In a world where it seems everyone is going mad as I showed yesterday we need a good world cup and we got one. It is a shame it is over
France won as I though they would BUT they never got out of 2nd gear. This was a deliberate strategy by the coach. Playing joga bonito is what they should have done. They had the players and showed on rare occasions they were more than capable of it. BUT the coach thought it involved risk.
Yes it dies but the Brazilian way is we score more goals than you. France could have easily won the cup that way and the team been compared to the greats but no. we say Pogba play in a defensive way. Of the Euro defeat was not understood well.
The final was not a good match despite the goals. The French gave away far too much possession when never under pressure. Pogba was a stand out here.
However there were good goals, poor goalkeeping ( indeed this was a world cup where world class keepers gave away soft goals) an own goal and then a VAR penalty. Yep I thought it was a penalty and his hand was certainly 'guiding' the ball.
It also showed that third world football nations like Australia are not very far away from the first world ones.
We now must look forward to the Travesty of Qatar in November/December four years hence.
I predict well in advance it will be the worst ever.
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