Argentina are now leading 1-0, after the goal keeper fouled the Argentine striker, Alvarez in the penalty area. Messi have just secured a goal for them after scoring the penalty. So far, the match have been in possession of Croatia but they haven’t created any good chance of goal while Argentina keeps converting their chances on goal.

About 23 minutes into the Argentina vs Croatia semi final match, so far, no goals yet, no significant goal attempts yet from both sides, but Croatia seems to be really playing well tonight, the ball seems to be on their possession more often than it is for the Argentina team.

Right now, it is kinda hard to predict which team is likely to win this match, I was actually expecting Argentina to win but from the way Croatia is playing, it seems they are well prepared for the game, hopefully, as the game progresses, it will become clearer and easier to predict the winner tonight.

Croatia has a small number of supporters compared to the number of Argentinian supporters across the country who want to see Messi lift the world cup trophy. But tonight I just want to see how Messi follows in Ronaldo's footsteps in this game.

Croatia seems to be making another surprise from what they have shown so far and the first 6 minutes of the match had started, Modric played very safe.
Lets watch.

Yes, here it is seen that both the teams have given almost equal performance. In the beginning, seeing the bowling performance of Sydney thunders, I thought they might win today, but after taking the field, it became clear that they also need a lot of improvement on the batting side.  But coming towards the last, Gurindar Sandhu showed an outstanding performance and he also contributed well with two wickets in the bowling.  But to win the upcoming matches, they have to improve their batting performance.

I agree with you. Argentina are considerably stronger than Croatia in attacking and defense department. But Croatia played a game that looked like they were targeting from the start of the match that they would take the match to extra time. They also play the mind game well during the match. I don't think Argentina will want this match to go to extra time anyway, because they will never want to take the pressure of penalty shoot out after going into extra time.

I just add to what you said, Morocco really plays nothing to lose.

even if Marocco lost the game the other day, Marocco is not under great mental pressure. after all, they were prepared to lose to the opponents they would face. however, that does not mean they will not provide resistance in every match. As Cygan said, this reminds us of the 2004 tournament. In fact, Greece's performance at that time was very bad. it's just that, they were lucky then. Marocco is aware that their opponents are not easy opponents. and if they play with open schemes, they are finished. this is football, sometimes the game doesn't go the way we expect. Marocco tends to play with bus parking tactics, like Jose Mourinho's tactics. uniquely, Marocco's defense was quite strong and very disciplined.

however, Marocco will face a tougher team in the semi-final match. the scenario, Marocco will play with the same pattern against France. I'm pretty sure, to stop Mbappe and Dembele is a tough job for the Marocco squad. In my estimation, Marocco will not be able to withstand the onslaught of Didier Descamps' troops.

Belgium out, Spain out, Portugal out! All were kicked by Morocco in a very humiliating way. Lukaku was angry and crashed the plastic in the stadium. Spain players were in shock and today, CR7 was crying, just like Neymar. No one of them excepted to be kicked by a team like that
Now we have England vs France. I can't imagine one of them being kicked by Morocco later lol

This is so hard to take most of all for Ronaldo, especially when they get to look at the team that eliminated them from the world cup. Ronaldo is going to have a lot of excuses as to how and why this got to be. Given the fact that, he was left out of the first half, the first half produced the winning goal for Morocco and Ronaldo only got his chance in the second half. His going to have the feeling that, should he had started the match, he might have affected the game in some way but, we never can tell.
It surely wasn't wasn't easy win for Morocco but, they did good to have pulled this off and the whole Africa is excited about it. At least we get a team that the semi finals and such a well deserved one. Let's see who joins them between France and England.

Many doubt that Croatia can beat Brazil is quite reasonable and acceptable because the achievements of these two national teams in the World Cup are so different, Brazil with 5x Champion while Croatia's best achievement is Finalist in the previous World Cup, but if Brazil is not vigilant they can be troubled and Croatia has the opportunity to beat them, I remember how Brazil was favored in the 2010 World Cup and lost against the Netherlands and when they were defeated at home in 2014 against Germany, so Brazil must be vigilant and never underestimate their opponent.

We can't judge any player by signal match performance I know All of these indian stars are very talend and match winner player but due to out of form for some time can't say that this player failure, everyone know that form is temporary while class is permanent , so the main point is that Kohli and Rahul are class player hope they will comback stronger, while I am happy that Rohit perform well but luck wasn't with him because 12 runs remaining on 3 ball which can be easily for rohit but he didn't

I don't know whether the Indians will be a lot worried about getting whitewashed. They came to Bangladesh without much preparations and refused to play any warmup matches. And in the first match itself, there was no urgency from the part of the Indian batsmen despite losing wickets regularly. They were not serious about their opponents and thought that it will be a cakewalk. And they hardly learnt any lessons from the first match. Even in the second match they showed no seriousness and let the match drift away from their control.

My initial thoughts were England had a bat start and we're not able to give a big target to Pakistan. After seeing Pakistani batter struggling to score single runs I think the English batters did a good job. Pakistan has already lost two wickets and the good part here is that Babar Azam is still playing and hopefully he will score his half century. I still feel before the days ends England bowlers will be able to get another wicket which might not help Pakistan tomorrow.

Australia women's and India women's team will enter the field tomorrow. India's record against Australia has not been great since 2021, with four losses and one no result. India Women's team will certainly not want a repeat of that time in this session. On the other hand, the series will also serve as a good preparation for Shafali and Richa Ghosh, who will prepare for the inaugural U-19 T20 World Cup to be held in South Africa in January. Australia women's team will play 5 T20 match series in this tour.

Brazil is still too tough for Croatia, there is no doubt that Brazil will be the seeded team in the Croatia vs Brazil match in the World Cup quarter-finals. I have seen Brazil and Croatia play since the world cup started, the performances of these two teams are very much different. Brazil can appear more dominant when playing with Croatia, because Brazil's attack line will be better with the presence of Neymar after recovering from injury.

So there is a dead end as PCB would not want the Asia cup to be played at a Neutral venue and India will never come to Pakistan. So we are left with two options, either ICC agrees that Asia cup will be played without India and loses on the revenue. Or ICC comes with a new plan of leaving Pakistan and conducting the ICC in a neutral venue with Pakistan 

The second test between England and Pakistan will be played tomorrow and Pakistan needs to win this one in order to save the series.
I am hopeful Pakistan will play in this test match because they are best when it comes to do or die situations. 

it will be interesting to see the meeting between the two teams because Brazil will be more favored to win than Croatia. but Brazil has also been defeated by Cameroon in the group stage. did not rule out, Croatia who managed to beat Japan could also force Brazil to appear under pressure.
Croatia is full of surprises, I hope Brazil will not be caught off guard in their meeting later.

Compared to Scotland, Nepal is really far behind in terms of performance. One of the proofs of which is today's match, Scotland secured victory by a huge margin. There really isn't much to say about this match.

Yes, for some players it will be the last World Cup. In fact, Spain has a young squad, but I think the coach has been incompetent. It doesn't make sense to me that he put in a young and talented player like Ansu fati in extra time. It's just strange that when Olmo and Torres are playing so badly, the other young players on the bench are not given a chance. They have a lot of things to change for sure. I hope they were very disappointed to lose to a team like Morocco.

Incredible performance of Bangladesh team. Mehidy Hasan Miraz has such a wonderful power in his hands no one can believe if they are not watching today's match. What he did for the Bangladesh team. may be two of the best events in their cricketing history. Doing well in two consecutive matches from the bottom batting lineup that surprise every cricketer. He made a big score for the team and did not give up his century. In the last over, he needed 15 runs to make his hundred and he took it with a surprising performance.