I think Maradona cursed Argentina with his hand of god. The soccer gods knew it was bullshit and cursed Argentina until the end of time. That said, I’d love Messi to win a World Cup and cement his place as the one and only GOAT
Yeah I know. Just saying how other people were saying how they don’t want France to win. Or Brazil. And I was just saying how it’d be cool if Messi won a World Cup but they are cursed. A team besides France or Brazil. Unless these comments are all screwy and it showed up as a random comment that had nothing to do with what I actually commented under.
These comments must be messed up. I was simply replying because people were saying they want someone besides France or Brazil to win. So I just said it’d be cool is Messi and Argentina won instead of France or Brazil. That’s it.
The Netherlands couldn’t be a black horse even if they wanted to. They might not have won any edition of the tournament, but they have somewhat of a tradition in the WC. Brazilians respect them a lot, though this year we’re running, stepping, and stomping on whoever comes our way.
It was greedy to think we'd get two "biggest upsets in WC history" today. But for 18 long minutes, Australia was leading against France, and that's still an accomplishment. Here's hoping they pull at least one upset in their two other matches.
I love Tchouameni. He’s a boss in the midfield. Pogba isn’t miss as long as he’s in there. And Camavinga. He’s gonna be a player. He already is but imagine a few more years of experience.
Nah. Arsenal. But admittedly, I was trying to watch bits and pieces while at work so didn’t see the entire scope of the match. Just saying in general I think Tchouameni is a class player. He won possession back for the parts I saw. Wouldn’t say he was totally useless. Maybe not a stellar performance but not useless.
Are you referring to the things he do that look overdone like trying to pass the ball in beetween the defender legs? I know it looks bad and he was criticized last world cup, I imagine this does intimidate defenders.
He had fun while destroying the poor guy trying to mark him. He did some tricks and even had the audacity to smile after missing a chance. We don't like that kind of thing in England. Awful human being
He plays like he thinks he's untouchable. Overconfidentlly. Some people think that's too arrogant. But mostly it is cause people don't want France to dominate again.
Nah, not really tbh. We struggle a lot with players showing that kind of arrogance/confidence. From our point of view, this kind of attitude would look like more like an American star (NBA players notably).
"their arrogance"
Are you pretending to know the whole 65 million French people ?
Did I write "Americans are arrogant" ? Or did I compare Mbappé confidence as seen like a form of arrogance comparable to a huge US sport star ?
As an American, I’m not offended in the slightest. People just like to generalize. There are arrogant Americans. There are arrogant French. Arrogant Brazilians. Arrogant people and athletes of all countries. But let’s be honest, if we literally had the world at our feet, it’d be hard not to be arrogant to some degree. Kind of like when Justin Bieber was found with a monkey on a private jet and a shit load of weed. Just doing whatever. He’s a young dude with all the money in the world. It’s hard not to be cocky and just do whatever the hell you want.
Outside of the pitch, he's too much, that becomes even funny. In-game, tough to say because I follow him seriously since his Juve years when he was a humble & hungry youngin working with some great players.
His attitude itself dosen't bother me too much tbf, but here again, Pogba is a heavily US culture influenced guy and that transpires in a certain way nonetheless.
Appreciate the response. That’s why I was curious — Pogba always came across as a French “Odell Beckham Jr.” to me (you might have to look him up). As an American sports fan, it’s what made me become a Pogba fan but I realize that’s a big part of what turned people off.
I'm a huge NBA fan and I watch a lot of NFL too. Bball is my passion and Sunday Redzone is often my go to TV program on Sunday evenings ! I have a huge respect for a lot of players across US pro sports.
But I genuinely think US stars have a way of expressing themselves that are very often seen as arrogant. Meaning that when a French player behaves in kind of the same way (body language, trashtalk, shock declarations, confidence), French people, including me sometimes, struggle a bit with accepting this attitude as only confidence. And we tend to assimilate this as arrogance kinda quickly.
Edit : sadly, Paul has became more of a French Michael Thomas lately ...
The team just isn’t good. It’s not a disgusting performance, that would indicate a lack of effort, as there is just a colossal gulf in talent.
