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Yeah, but that's just one example of the shit pronounciations. Still don't have to look far to find someone talking about Pearl-o.

Yeah, bugs me. Get it every week with the Serie A coverage. What really bugs me is that there is no effort made to improve. They have the likes of Richard Hughes who grew up in Italy and speaks Italian, but they refuse to follow his lead on how to pronounce things properly.

Don't have any major issue with the red card. Zambrano didn't need to follow through like that. I can certainly see why the ref thought it was worthy of a red.

Yes. But it was so close and fast, it would have been a really hard call to make.

What a shit game.

Yeah, there's absolutely no suggestion so far that Colombia can hurt Argentina.

With good reason given the players they are missing. Don't know what they were trying to do until the change, but it clearly wasn't working. Since the change you can see that they are at least trying to do the right things.

Well I consider that half to have been a huge failure from Messi and Di Maria. That they did not create a chance prior to Colombia's change was terrible considering the number of times they were running through open space at the Colombian defence with options either side.

Loks like it's 4-4-2 with Rodriguez in central midfield with Mejia.

Mejia is the only midfielder playing tonight. Don't know how they'll arrange Rodriguez, Cuadrado and Ibarbo around him.

Argentina should win fairly comfortably given how lacking Colombia are in central midfield tonight.

Everyone knows Mascherano is the leader of that team. Doesn't really matter who has the armband.

Brazil really were woeful, but it's the same stuff that's been going on for years. No idea how to do anything collectively either with or without the ball. They can work the ball forward consistently enough to give their forwards a chance to influence the game. Instead they lose it in...

Dybala is a decent passer, but I think he does his best work when moving away from the play in order to stetch defences and isolate defenders, rather than going deep to get the ball and make passes. Yeah, I'd probably look for Pogba to feature a bit more centrally. He spends too much time wide...

I struggle to see them signing someone better, so my starting point for next season would involve Pereyra as trequartista. Ideally Juve's trequartista with the forwards they look likely to have next season (and without Pirlo in the team) would be more of a passer than a dribbler, but there...

Movement from Pastore, Messi and Di Maria is shit, so Argentina aren't able to move the ball quickly enough to trouble Uruguay. Might have got more of a game if the ref had started dishing out cards ten minutes earlier than he did. He let too much go. I'd have Pereyra on instead of Pastore.

I hate games like this. Was shaping up to be interesting, but Argentina are now two goals up without having threatened to create a chance. Game ruined.