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*Official* Semi Finals Thread
- Thread starter Furball
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Anil
Hall of Fame Member
well to be fair, we could see a lot of goals off penalty kicks...
Red_Ink_Squid
Cricketer Of The Year
Or lots of saved penalty kicks.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Well done France. You can’t knock them. Third final out of the last seven. Players missing and not playing that well.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Just said this to my mates actually, it’s often a great game. Though I don’t remember anything about ours four years ago
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
They just lack any tension. This one will clash with a full EFL fixture list.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Have you not been outside this week? Be a raft of games off surely
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Okay it clashes with a potentially decimated full list of EFL fixtures.
You mean 4/7? 1998,2006,2018,2022
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Yes. Even more reason to say you can’t knock them.
Two finals in a row and have won every knockout game inside 90 minutes which is pretty incredible really.
Sort of reminds me of Real Madrid in them often not looking that good and lots of people not rating them or the manager. Their results are actually way less dramatic than Madrid though, they have not even come close to losing a game.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Barely broke sweat is not an accurate description of their last two games and that’s not just the England fan in me talking
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I don’t remember being sceptical of whether they were actually good in 2018. I didn’t think Deschamps added much but they deservedly won all of their knockout games against decent teams.
This time they’ve been lucky to win a QF where they were second best with a deflected winner and penalty miss, and played two fairly weak teams in their other knockouts. Nothing wrong with getting lucky but let’s not pretend it’s been anything else.
This time they’ve been lucky to win a QF where they were second best with a deflected winner and penalty miss, and played two fairly weak teams in their other knockouts. Nothing wrong with getting lucky but let’s not pretend it’s been anything else.
yeah my bad but they were never really in a losing position except tunisia i guess. And i don’t think they’ve played exceptionally either
Not their fault most of the big teams like belgium, spain, portugal etc bombed out against supposedly lesser teams. Maybe those teams couldn’t capitalise on their luck