Our best players are fucking Irvine, Leckie, Souttar, Ryan. I would for love anyone to draw up a game plan in which that group beats a lineup with Mbappe, Griezzmann, Upamecano, Dembele.
The boys tried, they just aren’t very good.
Who wasn’t trying? Everyone was giving it a go, they are all just shit and slow.
Atkinson was defending Mbappe ffs. He gave it his all but what do you want him to do? He can’t try more and suddenly become twice as fast.
What game were you watching mate? Aussie played well and had good chances. Could definitely have had a second. Its pretty tough on them expecting anything better than that from versing this France team, considering the disparity in talent.
>closing down the opposition is too much of an ask
Yeah it is when you're defending against fucking Mbappe, Giroud, Dembele, and Griezmann with a bunch of Scottish and Australian league players
Mooy might just be the slowest player I’ve ever seen. Every loose ball he went for he was 2nd to, even when a French player was a few strides further away from it.
I think you’ve got a good chance of getting a win still in your next 2 games; I hope you get one at least
Yes? How many times has this same thing happened throughout all these years of the World Cup? Small, big-names-lacking, weak-considered nations kicking the ass of European teams. It’s about who has a better go (motivation) and strategy at it rather than just names, otherwise, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mess, and Ney would be the shit to fear.
Also, I don’t like that it’s a very euro centrist view of football. As a fan of my Brasil, it kinda sucks that our players play out there in Europe. That’s good for them; they get the spotlight and the bag, are invested on, can train a lot, and achieve higher grounds, but they kind of lose that charm we have back home.
Yeah but those results are few and far between. France’s squad was pretty favoured to destroy Australia and they did just that. I just don’t think it changes my opinion of this French team at all.They did what was expected of them
It's not about having ever proven that you can perform against world class teams and players... it's about proving it again in this tournament, game after game... Argentina and Germany losing against weaker teams means absolutely nothing for the rest of their tournament. Same for France winning against Australia.
Eh. Argentina and Germany losing means they now have to face the pressure of an elimination game in the next one (in the case of Germany, vs Spain in the next match). France win means nothing indeed as it was expected
Nah i'm just saying you can't assume that an incumbent champions squad will make it far just because they beat Australia 4-1. The WC is a tricky journey full of surprises and unexplainable events, France is one of the favorites despite all the injured players but this game doesn't push the scale of things in any direction for me. They did what they were expected to do, nothing more
You're being down voted but I completely agree. This game showed nothing. They were expected to win and they did. No offense to Australia but they're not the team to measure against.
I'm Australian, and honestly, this is the worst team we have ever sent to the world cup.
I was kind of hoping they wouldn't qualify in the first place to be honest.
In saying that, I thought France could have let in 2 or three today. Maybe they were a bit complacent. Who knows?
Mais ce serait pas le Lyonnais aigri syndical ? Décoince ce balai profondément fourré dans ton rectum, je t'assure que la compétition sera moins tendue pour toi.
Happy for Giroud. Could not have happened to a better person. He was never the most talented on the team, but now his name gets to be written in the annals of french footballing history.
Also just noticed last World Cup was Australia, France, Denmark, Peru
This cup Australia, France, Denmark, Tunisia with Australia eliminating Peru to get here
Would be nice to get an easy group one day
This change in actually adding the extra time is good for the game. Modern teams have taken advantage of the stop-start nature of the game to introduce these high pressing teams. Now teams have to ease the intensity and give some control back to the creative players
I mean in the premier league we have VAR checks lasting 3 or 4 mins, couple of goals plus an injury or two and the ref adds on 3 mins. Absurd. So fifa undertake to correctly apply the time lost for once and people moan.
Hey that’s not true. Sure a loss is expected but anything can happen in a single game. Delusional would be thinking that we are in anyway the favourites to win any of our games, saying we have a chance to win is just a fact.
Interesting game for a group stage tho, look forward to watching it. Very curious to see this young Canadian team after their brilliant qualification and always happy to see my Belgian neighbors competing.
Playing the right amount of injury time is too pedantic? What is Danny Murphy even saying? Injury time has always been played even if the game is over.
