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!
Strong Belgium team
Strong England team. And Phil Jones.
Ah the old Young Init starting to get back to his old self.
In about 3 months I might get back to normal too! Still absolutely devastated … proud, but devastated!
Kane or Lukaku? I want to get Griezman in
Lukaku over Kane for me
I am going with Mbappe. Something is telling me that it will be his day.
I want both
The thing is that the final will see less goals than the one today. Anyway, that is my final team. I didn’t have to use the wild card even.
Nadal vs Djokovic battle is on center court and looks like it will go forever 😆
Well…god knows what will happen in FPL, but ARS started pre-season campaign against Boreham Woods and Auba has scored a brace within first 8 mins.
..and 15 mins…3-0 Hatty Auba.
Calm down mate, it is only Boreham Wood
I know….but as long as 1 man scoring, its easy to pick the player…if its distributed, there is no clue….and ofcourse we will start against MCI and that is highly likely to go other way unless City players are tired.
One thing I noticed so far….Def has remained as consistently shaky as last season.
Kane looks in terrible form….its dipping as the WC has progressed….guess better not to start with him as always…already 36.6% ownership at 12.5m price.
Is Sokratis playing?
Sokratis played 45 mins…looked a but rusty.
Yeah, and Ars team should be well rested seeing how they only had a few players at the WC and they all got to go home weeks ago :winktongue:
thx GM
Bloody hell forgot to save my changes what a great start probably lose my ml now
Can anybody tell me how the hell is Dier football player?!!!!
Why do you say that Matt? Played that beautiful give and go and would have scored on that chip if Toby didn’t make a great save.
That was the only bit of good play I’ve seen him play this whole tournament. He had an open header a few minutes later and put it straight into the floor. He’s also losing the ball a lot and just seems to want too much time to play a simple pass. He just really hasn’t impressed me at all this tournament
Because he has the required skills?
Barely haha
Think too many people are seeing him through rose-tinted TV screens after that penalty shootout
Thank you AT!! Because I’m watching through Irish TV I’ve seeing the analysis and commentary that’s showing how poor he really is. The Irish lads keep saying why is he even there.