07-13-2018, 04:08 PM | #161 |
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Poor France, final game played one day after Bastille Day.
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07-14-2018, 07:44 PM | #162 |
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Today in the match for the 3rd place and 4th place Belgium won 2-0 to England. So Belgium got the 3rd place and the bronce medal and England got the 4th place. But Harry Kane possibly will get the Golden Boot as the World Cup scorer.
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07-15-2018, 02:18 AM | #163 |
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07-15-2018, 09:32 AM | #164 |
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I was expecting an easy win for France, I guess you can never tell. Still early yet though.
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That referee gave advantage to France. Croatia did the best they could to win. But France won. I always going to remember this Croatia for the rest of my life. They put their heart and soul on every match they played.
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07-15-2018, 11:17 AM | #166 |
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I wanted Croatia to win because I doubt we would see them in the final for a very long time. Germany, Spain, Brazil, Argentina could be back to full force by the next World Cup.
I guess France won't get past the group stages of the 2022 World Cup.
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07-15-2018, 12:20 PM | #167 |
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Great final game! Many final games are usually boring.
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Me too, was rooting all out for Croatia and they played well, but I gotta give it to France, they did a great job.
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07-16-2018, 01:52 AM | #169 |
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I was rooting for Croatia, because, I always support "weaker" teams, but alas. They were very good, but they couldn't turn their god game into goals and this is a death sentence when you are playing with such disciplined opponent as France.
But in general, the match was exceptional - it had everything: penalty, awkward goal, drama, random people on the field. And most of all: beautiful football. Well, now onto waiting Euro 2020. |
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Aside from the game against Argentina, France didn't really impress me much (cue Shania Twain)... quite negative at times, quite defensive, sneak a goal (or get handed one by the ref) and then play counter attack. For such a talented team, it's a strange way to go about things.
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07-16-2018, 02:44 AM | #171 |
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UEFA Nations League
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07-18-2018, 03:39 PM | #172 |
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It will be always the well known teams who are going to win the World Cup. FIFA will never allowed that a country like Croatia to be the champions.
France won with that Argentinian referee's help. Croatia was robbed Luka Modrić and his team won my heart. |
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No, this is something completely new, he doesn't mean Champions League here. It's a mini tournament for European national teams, but doing well means qualification for the European Cup in 2020...
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