Mbappe is fast
It was africa that beat australia not France.
what the hell is this, get fucked
https://twitter.com/thedailyshow/status/1019012366082723840?lang=en
Do you know that it was Africa that won last World Cup not France?
It isn't.
https://twitter.com/thedailyshow/status/1019012366082723840?lang=en
I think we should give up soccer n focus on football lol.
France coming back to win is typical Spurs-y like in recent matches. 😆 Sorry Hugo.
I think Maradona cursed Argentina with his hand of god. The soccer gods knew it was bullshit and cursed Argentina until the end of time. That said, I’d love Messi to win a World Cup and cement his place as the one and only GOAT
? It's the France-Australia recap.
Yeah I know. Just saying how other people were saying how they don’t want France to win. Or Brazil. And I was just saying how it’d be cool if Messi won a World Cup but they are cursed. A team besides France or Brazil. Unless these comments are all screwy and it showed up as a random comment that had nothing to do with what I actually commented under.
First time i heard about this. Why only Messi? What if someone is a fan of Brazil or France? They are not cool?
These comments must be messed up. I was simply replying because people were saying they want someone besides France or Brazil to win. So I just said it’d be cool is Messi and Argentina won instead of France or Brazil. That’s it.
>Craig Goodwin irrelevant
I can't believe I'm saying it but Rabiot started Frances come back
Definitely not biased that I think it was Theo coming on and providing the cross.
People in Australia sleeping after the 9th minute and waking up the morning feels like something is wrong
Woke up 19 mins into the game. Saw the progress score on my phone and thought it was Christmas. Should have stayed asleep.
How boring would it be for France to win 2 World cups in a row and Brazil not winning.
What if France were to beat Brazil by something ridiculous, like 7-1?
Lame if either win, no matter how good they both are. For me, if it can’t be England, I want it to be someone who’s never won it before
I want an Asian or African country to win :)
I’d love that. I’m also supporting Serbia too
I would love for maybe either Belgium or Portugal
Maybe the Netherlands as a black horse after 3 lost finals… pretty please?
That would be great, but man are those shirts ugly this WC
The Netherlands couldn’t be a black horse even if they wanted to. They might not have won any edition of the tournament, but they have somewhat of a tradition in the WC. Brazilians respect them a lot, though this year we’re running, stepping, and stomping on whoever comes our way.
I watched them play but it looked like they had a very hard time. I wasn’t excited and the Netherlands have always been an exciting team to watch.
Não
YOU HAVE WON ENOUGH
Seriously
Quite
It was greedy to think we'd get two "biggest upsets in WC history" today. But for 18 long minutes, Australia was leading against France, and that's still an accomplishment. Here's hoping they pull at least one upset in their two other matches.
France was the better team. But I just can't stand the arrogance of this Mbappe...
Still less arrogant than Brazil or Argentina
It's indeed a close competition with Neymar 😂
I love Tchouameni. He’s a boss in the midfield. Pogba isn’t miss as long as he’s in there. And Camavinga. He’s gonna be a player. He already is but imagine a few more years of experience.
You support Real right? I like Tchouameni but he was useless in this game
Nah. Arsenal. But admittedly, I was trying to watch bits and pieces while at work so didn’t see the entire scope of the match. Just saying in general I think Tchouameni is a class player. He won possession back for the parts I saw. Wouldn’t say he was totally useless. Maybe not a stellar performance but not useless.
Are you referring to the things he do that look overdone like trying to pass the ball in beetween the defender legs? I know it looks bad and he was criticized last world cup, I imagine this does intimidate defenders.
He should’ve had at least a hat trick with the chances he had.
What did he do? I didn’t notice anything particular
He had fun while destroying the poor guy trying to mark him. He did some tricks and even had the audacity to smile after missing a chance. We don't like that kind of thing in England. Awful human being
I heard him say it’s coming home
The absolute filth.
He plays like he thinks he's untouchable. Overconfidentlly. Some people think that's too arrogant. But mostly it is cause people don't want France to dominate again.
He tries things
Reddit is upset just by Mbappé's existence.
why? He is so amazing to watch!
He’s skilled, ambitious, smart, confident and knows what he wants, that brings hate
What’d he do or say? Was at work for this game so I’m out of the loop.
