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Im pleased for messi , his last hurray.
Whereas french team are young n growing and have a probably bigger chance next time.
Was excellent last ten mins and extra time..topsy turvy and exciting...but reality is the first 80mins were one-way traffic and even argentina took foot off the gas to keep 2 0 lead. 2nd half was dreary until substitutions n france n mbappe woke up.
Then it was impressive, tense and lots of chances.
Overall i dont agree with nick that it was a great world cup, despite the commentators talking it up. A lot of slow-paced cautious games and consistently breathtaking star players were few n far between. Messi, mbappe, dembele, neymar, ricarlison, griezeman (until the final).
All looks fantastic wen you see a month's highlights... but several big teams were a massive flop and disappointment too...Belgium, Spain, Germany n Holland. Even the countries that punched above their weight were mostly defensive n fairly dull to watch.
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So you lose the final n then to rub in the horror you have to smile n go up n get the golden boot. Lol
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Dec 18, 2022 - 10:29 AM
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Rameau
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I couldn't care less who won, so I didn't watch it until extra time, & that was great. A lot of boring games in the first week, the second week was better with some surprising results, & the rest of it was good, from what I saw, which was very little. I'm sure a lot of people are like me, in that once your country is knocked out, the interest wanes.
Anyway, welcome back the Premier League on Boxing Day.
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Deserved winner in the end, even if I rooted for France.
Messi is one of the GOATs, no doubt, and I'm glad he finally got his WC trophy, but for me, he doesn't hold a candle to Zidane. He's the greatest footballer the world has ever seen.
Zidane who headbutted a player in wc final n got sent off? Lol.
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Gotta go some to beat the 66 final for a start.
That had tension and good attacking football for 120 minutes, not just the last ten mins! And the underdogs won against a fantastic german side.
But over the years there has been some terrible finals. How about that one where fat Ronaldo played and was anonymous like the rest of his brazil team?! Lol.
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Dec 19, 2022 - 8:55 AM
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Coco314
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Come on people,it was an amazing scenario for a World Cup Final, what do you think was a better Final in the last three decades? I can't think of any, and there were certainly a lot of stinkers (1994, 2002...)
Sure, a pretty terrible start with one team being one of the poorest finalists ever, and a fantastic last 45 minutes with both teams at the top, like a boxing match. It was pretty amazing, I thought.
Congrats to Argentina, and France as well who managed to almost win while having half of his top players absent of the tournament (including the crurent golden Ball winner), with a great fighting spirit of the young ones (at the end of the game, only two players on the field were 2018 world champions, an incredibly low number)
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Lol. Not much love loss there tg.
Did you ever read simon kuper's famous book, theres a whole chapter there chronicling historical tension and dutch/german matches. Remember the Rudy voeller/rijkard spitting incident?
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