Day 23: Uruguay vs France and Brazil vs Belgium

Pickford's still for me. Great save, but not completely in the corner like that one was.
Was the shot Pickford saved going into the net? In any case the fact that Colombia equalized from the following corner takes a bit away from it. This one from Lloris could be a match winning save in the end.
 
They should've won Euro 2016 as well but were tense and mentally fragile against Portugal. With the amount of attacking talent they have, they should be blowing teams away but Deschamps seems too passive in his tactics. Against Germany in '14, it hardly seemed they were the team behind because they didn't really cause Germany problems in attack.

Even in this tournament, I don't think they are playing to their full potential.

They're too cautious with their approach.
 
Excellent. Capitalization, no unnecessary exclamation marks or excessive words. Some people just know how to do it.

That's why we act as if we didn't know you.
 
Uruguay seems to be far more dangerous going forward than France. Bit surprising. Surely they ll score an equalizer before France can possibly score a 2nd? Pretty good match up really.
 
They're too cautious with their approach.

Yep, they usually play with a defensive mindset in big tournaments because I remember them playing very attractive football against Germany in recent friendlies (during Euro '16, they were back to playing on the counter during the semi-final).
 
Uruguay now forced to play come from behind soccer.

feck off Fox.
They have a panel of experts that do pre-match post match stuff and one guy goes, we have Messi out and Ronaldo out and who is that other famous guy, and someone suggests Neymar, and then he goes Ya!!
 
Pretty bored by this game tbh. Got no stake in who wins.
 
Huge to be ahead at HT but Uruguay is still in as we look quite weak against hoof ball tactics.
 
Uruguay now forced to play come from behind soccer.

feck off Fox.
They have a panel of experts that do pre-match post match stuff and one guy goes, we have Messi out and Ronaldo out and who is that other famous guy, and someone suggests Neymar, and then he goes Ya!!
Legit... NBC needs to sell out to get the rights to this thing
 
French attack totally out of sync. Through balls nobody runs into, backheels to opponents etc. The have been like that most of the tournament. Just out of sync. Imagine if they truly clicked.