2016 -- 1:48AM, GRANTCKING wrote:

going to be anoer red card at some point

didnt take long!!!!!!!!

This is hilarious!

IS A RED CARD MONEY PRINTER

Game on again.

Rojo red card.

He's about the most useless footballer in that team, so he won't be missed.

Ridiculous red card.

If this goes to penalties.....Bravo & Romero might have to take them all

will be atleast one more red

Referee on overs on the cards

Need to see a longer replay, to see what happened after the foul.

Fúck sake.  More red cards than goals.   

If they played that on the big replay screen, there would be a riot.  Shocking decision.

5 min added to first half..ref absolute legend in modern football

might aswell go straight to pens now

cant see there being goals in this

Me neither.

Garbage. 0-0 FT is pretty certain here.

Keep the faith Sofaking...one goal will see 2 goals. I like 10 a side as the players tire

Entire half was a farce from start to finish. About 5 minutes of football was played.

Jun 27, 2016 -- 1:59AM, ewood wrote:

Keep the faith Sofaking...one goal will see 2 goals. I like 10 a side as the players tire

Hope so but I'm not optimistic about seeing goals here.

I'm thinking about going in again....2.84 now....gonna top up with a little more

Already? I'd say give it a little time. If there's an early second-half goal, there's every chance of another.

Not good.  Poor quality stuff.

Yeah. I'm already regretting not just going to bed after the Portland/Houston game.

The only one playing decent football is Messi, but he's being hunted down by half a dozen Chileans.

Just switched this **** off.

Argentina choke again. Still no trophies in 23 years.  Hope Chile beat them by penalties.

Won't be no penalties until after extra time.

Yes, that's right. Another 30 minutes of this to sit through if you want to...

LOL....my optimism has drained....seems like both sides took tranquilisers at half time

Jun 27, 2016 -- 2:46AM, Quatsch wrote:

Won't be no penalties until after extra time.Yes, that's right. Another 30 minutes of this to sit through if you want to...

Already switched it off.

Goal incoming...

Jun 27, 2016 -- 2:50AM, Quatsch wrote:

Goal incoming...

If they played for 8 more hours they'd still fail to score.

Just wanted to see if I could entice you to turn it back on again.

no sympathy for argentina if they lose. any team that continues to pick higuain up front deserves to keep losing these big games. he's not a big game player and never will be.

Jun 27, 2016 -- 2:50AM, Quatsch wrote:

Just wanted to see if I could entice you to turn it back on again.

Nothing can persuade me to turn that dross back on.

Can't fault Higuaín myself, because he's scored plenty of goals for me in the Serie A. But the commentator has mentioned it before that he's missed plenty of opportunities in "big games" in recent years, like the World Cup 2014 and some other final I can't remember.

But knowing they have Agüero as well, you do wonder what the manager's thinking.

Oh, well. At least the ref's funny, in a weird kinda way. A bit robotic.

Applause for the assistant-referee from the referee.

FT 0 - 0

That's more than enough for me. Now watch 'em score 5 in the next 30 minute...

Jesus, 2 teams I have watched for the past couple of weeks have been replaced by imposters

bet on Copa America they said, goals galore they said

Worst game of the Copa...seems a good rule not to expect goals in games with teams that play each other regularly. Coaches know too much about each other strengths & just set up their teams to stop the other.

the sad thing is if that bellend had taken the one on one we'd have had a goalfest. now nothing but nervousness from argentina when they get a chance. wee man can't pass the ball or find his foot when he gets a chance. best chance for them is a set piece goal

Luvvin the way this ref shows the cards......in your face

Rojo red card ruined this match

This ref is priceless

Any ideas about penos? Somehow i feel Romero could be better bet than Bravo
...just as i write this world class save Bravo

is that MVG the referee

good evenig all    just oken up, thankfully these guys were good enough to wait for me before the goals started flying in

i have a feeling this won't make the shootout

just placed my first bet, paddypower argentina to win in ET 4/1

both sides look fked

aguero as caught up with the pace now hopefully they create a chance for him.

99/100 messi makes that pass. that's what pressure can do his touch has been off all night

what were the red cards for?

the refs not happy

cr7 watching this, cant get any sleep

Pressure all on Argentina in the shootout i'd say. Not won this thing in ages & memories of last years loss in similar fashion.

