**The World Cup 2018 Official Thread**

[hashmander]

bbc is with the shyts. croatia's free kick and subsequent goal from that so called kante yellow card wasn't much different than griezmann's free kick, but they didn't show the foul that lead to croatia's goal.

 

[King Jove]

the slo-mo replay of that handball looks even worse.

he purposefully puts his hands out to make himself bigger.

that's why coaches teach players to put their hands behind their back when defending corners.

 

[noodles]

Cheating ref..horrible display. This ain’t America and bullshyt video replays..

Never a penalty

 

[International Playa]

VAR messed up this game, refree shouldnt have given the penalty ruined the game

 

[Anwulika]

France need to take off Giroud and bring on Dembele.

 

[ADP]

Has to be a CLEAR penalty lads...

If you look at it on the screen for 10 minutes its not fukking clear ffs

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

The score does not at all reflect who the better team of the half was...

Croatia midfield dominated that half...

Hopefully they come out the same way the 2nd half and try not to shoot themselves in the foot this time...

 

[hashmander]

you can see perisic hand go down to where the ball is after being up. he moved it toward the ball.

 

[Liu Kang]

Mans don't know the saying in France that is "la chatte à Dédé" which means "Deschamps' luck" as "p*ssy" means "luck" in that context. We have one shot on target and two goals. Inzaghi style

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They're attacking the weak link in Pavard, and having a shockingly easy time getting out on breaks and playing through the midfield. They're not KILLING France or anything, but it'll be interesting to see if that trend holds throughout the second half.

Yup, Pavard is our weak link (even got Mbappé tracking down) but what's annoying me is that we're not clearing crosses properly. Perisic goal came after 3 lost consecutive aerials duals like come on. Against Uruguay we were good at it (baring that huge change in the first half), same against Belgium but today it's trash level. Credits to Croatia obviously because they playing far better than us but we're not playing well at all, which is worrying. We're defending as a 442 and still allowing crosses. I'd say play the super narrow 433 we played against Belgium so we can free Mbappé for the counters. He's far too deep in the current configuration to even be a threat in counters.

 

[D.C Young]

I want France to win because they got allot of African players on the team

But it seems like Croatia is dominating....


Under normal circumstances I would be rooting for Croatia because they're under dogs

 

[Anwulika]

VAR messed up this game, refree shouldnt have given the penalty ruined the game

It's one of those decisions that you'd be pissed if it was given against your team but lesser penalties have been given in this world cup so I'm not surprised.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

France need to take off Giroud and bring on Dembele.

I asked for this in the semi all damn game and it never happened. Deschamps ain't about shyt

 

[Liu Kang]

you can see perisic hand go down to where the ball is after being up. he moved it toward the ball.

Yeah rewatching the replay, it's obvious indeed. Clear handball and he didn't protest so he knew it as well.

 

[Black Nate Grey]

Croatia will probably equalize, if Hernandez didn't have a yellow I'd put in a more offensive player for Matuidi.
Pavard too but France don't really have a great RB in their reserves, Sidibe isn't much of an improvement.

 

[JDH]

The penalty is 50/50 which means the first decision shouldnt have been changed