World Cup Final and 3rd/4th Place Play-off Live Match Chat
Putin must be delighted at the thought of Europe’s finest taking over Moscow on Sunday. But it is what it is and the stadium will be covered in red and blue as France take on Croatia in the World Cup Final. These two have only met once before in the World Cup, in 1998, when the French triumphed 2-1 in the semi-final on the way to winning the trophy for the first and, to date, only time.
Croatia have never beaten France in their only previous five meetings, losing three and drawing the last two.
The 3rd/4th place play off sees England meet Belgium – a match dominated by Premier League involvement, unless of course Belgium make mass changes, which they may well do. The two have met three times previously in World Cup competition – in 1954 when the teams drew 4-4 in what must have been a tremendous game, in 1990 when David Platt’s last gasp goal saw England progress to the quarter-finals and of course in the group stages earlier in the tournament when both sides played their reserves in a 1-0 Belgium victory.
We will see the line-ups pre-deadline for the 3rd/4th place off match so maybe it’s best to wait to see which players are selected before making any transfers. It’s also worth noting that in the previous four World Cup tournaments there has been 17 goals in the 3rd/4th place play off compared to just 8 goals in the last four finals.
We are again allowed five free transfers and can now select a maximum of eight players from any one team.
THE GAMES IN FULL
Saturday 14th July
Belgium vs England (3pm)
Sunday 15th July
France vs Croatia (4pm)
So that you have them to hand in one place here’s a reminder of the substitution rules, transfer allotment, wildcard and boosters. AKA the rules…
SUBSTITUTIONS
TRANSFERS
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck!
Karius is French?
Well I can’t imagine there’s two of them!!!
Sacre bleu!
Maybe lloris was concussed?
We might have a repeat of the 1958 final when Brazil won against Sweden 5-2 😆
You’re memory is amazing mate! Hope that will be the case, with Mbappe scoring the 5th 😉
Thanks, I wasn’t even born then, my father told me.
One more from Mbappe would be fantastic.
Assuming the French hold on, is Giroud the worst player in living memory to win the World Cup?
He’s certainly up there
That’s very likely
Could be Pogba too though 😀
No. Stephane Guivarc’h.
Great shout GP
I’ve seen him “play” in person. *shivers*
He’s hardly a bad player! Not exactly your typical goal scorer No.9 but he’s there for a reason and he does his job very well.
Lloris can at least tell Kane, Alli and crew what its like to win something.
Hahaha 🙂
The last time a team scored 4 goals in a WC final was 48 years ago :woot:
Well, France only scored 3 so far…
Was that in Sweden or was it Sweden who did it? Remember reading something about it.
Brazil beat Italy 4-1 in 1970 in Mexico
Ah okay. I’ll have to look it up because Sweden was mentioned for sure.
Guessing you are thinking of the WC final 58 Brazil beat Sweden with 5-2 Matt
Without the two early wrong decisions we would have had an extra time fun but the French were better in the second half.
Well done France :clap:
Would have totally changed the dynamic of the game lol. Also, you’re speaking like a true Croatian to use the ref as a scapegoat for the awful defending for the first goal! As for the second, I disagree with you haha
Well, I am watching Gary Lineker, Rio Ferdinand, Jurgen Klinsmann and Alan Shearer in the BBC studio. They all said it few times that both decisions were very wrong. At the beginning I thought that it was me but hearing it from them…….
The free-kick was wrongly awarded, but the goal itself was caused by their own poor defending. I just can’t see how it wasn’t a deliberate handball, but I said on twitter that I know I’m in the minority.
The bottom line AT is not VAR, even the Martians can’t help stopping bad referring any soon. As I said earlier, the French were the better team in the second half and they got it.