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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Croatia couldn’t beat Denmark and Russia using the logic that a penalty shoot out win isn’t a win. Argentina were a mess when Croatia beat them, id be surprised if England couldn’t have got a result against them that night. They’d not have made the same mistake again against Iceland and would have beaten them imo, based on the fact they’re better than two years ago and Iceland have either stood still or regressed slightly. They beat Nigeria quite comfortably in a friendly before the tournament at Wembley which is the only barometer we can use for that one! 

I think France will win the final comfortably as they’ve come through the much harder side of the draw and looked solid and untroubled. Croatia have had a straight forward run to the final and in two of their knockout games needed penalties to beat mediocre opposition

Croatia did not have a straight forward run at all. They came from the highly competitive side of the knockout rounds. 3 games went to extra time, 2 to penalties. By contrast, France sailed through the group and breezed through the knockout rounds. 

It would be great to see Croatia's name on the trophy, even if the purists will argue that a small country winning shows that standards are falling, and the best players in the world are only interested in the European Cup.  But France will probably win 2-0, wrap it up halfway through the second half. Except against Argentina, they've been dull as ditchwater throughout, they snoozed through the only goalless draw in the tournament, and do no more than the bare minimum necessary to win.
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Originally posted by planning planning wrote:


Croatia did not have a straight forward run at all. They came from the highly competitive side of the knockout rounds. 3 games went to extra time, 2 to penalties. By contrast, France sailed through the group and breezed through the knockout rounds.

But that could speak to Croatia not being good enough, and France being excellent. Beating Argentina, Uruguay, and Belgium fairly handily is not to be sniffed at.
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Originally posted by Zinedine Kilbane 110 Zinedine Kilbane 110 wrote:

Originally posted by Gary McKay Gary McKay wrote:

Originally posted by Green Devil Green Devil wrote:

Originally posted by Gary McKay Gary McKay wrote:

Bayern Munich have had a player in EVERY World Cup Final since 1982 !!!

So have Inter Milan 
Some stat for both.

Seen that in the daily fail last week 

1982, Italy 3-1 West Germany: Gabriele Oriali, Giuseppe Bergomi (Inter Milan), Wolfgang Dremmler, Karl-Heinze Rummenigge, Paul Breitner (Bayern Munich)

1986, Argentina 3-2 West Germany: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Inter Milan), Norbert Eder, Dieter Hoeness, Lothar Matthaus (Bayern Munich)

1990, West Germany 1-0 Argentina: Andreas Brehme, Jurgen Klinsmann, Lothar Matthaus (Inter Milan), Stefan Reuter, Jurgen Kohler, Klaus Augenthaler (Bayern Munich)

1994, Brazil 0-0 Italy (Brazil won 3-2 on pens): Nicola Berti (Inter Milan), Jorginho (Bayern Munich)

1998, Brazil 0-3 France: Youri Djorkaeff, Ronaldo (Inter Milan), Bixente Lizarazu (Bayern Munich)

2002, Germany 0-2 Brazil: Ronaldo (Inter Milan), Jens Jeremies, Thomas Linke, Oliver Khan (Bayern Munich)

2006, Italy 1-1 France (Italy won 5-3 on pens): Marco Materazzi, Fabio Grosso (Inter Milan), Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich)

2010, Netherlands 0-1 Spain: Wesley Sneijder (Inter Milan), Mark van Bommel, Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich)

2014, Germany 1-0 Argentina: Rodrigo Palacio (Inter Milan), Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm, Jerome Boateng, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Thomas Muller, Toni Kroos, Mario Gotze (Bayern Munich)


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Ivan Perisic and Marcelo Brozovic both play for Inter and should now feature in Sunday's showcase event.

They could face France midfielder Corentin Tolisso of Bayern Munich who came on in the 86th minute of Tuesday's 1-0 victory over Belgium.


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Originally posted by Het-field Het-field wrote:

Originally posted by planning planning wrote:


Croatia did not have a straight forward run at all. They came from the highly competitive side of the knockout rounds. 3 games went to extra time, 2 to penalties. By contrast, France sailed through the group and breezed through the knockout rounds.

But that could speak to Croatia not being good enough, and France being excellent. Beating Argentina, Uruguay, and Belgium fairly handily is not to be sniffed at.

IMO the 4 best teams at the World Cup - France, Belgium, Brazil and Uruguay were all on the same half and would have made the final if they were on the other side.

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1. It was originally built as an arena to watch bears fighting humans in matches to the death
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3. It was the venue for the famous boxing match on 25 December 1985 between Ivan Drago and  Rocky Balboa.
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6 The stadium has execution chambers for traitors to Mother Russia that is used on Jan 1st each year in live televised executions and is watched by millions of people each year and is considered a family tradition to sit down and watch it together to ring in the new year.
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Horrible from Griezmann.
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was that their first attack?
Croatia on top until then.

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Where's VAR to review that freekick?
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Lovely goal
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What's going on?  A world cup final that isn't going to be a boring stalemate?Shocked
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Cracking goal.
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Great goal. Well worked 
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Great finish. Delighted Griezmann's cheating won't decide it.
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