Argentina V Bosnia and Herzegovina World Cup 2014

Argentina V Bosnia and Herzegovina Fifa World Cup 2014

After match synopsis in red!!

And even more winners on the way!

Pregame bets:

Argentina to score a peno 9/2
Argentina to win and both teams to score 2/1
Over 2.5 goals 8/13
Messi to score 8/13

Three out of four bets, cant argue with that. Was a bit worried about Messi in the first half, and with Argentina, as Bosnia had them under some pressure in this game, but Messi’s skill and brilliant goal was the difference in the end. Take a bow.

Full betting review here>http://thisdrinkinglife.com/top-bets-world-cup/

Beers: Group F of Beer World Cup:http://thisdrinkinglife.com/world-cup-beer-group-f/

Who is set to win the battle of the beers? Quilmes V ? Unfortunately I couldn’t source any beer from Bosnia so this will be a one sided affair. Click on picture for a preview of the beer. Get the Quilmes review afterwards.

Quilmes won by default, as could not source a beer from Bosnia and Hertz. Read here for full beer report

PreGame:

Argentina Quite a good few of the pundits and experts are tipping Argentina this year for the World Cup. With Messi and Agüero on board, a South American world cup, and a relatively easy path to the semi’s predicted, its really not hard to see why Argentina are second favourites, after Brazil.

Group F should be a doddle for Argentina. Can’t see them having much difficulty in dispatching Bosnia, Iran and Nigeria.

Double mark Messi and cut out the threat? He has had a relatively bad season with Barcelona. Relatively speaking since scoring 28 league goals isn’t bad, but arch rivals Ronaldo and Real Madrid stole the headlines this year. Alejandro Sabella has made him Captain, which is amazingly foolish. Thanks coach for putting more pressure on my back! The problem here is, Messi has the weight of a nation on his shoulders. We will see tonight how he copes with this pressure.

Bosnia and Hertz: Don’t know a whole lot about Bosnia and Hertz I am afraid. But I do know playing Argentina first up they better be good or they will get a quick harsh introduction to world cup football.

Their squad have few standout names, but they do seem to have a lot of players plying their trade in the big leagues of Europe. Edin Džeko is the key man, a player we are all very familiar with after his few seasons with Manchester City. He can score goals, and in this group that could be the key. In fact in qualifying Bosnia scored 30 goals. That’s a strike rate to frighten any defence.

But having said all that, they qualified from a very easy qualification group, just ahead of Greece, Slovakia, Lithuania Latvia, and Liechtenstein. So they have never really got a true test.

Lets see how they do tonight, could go with way to be perfectly honest.

A more detailed review on Argentina here and on Bosnia here

Bosnia were a tough team for Argentina to get first up. They were hard to break down and for long periods it was Bosnia that looked the slightly better team in this game, without doing a whole lot either.

The first half was a snoozefest, nothing to note at all. Messi was getting a lot of criticism from the idiots on BBC. Again I keep saying it, its a different system with Barca. With Argentina he plays much deeper, with forwards that are not as accommodating as what he plays alongside at the Camp Nou. So he always has to overachieve with his national team. A lot of pressure was answered with a classic goal.

Otherwise thought the Argentina goalkeeper, Romero, had some impressive moments, apart from the odd clanger or two.

Bosnia good unit without anyone in particular catching the eye.

Up next, Argentina have to play Iran, a chance to rest a few players. Also could give Messi the full game to get more goals, and shut up more of his critics.

Bosnia are against Nigeria, and going by what I saw yesterday they also shouldn’t have too much trouble beating the African team.

Music to get you in the mood

Dino Merlin V Bandana