World Cup 2018 thread

I love Mo but he isn’t the fastest player on Liverpool let alone the whole league. Mane is faster than him. I would take Sterling in a 40 yard dash or at 100 meters. Sterling is a vicious line breaking machine. If he was 6 foot he would be unstoppable because his technique is outstanding.
Sterling has been struggling lately.
 
With the ball I would take Mo Salah over Sterling or Mane

The fastest to the ball? #1, Cr7, #2 Mbappe, everybody else....

EA Sports take
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4470949/fifa-18-fastest-players-revealed/

Liverpool duo Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are both penned in with a 93-rating for pace.

The Belgium coaching and tactics could make the difference if the back line can hold?

Odds are in England's favor but maybe Croatia has some more PK's in them?

Mbappe is changing the game. Next year he will be rated a 99.
 
Sterling has been struggling lately.

Struggling to finish not to create opportunities. I would still have him in the lineup. Harry Kane, Dele Ali and Jesse Lingaard get so many opportunities thanks to him and almost any decent ball he has a chance to get to. That is pretty valuable..
 
Mbappe plays for PSG in Ligue One and is probably the fastest player. Raheem Sterling and Moussa Sissoko are the two fastest EPL players. I’d take Mbappe over either of them.

Mbappe is talented, but his flopping during the QF was an embarrassment to soccer. Neymar and Mbappe should have been sent home.
 
Mbappe is talented, but his flopping during the QF was an embarrassment to soccer. Neymar and Mbappe should have been sent home.

Unfortunately he seems to be picking up a habit or two from his new teammate. Let’s hope Tim Weah doesn’t do the same. God forbid they take after Cavani in the sportsmanship arena as well.
 
He has been excellent however I would take Pickford. He has been bailing the 3 Lions out all tournament.
Can't argue there. Pickford is playing with the kind of confidence that England hasn't had in the cage for some time. I could say Courtois is the better keeper over the long haul but Pickford is playing at a superhuman level in the moment. I hope he keeps it up, because I am rooting for the 3 Lions.
 
Struggling to finish not to create opportunities. I would still have him in the lineup. Harry Kane, Dele Ali and Jesse Lingaard get so many opportunities thanks to him and almost any decent ball he has a chance to get to. That is pretty valuable..
Pogba is the he one that seems to be hitting his stride right now.
 
France is going to win it. Belgium’s defense is too porous. Either way it’s going to be exciting. I’m going to watch the game on delay so no posting updates!!
I am just glad to see 4 teams that play quality soccer. And between them have the lowest average flops per game. ;)
 
Unfortunately he seems to be picking up a habit or two from his new teammate. Let’s hope Tim Weah doesn’t do the same. God forbid they take after Cavani in the sportsmanship arena as well.

Or Cavani’s teammate - the biter. Cavani freaks me out; reminds me of the night stalker.
 
He does so many things so well and has every tool in the kit including being 6’3. He is a nightmare of a matchup.

That and his strength is the difference maker. Many times he looks like the adult holding the piñata with a bunch of kids around him.
 
On France’s World Cup roster, soccer DNA outranks national origins
http://www.hastingstribune.com/spor...cle_bed8d5d2-4f96-5185-a0d0-d92462590402.html

"Sixteen of the 23 players on the team come from families that recently immigrated to France from places like Zaire, Martinique, Cameroon, Morocco, Angola, Congo or Algeria. Forward Antoine Griezmann, the team’s leading scorer, is half-German and half-Portuguese. Defender Samuel Umtiti, who scored the goal that sent France to the final, was born in Cameroon. Teenage prodigy Kylian Mbappe is part Cameroonian, part Algerian"

Croatia, with a population of just 4.1 million, became the smallest country to reach a World Cup final since Uruguay in 1950. To give that some context, Croatia has pretty much the same population as Mauritania and Kuwait. Or locally about the same about of people as the City of Los Angeles
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44833318

Will France or Croatia lift the trophy? Vote at:
http://www.socalsoccer.com/threads/france-vs-croatia-world-cup-final.15658/
 
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