OT: World Cup 2018

[Jaker]

beginning to really dislike this french side

 

[Kemba'sYogurt]

If the score holds, it must be a good boost of confidence for the US squad knowing they drew a world cup finalist days before the tournament started

 

[Kemba'sYogurt]

Wow

 

[Jaker]

beautiful thing right there

 

[bobbygt]

YES

 

[Kemba'sYogurt]

haha, him showing his leg muscles afterwards

 

[Jay-Bone]

Wow, that was pretty!!!

He was camped out waiting for the bounce back, totally unchecked.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Wow!!

 

[Jaker]

Perisic has been great all tourney

 

[UConnSwag11]

What a strike! LET’S GOO!!

 

[intlzncster]

Croatia came to mother^%&@&& play!

 

[Jay-Bone]

Please no!

2 undeserved goals would be devastating to such a lopsided game.

 

[Jaker]

dammit, croatia killing themselves

 

[UConnSwag11]

Fkc. France not deserving any of these goals

 

[UConnSwag11]

Croatia dominating

 

[intlzncster]

&-&%

 

[bobbygt]

So frustrating

 

[UConnSwag11]

If France wins this final it might be the most undeserved final

 

[Jaker]

will france actually earn a goal on their own??

 

[UConnSwag11]

They have one shot and it wasn’t any of the two goals

 

[intlzncster]

Really unlucky penalty off the deflection.

 

[intlzncster]

They have one shot and it wasn’t any of the two goals

That's insane. 2 goals on meh plays (although griesman had a great ball off a terrible call}. On top of the mere fact that that offensehas generated only one shot.

 

[UConnSwag11]

That's insane. 2 goals on meh plays (although griesman had a great ball off a terrible call}. On top of the mere fact that that offensehas generated only one shot.

They don’t build anything up. They look to counter quickly with Mbappe and pogba

 

[BugsyCT]

I don't complain much about garbage calls, but that penalty was a garbage call.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I don't complain much about garbage calls, but that penalty was a garbage call.

Agreed. Very close though.

 

[Jay-Bone]

That's insane. 2 goals on meh plays (although griesman had a great ball off a terrible call}. On top of the mere fact that that offensehas generated only one shot.

Yeah, this is actually bad for soccer with the casual fan. Croatia is dominating, yet playing uphill with both unlucky goals.

Will the soccer Gods let the true victor emerge with the cup?

 

[UConnSwag11]

I don't complain much about garbage calls, but that penalty was a garbage call.

What was worse was the foul call on Griezeman which led to the own goal

 

[UConnSwag11]

Yeah, this is actually bad for soccer with the casual fan. Croatia is dominating, yet playing uphill with both unlucky goals.

Yeah. For causal fans they won’t appreciate how beautiful Croatia plays and how ugly (in a way) France plays. They’ll just look at the score

 

[Jaker]

Croatia wins this 3-2

 

[MadDogRevival]

Anybody cheering for France in here? Lol.

So, France has had zero shots on goal. There was a flat dive that led to the call on the first one. The second one appeared to be an unintentional hand ball.

Soccer guys, help me out here? Is the rule that any unintentional handball in the box is a penalty? If so, that's a terrible, awful rule on par with the NFL catch rules and tuck rule. Just horrible. The punishment does not fit the crime there. At all.

When you're talking about a game where, in a half, the only shot on goal was Perisic's beautiful rocket, it sucks that a handball not done to stop a goal leads to an easy goal. I know there's more resistance to change in soccer than in ever baseball, but that distorts the outcome of a game, as it did here. Guys shouldn't have to play with their hands behind their backs, as I've seen - that's ridiculous.

In any event, Croatia appeared to my ignorant eye to have played the better half. They had more opportunities.

Fun game. It's a shame the U.S. isn't more committed to it.