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Originally Posted by demonrail666

Missed both games yesterday.

Argentina Belgium felt a bit flat. Especially the second half. Belgium didn't seem to wake up till the final 10 minutes. For all the criticism aimed at Di Maria so far, they'll miss him if whatever he went off with ends up keeping him out.

argentina had to deal with an early di maria injury so they did what they had to do and cooled it and waited for counters. i think they did pretty well considering a week ago many people were saying they had no defense-- they still left some gaping holes that belgium didn't find (esp. in set pieces) but i thought they pressed well for the most part. lavezzi was great outflanking belgium but he had no gas at the end. same as higuain in his own space.

speaking of di maria-- there went my fantasy score along with his bum leg!

fernandez - 0 (sat out injured… aghhhh)
di maria - 2 (ouch)
messi - 4 only! (inexplicable, these scores)

only good scoring was mascherano with 10 (until something gets tweaked and he gets it reduced).

[edit: now i'm showing mascherano 9 messi 3. add this to yesterday's cuadrado 2 and mueller 4 and smell the nosedive]

only sub i have is navas for ospina (the rest are ghosts). wondering if he'll make a lot of saves and score high or if robben will crucify him and he'll score negative.

(ospina scored only 5)

last week both keepers had heroic performances but i am not sure they can have 2 in a row… there's a wear and tear or the law of averages wins in the end.