I am now on 3/3 in predictions who is of a higher "TIER" in semis, 3rd place match and a final.
1. Argies-Croatia = Messi GOD TIER, Argentina won a soft pen at 0:0
2. France-Morocco = French Platini gave WC to Qatar (corruptcy) and PSG (Qatari club) is at Paris. So, a huge advantage for France...
Before the semis, a few Croatian fans wrote about Orsic, how he is not playing since Perisic is playing on his position.
Today Perisic played as a LB and Orsic finally started as a LW and scored a winning goal, EXCATLY the same type of goal which he is always scoring, as written in the post...
Yes
Not nearly as bad as labelled here 4-5 years ago.
Counterarguments were: we have Frenkie and Arthur.
4 years later it is hard to tell whether a 80m Frenkie was any better than Rabiot (for free).
Even though it looked like a SciFi then.
Arthur is already semi retired.
Rabiot is...
Not even VAR check for that pen on Gvardiol.
During medal ceremonies, Fifa president Infantino was giving medals.
When Croatian NT coach Dalic came to receive his medal, Infantino hugged him, smiled and said something.
Dalic was: yeah, yeah
And left the hug right away :)
Tomorrow is a party in...
Messi plays very good.
BUT... his team was pushed in almost every match at 0:0.
He was never in a genuine 0:1 situation where he is usually sulking.
But the same is happening with Portugal, France etc.
And this Messi vs CR7 internet debate is exhausting.
I can't open any video, twitter post...
The best cheating is subtle cheating.
The best serial killers and corporate cheaters are subtle, genius criminals.
So, you can't make it plain obvious since nobody would watch matches anymore.
For example, I am on the verge of hating Brazil/Argentina/France/Real/Barca/EPL teams because a lot of...
Some interesting additional news:
1. Italian ref Orsato was injured and couldn't officiate during the last few weeks on a WC.
But he was called for the semis, inspite of being injured.
Either he is better than everyone else or he knows something what other don't know.
** He is from the same...
And if we are talking about conspiracies and corruptcy, France has "more points" to be favored by FIFA and the refs in the final.
From FIFA's point of view:
1. France has a bigger population than Argentina
2. France is way richer and way more people will buy shirts, sports shirts and shoes
3...
He didn't start it.
Ever since Neymar moved to Psg there are rumors of Emir wanting a CL and a WC winner.
He has Mbappe, Neymar and even Messi.
Even Messi's transfer to Psg had some remarks that he will get a favor on a WC because of this.
Record number of pens for Argentina didn't help...
They would be idiots to play him and kill the chemistry.
Winners don't do such clown moves
If they do, then they don't deserve to win at all and karma will bite them back.
We don't have matches now for two days so we might go offtopic.
You see, I disagree with you regarding Italy.
But, a lot of it comes from when you were born and which teams dominated when we were aged 8, 10 or 13 and then we start to follow those teams forever.
When I was 8-12, best clubs were...
Since 1998:
Titles:
2 or 3 France
1 Brazil, Italy, Spain, Germany
0 or 1 Argentina
Number of finals:
4 France
2 Brazil, Germany, Argentina
1 Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Croatia
France is the biggest NT force since 1998.
1. A foul on Moroccan player
2. Yellow for Moroccan player
3. No VAR check
4. No complaining by his assistants, and VAR room didn't send an info that something was wrong
Just a regular day in the office for FIFA in matches between TIER1 (important) teams and outsiders.
Let's be honest...
You sometimes sound smart and objective.
Yet in moments like this you act as if your IQ is 80 or something.
If Barca and Real during their prime years (when La Liga was rich, strong, important anf while Messi, Msn and Cr7 were here) had 20 questionable decisions in their matches over years...
Rory, I think that you hadn't answer to my question regarding a pen from Milan-Dinamo and how would you react if your mortal enemy, CR7 would have been awarded that pen in a WC final, 88th minute?
Would you hail CR7 after that or question him till the end of the life?
So, English players who said not a pen = hate Messi, love CR7
Croatian coach, Gk, Modric, Kovacic = are just sour losers for saying not a pen
Croatian refs = biased
Casillas saying not a pen = because he hates Messi
Mexican former WC ref = a drug dealer or who knows what?
It has an impact because there is a pattern.
If someone would analyze all the semis and finals matches between important/rich teams on WCs and CLs in the last 20 years, the results would have probably been: 80-90% of decisions which could have gone either way (there are pros and cons both for a...
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