Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia

[CosbehFox]

4 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Taking that argument 

if Tunisia had gone up the other end and scored, the penalty  review would still have happened.   And you’re saying that Tunisia’s goal would be ruled out when they had done nothing wrong?  Infact, by the letter of the law, if Denmark scored, then surely the review is still valid? You can’t play an advantage for that long ?? I think there is something amiss here. Maybe it’s never played out too often because reviews are 99.9% acted upon.  This incident says that as soon as the var decides he has to check something v closely, the ref must stop the game, not wait for the ball to go dead or for the var to come to a final decision. 

Yes. It’s been mentioned before this scenario. For example, if there’s a handball on the line and a team breaks away from that….they’d be better to miss the shot rather than score !

[CosbehFox]

16 minutes ago, Lionator said:

If France get into any sort of rhythm in this tournament then they’re going to be very difficult to stop. Already looking like an England v France quarter final, which will be massive. 

Their back four in its current state is going to give up a lot of chances as seen at end of the first half 

[PhillippaT]

*phew*  

[TJQuik]

Australia are going to get dumped out with this poor imitation of tippy tappy shite

[tom27111]

Mbappe is quite good, but he's diabolical at taking corners.

[Fox92]

Great goal.

[Mike Oxlong]

France look moutarde going forward 

[Guest StevieLynex]

Can we sign Theo Hernandez in January please

[Arkie Bennett]

Dembele's cross was Mahrez-esque 

[Bert]

“I see lot of his goals for PSG working on La Liga”

 

Jon Pearce are you sure?

[PhillippaT]

Oh well. Too good, I guess.

[Lionator]

Just now, Bert said:

“I see lot of his goals for PSG working on La Liga”

 

Jon Pearce are you sure?

Pretty sure he did say Ligue Un

[Guest StevieLynex]

Just now, Arkie Bennett said:

Dembele's cross was Mahrez-esque 

And Mbappe with a Vardy-esque finish

[Lionator]

Mbappe gonna have a Ronaldo 2002 comp. 

[Blue ROI]

Giroud. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Well that escalated quickly.

[Fox92]

Mbappe has turned this game around.

 

Great cross.

[shen]

Just now, Blue ROI said:

Giroud. 

Record scorer for France now isn't he?

 

[Lionator]

Could be a massacre now. Australia look knackered. 

[Super_horns]

2 very different players but now equal on goals for France .
 

Mbappe is a class and half apart .

[SkidsFox]

That defence of Australia, so bad. Almost reminds me of another team closer to home a few weeks back...

[SouthStandUpperTier]

This is like when Scotland dared to take the lead against Brazil in '82 and then proceeded to get absolutely battered.

[tom27111]

1 minute ago, SkidsFox said:

That defence of Australia, so bad. Almost reminds me of another team closer to home a few weeks back...

Wales? 

[Guest StevieLynex]

Just now, SouthStandUpperTier said:

This is like when Scotland dared to take the lead against Brazil in '82 and then proceeded to get absolutely battered.

Loved the way Brazil came back. The stunning free kick by Zico

[hejammy]

Mbappe may be an amazing player, but seems like such a cnut of a person