A lot of the fans in Argie shirts aren't Argentinian,they're middle eastern or south east asian  fans who have adopted Argentina as their National team to support

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/11/7/world-cup-2022-thousands-of-argentina-fans-flock-to-qatar

Home performances i'm good with its the dire away stuff we have often put on that i hope improve going forward,as for this game i'm working in the morning so Radio Lancashire will have to do. 2-0 to Rovers.

Never let it go to pens if youre playing Croatia,they're unbeatable at them!! Oh and youre not dancing now are you Brazil!!!!!!!!!!!

Jumped out of my chair at that eqaulizer,i guess i know who i want to win now

Livakovic probably getting himself a Jan transfer to a bigger club on this performance so far.

18 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

I’m not sure they’d be as keen, but they will probably be swayed if they’re struggling for coin in the same way as the others.

If it happens in a couple of years i can see Newcastle being invited and they'd most likely do what the saudis want and  accept their invitation

This is looking like at least a 120 min game unless someone pulls something special out of the bag,waiting for roverandout to come on and say we have nothing to fear from Brazil after that half 😀

He wouldn't have mentioned it if there still wasn't plans to go ahead,its the same as the European superleague as in first announced then supposedly ditched because of the reaction from fans to it yet behind the scenes plans to go ahead are still there and i'm am thinking its the same with Brockhall.

I'm glad our game is last up,if we got beat first i doubt i'd be in the mood to watch the other 3,can relax and enjoy the others now before we go,Hopefully it'll be a Super Saturday with wins for Rovers and England

And how to have a plan B coach when plan A isn't working

Croatia 0-2 Brazil

Netherlands 2-1 Argentina

Morocco 0-3 Portugal

England 2-3 France

Ronaldo left out of the Portugal team,coach not happy with his reaction to being subbed in the last game.Messi and Ronaldo having wildly different world cups so far,saying that wouldn't be surprised to see him come on later in the game and score the winner for them. 

21 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I don't see how we were fortunate in the last 2 tournaments with the draw? The draw is the draw, England just get on and keep delivering every time under Southgate. Didn't we beat a very good German team full of quality players and Denmark who has some very good players playing some of the best league s in Euro? 

The German team has failed to get out of the group stages for the last 2 world cups,i'd hardly call them a team full of quality players,they don't come close to some of the German teams from the past.

13 minutes ago, roverandout said:

It's f**&-,in tiresome being on here. Why can't we show some positivity. We have one of the best defensive records and the best attacks playing In a world cup with no obvious favourite. Yes some realism but every sentence is argued with 'yes but we haven't played anyone ' or 'mbappe will be too good' or 'we are defensively weak' jees rovers have turned everyone into pessimists. 

Probably 56 years since winning anything gets people thinking the worst.

Are we one of the few teams that can win the cup,yes we are,

Has Southgate shown he can get teams through knockout games,yes he has but...

Has he shown he can beat big teams in big games in the final stages of tournaments,no he hasnt and until that changes you will find people picking holes in things,you call it pessimism,i call it being realistic

I will be cheering England on as much as the rest of us on Saturday and will be thrilled to be proven wrong.

53 minutes ago, roverandout said:

We beat Germany 

Would that be the German team that hasn't got out of the group the last 2 world cups,they aren't exactly heavyweight at the moment,more like featherweight

1 hour ago, Sparks Rover said:

I think you're grasping a bit here pal, Mbappe won't be changing his game for nobody.  There's far more traffic in the middle, he likes to isolate full backs....and he's right footed so your theory doesn't hold water.  

What has right footed got to do with sitting on Maguire shoulder and running onto passes through the MIDDLE of the pitch.You saying one of the best players in the world cant score goals unless hes coming in from  the left wing

21 minutes ago, K-Hod said:

I share the same concerns about France’s quick attackers as everyone else, but let’s remember also, that they’ve got three players injured in Pogba, Kante and Benzema that absolutely would be starting if fit. Their stand ins have done well enough obviously, but we’ve got players that can hurt them as well.

It should be a very close game.

I can see it being a 3-2 type of game,too many good players going forward for a 0-0 or a 1-0

30 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Of course it does cos Mbappe plays on the left so will be up against Walker or Tripper. Maguire plays on the left side of defence 

What part of after tonight Deschamps will tell Mbappe to play in the shoulder of Maguire are you not getting from what i'm saying,and even if he plays on the left there's nothing stopping him from drifting inside from time to time to get past the slow CB's

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

didn't Southgate change it against by swapping Rashford and Foden and we looked miles better? 

Can Deschamps change a game if behind? lets see if he can 

So how would you line up then? Drop Giroud or Move Griezmann? 

Doesn't matter how the rest of the team is set up,with Mbappe set up against Maguire hes going to get a couple of goals

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Mbappe plays on the left side of the attack not the right. 

Mbappe was good today and he will become a great footballer if he doesn't get injury in the future but I don't fear him like I said. won't the French be concern about Foden, Bellingham and Kane? 

Yes they will be concerned but i see England as the same as Rovers score first and we get confident and play well but go behind and i can't see Southgate having the nous to change things and i see Mbappe causing us tons of problems

As for Mbappe playing on the left as i said after Descamps sees tonights game and sees how slow and cumbersome  Maguire is up against a speedy player he'll play Mbappe up against him

1 minute ago, chaddyrovers said:

No, I don't. 

France haven't been outstanding in this world cup and just like we haven't. No leading nation has been outstanding this world cup

I don't believe anybody with any sense of good football didn't watch Mbappe today and not be in the slightest concerned about how our ponderous defence will cope with his pace

4 minutes ago, roverandout said:

Walker has pocketed him twice in the champions league 

Deschamps will look at that game tonight and tell Mbappe to stay on the shoulder of Maguire and wait for the ball through and leave him in the dust

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

I believe we can win the world cup and we have nothing to fear from France or any team. 

So you dont fear Mbappe against our defence then?

9 minutes ago, roverandout said:

I believe we can win. We've been far more convincing than France overall apart from the first 30 minutes of this game

You forgot the USA game then when we were shit 

Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

i also believe--in extraterestrial life and that aliens will invade

The truth is out there