Messi moves Argentina towards fixture with France…and then Ronaldo?
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The Times
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🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With the score at 1-1 against the Super Eagles in St Petersburg, Argentina were 4 minutes away from being eliminated from the World Cup. But a Marcos Rojo volley spared Jorge Sampaoli’s blushes and knocked Nigeria out.
Natalie Sawyer is joined by Martyn Ziegler and Bill Edgar to review another disjointed Argentine performance that sets up a last 16 tie with France. And should Messi’s men progress, a meeting with Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal is possible in the quarter-finals.
Martyn has also been examining every VAR review at the tournament and with England and Belgium separated by just yellow cards, could the drawing of lots decide Group G on Thursday?
Plus Gab Marcotti witnesses a French team featuring a lost Lemar and a ghastly Griezmann. And he runs the rule over a Denmark side that will face Croatia in the next round on Sunday.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game World Cup Daily from The Times. I'm Nackley Sawyer and thank you for joining us. |
| 0:15.6 | We're here every match day of the World Cup podcasting after 10 o'clock UK time every night. |
| 0:20.7 | And we now know half of the draw for the last 16. France and Denmark both progressed |
| 0:26.2 | to the knockout stages after the first goless draw of this World Cup. |
| 0:29.9 | Gabb Marcotti drew the short straw for that one and will be joining us later to try and make that game sound a little bit more interesting. |
| 0:36.2 | If anyone can, Gab can. |
| 0:38.2 | In the studio with me, the man who's been boggling your minds and mine as well with his nightly trivia teasers it's Bill |
| 0:45.4 | Edgar hi Bill hi bill and in Moscow the chief sports reporter for the times Martin |
| 0:50.4 | Ziegler hello Martin |
| 0:51.6 | hi naturally all, all good. |
| 0:55.0 | Only one place to start then, and that is with Group D. |
| 0:58.0 | A late volley from Marcus Rojo kept Argentina in the World Cup. The Manchester United Defender struck the winner against Nigeria |
| 1:05.5 | with four minutes to go to spare Jorge some Pauly's blushes and send the two-time winners through |
| 1:11.2 | as group runners-up. Iceland are also out after send the two-time winners through is Group Runners Up. |
| 1:12.8 | Iceland are also out after they lost 2-1 to Group winners Croatia. |
| 1:18.0 | It really was an incredible atmosphere in St. Petersburg. |
| 1:21.4 | Diego Maradonna, the main cheerleader as ever in the crowd. |
| 1:24.8 | X-rated at times has to be said. So, Martin, did Argentina and Sam Pauly get out of jail? |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, I think they barely deserved it to be honest. It was their sort of predictable term of events, messy scoring, then Argentina playing really badly as the Heather World Cup. Nigeria |
| 1:46.3 | getting back into it and then there's a lot of unpleasant play acting I thought by some of |
| 1:51.9 | Nigeria's desperate to win and then finally couple of |
| 1:55.8 | some time Nigeria's hearts with a very good goal it has to be same from |
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