France vs. Germany (QF1) 17:00, 4 July

Get off Giroud. You're doing more harm than good.

Gringo180

Benzema is so over rated. France seem uninterested here.

Invertpyramid

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Yeah despite not winning one in 18 years.

Made the Quarters in every World cup in history though, haven't they?

the incredible pudding

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Yeah despite not winning one in 18 years.

18s not a multiple of 4, what are you on? They've also nearly always get to the Semi finals. They're amazingly consistent at this level.

Guy:Incognito

the incredible pudding wrote: »

18s not a multiple of 4, what are you on? They've also nearly always get to the Semi finals. They're amazingly consistent at this level.

The WC is not the only tournament. The one they won in 96 wasnt a WC

Dolph Starbeam

This is the France everyone expected to turn up in Brazil. Awful.

Boom__Boom

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."

Fair amount of chasing in this game anyway

AllGunsBlazing

They desperately lack a leader out there.

Say Your Number

What an awful attempt at a pass.

Guy:Incognito

Boom. Semi finals.

Zico

YES!!!

TheMilkyPirate

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Yeah despite not winning one in 18 years.

Did anyone mention winning it?

Regularly make the latter stages

Lucifer MorningStar

Hon the Germs

J. Marston

Well, that was a load of crap.

Nuri Sahin

The had some moments, but overall, you wouldn't have thought France were playing for a spot in the semi finals till the last 10 minutes or so. Germany weren't great themselves. Hummels easily MOTM.

Utopia Parkway

That was a bit of a disappointment. France never got going.

Iused2likebusts

That was boring France had their first test and were pretty poor

JONJO THE MISER

Ole Ole Ole easy money.

Turtyturd

Cue more surrender jokes.

Pro. F

Bit of a limp effort from France. Dechamps should have kept Cabaye on.

Washington Irving

Disappointing.

No fight in the French side at all. Germany not massively impressive either but did enough.

deadybai

Feck it! never bet against Ze Germans. There're too cute.

AllGunsBlazing

Played it like it was a friendly and got what they deserved. Which was nothing.

efb

That was awful

Unlucky Benzema at the end. With that my top scorer bet is gone!

Da Shins Kelly

Awful stuff. One of the worst matches of the tournament. Germany not very good, but France looked like they'd had enough of the World Cup.

Angron

Not really a classic match, disappointed in the French.

Stevecw

Poor enough game, expected better. Good old Germans keep on going, without playing that well apart from Portugal game.

Pro. F

Pro. F wrote: »

Bit of a limp effort from France. Dechamps should have kept Cabaye on.

Very shocked at how easily Germany won tbh.

Was fcuk all fight in them

Nib

Ronnie Whelan should be on 3e on Thursday nights. Shocking pundit.

Oink

Ffs. Glad i didnt take time off work for that.

Banjaxed82

efb wrote: »

That was awful

In fairness, you took the day off work. Your expectations were going to be hard to meet.

Was pretty dour alright.

Corholio

Last 10 minutes were quite bizarre and limp. You'd never think France were 1-0 down in a World Cup quarter final, such was there lack of urgency.

Poor match overall, without any team playing well.

Adamocovic

Ah piss off Ferdinand saying France missed Ribery in this tournament and if he was here today they would have won, Ribery is a great player without question but without him France were able to play a different style and did well. With Ribery France always look to pass the ball to him but without him Valbuena and Griezmann were given more of the ball and able to play a different style that worked very well.

They came up against a good defence today and didn't take their chances, Neuer and Hummels kept them at bay. I wouldn't say the reason they didn't win was because they were missing Ribery at all.

Hank Scorpio

France lacking passion/commitment, shock horror

Neil Lennon isn't a bad pundit.

Son Of A Vidic

Delighted to see the French knocked out, they should have been out in the last round.

DubDani

Wasn't a great game, but has IMO also not been as bad as people are making it out.

Efficient game from the Germans, who just seemed to want it more. Shocked how little France produced in the last 30 minutes. Would have expected more, but in fact all the real chances were from the Germans towards the end.

Well deserved IMO, and they will give Columbia a great game in the Semis.

efb

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

In fairness, you took the day off work. Your expectations were going to be hard to meet.

Was pretty dour alright.

I got up at 1pm (usually 6am) and I had dominos so not all bad! Brazil Colombia at 9!

Lucifer MorningStar

When it comes to the World Cup or any other big tournaments it's not about entertaining the fans, it's about results and Germany did what they had to do so hats off to them

Gringo180

The difference toward this French team to the American team the other night is extraordinary, if your gonna go out do it with a bit of fight and passion and dont come off the pitch with any regrets. Spineless French team.

efb

Kross MOTM

efb

Hummels got it

Angron

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

When it comes to the World Cup or any other big tournaments it's not about entertaining the fans, it's about results and Germany did what they had to do so hats off to them

Doesn't mean that we can't be disappointed in a poor match.

DDC1990

Anyone think the goal was a foul by Hummels on Verane?

At the very least if it wasn't a free kick, then the German freekick that led to it wasn't one, they were very similar.

Still France had the chances to score and were let down time and again. Benzema was very poor.

Pogba was brilliant in the first half but disappeared in the second. None of the French players played for the full 90mins really.

Germany were efficiant, nothing special, but will be very difficult to beat.

intellectual dosser

Probably been said a thousand times on the thread, but Mark Lawrenson is a miserable cnut. Sounded like he'd rather be anywhere else.

Da Shins Kelly

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

When it comes to the World Cup or any other big tournaments it's not about entertaining the fans, it's about results and Germany did what they had to do so hats off to them

Meh. I think it's about a bit of both. Sure results are important, but millions of people are watching the tournament for its entertainment value. Honestly the attitude of many of the Latin American teams has made the tournament what it is. They tend to be very free flowing and attacking and they make it exciting to watch.

Adamocovic

intellectual dosser wrote: »

Probably been said a thousand times on the thread, but Mark Lawrenson is a miserable cnut. Sounded like he'd rather be anywhere else.

He always does, he could pick out a negative on anything! If you told him you passed a test he'd argue the questions were too easy!

Son Of A Vidic

efb wrote: »

Hummels got it

I think he deserved it and apart from his goal, some of his defensive positioning was excellent.

the incredible pudding

DDC1990 wrote: »

Anyone think the goal was a foul by Hummels on Verane?

At the very least if it wasn't a free kick, then the German freekick that led to it wasn't one, they were very similar.

Still France had the chances to score and were let down time and again. Benzema was very poor.

Pogba was brilliant in the first half but disappeared in the second. None of the French players played for the full 90mins really.

Germany were efficiant, nothing special, but will be very difficult to beat.

I don't think it was a foul by Hummels, he had Varane at arm's distance but wasn't holding him or anything, he was just stronger and gauged the flight of the ball better. Varane, as a defender, needed to get himself closer in the first place. The free for the goal was soft though.

Germany weren't that great except defensively, where they'd some very good performances. Boateng and Howedes were both good, Lahm very good and Hummels was immense.

France should have taken one of their half chances though, a bit more luck and they probably would have scored. It's right to criticise their lack of passion and urgency, they've no real leaders in the team. The substitutions were baffling though, they should have went for a diamond if they wanted to go with two up front, sure Evra and Debuchy don't like to defend anyway and they needed to keep control of the center.