Probably one of the only times where all four semi finalists are the objective four best teams in the world.
>>156673877Also the most generic. Where's my delicious underdoggorino story, FIFA? Like Morocco and Croatia previously?
ahem?
>argentina
>>156673877England isn't even top 20 without the refs.
>>156674308If they didnt have Roberto Martinez as a manager you could make an argument
Idk, Argentina had the easiest path to the semifinals and struggled hard every step of the way
>>156674200No dark horse ever wins the World Cup. This isn't some minor tournament like the Euros or the Premier League. Probably the closest, ever in 100 years, to a dark horse winning would be either France 98 or England 66, neither of which were thaaaat long odds
argentina is shit
>>1566743082030 he'll have home ground advantage and finally pull it off
>>156673877There's a HUGE power gap between >us and the other 3 lol. We're the 'best of the rest', rather than being truly elite.
>>156674308With Penandes on the squad no pass will ever go forward so they dont count.
>>156673877Kino world cup semi finals, great teams remaining.
>>156674308this, but not for ronaldo. portugal was stacked they just unfortunate for meeing spain instead of capo verde
>>156674459They all struggled, except for France
>>156673877RefballRefball that needed saving against what should’ve been an easy schedule Not even representative of the country they play forBoring fucks Genuinely fuck this worst semi finals ever
>>156674308oh sorry, ill have a cup of coffee and two donuts please
>>156673877>Objectively the bad guys**ftfy
>>156674421Agreed, we're shit
>>156674668awww
>>156674659As much as Argentina?
>>156674668Fuck you nigger, your boy flopped and got called out
>>156674308The funny thing is if you removed him from the team, Portugal would be in semis instead of Argentina
>>156674668Oh also all 4 already have won in a “World Cup” where only 8 total countries have ever succeeded in doing so in over 90 years of this shit
>>156673877lol no. Argentina’s hardest opponent this tournament has been a Switzerland team missing their top scorer and playing with 10 men for half the game.I’m pretty certain number of teams on the other side of the bracket could have taken Argentina out.
>argensimia>goodI'm going to kill you, little Jew. The Holy Spanish Inquisition awaits you in the final.
>>156674668We are fun against good teams
Too scary.
>>156674811Why do you mention this like it's a bad thing? If anything this gives more credibility to the shitfest. Football is super competitive, unless you come up with something truly groundbreaking that completely changes the meta like Spain in 2010 you don't deserve to luck your way into a title.
>>156673877Refball, refball, darker than midnight, boring. So I guess Spain are the good guys now?
>>156674200Larger tournaments will filter out the weaker teams because they lack consistency. They want 64 at the next world cup and that final is probably going to be top four vs top four as well.
>>156675236>refballYou redditors really wanted Haaland to win bad kek
>>156674466Uruguay winning in 1950 was a bigger surprise than either of those two.
>>156674610Bro he has the record for most assists in a premier league season
>>156673877Cape Verde and Egypt are better than Argentina
>>156674774germany lost to paraguay, so worse
>>156675185>Why do you mention this like it's a bad thing?It's boring as fuck and shows how uncompetitive the sport actually is. The World Cup is just utter shit compared to March Madness.
>>156673877It isn't even just that its these teams, its that all of them are either fucking boring to watch (England, Spain), are absolute eye cancer to watch (Argentina) or are french (France)
>>156673877You cannot possibly tell me that Spain is actually a good team or at least in the same level as the other three, they sneak it their way into this phase and if they make it to the final they will lose who whoever of the other three gets therePortugal is better than this Spain but the whole locker room drama ruined their chances
>>156674410>república del congo 2
>>156674810Portugal was fucking shit, Leao, Bruno, suprisingly Vitinha, Joao Neves, all of them were dissapointing giving their level at their clubsPutting or not putting Cristiano doesnt change that Bruno Fernandez couldnt possibly make a good center to save his life, theyre still better than Spain in my opinion, Spain doesnt have such overrrated divas in their team, the portuguese people seem to have horrible personalities
>>156674308What did he do in his past life that he was reborn to be the Jannetty to a midget?
