Argentina vs Ecuador , World Cup 2018 qualifier , last game!

You make some decent points but you are wrong about sampaoli. The team is generating danger in a way bauzas team never did. You can see a lot of triangulation in passing which is Sampas trademark. Games vs Venezuela and peru could have easily finished with a blowout if we scored the first goal. I understand some people hate him and others need a scapegoat but there is no denying the improvements.

By the way, what's the point of being an argentina fan if you have so little faith in the team? Last thing we need is more pessimism.

 

Diego was on his knees celebrating in the pouring rain, it was like a scene from Blade Runner

 

I hate to sound like - to use an American term - a Pu55y, but I may not watch this game.

I may go to the gym, thorow around some lead, partake in an extended treadmill session, therafter run some ********1ng errands and finally get home around 2.5 hours after the game starts. I'll of course have recorded it, but I'll check the score - if we lost, I'll start getting hammered and come on here blathering as if I'd snarled up a kilo of "devil's dandruff" (probably Peruvian, in honor of their games unexpectedly fu(king up the Albicelste numbers this qualification period). Will do the same if we win, but obviously more of a feel-good vibe, with a nice bottle or four of various malbecs, bonardas & cabs Argentinos.

But I don't know if I can sit through and suffer through this one live.I was 2 years old last time Argentina were not in a world cup, and to have watched the devolution/regression of this squad from 2014 to the present has been particularly tough. Sat through several finals in that time, recall enjoying three, the rest bad/painful, but - those are finals. This is crashing on the warm up lap type stuff. this is your team on cusp of relegation with no real istic expectation that they will go back up anytime soon. But worse. Entirely distinct stress and (potential) live action, guttural despondence for this match

Too old for this stress, despite the fact i don't look my age and certainly don't act it with alarming frequency. But - this will be demasiado duro viewing.

Anyone else planning to do something this wuss-ish/********-ish?

 

I live in England so it will be 12.30am when the gane kicks off. I inow i wont be able to sleep so will check the score on my phone and visit this board.

 

i don't have a good feeling about this game.
Only positive for me is that ecquador is already out and they may not play theire best...

 

There isn't too much in this world that bothers me. I do not care one bit about politics. I believe the people who bitch and moan about politics need to find something better to do in their lives. My life has never changed because

If my business has a little bit of a snafu, I know it will be taken care of and it will be business as usual. I've always been calm cool and collected and always tell me to So, that doesn't bother me.

But you know, when it comes to sports, that's my trigger. I cannot watch sports with friends or people around me anymore. I will tend to snap and be callous towards the people around me when they try to give advice on how a game should be happening. You didn't want to see me after the GGG-Canelo fight, I was livid and I am not even THAT big of a boxing fan. I went on a long rant about the corruption and how they favored the Mexican.

When it comes down to the seleccion, when we lose in a final, I will sulk in my room and will likely be typing my feelings on B.S. then and I will go out. At this point, my family and friends will know not to say anything about the match.

I wish I could hop into a DeLorean, hit 88MPH and go a day earlier to see the score so I don't have to sit and worry about this upcoming match. It does feel like a final and the pressure will be on. For the fourth straight summer, we will see if the seleccion will bring us joy or give us another heartache.

I don't think we will miss out. I think we will get a victory and get a ticket. So, I cannot miss the match, it is something I have to sit through and deal with it. There is far too much on the line for us not to be at Russia.

 

Today's lineup in training

 

Why Benedetto? Play Messi as striker and Dybala in Messi's position if they are too "similar!" Also, drop Biglia and play Di Maria as a sub in last 30 minutes. And please get Icardi in if he's fit at some point!

Is there some agreement at AFA that Argentina must play every match with some kind of tangible disadvantage?

 

Why is this a bad lineup? Its an attacking force with 3 CBs to protect the back. Rigoni as a cutter behind Messi and Di Maria as a cutter behind Gomez.

Things dont go well, Sampaoli can sub one of his DMs for an offensive midfielder or take out Gomez for Dybala. I think this lineup gives him options for plan B.

My only problem is none of the back 3 can make plays from deep, therefore id rather see Pezzella instead of Fazio

 

We can qualify even with a loss. That would be something, wouldn't it?

As if this situation wasn't shameful enough...

 

Chile and Peru aren't very good. The only reason they're ahead of us is that FIFA gave Peru 3 points when in fact they lost in La Paz and gave Chile 2 points when they drew Bolivia.

Colombia has been pretty terrible in the last few games, they've continued to give up points and to nobodies surprise fail to close out games under Pekerman.

Ecuador will be playing with more or less a very domestic side. Antonio Valencia is out and overall we should get a victory. Ecuador has been quite poor, a side that has lost 5 in a row. If we do NOT manage to get a victort then, I guess we don't deserve to go. We've been VERY unlucky, we dominated Peru and outside of Benedetto's screw up's, we should've at least had 4 or 5 goals in the back of the net. Papu had a couple chances and Messi as well. That game should've been a blow out.

We just need to find the ball in the back of the net. Once that first goal goes in for us(if it does) then I think we'll get the victory. The longer the games scoreless, the harder it will be for us to get a goal.

As I will continue to say, I don't care about lineups, I just want the game to start. In the words of Bill O'Reilly, "F*** It, We'll do it live!". Enough is enough. Judgement day has come.

 

Sampolis touch line antics remained me of bielsa in 2002 WC , both were continuously walking in touch line.

 

Well it is possible to be both a fan and a realist. The way Argentina have played these last 4 games there is no point in being falsely optimistic. With that being said, nothing would make me happier than a Argentina win tonight. Then we start from scratch again and can all dream of glory in Russia for the next 9 months.

 

You may want to change from that skirt and throw on your big boy pants,

 

Somebody tell me , why bendetto favored to start again tomorow..? what happened to icardi or dybala..?