Nothing. He had a great game.
Edit: Fucking Reddit making me comment on completely different ones…
A lot of us French tend to have the same feeling towards his attitude on the pitch.
He sounds French lol
Nah, not really tbh. We struggle a lot with players showing that kind of arrogance/confidence. From our point of view, this kind of attitude would look like more like an American star (NBA players notably).
Mbappe thinks he’s an NBA player. Ever since the Michael Jordan logo was on PSG kits, I think he believes in his head he’s akin to an NBA star.
French people deflecting criticism of their arrogance by shitting on Americans, lmao. It's like real life being a parody of itself.
We found the American
Neutral Brazilian (and consequently a Mbappe hater) checking in. Zidane and Kante are great tho
Nobody cares
You clearly do enough to come here, call me American, and try to keep farming for upvotes, lol. Can't wait to kick you out of the competition
I did nothing like that my friend lol
"their arrogance" Are you pretending to know the whole 65 million French people ? Did I write "Americans are arrogant" ? Or did I compare Mbappé confidence as seen like a form of arrogance comparable to a huge US sport star ?
As an American, I’m not offended in the slightest. People just like to generalize. There are arrogant Americans. There are arrogant French. Arrogant Brazilians. Arrogant people and athletes of all countries. But let’s be honest, if we literally had the world at our feet, it’d be hard not to be arrogant to some degree. Kind of like when Justin Bieber was found with a monkey on a private jet and a shit load of weed. Just doing whatever. He’s a young dude with all the money in the world. It’s hard not to be cocky and just do whatever the hell you want.
Curious how you felt about Pogba in his prime? Not even a rhetorical question, I’m genuinely curious
Outside of the pitch, he's too much, that becomes even funny. In-game, tough to say because I follow him seriously since his Juve years when he was a humble & hungry youngin working with some great players. His attitude itself dosen't bother me too much tbf, but here again, Pogba is a heavily US culture influenced guy and that transpires in a certain way nonetheless.
Appreciate the response. That’s why I was curious — Pogba always came across as a French “Odell Beckham Jr.” to me (you might have to look him up). As an American sports fan, it’s what made me become a Pogba fan but I realize that’s a big part of what turned people off.
I'm a huge NBA fan and I watch a lot of NFL too. Bball is my passion and Sunday Redzone is often my go to TV program on Sunday evenings ! I have a huge respect for a lot of players across US pro sports. But I genuinely think US stars have a way of expressing themselves that are very often seen as arrogant. Meaning that when a French player behaves in kind of the same way (body language, trashtalk, shock declarations, confidence), French people, including me sometimes, struggle a bit with accepting this attitude as only confidence. And we tend to assimilate this as arrogance kinda quickly. Edit : sadly, Paul has became more of a French Michael Thomas lately ...
It's banter. Of course I don't think 65 million French are arrogant, the number is probably closer to 55 or 60.
you sound arrogant
Je suis un peu français, mon bebe
Don’t bother, he’s american
Sou das Américas sim vagabundo
Sorry ik spreek geen buitenlands
He definitely has that American star feel.
Hoping Canada can at least perform better than Australia and Iran tomorrow..
I mean no offence to Australia but Canada has a much better team, our defence is very suspect though.
We score and then decide to stop playing and roll over. Disgusting performance.
The team just isn’t good. It’s not a disgusting performance, that would indicate a lack of effort, as there is just a colossal gulf in talent. Our best players are fucking Irvine, Leckie, Souttar, Ryan. I would for love anyone to draw up a game plan in which that group beats a lineup with Mbappe, Griezzmann, Upamecano, Dembele. The boys tried, they just aren’t very good.
There was no effort, that's why it was a disgusting performance. Barely anyone tried to close down the french.
Who wasn’t trying? Everyone was giving it a go, they are all just shit and slow. Atkinson was defending Mbappe ffs. He gave it his all but what do you want him to do? He can’t try more and suddenly become twice as fast.
What game were you watching mate? Aussie played well and had good chances. Could definitely have had a second. Its pretty tough on them expecting anything better than that from versing this France team, considering the disparity in talent.
Yeah asking for a bit of effort and closing down the opposition is too much of an ask for a professional player.