>>156675454No it wasn't, Uruguay was good back then, they had already won shit.Incidentally, they stopped winning after FIFA added yellow and red cards, funny how that works.
>>156673877See, this is the difference of the WC to the EuroOn the Euro, shitters routinely reach the final and even win sometimes. On the WC, they seldom make even the semifinal, and won't ever win, period.Also, which is your preferred final?For me it's Spain x Argentina, to get the finalissima (Euro champion vs Copa America champion) that we were denied earlier this year because orange cheetos decided to chimp out and start wars out of nowhere.The other options are lame>Spain x EnglandEuro 2024 repeat, the result is predictable>France x Argentina2022 WC repeat, just no>France x EnglandIf you want to see England getting 7-1ed, perhaps
>>156676006>the portuguese people seem to have horrible personalitiesYes we're 10 million rich football superstar divas
Only good guys are left. Finally this tournament is watchable.>Englandwin or lose, entertaining in general due to /sp/>ArgentinaFucking old man Messi breaking records at 40 y/o>FranceNot good guys, but they came in as favorites and have looked convincing so far, can't hate that>SpainBoring af, but they knocked out Portugal so they are good in my bookHonestly, whoever wins I am okay with it
>>156676020Messi - 8 Ballon d OrsEcuador - 0Messi - 1 World CupEcuador - 0Lower your tone or ill have to ask that same question about millions of ecuatorians
>>156675575We are talking about countries that made it to the semis
>>156676273>which is your preferred final?spain/france vs england, and france-england might be closer than you think. I think we crush argentina tho, not interested
>>156676006Portugal had a much better chance by benching Cristiano, not trying to be mean here, whoever entered for him almost always ended up scoring or being more influential than him.
>>156675684I like how you implicitly admit France is exciting to watch. They play a great game and people only hate them for reasons not related to the sport
>>156676076It's one of the four great WC upsets, together with Germany 1954 and 1974, and Italy 1982. The 1950 cup was thought to be surely ours, as the euros were still destroyed by ww2, Argentina boycotted it because "brasilenos hijos de puta", and Uruguay was already a shadow of its former self. Brazil had the home advantage, and was the only big fish in the whole tournament, thrashing teams left and right with scorelines of 6 and 7 goals every match. Then Uruguay wins out of nowhere.
>>156676630I didn't know about that but sounds good because I wouldn't want our win to be an asterisk
>>156676273England vs France is fucking kino final. I would expect England to get absolutely crushed, but hopefully I am wrong and they can give us a game>It's coming home
>>156676524Penaldo didn't even want to leave the pitch when he was subbed. They won the match without him and the next one he still played 90 minutes because he's the manager of Portugal NT and nobody else can make that decision instead of him. Martinez was sacked the next day and CP7 will still play in 2030 top kek
>>156676579>I like how you implicitly admit France is exciting to watch. They play a great game and people only hate them for reasons not related to the sportCorrect, I will not lie and say they aren't the best and most enjoyable team to watch that's still in it, just calling everything like it is
>>156677254Mbrappe is such an insufferable diva, I just hope any of the 3 left crushes him.
>>156677388All of the elite teams have insufferable divas, you get like that when you're the best of the best
Spain vs France is the real finalEngland vs Argentina is just Infantino's final
>>156677640What about the actual final?
>>156677691Unless there's massive rigging involved might aswell give the trophy to the Spain France winner
>>156677640lmao DeBruyne fucked your wife
>>156677388World Cup Mbappe is a fucking beast. He's having an insane WC for a third time in a row, that's crazy and especially because he wasn't spectacular in club football during that time. He could play his third WC final before winning CL once.I don't like him either, but that's the way it is. At least France has some other likeable players like Dembele
>>156674989>The Holy Spanish Inquisitionstop larping, the moors are invading your ass again.
>>156674466What about Greece winning in 2004?
