The Final: Argentina vs France

[amolbhatia50k]

You just can't have two players that do feck all defensively in Mbappe AND Giroud. 1 is more than enough. Good subs from Deschamps. They'll be back in it the second half. 1 goal and game on.

I thought Giroud was hard working?

 

[jungledrums]

Yesterday

 

[Bepi]

The feck are you on about. Having half the first team ill just before the final is about as unlucky as it gets.

Piranhas will always go piranhing.

 

[prateik]

Wonder if those virus rumours are true? France just look absolutely wrecked.

Its absolutely true.. the extent of it and how much the affected players have recovered is something we dont know..

 

[GlasgowCeltic]

Such a jammy finish

Ozil finish

 

[TheReligion]

Maybe, but they’d have 10 men behind the ball camped in their own box clinging on for dear life. The Southgate way!

Nah they’d be giving Argentina a much better game than this

 

[RacingClub]

The feck are you on about. Having half the first team ill just before the final is about as unlucky as it gets.

Nah mate that was biological warfare.

 

[2mufc0]

Wonder if those virus rumours are true? France just look absolutely wrecked.

Very plausible. France look so slow.

 

[ShinjiNinja26]

The ref is massively pro Argentina

The scripts already been written.

 

[Sassy Colin]

Lloris was down for about 5

Lloris down 3-4 minutes, the penalty, two goals, two subs, Messi/Hernandez head injuries.

Fair enough

 

[That_Bloke]

He is the best player even feck this, roll on the PL. Who watches this crap anyway

Don't really want to say "told ya so", but I told ya so. Let's see how France play in the second half.

 

[mitchmouse]

I like that sort of subs from managers. If you see that something is not working, why wait?

It could also be an admission by the manager that he got it wrong. Think I remember Jose doing that once (at Chelsea not at United, but I could be wrong about that)

 

[Berbaclass]

The ref is massively pro Argentina

So are your players.

 

[Zen]

Argentina in already colossal time waste mode.... come on Mbappe, get yaself going.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Where the feck did they get 7 minutes from?

There was that Messi Hernandez mid air collision and the Lloris thing, too.

 

[B20]

Bad decision by Scaloni to start Di Maria. Di Maria is not suddenly going to find a new level, he'll be too predictable and not good enough to impact the game.

Ahem...

 

[Stadjer]

Getting a soft penalty every game while result is 0:0 makes a huge difference. Especially for teams like Argentina which is super strong on counter attacks

Might have been a soft foul but it was still a foul. A foul in the box is a penalty. Dembele was just dumb

 

[Buster15]

They need him here, they haven’t got anyone capable of getting in the ball in midfield.

No they don't. He would have been walking slower than the rest of the French side.

 

[TheReligion]

The feck are you on about. Having half the first team ill just before the final is about as unlucky as it gets.

They’ve been lucky in each of the knockout games so far

 

[Blades1889]

Ref spoiling it with soft decisions for Argentina

 

[Cloud7]

This is as bad as France have looked all tournament in my opinion. Every match they have been second best and gotten through via a moment of quality here and there, but by and large they have just sat back and looked flat all tournament.

On another day England could have beaten them, and same with Morocco.

People have been clinging to this mythical “next gear” that France can switch into at any moment that they have been keeping in reserve, but it’s not looked like that to me at any point. They’ve just looked like an extremely talented team who are set up ridiculously defensively and negatively.

 

[Scarlett Dracarys]

Argentina has a rep for cheating in World Cups of course. The 6-0 against Peru in 1978. Maradona drug taking in 1994. And this is the most corrupt World Cup ever. So funny business not totally out of the question to my mind. But I'm going with virus right now.

And 5 Penalties.

 

[mitchmouse]

I am far from being thrilled by this game

 

[ExoduS]

To state the obvious, France being without Benzema and Pogba is catching up to them.

They played exhausted Croatian team in last final. If they played a team with energy they might have lost.

 

[Pexbo]

The ref is massively pro Argentina

Annoying when that happens isn’t it

 

[krazyrobus]

This France team is shades of Brazil 1998.

 

[RopersReturn]

This is bs, if you can’t even challenge for the ball fairly with an Argentinian go down as though they’ve been shot then you might as well give up.

 

[jeff_goldblum]

Annoying when that happens isn’t it

 

[suheilsworld]

Feck sake France, now there’s going to be a wankfest of monumental proportions over Messi. It’s going to be brutal.

With Ronaldo fanboys crying- double whammy!!! Can’t wait

 

[FreakyJim]

England was clearly better than France and should kick themselves for the missed opportunity. The french are just not that good. Shite pressing, low energy. Just a team that hopes Mbappe and Griezmann will do something on their own.

 

[Real Name]

Ronaldo is hidden somewhere crying atm.

 

[TheReligion]

Yes, it's true. I'm close to turning this shit off. I have mentally tuned out. I don't mind losing but not like this. Not like cowards

You just need the next goal and it’s game on

Surely you’ll offer more after the break. The danger is an Argentine third on the break

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

Didn't they say two players were out because of the virus?

Most media said main issues were Konate and Varane. Separated from rest of group.

Deschamps said temp had dropped and air con always on. Obviously that only affected France and Argentina had a different temp and different air con

 

[fallengt]

Louis van Gaal isn't a bad coach after all. He didn't lose
Dechamps looks hopeless. Just spam long ball against these midgets, ye clueless man

 

[Chekhov]

Nah they’d be giving Argentina a much better game than this

But they'd lose in the end, as is their wont.

 

[Joel Miller]

First time in WC history that one team has had 5 pens.

Guess who?

Yep, guessed again.

first time in history they’ve had a World Cup with VAR and even tighter rules.

seriously mate get a life. It’s been one of the most one sided world cups ever until now. The foil hat conspiracy theorist stuff is tragic

 

[mitchmouse]

This is as bad as France have looked all tournament in my opinion. Every match they have been second best and gotten through via a moment of quality here and there, but by and large they have just sat back and looked flat all tournament.

On another day England could have beaten them, and same with Morocco.

People have been clinging to this mythical “next gear” that France can switch into at any moment that they have been keeping in reserve, but it’s not looked like that to me at any point. They’ve just looked like an extremely talented team who are set up ridiculously defensively and negatively.

On the flip side, it would have been painful to see how Maguire "coped" with Messi...

 

[Parma Dewol]

Bar England they had a fairly weak opporide to the final to be fair.

You have a point, could even be argued they were fortunate to get past England. That said I thought the France block would be hard to get through. Amazed how poor they’ve been defensively.

 

[VorZakone]

Yeah, so my pre-game Di Maria comment didn't age too well.

 

[kouroux]

Annoying when that happens isn’t it

I'd rather feel it in the final than earlier that's for sure