World Cup Semi Finals Live Match Chat
Welcome to World Cup Semi Finals Live Match Chat. We are down to crunch time for the four remaining teams. They say the semi-finals is the cruellest round to exit a tournament, so all four sides will be determined to reach a World Cup Final and take a step closer to the ultimate prize.
The World Cup has turned into a European Championship in effect with just France, Belgium, England and Croatia remaining.
Tuesday’s semi between France and Belgium is likely to be the more entertaining spectacle of the two matches with the likes of Griezmann, Mbappe & Pogba lining up vs Lukaku, Hazard & KDB.
This is the fifth time France have reached the semi-final stage, while Belgium have only reached this stage once before, in 1986.
Wednesday sees England appear in a World Cup semi-final for the first time since 1990. Gareth Southgate’s youthful squad is the youngest at the World Cup and while they have taken advantage of a kind draw to get to this stage, there is growing belief that 52 years of hurt may be coming to an end! This is only the third time England have reached the last four.
England’s opponents will be spot-kick champs Croatia who have come through two successive penalty shoot-outs to reach the last four. The Croats have reached the semis just once before, in 1998 and remain heavily reliant on their midfield duo of Modric and Rakitic.
From a fantasy point of view we have 5 free transfers for this round and we can now own a maximum of six players from any one team.
THE GAMES IN FULL
Tuesday 10 July
France vs Belgium (7pm)
Wednesday 11th July
England vs Croatia (7pm)
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!
I’ve got Croatia in a sweep…
Unlucky :big-lol:
What’s worse, the mrs has England!
Go on Mrs Kop!!
Trippier 1-0…what a freekick
I hope Innit has Trippier, otherwise I’m breathing down his neck :dance:
And I’m. Reaching down yours!!!
Whey!!! You got to love predictive text sometimes!!
I say
Haha 🙂
England are all over the place here!! I can see another Croatia goal coming here but I hope I’m wrong.
Can’t see either of these teams beating France!
Not on these performances!!
France will be loving watching this shite.
I maintain Kane is a v good PL striker. He’s not world class.
Only Mito agrees with me
We know.
He’s definitely not world class!! I never considered he was! He’s been very poor in this game.
Who ever said he was world class?
Would love to see him go to a big club, say Real, then everyone would know 😉
Would know what?
How the Cookie crumbles 🙂
Heh, nah, I meant everyone would know then that Kane is not world class, if he goes to Real, say, he’s likely to get caught out!
Ah. I see.
I don’t actually see him leaving England. Like most English players he comes across as a Home bird.
Yeah I agree, he’s going nowhere, not many players go abroad successfully from the prem… Bale, McManaman maybe, that’s it, even Becks wasn’t that good at Real…
Well I meant not many British players that is…
We knew what you meant
ZL, I hope you remember what I said few weeks ago. There will be surprises in this World Cup. Sadly there are, and not the good kind.
This is hardly a surprise
Let’s hope they are mentally strong and win the bronze.
Whatever we say, the best team England have seen for many years.
I’m not sure what podcast I was listening to prior to the WC, but they suggested that Kane was at the level Shearer & Owen reached for England.
Hahaha
And yet he’s going to win the Golden Boot!!