Switzerland should've finished this game with two red cards.
I swear, in any other game this gets given as a red, if it wasn't for all the criticism and pressure refs have been getting lately for Argentina games, he would've 100% shown the red.
🚨 Leandro Paredes: "We know what the game against England means for our country, but it's a game of football and we will try to do in the best way."
"A dream, a match that every kid dreams of playing."
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: For the first time since the 1990 World Cup, all 4 semifinalists have been World Cup champions.
· Argentina (3 World Cups) 🇦🇷
· France (2 World Cups) 🇫🇷
· England (1 World Cup) 🏴
· Spain (1 World Cup) 🇪🇸
🚨🚨| Lionel Messi to Portuguese referee João Pinheiro:
🗣️"DO NOT 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 ME. Talk to me properly please. Don't disrespect me, I talk to you respectfully." 😤
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Called it.
🔴 Embolo.
The announcers are idiots saying that’s a bad call from the ref.
In fact it’s a perfect call from the ref. I love Embolo but he faked a foul there to get Paredes in trouble. If you cheat, you suffer the consequences.
Good Refereeing imo 👍🏼
And some Barca fans think Alvarez will be a bad signing lol
Game changer, someone that can completely win the game alone from outside the box
Level 100 Barca player
🇦🇷⭐️ Julián Álvarez has scored 4 of his 5 World Cup goals in the knockout stage, level with Diego Maradona. ✅
Only Lionel Messi (7) has more for Argentina.
🚨 Jurgen Klopp on Sørloth’s wasted chance:
“This is exactly why it’s not always advisable to play with two strikers. Yes, it can work, and when it works it looks brilliant — but there are moments like this that show the risk.
Strikers, by nature, think about goals first. It’s instinct. When you have two of them, there is always that small competition in their minds — ‘I want to score, I want to be the one.’ It’s completely normal, I understand it, I was around strikers my whole life.
But in that situation, 2 against 1, it has to be a goal. This is something every team in the world trains every single day. If that’s a winger in that position, the first thought is usually the pass. That’s the difference.
And look, I also understand the other side — when you have someone like Haaland in your team, of course you want to work for him, you want to score yourself, you want to be part of it. That’s football, that’s emotion.
But chances like this, in a knockout game, you don’t joke with them. You simply cannot.
Imagine Norway go 2–0 up in that moment — the whole game changes. The confidence, the belief, the energy… it explodes. And suddenly England are in real trouble, maybe even questioning everything they planned.
These are the moments that decide big matches. Not tactics on the board — decisions in seconds on the pitch.”
This World Cup has exposed many stupid people who clearly know nothing about football, including professional footballers and pundits.
They don't even watch games apart from their favourite one. How then do you guys talk about football? 💀
Argentina have reached the World Cup semi-final for the third time in their last four tournaments.
◉ 2014: 🥈
◎ 2018: L16
◉ 2022: 🏆
◉ 2026: 🆕
It’s the first time they reached back-to-back World Cup semis since 1990. 👏
🚨🗣️ Lionel Scaloni: "It doesn't matter if it's England or Norway; we'll be facing a team that plays very good football and has a great coach."
"Now we need to recover our fitness, because that's the most important thing right now.
🚨🎙️Julián Álvarez:
“We’ll do everything to make sure Messi wins the World Cup again.”
“Every game is a battle for him. The first thing I did after scoring was hug him.” 🇦🇷❤️