Dang, Messi and Argentina just lost to Saudi Arabia

Of course they lost. Di Maria and Messi are about 80 years old combined.

The Falkland Islands could probably beat Messi and Argentina.

Must admit their chicks are hot though. Much nicer than overrated Brazilian 'babes', who I always suspect of being....well, you know whatI'm saying.

This is one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history.

Argentina....hadn't lost in 3 years. People saying this is their most talented team since the 86 team. 2x World Cup winners. 3x runner up.

Saudia Arabia had won I think 3 times in their previous 16 World Cup games.

Argentina will now need good results against their remaining opponents Mexico and Poland just to make it out of the group.

Wowwwwwwww.

Money changes hands in the lands of the sands.

Two horrible countries. Hard to wish for a loser. You want to see both lose.

Crazy result. In soccer, it is not uncommon for one team to out play another and still end up on the losing side. Heck, teams like Italy aren’t didn’t even qualify after losing to North Macedonia 1-0 even though they out shot them 32-4. Hopefully Argentina rights the ship.

Obvious corrupt result. The Saudis/bin ladens likely spent around $250 million for Saudi to win this. They took away about 6 Argentine goals and disregarded many Saudi fouls.

Lots of money spent on a first round win.

Probably more money than was spent on France winning 3-4 key matches in the last world cup. That gave the leftoids the great optics they desired.

Lol. Can't be more dumb. Must be a poster from one of the more uneducated, braindead, brainwashed segments of society
No idea how you put Saudi and Argentina in the same class. With Argentina being one of the top 20 places to live. On par with Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Czech, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia...

Argentina is a nice place, but has been fiscally mismanaged, like many other South American countries where socialism has destroyed the currency.

foreignpolicy.com

Argentina’s Economic Crisis Never Went Away

Anusha Rathi

Argentines remain enmeshed in a populist policy trap as inflation soars past a whopping 70 percent.

Link:foreignpolicy.com/2022/08/15/argentina...

Tunisia just took Denmark to a nil nil tie. Crazy.

Saudis definitely had the refs on their side. But that can often be the case just because of the disparity in talent between ARG and SA. A team full of premier league, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga players is going to play really hard compared to a team of Saudi pros. They are faster, tackle harder and are used to a very physical style of play. To the Saudi's credit, about half of the players on the field at any given time are teammates in the Saudi pro league. They play like they are at the end of a long pro season and not like the first game of international play where everyone is still feeling out their roles.

Michelson got 200 million to play on the liv tour, how much u think for Argentina to lose ? Did they pay the players directly or fifa?

Argentina could not figure out how to play onsides. All those disallowed goals backed up by VAR.

Saudi keeper played a great game, except the part where he accidentally clocked his teammate, who would up in the hospital.

Used to be Ho Heaven. Then some killjoys wrecked it for everybody else.

en.wikipedia.org

Zwi Migdal

Zwi Migdal (Yiddish: צבי מגדל, IPA: [ˈtsvɪ mɪɡˈdal] Polish: Cwi Migdał) was an organized-crime group by Polish Jewish individuals, founded in Poland and based mainly in Argentina, that trafficked in Jewish women from Central...

Link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwi_Migdal

*wound up

If they could rig the match for Saudi Arabia, why didn't they also rig the match for the home team? Seems like a lazy conspiracy, if you ask me.

I didn't see the match, but from the stats most of the fouls and all the yellow cards were on the Saudi side, which suggests they were the "physical" side.

A team, in particularly a backfield, that is used to playing together can run an off sides trap with a lot more confidence than a team of all stars from different teams. That extends to the whole team playing as a coordinated unit, but it's mostly defense that's hard to bring together with all star teams.

In any case, soccer is a low scoring game so upsets aren't that rare, though the magnitude of this one is certainly a surprise.

A Qatari group owns Messi's club, PSG. Messi recently signed a contract with Saudi Ar to work in a tourism/promotion capacity for SA's bid for the 2030 World Cup. Curiously, there is also a joint bid from several south american countries (one of which is Argentina) for the 2030 WC.

Many didn't expect SA to get a single point in this tournament. Precious Roy's take is believable--with an assist not noted on the box score.

I don't know what you're saying. Please clarify.

In the highlights I saw three Argentina goals ruled out for offside. The calls were correct.