Penos!
Well played Chile, Messi shut down completely...

chile value at 2.2

I agree Clacher

no sympathy for the loser here. both teams were happy to let the last 5 mins of extra time ride. i hope their gamble pays off because lot of luck involved with penalties.

Senyatta, you are spot on. Neither side showed the courage to go for the win and not entitled to whinge about losing on penalties

messi

Its not astonishing Messi missing a penalty....missed loads of them

this is great at least we got something out of watching all that.

messi opted for power must have been very nervous. shame as he sent goalie wrong way he could have tapped it home

Yesssss

messi just cant hit a penalty, hes missed about 25% of all his penalties

Tournament football Lost to Argentina first game & only beat Bolivia with the dodgiest of penalties in about the 98th minute in the 2nd game.

whats with all the barriers on the park, they arent in glasgow

he was like that all night though. big moments in big games are huge and once again that higuain has cost them. that goes in everyone settles down and they likely win. but messi was off all night simple passes he was getting wrong. the occasion got to them. no sympathy in the end they just lack that killer instinct/ruthlessness. how chile were 2.2 before that shootout was bonkers.

Messi...
Maximum 2018 WC and 2019 CA left, best ever? Not really...

higuain has been a passenger for years at napoli and argentina, feeding off more talented players, youd only ever back him to score tap ins and he doesnt even do that

Argentina midfield hardly ever ventured out of their own half in the 2nd half & Messi was picking up the ball near the halfway line & trying to beat 5 or 6 red shirts with often no support. Argentina unwilling to push up the pitch. Would of thought that penalties was the last thing they wanted yet they did little about it.

what a shame i slept through it, sounds like a real spectacle.

more pissed of that i slept through the 3-2 portland timbers game

hate seeing messi dejected like that

only had one bet on the mls match and it lost, had portland -1.  if i was watchign it in runnign i might have done something else when it was obvious i wasnt going to win.

Houston have picked up since giving Coyle the push. Was 2-2 last time I saw & didn't know there was another goal. Timber Joey had some log cutting to do today with that fightback from Portland

Clacher, you have any cunning plans for Euro 16 games later ??

ive not even thought about them yet.

Cant't believe i didn't trade out of this.  Had Argies 8/11 earlier in the comp, had it been anyone but Chille I would have been confident. Should have laid off at 2/5.  What an idiot. Serves me right, no major win in 23 years and serial chokers. Lesson learnt.

thats exactly the sort of mls game i wouldve done goals in and i wouldve won, very rarely do games finish 0-1 to the away side in the mls

obviously england and spain should be winning tomorrow but ill bet closer to the KO's

Personally, feel very sorry for the Argies. Messi was fouled time and time again last night. Very little protection from the ref. Vidal should have been sent off too. They have lost 3 recent Copa finals on pens. Messi has lost 3 Copa finals. They lost the WC final late on in extra-time. They have had a glorious generation of footballing talent for over 20 years, going back to Maradona, Caniggia, Batistuta, Redondo… & yet only have the 1993 Copa to show for it and a couple of Olympic golds. I question the coach when he leaves Garay out of his squad & leaves Javier Pastore, a class midfielder, on the bench for the entire Copa. I hope Messi changes his mind about retirement and goes to the WC in Russia in 2 years. England fans think Eng have had bad luck in terms of penalty shoot-out losses in major tournaments. Think Argie fans have more reason to feel hard done by.

half the argentina squad have said theyre packing it now.

messi look completely crushed yesterday, its no surprise.

Think Messi will eventually change his mind. He wouldn't be the first to be hasty when speaking moments after a disappointment. Think he'll carry on to the next World Cup & there will be a few others who will do the same when they know Messi is staying. If you were being cynical, you could say his talking about retirement has quickly got people talking about something else and not his penalty miss or another Argentina failure.

its easy for us sitting at home commenting on players but it cannot be easy, messi single handedly carries the hopes and dreams of his country thats a lot of pressure, if he has retired then thats good news for barca, not only to prolong his career but also to rest during those energy sapping wc qualifiers that probably cost barca the CL last season