World Cup 2014

i think an espn podcast/show thing? It's a US soccer blog.

shockingly bad first touch on that break there

the last 2 years of di maria are something i didn't see coming. had him filed away as an explosive winger who would drift in and out of games.

ugh this has not been good

Yeah, a slog. Hoping for a better second half.

bleh

http://i.imgur.com/7PQ5iGW.jpg

the left back hasn't played one decent cross yet and when they go down the other flank they don't give it to zabaletta and instead cut inside to nowhere

So lacklustre and uninspired from Argentina. Starting to root for Iran.

Yeah, Iran actually makes a little something out of their set pieces when they get 'em.

Iran have closed down Argentina extremely well but they look very vulnerable on the break.

LB has put 2 good crosses in this half, I retract my criticism.

ooh so close for Iran

charlton bottler

they've had a cpl of free headers too.

was that a pen?

ashkan losing his shit

wasn't a pen

that's a terrible miss from the corner

looks a pen from the other angle but maybe tough to give!

replay looks close on the pen but i thought zabs just about got his toe to the ball

Would've loved to see Reza score there. He grew up around my parts here, have seen him play once for a regional team.

wow what were the odds on an iranian offside

Maybe the world cup 2022 should be in Iran. They play a lot better than Qatar.

they'd cancel it if israel qualified

messi should've scored there..

argentina have given 150 mins of not much at all so far this WC

if we except that the majority of the Iran players aren't very good then you have to say that based on this and the Nigeria game Querioz is a heck of a coach.

dejagah's set plays have been good so far......

argies dicing with death

hanging on right now

Reza plays for Charlton who were 18th in the championship league? Wow.

Holy shit sooooo close

get tevez on........wait

SAVE

argentina should sit 9 men behind the ball

Romero usually has one stinker every match. Not had it this match yet...

is aguero actually on the pitch?

Get Zabaleta off that pitch, he's giving away chance after chance.

banger of a match, this.

ah dejagah i knew you had it in you!

Argentina just isn't moving. Piss poor.

lavezzi gotta be on soon surely dunno how they fix the MF

Never seen Dejagah last 90 mins but he's been FIAH today.

Argentina don't deserve to win this.

got it up and down direction should be the simple part

palacio's hair!!

that's like £90m worth of CF taken off

France, Colombia, Costa Rica the only teams to look really good for 2 games in a row. Next tier down Mexico, Brazil, Croatia.

Argentina now resorted to kicking the ball into the box and hoping for the best.

Plan B

The black murderer gloves on Iran's keeper are p awesome

palacio's hair!!

yeah what the heck