>>156673877Two teams that had actual decently hard paths to the semi finalsOne team that demolished every team on the way with zero goals concededAnd Argentina, who barely clawed their way out of the easiest possible path
>>156674774argentina struggled the most out of an easier path, it's comical almost
>>156675763>be noticeably superior than any opponent we faced >we are not good actually
>>156679548this has to be baiti'd have rather faced mexico and morocco over egypt and cabo verde after watching all four playliterally shameless
>>156677388>>156678073Two things can be true at once: Mbappe is an unlikable drama queen and is also a highly skilled player
>>156673877soullessAnyway, who's the good guy team amongst these?
FIFA planned this, by the way: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvg84knn2p5o>The top four seeded countries will not be able to meet each other until the semi-finals of next year's World Cup for the first time in the tournament's history.>Fifa has announced that Spain (1st seed) and Argentina (2) will be 'paired' and placed into groups in opposite halves of the draw.>France (3) and England (4) will also be paired, which means England will not be able to come up against Spain or Argentina until the semi-finals, and France until the final. This only applies if the four countries win their groups.>When two teams are paired, they are placed in opposite halves of the knockout bracket and cannot meet each other until the final. This happens at Wimbledon, and in the new Champions League format, where seeds are kept apart in pairs.>Fifa wants to ensure the top-ranked countries do not meet earlier in the knockout rounds, thus potentially creating blockbuster games later in the tournament. The same ranking system was used for the Club World Cup in the summer.
>>156674810Retard.
>>156674466Why is it so hard for this to happen?
>>156678824That was the Euros nigger
>>156673877rigged for the pessi/yamal final
>>156673877imo spain looked the weakest during the QF
>>156681979france (grim)
>>156673877>2 shameless riggers in there
>>156673877Meme runs aside, I'm pretty happy with this result. The only thing missing was a portugal - Argentina, which we could have had if portugal didnt shit the bed, so thank you for that, wankers. But we get a Spain - France, France can finaly conquer it's spanish demon, we havve one last Messi run, we have >ITS COMING HOME, and since I think France will win against Spain, we either get a revenge of 2022 or a France - English historical kino. Pretty good all in all, just also wish Netherlands and Germany didnt shit the bed
>>156674308Good joke lol
>>156673877I believe.
>>156673877Is /bet/ banned? I didn't see any /bet/ threads for a while. It was kind of entertaining to watch that trainwreck.
>>156676006it is a good argument, for some reason Leao, Joao Felix and Bruno are absolute retards with egos comparable to the one to Ronaldo (lol).I think Cristiano was somewhat not as terrible as the previous 2 or 3 tournaments.>>156674308They are not a top 4 team and couldn't do shit against Colombia nor Spain. And the problem #1 is Martinez. It was not a team, just a collection of "stars". I think arguably they had the best players in the whole tournament, they best pieces in all lines, yet they played like shit. Cristiano is one big problem, since he can't press nor run the counterattack for 90% of the time. >Brunooverrated Premier shitter, far worse than De Bruyne, not even on David Silva or Hazard's level being fat and retired. Has done absolute nothing for Portugal yet for some reason press blames only Cristiano.
>>156675763Fucking retard.Stick to cocaine dealing please.
>>156678073>>156677388Mbappe is awful. I hate Real Madrid but you can't be serious if you think that playing 3 important games (greatly) this World Cup makes up for being shit for 2 years. Madrid only played good this season without him. That's just something that any other all time great (or even good player today) has. Imagine France winning a knockout in 2006 because Zidane got injured. Nah that's bullshit.I guess he is the reincarnation of Ronaldo el gordo, 0 CL, difference being that Ronaldo was a far better dribbler and not a purely pace merchant. Also tranny lovers. But ronaldo didn't cry about racism.
>>156678824man as they like to say here, god was asleep during that tournament. i think we only won because we mindbroke portugal when we beat them during groups. the finals were probably our easiest playoff game.besides this win and denmark's dream run in 92 euro had no underdog winners.the world cup has many more dark horse wins than underdog ones though.
>>156673877Fabregas is signing
argentina had luck
>>156673877>it's only the bad guys nowgrim...
>>156674466>This isn't some minor tournament like the Euros or the Premier League.The premiere league isn't a tournament retard.Did you mean Champions League? Because the play there is significantly more competitive than this slop.
