Knockout Stages - Quarter Final

[Jattdogg]

3 minutes ago, Raj said:

Where did it all go wrong ( for  Morocco).

 

They've done feck all. Deserve a good hammering now.

 

Well done on France, road that out well.👏🏾👏🏾

We in Canada gave them a false sense of big balls by letting them get the 2nd and 3rd goals trying to go for the draw.  Lol

[Finnegan]

Karma for Senegal 

[Jaspa]

Morocco rolling over for a belly rub by the looks of it

[Super_horns]

3 minutes ago, Jaspa said:

Morocco rolling over for a belly rub by the looks of it

Only started  playing now .

[FoxesWalk]

Still think Morocco have shown that if you can disrupt the midfield and get numbers in the middle you can stifle France. Suspect Spain will have more joy holding them at bay.

Edited Thursday at 21:51 by FoxesWalk

[when_you're_smiling]

As disappointing a game as it’s been, France have made a good side look average. 

[Parafox]

Why do we suddenly need to know the ball speed and spin rate?

[StanSP]

Morocco useless. 

[Jaspa]

 

Probably why VAR needed a long look at it.

[bovril]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Morocco useless. 

Haven't been paying that much attention but from what I have seen France seem to have been in total control, easily snuffing out anything of note Morocco try and do and waltzing through them with consumate ease, so to say they've been useless is perhaps doing a disservice to the tournament favourites. 

[DennisNedry]

Pathetic from Morocco, looked like they were playing a friendly.

[RowlattsFox]

Weird performance from Morocco. Didn't look particularly bothered about beating them. 

[Dan]

I'd find it very hard to slag England off if we lost a final to France. That front four is once in a generation sort of stuff.

[Jaspa]

France's depth in technical ability is insane.

[Super_horns]

Mbappe doesn’t look very injured there !

[fox_favourite]

Have France actually been tested yet? Being kicked off the park by Paraguay aside. Just seems like they have strolled to the semi final without much of a challenge. If and it's a bit of, we somehow reach a final, I think we'll be knackered to compete. 

 

I expected more from Morocco. 

Edited Friday at 05:44 by fox_favourite

[Nalis]

If Spain get past Belgium, they will beat France, they have enough to strangle them

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, fox_favourite said:

Have France actually been tested yet? Being kicked off the park by Paraguay aside. Just seems like they have strolled to the semi final without much of a challenge. If and it's a bit of, we somehow reach a final, I think we'll be knackered to compete. 

 

I expected more from Morocco. 

Morocco are a good side and didn't lay a finger on France. Says more about France than Morocco. France are a great side.

 

Not sure where are all "have xx actually played a good side yet". People never used to say that.

[filbertway]

I see Spain dispatching France after goosing Belgium tonight as well tbh. Still not convinced on France's defence at all. The only team that's even thought about trying to attack France was Norway's ressies.

 

That defence just looks a little switched off to me, even when their under little pressure they just seem to make simple situations look uncomfortable. When a team finally has the bottle to attack them I can see them conceding a few. Obviously the attack is devestating, but Spain are no mugs at the back.

 

 

[FoxesWalk]

10 hours ago, Jaspa said:

 

Probably why VAR needed a long look at it.

I thought at the time it’s very similar to the Kane one that wasn’t given. He’s already on the way down before any contact is made. 

[AKCJ]

10 hours ago, Dan said:

I'd find it very hard to slag England off if we lost a final to France. That front four is once in a generation sort of stuff.

 

Mbappe, Dembele and Olise is very comparable to Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo.

[Finnegan]

53 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

I thought at the time it’s very similar to the Kane one that wasn’t given. He’s already on the way down before any contact is made. 

 

Kane, Mbappe and Tielemans all ultimately had penalty shouts for the same thing. All of them went in to a challenge with an opponent trying to win a penalty, there's no question about that.

 

Mbappe knocks it past the guy looking to draw a foul, Tielemans sticks his foot in to get to the ball first knowing he'll be fouled, Kane is looking to get by the keeper and draw a foul. Nobody can argue that all three knew what they were doing and wanted a penalty.

 

The only difference is Kane just did it badly. Instead of taking the hit, he very obviously dived, he did it far too early, he did it far too dramatically, he looked like a pantomime footballer. It was almost the old Hugh Laurie sketch. No ref on the planet was giving that.

 

[ClaphamFox]

25 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Kane, Mbappe and Tielemans all ultimately had penalty shouts for the same thing. All of them went in to a challenge with an opponent trying to win a penalty, there's no question about that.

 

Mbappe knocks it past the guy looking to draw a foul, Tielemans sticks his foot in to get to the ball first knowing he'll be fouled, Kane is looking to get by the keeper and draw a foul. Nobody can argue that all three knew what they were doing and wanted a penalty.

 

The only difference is Kane just did it badly. Instead of taking the hit, he very obviously dived, he did it far too early, he did it far too dramatically, he looked like a pantomime footballer. It was almost the old Hugh Laurie sketch. No ref on the planet was giving that.

 

Kane was clearly shoved from the back, which neither of the other two were.

[Finnegan]

2 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Kane was clearly shoved from the back, which neither of the other two were.

 

Just don't, come on, at best we can say he kicks the floor and puts himself off balance. At worst, just be ****ing honest about it, he leapt on the floor in a comedic way. I don't think Harry Kane is a massive cheat, in fact if anything the thing he did wrong was being bad at lying which isn't really a terrible trait in life.

 

But he dived man, come on, he wasn't pushed. Even ****ing Wazza agreed.

 

[filbertway]

51 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Kane, Mbappe and Tielemans all ultimately had penalty shouts for the same thing. All of them went in to a challenge with an opponent trying to win a penalty, there's no question about that.

 

Mbappe knocks it past the guy looking to draw a foul, Tielemans sticks his foot in to get to the ball first knowing he'll be fouled, Kane is looking to get by the keeper and draw a foul. Nobody can argue that all three knew what they were doing and wanted a penalty.

 

The only difference is Kane just did it badly. Instead of taking the hit, he very obviously dived, he did it far too early, he did it far too dramatically, he looked like a pantomime footballer. It was almost the old Hugh Laurie sketch. No ref on the planet was giving that.

 

Agreed on this, although Tielemans just steps across the Senegal player and doesn't play the ball. He's just blocking the path from Camara's moving foot to the ball in order to get kicked. At no point is he thinking of playing the ball.