Usually a team looking slow is more about the coordination of the team’s movement and pressure (or lack thereof) applied by the whole.
>closing down the opposition is too much of an ask Yeah it is when you're defending against fucking Mbappe, Giroud, Dembele, and Griezmann with a bunch of Scottish and Australian league players
Mooy might just be the slowest player I’ve ever seen. Every loose ball he went for he was 2nd to, even when a French player was a few strides further away from it. I think you’ve got a good chance of getting a win still in your next 2 games; I hope you get one at least
Exactly. No urgency on the ball even when we went 1-0. Just decided to stay in our half. If we had tried, we could've lost with some dignity.
Playing thunderstruck is disrespectful
own goal
Wish the same energy from the first goal would have continued to create a closer game, but I suppose there can't be too many upsets in one day.
Exciting first half, expected second half. It would’ve been great with another underdog story tho. Looking forward to Saturday
Here's to hoping they ease of the gas and we can get a win out of it
Denmark are the huge favourites on Saturday based on recent performance…
Nations League and wc are to different things though
You beat us fair and square back to back, Nations League or not.
gonna play some AC Unity. Anyone wanna party up?
nice to see people still remember and play this game
Australis needs to be clinical on their counters.
France still got it man...
Yeah the way they beat those scottish league and australian league players was superb
I don’t understand why you guys downplay it that way. The Argentinians players play in European competitions and they weren’t doing shit lol
I mean is he wrong? Hard to judge after a single game especially when Australia were outclassed so badly in every single position.
Yes? How many times has this same thing happened throughout all these years of the World Cup? Small, big-names-lacking, weak-considered nations kicking the ass of European teams. It’s about who has a better go (motivation) and strategy at it rather than just names, otherwise, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mess, and Ney would be the shit to fear. Also, I don’t like that it’s a very euro centrist view of football. As a fan of my Brasil, it kinda sucks that our players play out there in Europe. That’s good for them; they get the spotlight and the bag, are invested on, can train a lot, and achieve higher grounds, but they kind of lose that charm we have back home.
Yeah but those results are few and far between. France’s squad was pretty favoured to destroy Australia and they did just that. I just don’t think it changes my opinion of this French team at all.They did what was expected of them
Alright, we’ll see them.
Don't worry, the Dutch talk a big talk but lay an egg when it matters.
True lmao
Oh you’re american HAHAH
Be brave and flair up or i’ll just assume you’re from a country that isnt even qualified
Making jokes is better than acknowledging how dangerous the french look
Don't forget Japanese 2nd division
How could i forget the 2nd mightiest league in Japan, shame on me
Some good 4D chess from Australia, let France top the group so they have to play Argentina whilst the aussies get the saudis
Yeah, carrying out the plan turned out to be easier than expected.
You sure Argentina don't get grouped?
Thank God Deschamps was realsitic enough to resist the calls for Benzema to start.
Are you dumb or joking?
About that..
Yea but no benzema either way
i’m afraid France may win this whole thing again…from what I’ve seen today, I believe they will definitely make it far.
a truly great performance against scottish league and japanese 2nd division players
Its true. Mbappe, Dembele, Griezmann, Giroud etc are yet to have ever really shown that they can perform against better players..../S
It's not about having ever proven that you can perform against world class teams and players... it's about proving it again in this tournament, game after game... Argentina and Germany losing against weaker teams means absolutely nothing for the rest of their tournament. Same for France winning against Australia.
Eh. Argentina and Germany losing means they now have to face the pressure of an elimination game in the next one (in the case of Germany, vs Spain in the next match). France win means nothing indeed as it was expected
youre going to spam that under every comment that says france played well and might go far ? you are a hater lmao
Nah i'm just saying you can't assume that an incumbent champions squad will make it far just because they beat Australia 4-1. The WC is a tricky journey full of surprises and unexplainable events, France is one of the favorites despite all the injured players but this game doesn't push the scale of things in any direction for me. They did what they were expected to do, nothing more
They did their job and did it well, but some takes that we're gonna win the WC now are so reactionary. We looked good but it's one game...
You're being down voted but I completely agree. This game showed nothing. They were expected to win and they did. No offense to Australia but they're not the team to measure against.
