Argentina leading 12-7 on fouls

No one has yet made a good threat to score

Foul your way to victory and if that doesn’t work, start flopping around.

or have any respect for Maradona. Their talent is undeniable, but they always look for the shortcut.

Look at my watch, sucker!

Moded!

Argentina stopped fouling.

The game finally settled down. But I’m really surprised England would go into a shell. It was coming even after heroics by Spence and Pickford.

which was too much.

It may be hard for England to switch out of the total defense mode

It’s hard to understand why they started playing on their heels. The prevent defense prevents winning.

England was giving too much space to Argentina and it cost them

For once, I'm going to root for the colonizers.

in WC history, assuming England can't find a miracle

Any team that tries to sit on a lead is going to get burned in the end.

Rec

Much of the game? England looked like castoffs from a Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch on soccer.

There was nobody home on most of their crosses in the first half, nobody near.

Argentina win

I was hoping England would make it.

they wanted it, they believed they could do it, they did it.

England sat back and got burned.