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On July 12 2018 05:54 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 05:53 nojok wrote:On July 12 2018 05:51 Poopi wrote: Fuck yeah! Two best teams of this World Cup meet in the finals.
It will be difficult but they should be more tired than us! Lol no Croatia has been very weak, all teams of the upper bracket were stronger. They trashed Argentina. One huge gift and a last second goal when Argentina litterally stopped playing. And yeah as pointed, Argentina is trash, they were extremely lucky against France.
edit : Well maybe better than Argentina and Japan but I would not bet on them against Portugal or Uruguay.
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On July 12 2018 05:49 ortseam wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 05:43 sharkie wrote: 7-1 goal shots, england never deserved to go through While I agree, England was the better side until the goal at 68 min mark, with Croatia not making a single chance. Croatia have the better players but they didn't show it for 70 minutes. England had some big chances, especially in 1st half I wouldn't say it was intentional from Croatia to tire England, but we've seen it so many times. The team that goes berserk with the pressing in the 1st half and failing to end the game quickly not being able to handle it after 60mins.
There were some comments at the end of the 1st half saying Croatia is falling apart but it was only a matter of time until England's pressing fell off, physically impossible to keep that up for 90.
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On July 12 2018 05:55 DropBear wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 05:53 nojok wrote:On July 12 2018 05:51 Poopi wrote: Fuck yeah! Two best teams of this World Cup meet in the finals.
It will be difficult but they should be more tired than us! Lol no Croatia has been very weak, all teams of the upper bracket were stronger. They had a better result against both Denmark and Argentina than France did. No draws only wins! Well Denmark was a penalty win though... and France-Argentina score is misleading, since Argentina scored 3rd goal when it was over.
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On July 12 2018 05:50 Pandemona wrote: Experienced showed, they didn't know how to handle a referee who refused to give freekicks for fouls or book players for constantly fouling. The amount of shoving and what not as well it just a referee not in control. He also has an ego, refs with egos are awful, just look at Mike Dean. Lovren makes 3 clear fouls, one a push to stop Kane when he was technically last man no yellow which its a yellow every day of week. Then 5 minutes later he just pushes Sterling off the ball when they were one on one. He then fouls after that in second half. When his side gave a freekick away he runs and pushes Lindgard in the back off the ball when its dead, again no yellow card lol. Rebic made 6 fouls, got 1 yellow at the end. Vrsaljko the right back 4 fouls 0 yellows, ref just didn't want to book anyone...why? Again a team with 23 fouls against us and 2 yellow cards were issued, one for dissent haha laughable!
We can't do much when our centre in Walker is doing stuff like that to concede as well just throwing a leg at the ball is suicide, if he comes out and tries to head it its not a goal but instead he swings a boot at it and yes Croatia get lucky with bounce but that is so niaive defending.
But i'll point to the Spurs lads again doing what they do best, get close to winning something and choking. Kane worst performance, in a semi final again! Alli, irrelevant all game and still on pitch as well! We need some midfielders coming in and unless Henderson was injured that was the worst sub of all time, let alone the not taking Trippier off before he died on the pitch even though he had been injured since 75th minute lol.
Don't give Croatia too much credit!
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Henderson was totally alone in the midfield of England. Dont the English have some midfielders? Its defenders and forwards only
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Guys please keep saying France has a sure win. Please keep saying Croatia is tired and cannot play. Please do that every day. Argentina did and England did. See you on Sunday
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Germany25642 Posts
Guess Im cheering for Croatia since I can't cheer for France
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United Kingdom13774 Posts
On July 12 2018 06:04 KadaverBB wrote:Guess Im cheering for Croatia since I can't cheer for France Germany and England are out so it’s smooth sailing regardless of the final winner here anyhow.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51339 Posts
On July 12 2018 06:02 sharkie wrote: Henderson was totally alone in the midfield of England. Dont the English have some midfielders? Its defenders and forwards only Lampard Gerrard Scholes in one generation, into a generation of nothing else is an issue indeed. We were screaming out for 10s at one point and still haven't got those. Now we have players like Henderson who is ok but needs a good player alongside him. We are desperate for a new Lampard/Gerrard midfield player or a proper Cesc Fabregas type player.
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On July 12 2018 06:05 Pandemona wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 06:02 sharkie wrote: Henderson was totally alone in the midfield of England. Dont the English have some midfielders? Its defenders and forwards only Lampard Gerrard Scholes in one generation, into a generation of nothing else is an issue indeed. We were screaming out for 10s at one point and still haven't got those. Now we have players like Henderson who is ok but needs a good player alongside him. We are desperate for a new Lampard/Gerrard midfield player or a proper Cesc Fabregas type player. Wilshere says hi.
Blame Southgate.
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On July 12 2018 06:05 Pandemona wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2018 06:02 sharkie wrote: Henderson was totally alone in the midfield of England. Dont the English have some midfielders? Its defenders and forwards only Lampard Gerrard Scholes in one generation, into a generation of nothing else is an issue indeed. We were screaming out for 10s at one point and still haven't got those. Now we have players like Henderson who is ok but needs a good player alongside him. We are desperate for a new Lampard/Gerrard midfield player or a proper Cesc Fabregas type player.
Wilshere is definitely a good enough midfielder for world cup level. Not worldclass but way better than anyone you had in your squad
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Probably the first time in my life I dont enjoy england losing.
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51339 Posts
Wilshire coming off bench maybe yeah, but again he isn't that elite level player, not having him in squad is questionable for sure.
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On July 12 2018 06:09 Pandemona wrote: Wilshire coming off bench maybe yeah, but again he isn't that elite level player, not having him in squad is questionable for sure.
Wilshere wouldnt have done shit. There has been no evidence from his play this season that he was better than any midfielder in the Squad, cept maybe Loftus Cheek
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On July 12 2018 06:03 -Archangel- wrote:Guys please keep saying France has a sure win. Please keep saying Croatia is tired and cannot play. Please do that every day. Argentina did and England did. See you on Sunday 1958 - Brazil wins 1st title 1978 - Argentina wins 1st title 1998 - France wins 1st title 2018 - Croatia wins 1st title
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TLADT24918 Posts
People keep writing Croatia off and Croatia keeps delivering. My only wish is that they show the same level of play they did past the 60ish minute mark (after that goal) all game long, but I feel like that would actually work against them somehow. Congrats to Croatian fans! Game was really exciting once they really started finding their groove (and England slipping in their defense haha).
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Pretty good game. Croatia, much like against Russia, started being weaker and it felt like they were too nervous or something. But they really found into the game later in the 2nd half and after that were completely dominating except some in the first extra time.
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We were the better side, England caught us by surprise, but a tactical adjustment after half time produced results and England couldn't cope with it, probably due to inexperience. Ref was awful though.
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On July 12 2018 06:18 BigFan wrote: People keep writing Croatia off and Croatia keeps delivering. My only wish is that they show the same level of play they did past the 60ish minute mark (after that goal) all game long, but I feel like that would actually work against them somehow. Congrats to Croatian fans! Game was really exciting once they really started finding their groove (and England slipping in their defense haha).
The only ones writing Croatia ever off were the English. No one else thought that England would steamroll over Croatia
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whatever happened to Drinkwater? he was solid for a season then just disappeared...
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