Argentina and Portugal Out

Wow. The knockout stages see both Portugal and Argentina, and the special one's who got them there, Ronaldo and Messi, exit the World Cup on the same day. A crazy goal fest between France and Argentina gave us 7 goals(FRA 4-2 ARG) including a 30 stunner by by Di Maria, incredible volley by Pavard, and Mbappe running through Argentina's defence - LITERALLY. Anyhow, we have got to question one person : Sampaoli. You have such quality on the bench and you're 4-2 down with 20 minutes to go, what do you have to lose?  You bring Aguero,Dybala,Higuan, discard Icardi (Pun intended) Which probably he's regretting now. For the Portugal vs Uruguay match, it was a defensive masterclass...

Senegal Exit the World Cup : On number of yellow cards

The last African team that had the chance to qualify for the Round of 16 , Senegal, has been knocked out on a "fair play" tie-breaker rule introduced in the 2018 World Cup where Yellow/Red cards are added up for fair play points.  Now Senegal and Japan were locked on points, Goal difference, etc, but In my opinion, extra time, and a penalty shootout would be much more a better way to go about settling situations like that, especially because Africans play a more Athletic,Physical, style of football. Most of the other players that go diving in the grass like mental dolphins (If you watched Iran vs Morocco, everybody  appeared to have glass bones , going to ground whenever...

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