He recently missed one with Barca too.
Wow, 1-0 Australia! The next upset?
ETA: and to make it even worse for France: Hernandez out with an injury that didn’t look good.
This will be a long game for the Australian defence if they back off and try to defend the lead.
France’ll end up winning this.
I have to admit I don’t know squat about the Australian team and players. Do they have fast strikers who are good on the counterattack?
It’s starting off well…
edit: Alas!
Is anyone watching this on the Fox Sports website? On the feed under the game there’s a little football pitch and one of the players on one of the teams always has a little football by his name.
Any idea what that football represents? I thought maybe it meant possession, but it always seems to be a single player on one of the teams.
Could it be which player has the ball at that moment?
It’s just that it never changes. Right now, it’s always on Goodwin for Australia.
Bad sign that Giroud scored. Him not scoring is what allowed France to win last time!
Ah, I think it’s whoever scored the last goal. Actually, it’s whoever scored a goal.
Mbappe is incredible. Maybe the best player in the world right now.
Call me crazy, but I think the best chance for the US to advance would be to just go ahead and beat England. By however many goals is fine with me.
Yeah, Mbappe is guy I’d pick if I had to start a team from scratch. No holes in his game, still damn young. If I wanted to build a team to win a league this year maaaybe I take de Bruyne?
And there he goes again.
Olivier Giroud now France’s equal highest scorer with Thierry Henry, on 51 goals.
No holes in his offensive game, certainly. You could build a really fast team around him.
They may be down their best midfield and witch doctors’ curses may be still hovering about but France is still loaded up front with unequaled blow-by speed on the flanks. And that might be enough.
England was similar. “Oh good, they’re brining on the second string… wait Jack Grealish / Kingsley Coman? shit”.
Dembele, when he’s on, might be just as good as Mbappe. It’s just that Mbappe is on 9/10 games and Dembele is on 1/10. Can that 1 be at the right moment is a big question.
If England brought on Kingsley Coman, there’s some really funny stuff happening at the World Cup.
Holy shit. (SA v. Argentina)