Semi Finals: Argentina vs Croatia | Eng... France vs Morocco

Murphy sneering at Hernandez going down.
Replay shows he's had his foot stamped on at pace :lol:
 
Messi vs Mbappe is going to be a killer final. The goat finally cementing his place vs a 23 years old soon to be another goat already sealing 2 world cups. Wow.

Hopefully France beats Morocco for that to happen.
 
Yeah, makes sense

Revisionism. He was never at the required level for a top club, often came up short. He's had wonderful career for France though, and this world cup he's been very good (his 2018 one, despite all the a posteriori re-writings of silent domination etc, he was mediocre at best)
I disagree. Always thought he was great for Arsenal, very good at linking up with his back against the goal and bringing others into play. Very unselfish as well. He can be the perfect striker in the right system. Many people just struggled to focus on anything but the fact he didn't quite score as many goals as the elite strikers.

And it's not revisionism, I've been saying this for years.
 
Can't help but be a little annoyed. Could've had Argentina vs Brazil and France vs Portugal, instead had yesterday's 1 sided game and today we'll see, hopefully Morocco upset the odds but... I want the semis to be intense and dramatic. Not easy. Or if it's easy, make it a masterclass, not just pure big quality gap. I think I like upsets far more in club football while international football I'd rather just see the heavy weights battle it out

“Heavy Weight” Semis lately:
France-Belgium: complete borefest
Germany-Brazil: slaughter
Argentina-Holland: borefest
France-Portugal: borefest

Only Italy- Germany of 2006 and Germany-Spain of 2010 were memorable, and even the latter no my so much.

min fact, Croatia in 2018 and Uruguay in 2010 were involved in memorable semis
 
So I see Morocco being able to claw this back. Theo Hernandez and Konate are rightly targeted. Morocco need to triple up on them with Hakimi, Ziyech, Boufal and a goal will come. Already should have had a penalty anyhow.
 
I feel like the BBC have absolutely nailed their presenters, pundits, commentators but have had a mare in terms of co-commentators.
 
France has been pretty pedestrian but the goal threat that they carry is insane