WC 2018 Final | France vs Croatia

hope croatia win but the times sterling got into great positions with his pace only to do nothing i dont think mbappe will be that wasteful

Croatia are men, the French are pussys. Heart says Croatia but sadly head says France.

France got this

Mandzukic to score the opening goal
Then double by Pavard

2-1

Supporting Croatia, but too close to call.

I feel croatia win wc for the first time is more beautiful

I hope anti football doesn't win the world cup.

Unfortunately the most joyless team of the competition got this

Who would've thought in August 2017 that Lovren would be starting a CL and a WC final in the same season

BusterLfc wrote:Who would've thought in August 2017 that Lovren would be starting a CL and a WC final in the same season

yeah its crazy. he plays for liverpool v spurs and looks like a pub player. plays against spurs players in the world cup and looks like prime nesta. and will scrub badly again when liverpool play spurs this season. i hate this man more than death tbh.

Lot of non-believers here

Croatia 2-0 France.

It's coming home

You really think Croatia can score 2 goals on France... and keep a clean sheet to boot????

messixaviesta wrote:

The Demon of Carthage wrote:The lolz when Deschamps becomes a WC winner  

Forget Scolari, this dude is the pinnacle of incompetence and it would be absolutely hilarious to see him win the most prestigious tournament in world football.

'Pinnacle of incompetence' might be harsh. He won the Ligue 1 title with Marseille. What people may have forgotten is that he reached the UCL 2004 final with Monaco beating some very fancied teams on the way.

The reason he irritates people I think is because he is too conservative. A neutral looks at that kind of talent in a squad and then when so many of them sit back on the pitch it does not leave a nice feeling. However its quite possible that a more vibrant approach would have lost France the game against Belgium. In this world cup conservatism has largely ruled. So Deschamps winning the cup might be symbolic of the tournament in a way.

Sadly, this is true... this WC has been more about defensive organisation, as well as set pieces goals, more than anything else...

It was largely very entertaining though still due a number of factors.

I'd like happy ending now .

Ganso wrote:the most joyless team of the competition

yep, France proved to be absolute melts with the play-acting/time wasting and being plebs in general

Belgium-Croatia would have been the better final definitely

Tbh Croatia are not a good team and I will be shocked if France dont come away with a 3-0 win.

Unique wrote:Tbh Croatia are not a good team and I will be shocked if France dont come away with a 3-0 win.

please

Freeza wrote:

Unique wrote:Tbh Croatia are not a good team and I will be shocked if France dont come away with a 3-0 win.

please

please what.

I don't get the point tbh
I hope for Croatia victory but I'd be okay if France get it because they were the best team in WC by far
Not even had a easy race
They deserve it more than anyone and to be fair , Croatia played a good WC etc but they won 0 matches in 90'

Robespierre wrote:I don't get the point tbh
I hope for Croatia victory but I'd be okay if France get it because they were the best team in WC by far
Not even had a easy race
They deserve it more than anyone and to be fair , Croatia played a good WC etc but they won 0 matches in 90'

Well, both teams have played the same opponents twice.

Denmark and Argentina. Seems like they did comparable in those.

No one beat Denmark. Croatia crushed Argentina and France won pretty handily.

Think it's a bit disrespectful to say Croatia has not been good. I def see a close game. Closer than if England would've gone through.

Freeza wrote:

Robespierre wrote:I don't get the point tbh
I hope for Croatia victory but I'd be okay if France get it because they were the best team in WC by far
Not even had a easy race
They deserve it more than anyone and to be fair , Croatia played a good WC etc but they won 0 matches in 90'

Well, both teams have played the same opponents twice.

Denmark and Argentina. Seems like they did comparable in those.

No one beat Denmark. Croatia crushed Argentina and France won pretty handily.

Think it's a bit disrespectful to say Croatia has not been good. I def see a close game. Closer than if England would've gone through.

Mmmm I wrote " Croatia played a good WC "
I haven't denied this.
They have never lost a sinGLe match too.
But for me France were more impressive , and not just because they faced toughest NTs (imo ) since 2nd phase.
For example I don't get why most ppl talks just about Mbappe, as if France were a one man show.
For me it's another France compared with last Euro because they were a squad, first of all. Not spectacular, but capable to suffer and incredibly lethal when it moves in.
For me we have talked a little about WC played by Pogba this year. I think it's been the keystone among these two France (Euro and WC).
Anyway in a final I would not see great gap too , but I think those 3 matches in a row concluded into overtime are going to be heavy

It was more a combined response. Mainly to Unique who called them shit. Pretty disrespectful to a team that's gone farther than England in 50 years with a fraction of the population.

Freeza wrote:It was more a combined response. Mainly to Unique who called them shit. Pretty disrespectful to a team that's gone farther than England in 50 years with a fraction of the population.

I didn’t call them shit I said they are not a great team. England are also not a good team but England could have and should have won the game by half time. No way will the French forwards waste good positions and chances like lingard and sterling did.

sportsczy wrote:You really think Croatia can score 2 goals on France... and keep a clean sheet to boot????

It's coming home lol what else do you want me to say?

Unique wrote:

Freeza wrote:It was more a combined response. Mainly to Unique who called them shit. Pretty disrespectful to a team that's gone farther than England in 50 years with a fraction of the population.

I didn’t call them shit I said they are not a great team. England are also not a good team but England could have and should have won the game by half time. No way will the French forwards waste good positions and chances like lingard and sterling did.

No way they waste chances?

Did you even watch the Belgium game?

They did nothing but waste chances

Freeza wrote:It was more a combined response. Mainly to Unique who called them shit. Pretty disrespectful to a team that's gone farther than England in 50 years with a fraction of the population.

They were rated as one of best NTs even before of WC ( so less surprising than Croatia 98 on paper ) but this tends to underrate the Croatian miracle . I suppose they've same inhabitants than the whole Paris. Except if you are Serbian or French , its' really to hard not supporting them for final imo

Robespierre wrote:

Freeza wrote:It was more a combined response. Mainly to Unique who called them shit. Pretty disrespectful to a team that's gone farther than England in 50 years with a fraction of the population.

They were rated as one of best NTs even before of WC ( so less surprising than Croatia 98 on paper ) but this tends to underrate the Croatian miracle . I suppose they've same inhabitants than the whole Paris. Except if you are Serbian or French , its' really to hard not supporting them for final imo

I have a lot of factors for supporting either team at this point.

Varane is my favourite player (him or Isco).
Modric is close to same level. Kovacic would be an added bonus, if he actually played. Him playing with a dislocated shoulder against Denmark was ridiculous.
Denmark went out and played better than Croatia until penalties, which would give me some sense of pride.
Underdog story is always nice.

Mbappe possibly deciding a World Cup final at 19 would be something for me to cheer for. Love watching legends in real time, and I think he's going to be one of the greats of the sport in a decade.