Argentina v Austria - Arlington - 6pm

Well it surely isn't gonna be 0-0

It could get Messi

Was half expecting tober to say he thought the 1.47 was too short

Seems better value than Belgium at those odds

Messi to score at 2.14.  Not sure about overs, Austria tight in defence.

I'm having 50p on Messi to score & on Enzo to have a shot on target

Just for a bit of interest Mac Allister or Gregoritsche first goal at decent prices . Good luck all .

Ron Weasly in the Argie line up

I haven't watched either of these teams yet. So, I have to be cautious, but it's got the look of 1-1 or 2-1 about it. BTTS for me with the boosts on Messi, hopefully will yield some profit. I've heard or read quite a lot about Austria being direct, energetic and capable of giving Argentina a tough game. I'm still to be convinced of how good they are, but they're bound to be a big step up from Algeria. Alvarez still missing, of course.

Mrs Martinez must be proud

pen

They want Messi to break the record

Penalty

yep, Messi better not miss.

What an artificial way to make history

he's always been a s*** penalty taker

And yet again dancing and dancing , just run up and whack it
will they ever learn

FFS Lionel

wtf was that?

Looks like Messi dont want it today must have had business meeting last night

Worse pens I've seen since Eze and Gabriel.

fair play to Danny Murphy usually makes it to the 10 min mark before confidently predicting something that turns out to be a 100% wrong

VAR took an age too.

That was MESSY! The penalty was not even on target. Poor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Yes its not a pen hold on there  s a var yes he caught his leg

Not much mention of anti doping measures and testing at this WC.

And not a hope in hell Messi being tested,reckon he is juiced to max

that was absolutely pathetic..WTF does he think he is?..Harry fking Kane!

It was Klose, but no cigar

Messi is finish

Kane would be complaining about the keeper not moving as it was all part of his penalty plan .

This game dont matter they going through away if it was final he would have scored for sure

Game is ZZZzzzzzzzz

Another great chance for Lionel

the pitch looks quite lush, well watered.

You'd think Austria would be the dirtier team having a couple of Schlager's in their side

Argentina seem happy to let Austria have the ball at times. they don't seem too worried about Austria's ability to play through them. And you can see that they don't move the ball that quickly.

no gas in the Argentine XI, quickest player in that team over 100m be about 15.8 secs

that pitch looks heavy

1-0 there's the boost.

erstklasse

Get in

Austria don't look that good to me. Move the ball too slowly. Not much guile about them.

They're a bunch of animals these Argies, have never changed

Messi..GTFI.

What are your bets here, mega?

I can't see Austria scoring, tbh.

Booms

Austrians starting to dive.

Yeah but could he do it at Barnsley on a wet Tuesday evening?

Giroud and Azpilicuerta both wondering who Ashley Williams is

Why not give offside when he's 3 yards off and obvious...instead of playing on and risking someone getting a bad injury?

Granddaughter just gave me a "duh" when I said I didn't know who the celebrity was
Anybody else not know?

It was Shakira, apparently

Surely you've heard of Shakira before

Yes, mes, but I didn't know what she looked like

This Argie team press/close down too well, Austria haven't had a foothold all game, no chance they get back into this

yet another corner given as a goal kick

every player knows its a corner , corner not given .

The first time I ever saw Shakira, was in my Spanish textbook at school in 1999/2000, she was a big Colombian star even then, but not known in the English speaking world, not sure why she appeared in that either, maybe some kind of clever promotion as the English transition came not long after that.

Mes, you must be one of the youngest on this forum then, if you were still at school 26 years ago

maybe, there was another poster called sontaranstratagem who was similar age I think, no idea what happened to him

great corner, should've scored

sonty was good fun, must've got himself banned.

she was a Brunette in that picture as well, went blonde to appeal to the westerm world when she started singing in English, I found that textbook when I moved not so long ago and flipped through it, might dig it out of the attic later to post the pic

I only kept it to improve my Spanish for later use

No more goals in this game. 1-0 FT.

Worst game so far. Austria too slow

blatant dive by the austrian, is this ref blind?

Gonna have a lay of Argentina at 1.1

Just think not getting a second might cost them, and little downside

Although Austria almost given up

not having Austria, pub team.

Decent chance there

2 for Messi

2-0

if he can learn how to take penalties
he could be half decent

Hat trick?

There was a time when Argentina didn't like Messi, in part because they were unfamiliar with him given he never played club football in Argentina, in part because he always did it for Barcelona but never did it for Argentina and in part because Maradonna did, that's only all really completely changed in the last 3-4 years.

Austrian asking for his shirt straight after a defeat

Disgraceful

best i've seen since Luther Blisset!

ive seen messi in all his world cups and i was lucky enough to see Maradona, and imho as far as World cups go , Maradona was far the best, his performances in 86 was out of this world

very easy for Argentina. Austrians never created anything.

Was that Muller he just hugged

So he'll be rested for the next game then, golden boot backers wont be happy

If france norway and england win , will the managers rest mbappe haaland kane messi , they will i expect all want to play but it is 8 matches now .

Don't think  Messi would want to be rested, doubt the coach has the authority to leave him out. Maybe get subbed off after an hour, unless he's on a hatrick again

Kane would want to start but probably accept being rested

With Halaand and Mbappe they would be playing each other to decide group winner

They're not gonna player a 39 year old in a meaningless game

Kane might be rested as if we win he group we play last 16 next Wednesday

France game looks like being delayed due to storms

Cheers Leo. Now you've made Cristiano cry.