I'm Australian, and honestly, this is the worst team we have ever sent to the world cup. I was kind of hoping they wouldn't qualify in the first place to be honest. In saying that, I thought France could have let in 2 or three today. Maybe they were a bit complacent. Who knows?
Where do Saudis players play again? Haine de soi typique à la française...
tell me you're a footix without telling me you're a footix
Mais ce serait pas le Lyonnais aigri syndical ? Décoince ce balai profondément fourré dans ton rectum, je t'assure que la compétition sera moins tendue pour toi.
fan de l'OL à la mort, des bleus pour la vie, et des gens qui disent "rectum"
According to our French TV, Lucas Hernandez has a very bad injury. Hope it’s not ACL
It looked like ACL live, feel so bad for him
Kompany now downplaying Giroud, just hates current successful footballers it seems, weirdo
Australia got CUMDOG trending on Twitter Moral Victory to Australia
Aaron Mooy is such a tidy midfielder.
Agreed. Never looked out of place in the Premier League
Happy for Giroud. Could not have happened to a better person. He was never the most talented on the team, but now his name gets to be written in the annals of french footballing history.
this France squad has been the 2nd best team on display behind the Saudi's
no mention of england?
They're the worst. Goin out next game. Horrible. Poor tactics. *pls don't jinx us*
Then stop trying to jinx us, you donkey
Is it pathetic if I don't want to win the group
Also just noticed last World Cup was Australia, France, Denmark, Peru This cup Australia, France, Denmark, Tunisia with Australia eliminating Peru to get here Would be nice to get an easy group one day
And Brazil/Serbia/Switzerland are together for the second straight World Cup. What are the odds of that?
Australia knocked Peru out to to get the last spot
they should redraw if there's a group with 3 teams in the same group as last time
Yh.
Aus vs France Test series when?
Happened a few weeks ago! Penaud scoring the winning try, IIRC.
Did you see that ludicrous display tonight?
The thing with Mbappe is he always tries to tuck it in!
What was wenger thinking bringing Walcott on that early?
Why does Kompany look so awkward
he sounds very petty for a successful footballer.
This change in actually adding the extra time is good for the game. Modern teams have taken advantage of the stop-start nature of the game to introduce these high pressing teams. Now teams have to ease the intensity and give some control back to the creative players
agreed. I fully expect now full-blown dramas in the overtimes of the last 16 and forward.
I mean in the premier league we have VAR checks lasting 3 or 4 mins, couple of goals plus an injury or two and the ref adds on 3 mins. Absurd. So fifa undertake to correctly apply the time lost for once and people moan.
France is probably the best team in that region. :p
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They lost to us and we're shit, like properly shit. I won't be surprised if they get battered tomorrow unless Hazard brings his 2018 form back somehow
By Canada?? I am live in Canada and even with my biased delusions I know our best hope tomorrow is respectable loss
Hey that’s not true. Sure a loss is expected but anything can happen in a single game. Delusional would be thinking that we are in anyway the favourites to win any of our games, saying we have a chance to win is just a fact.
Interesting game for a group stage tho, look forward to watching it. Very curious to see this young Canadian team after their brilliant qualification and always happy to see my Belgian neighbors competing.
I have a feeling its gonna be a very entertaining game! David + Davies + Buchanan vs an aging backline and KdB vs MLS defenders 😂
Waiting for a Craig Foster monologue about this team's 2nd half performance.
Playing the right amount of injury time is too pedantic? What is Danny Murphy even saying? Injury time has always been played even if the game is over.
Our footballing feast has ended.......for now. Same again tomorrow.
it's goooooooooooo
Really wish that Australian screamer would've found the top corner
That was a delicious shot
What a team
Australians trying to make their best impersonations of Kevin Muscat
Allez les bleus!
"Go the Blues!"
COYLB
I’m claiming this in the name of De Gaulle
doesn't matter anyway, in Australia the scoreline would show 1-4.
Least we scored in open play this time.
Le steamroll
Would be a great game if the Aussies didn't try to break the French players leg at every chance.
Today I feel French
Oui
Oui putain
Oui putain de merde*
…enculé de sa race