Messi and his team have no margins left

France conceded only one goal in their group and that's due to a penalty they conceded to Australia. Their performance in the first three games wasn't impressive at all, but they proved their readiness for the knock out games and they didn't have to try very hard because they easily took the first place in their group. 

Argentina perform without a plan and they are based on Messi's talent (who sails in shallow waters so far) and on their other players mostly attackers. Their defense is not good at all, actually they have conceded goals in all their games. If Nigirians had a more efficient attack, they could have scored another goal in the game that would have given them the qualification for the knock out stages. 

Argentinians tried to perform as a team to get the qualification and made it through difficulties but France aren't an easy opponent, in contrary to Africans. The 1998 World Champions have ambitions in this World Cup and I believe that they will pass through mediocre Argentine. If France score early, I don't rule out at all a similar outcome for the Argentinians to this vs Croatia. My call is home win in decent odds.