Looks like Russia/Egypt is a toss-up ... decent game ... likely draw.
Hilarious .... I know nothing ... nothing at all!
Looks like Russia/Egypt is a toss-up ... decent game ... likely draw.
At least you predicted a draw.
I picked Egypt to beat Russia.
You can play this game half your life, watch it the other half, and still get it totally wrong.
Hilarious .... I know nothing ... nothing at all!
Hard to pick a winner in one of the most corrupt sports on the planet.
I'll pick whomever Vladimir Putin decides should win.
Argentina sucks goat balls, that’s why they performed so badly at the Copa tournament as well. They are not as good as they once were.
WC winning teams all had a leader in the locker room. Messi = great football player but no leadership skills. That's the difference between him and Maradona.
....Messi and Ronaldo both know it that their career at the country will be defined by a World Cup and none of the 2 have been able to elevate their teammates to that level. They both have a chance to do it this year. One or both of them will have a disappointing end to their career in this year's WC.
...I'll take Maradona over 10 Messi's with my eyes closed!
...As far as Argentina, coaching has been a disaster and the player mix is horrible...compounding the issue for Messi!
I agree...but he has to win the big one for his country and for his legacy as a player. In fact, football is not a one-man team either...and Messi has not been able to elevate the play of the other players on the team!
He has won nothing for Argentina yet!....I sincerely hope he can turn it around in the 2018 WC.
Messi does not have a great team around him but even when Argentina had some better teams a few years ago, they got outhustled and out played by Chile in the Copa tournament, in which Messi sucked bad enough to quit the national team. At the time it seemed like a defeated overreaction by a frustrated player, who in fact did not play well in that tournament. I think there may be something to the criticism of his leadership abilities....
I don't want to sound like a broken record in regards to Messi being the most overrated football player of his generation and perhaps the greatest choker of all time, however, it is pretty obvious that he is "garbage" in the eyes of many Argentinians! And I will leave it with the following quote from the great JF Kennedy:
In the end all that counts is: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country,”
Media talk would say he is not a leader in the locker room. That is bullshit. Anyone who has played high level sport will tell you how much this is an invention hype of the media. No one has scored from the locker room