VAR has been excellent when it comes to goals, but for fouls it still has work to do, for example the rugby tackling on Kane & tonight a definite red card for Rebic for what was a terrible challenge.

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If Argentina lined up like this they would have strolled through the group as they would have had some balance to their side, the way they lined up tonight was square pegs in round holes with better more suitable players on the bench. A real shame to lose them from the competition as Argentinian fans are the finest football fans in the world. Armani Otamendi Mascherano Fazio Salvio Tagliafico Banega Lo Celso Dybala Messi Di Maria

That's because we have got the clowns at the FA in charge of it and English Refs using. If this world cup has shown us anything it is that the English refs are some of the worst in the world.

Why the likes of Dybala, Fazio, Lo Celso, Di Maria & Banega aren't in getting in ahead of the likes of Acuna, Meza, Mercado & Perez is mind boggling. Also Mascherano does not have the legs to play central midfield any more he is a centre half now (which is where he has played for the last 7-8 years in club football) and he is a lot better there than any one Argentina have.

Crazy at the end from Argentina goal difference was their best chance of going through at they just let Croatia walk through them for the third, Sampaoli just seemed clueless tactically, so unlike the coach of a few years ago.

Hard to believe that this is the same Sampaoli that guided Chile to the Copa America and managed Sevilla in 2016-2017. Some of his best players on the bench or not in the squad and every player other than Aguero and Otamendi playing out of position.

You have to laugh at the at the BBC coverage it is so anti-Russian that it is embarrassing.

Lingard runs about but that is about all he does he has no technical ability, if he did he would have scored at least 3 last night.

Good to start with a win but I thought that other than Saudi Arabia Tunisia are as poor team as I have seen, they offered nothing going forward and were all over the place at the back. Rashford has to start ahead of Sterling in the next game Sterling is a fine player for Man City but for England he offers nothing. I don't rate Lingard and don't see what he brings to any team, I would start Loftus-Cheek ahead of him as he offered the team more in 10 minutes las night than Lingard did in 90. And how on earth does Jordan Henderson captain Liverpool and start for England he offers nothing for me he is a rich man's Jason Lowe every pass side ways or backwards and always slows attacks down, I would much rather see Dier play in his place.

I'm still not a fan of VAR in football but I must say FIFA have got it running far better than the clowns at the FA did when it has been trialled over here.

No wonder no English refs have gone to this as the standard of refereeing so far has been excellent.

This world cup has already been better than the last 2 combined .

Not just the Europa league but the Champions League as well Athletico 2 finals and a semi final in the last 5 seasons & Sevilla who finished 7th in Spain this year knocked the 2nd placed team in England out

And they have done in Europe as well winning 7 of the last 10 Champions Leagues between them. It not that La Liga is a weak league it is that they are the best two teams in the world with the best two players, do you really think it would be any different if they played in the premier league?

I took Messi until the ancient age of 21 to score against an English club and when he did it was only in a Champions League Final, terrible that he clearly peaked late.

Premier league defences a lot better? They certainly haven't shown that in Europe over the last few years.

You obviously didn't see Barca this season as he had a distinct lack of world class team mates around him (Infact i'd say it was the worst Barca team for 10 years at least) and he still took them to a league and cup double losing only 1 league game all season.

Would that be the same La Liga that produced the last 5 Champions League winners & 7 of the last 10 finalists. And that has also produced 4 of the last 5 Europa league winners.

I can never understand why players take those stupid run ups.

Can't agree with that Messi took a poor Barca side to a league and cup double this season losing only 1 game in the league all season. Without Messi this season Barca would have been struggling to get into the top 4. What I can't understand is why Dybala doesn't start for Argentina as he would ease the load on Messi as he can create chances from nothing whereas today you felt if it wasn't coming from Messi no one else would create something for Argentina. Dybala playing would also give Messi more space and allow him to player further forward at times he was much to deep today.

The VAR farce has started.

I saw Pele play & in my opinion not as good as Maradona. Infact I would say Pele is not the best Brazilian player of all time for me that would be Garrincha, 1962 is the first world cup I remember and his performance in that tournament is only equalled by Maradona in 1986.

He'd be 6th on my list a world class player no doubt but slightly overrated by many

They aren't attacking players and goal scorers like those 3 but Xavi & Iniesta at their peak were world class (Iniesta in fact still is) & as good anyone that I have ever seen in that central midfield position.