On July 13 2018 02:42 ppp87 wrote: Even at 10 I wouldnt bet for Croatia, France is way too strong atm, they have top tier players at every spots and in wayyy better shape. And Croatia is exactly the type of team France is the most comfortable playing against. Croatia winning is close to zero.
I agree tha Croatia is very comfortable to play against for France, its style just fits.
Could you guys elaborate on why you think so?
cuz france played on counters and breaks a lot of time this tournament. croatia wont play like russia and park the bus. french wingers will get their space...
On July 13 2018 02:42 ppp87 wrote: Even at 10 I wouldnt bet for Croatia, France is way too strong atm, they have top tier players at every spots and in wayyy better shape. And Croatia is exactly the type of team France is the most comfortable playing against. Croatia winning is close to zero.
I agree tha Croatia is very comfortable to play against for France, its style just fits.
Could you guys elaborate on why you think so?
cuz france played on counters and breaks a lot of time this tournament. croatia wont play like russia and park the bus. french wingers will get their space...
Croatia have shown themselves to be fairly adaptable. I think this might be their strength over everyone else so far, they manage to adapt and hold on when things are going badly. I don't really think this gives them an advantage over France, but its probably going to be a close game.
On July 12 2018 22:12 sharkie wrote: Could we please stop with all the hate towards each other?
not until you and Rebs kiss and make up ...
Over what :O ?
Reading some of the comments from Nojok this past month has Kinda turned me off France aswell and I really think they are the best team at this tournament and set to be really dominant for the coming decade unless some other teams start showing more promise.
I think they are the better team and should win, but I dont really care who wins.
Maybe slightly siding with Croatia because under, Modric, a new winner, the fact that this is probably the last chance for the best Croatian core since 98 and Croatia is unlikely to be this good again for a while when they lose some of their cores.
Can't really root for France if you know any french people to be honest. Most stereotypes of french people are dumb but ohmygod were they annoying with this last time around.
To continue my pre semi rant about what this means to us. If we win, Monday will probably be a non working day in Croatia. At least all the government employed people will get a free day and our Prime Minister has asked private companies to also let their employees leave work earlier so they can celebrate with the team that is getting a huge celebration on Monday when they get back to Croatia. This celebration is happening no matter what happens on Sunday, the free day might depend on us winning :D
That's very nice, but I don't understand the sympathy offensive. How much it means to you doesn't really change any opinions on the teams or the match...but GL anyway.
On July 13 2018 00:36 Faruko wrote: I think France has been quite impressive, i like their football
"Lyrical football" (as we meme here in SA) is not the only way to play it, not every team needs to do 500 passes to be considered "football", seems like Guardiola made everyone forget that yes, teams can play different and is still our beautiful game
This France is all about being effective, great defense and a midfield that controls the tempo of the game, with Pogba distributing the ball around, Kante recovering and cutting plays, being the first pass and Griezmann giving the orders and orchestrating how to attack, Hernandez and Mbappe being fast and incisive.
Deschamps has no problems whatsoever taking out the 9 and putting another defender if the game needs it and call me an asshole or something, but time wasting is part of the game and if i needed i would do it.
Defenders are as importants as forwards and they can shine too, people forget that, balon d´or being only for forwards all the time doesn't help either (not that i'm against the choices besides Messi instead of Iniesta in 2010)