Very nearly, tho i think the winner of Belg v Brasil (whichever had won) v France will be the real finale. I do think France, whether they end up champions or not, are the best team at this moment with Belgium and Brasil close behind.
shame belgium is not in the other semi
Hello there..
I still belive Brazil could have done better at midfield. Fernandinho wasn't that effective, imo and needed to be substituted. Belgium is pretty solid team tactically and the vast amount of flexiblity that they offer to the manager in terms of tactics is just sheer astonishing.
Belgium defense didn't look that solid to me against Japan. So I was vouching for Brazil. I thought that the Brazilian attack of Neymar, Coutinho, Jesus, Willian will blow the Belgium defense away, although Belgium contained the attack pretty well today and Courtois did fascinating job in making some good saves.
Haha...no hard feelings over here.
When you're allowing one easy goal to your own net and as a gift to your opponent what can you expect in return? I can see from miles away that Belgium would turning their defense to become more tightly and solid after that own goal.Hello there..
I still belive Brazil could have done better at midfield. Fernandinho wasn't that effective, imo and needed to be substituted. Belgium is pretty solid team tactically and the vast amount of flexiblity that they offer to the manager in terms of tactics is just sheer astonishing.
Belgium defense didn't look that solid to me against Japan. So I was vouching for Brazil. I thought that the Brazilian attack of Neymar, Coutinho, Jesus, Willian will blow the Belgium defense away, although Belgium contained the attack pretty well today and Courtois did fascinating job in making some good saves.
At least you have one of your prediction right and I got one right before this so we're even now :lol
Now that we agree on, but if they should by chance get past France, they might as well win it if you ask me.
I'm not too sure, I mean all 3 well-preforming pre-World Cup super favorites (Brazil, Germany and Spain), whom played excellent in the qualification, out-played themselves this World Cup. In fact, this seems to be the weakest World Cup I've ever seen preformance wise from the big teams. In a way it reminds me of the Euro 2016 and I'm not even sure if that's a good sign. Either the smaller teams are catching up or the all-round quality of the top National teams has fallen. As you said, Germany used to be superior the year they won, so did Spain when they won it, but now it seems like most National teams are being out-played by the high level of the Champions League club matches, although again, I don't think any teams there either seemed to have a dominating style of play this season. Maybe we'll just have to wait for a new stye to break through and take over, and because of that, any team can win it with a bit of luck. The way I see it, all remaining teams can lift the trophy the way it is now, and then I'm not talking mathematically, I'm talking realistically, It seems more possible now than ever before. Germany from 2010-2014 or Spain from 2008-2012 or even Brazil around 2000 would have thrashed this World Cup I'm sure, but alas that superior quality seems to be lacking. Fun for the neutral viewers I'm sure, fun for the underdogs, but in the end, I feel we're going to feel like we're left with a winner that didn't really impress or reach their fullest potential when it's all over...
Haha to be honest I just dont like the idea of "lucky winner" and what I mean by "lucky" is that the team just a one time show and then faded forever. Just like Greece and maybe Portugal in Euro. Yeah they have played their best to win that tournament so I will not taking anything from them, they deserved it. But in the long run they can no longer produce a top champion material squad at consistent level. Germany lost today but they still can produce another champion potential squad for 2022 WC. Can Croatia or Belgium do the same after Hazard, Lukaku, Bruyne, Modric, Mandzukic, Lovren retired?
We seem to be on the same page. Heck, doesn't even need to be a one time show either, just have to ride the "easy way" towards the final and have one good match to do it as long as they're disiplined in defence. As much as I loved that Portugal won the Euro 2016, I feel as though I have yet to see a team really dominate a game like we were used to back in WC 2014 (Germany 4-0 Portugal) and Euro 2012 (Spain 4-0 Italy), and those are only two games that comes to mind really. But then again as you say, teams like France makes it this time around because of the players they have on paper, not neccesairily because the are playing like a Champion. And yes they can reproduce down the line, but even so they need that something extra to be like the winning teams of the past like we mentioned, to have that something special. The feeling that "oh this team is going to win it all, they are out-playing everyone they face and never has a bad day, or even when they meet a tough opponent, they create plenty of chances" seems to be a forgotten one, or should I say a forgotten art. I especially recall Real, Barca and Bayern around 2010 when Mourinho came to Spain. The max potential of those teams were through the roof, yet we now praise consistency over top preformance and have simply forgotten how deadly those teams were back then, as at the end of the day, that is what wins you titles nowadays... Disipline, Consistency, and getting a goal or two, lol.
Current France team never out played anyone in this WC but what I like about them is their straight forward approach and player strength. They will try everything to score a goal even a deflected Goal is ok for them. :sdo:
Which one win you still win.problem is i predicted befor wc that france will win it...but i want belgium to win
Ok if Belgium win Semi you go with Belgium in the final and if France win Semi you go with France in the final because either ways teams from this fixture will be the team that win this WC.
