Thursday, June 28, 2018

ARGENTINA vs FRANCE

ARGENTINA vs FRANCE 

FIFA World Cup 2018 First Pre Quarter Match Start on 30-06-2018. Argentina vs France Live Streaming On Sony Channels

Messi opened the scoring in Saint Petersburg with his first goal of the tournament, but Victor Moses’s early second-half penalty made it another nervous night for the five-time world player of the year and under-fire coach Jorge Sampaoli.
“I don’t remember such suffering,” said Messi when asked if it was the most tense match of his career.


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“It was due to the situation and what we were playing for. It is a huge joy for everyone for the difficult days we lived after the last defeat. Luckily we achieved our objective.”

Messi’s quest for World Cup glory faces a much tougher test on Saturday as Argentina face a highly-fancied France side in the last 16.
The Barcelona star will come face-to-face with club team-mates Samuel Umtiti and Ousmane Dembele and is aware of the improvement needed to make the last eight.
“They are a very complete team. They have top players individually,” added Messi.
“I have teammates I know very well at the back and up front. It will obviously be very difficult.”
Sampaoli had been fiercely criticised after a 3-0 defeat to Croatia on Thursday left Argentina on the brink of an embarrassing early exit.
And despite changing his tactics and making five changes to free up Messi to have a more influential role, he refused to take credit for the victory.
“A coach who has to train Leo knows that everybody surrounding him needs to make him feel secure,” Sampaoli said.
“We need to make passes to Leo so he can create chances. If not we suffer, we know we have the best player in the world and we have to benefit from that.
“It is for that reason I said the Croatia match was our fault not his.”
Argentina’s success was also accompanied with a good slice of fortune and more controversy over the VAR system used to review contentious decisions.
With the score at 1-1, Nigeria thought they should have had a second penalty when Rojo headed the ball onto his arm inside the area.
Turkish referee Cuneyt Cakır reviewed the incident, but stood by his original decision not to award the spot-kick.
“I don’t understand how that wasn’t a penalty, for me it was a clear penalty,” said Nigeria captain John Obi Mikel.
“Maybe the referee has given the first one and he doesn’t want to give the second one.”
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It finally had to happen. After 13 days and 36 matches, the World Cup finally managed to produce its first goalless draw as France and Denmark warmed up for the Round of 16 with a drab encounter. Boos and whistles rang around the Luzhniki Stadium in the closing stages of the match as both sides chose to play for a point, robbing the spectators off a decent game.
With qualification to the last-16 confirmed after winning their first two matches, Didier Deschamps made six changes to his side as he rested key players Paul Pogba — who was also on a yellow card — Kylian Mbappe, Hugo Lloris, Samuel Umtiti and Benjamin Pavard.
Denmark were supposed to be the toughest opponents for France in the group stages, but both teams knew that a point would be enough for them to go. With Argentina up next for France, here are three things we learned from their group stage performances:

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