Posted on 07/06/2018 1:02:19 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
All the facts and figures for France v Uruguay, Belgium v Brazil, England v Sweden and Croatia v Russia
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WOW Brazil out!
France v Belgium
Finishing! Finishing! Finishing!
Can’t finish, can’t win.
Not even benefit of video.
I smell a Putin.
Surprise surprise! Brazil’s coffee kicked in in 2nd half...but not enough. Been a long, strange journey.
I wonder who French-speaking Belgians are going to root for? They are kind of like the Mexicans in the US, they probably will root for France.
I’d like to see France vs Russia in the final.
Remember Borodino? Replay of the War Of 1812.
Would be a World Cup final for the ages.
I’m rooting for Croatia, though.
Don’t cry for Brazil! This is a shocking result from arguably the best football team in the world.
And this comes on top of their 2014 final loss to Germany.
The Latin Americans are out. Good news for team Russia.
It doesn’t want to Putin the Motherland in disgrace.
I’ll take England vs France.
The English haven’t won a title since 1966.
Brazil was a good team, but not great. I think the French would have destroyed them, anyway.
They had a little help, even then.
We’ve come full circle from a sport invented in England to a sport that became the world’s game.
Good luck to the surviving teams. First place finishers will appear before a huge global audience in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on July 15.
I wonder how many World Cups a combined UK team would have won?
And imagine if they had Gareth Bale on their squad.
I think only England plays for reasons of tradition.
English football fans are nuts and everyone is following them.
They’ll have a watch party in London if they should make it to the final.
Followill announces like a basketball game - it’s awful. How in the world did he get hired? JP is facinated with stats and sounds like a robot as he calls player names with every pass. Ally yells too much. Their collective approach takes away from the game. Rather than get into the flow of the match, they are distracting.
One saving grace is we are spared from Gus Johnson.
Brazil v Belgium match was stacked with EPL players......Man U, City, Chelsea
Yep, JP was horrible way back in the 1986 WC and amazingly has only gotten worse since then!
Where's the diversity? If only Obama was still President and could order his Attorney General to launch an investigation of racism in FIFA.
I have been trying to access the official WC feed, but cannot find it. Fox bought rights in US and it’s hard to find a non-Fox stream. I heard some folks can VPN to a non-US country and pick up the feed.....
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