Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 03:52:29 AM

Quote from: swogerino on January 17, 2023, 10:36:41 AM

I agree seeing the World Cup performance of France that it was even without Pogba makes one think as clearly it was the best performing team from Europe.Now they are playing in the Euro and in here I think they are the team to beat,if Pogba is added to the team this means only much more quality to the already one that France has.It is a dream attack with Mbappe and Pogba just behind supporting him,I think as it stands,the teams with the actual players France is the main favorite to win this upcoming Euro cup.

I disagree with you 100%.

France was lucky and avoided quality opponents in most of their matches. During the group stage, they were placed in one of the easiest groups along with Australia, Tunisia and Danmark. For the Round of 16, they got a weak opponent in the form of Poland. The only tough match for them before the final was the quarter-final clash, where they had to play against England. Even during the semi-final they got the weakest possible opponent (Morocco). IMO, Croatia and Portugal performed better than France during Qatar 2022. Probably Netherlands as well.

even before the world cup started france, brazil and argentina were the only teams that had any chance of winning the world cup, there is no such thing as luck in having been in the group of weak teams or having played against weak teams, frankly there are excellent players in their team, they would beat any team in the world cup, even if franca had played against other teams that they consider strong, franca would have won, everyone knows that in the draws of these events there are always 2 strong teams and 2 considered weak in each group, of course this is only on paper

as for portugal, it was very clear that they would not have great achievements even in the group stage of the world cup portugal was very close to not being able to qualify for the world cup, it was evident that the biggest advantage of france in relation to big teams like Brazil, Spain, Belgium, England were in the coach, all these teams that I mentioned have good players but there were coaches who made decisions that were incomprehensible to me

Quote from: Daniel91 on Today at 07:43:02 AM

They had a lot of luck against England at the World Cup, and in the final against France, Argentina practically won the game in the regular part and unnecessarily complicated everything.

france 2 - 1 england

france scored 2 goals that weren't thanks to a penalty, england scored only 1 goal thanks to a penalty, in a soccer game you don't win by luck, the best team wins, there's no such thing as luck on the field, there's only competition. the team that is better concentrated, scores goals and defends better will be the winning team. this isn't luck, it's hard work, england didn't even have a chance of winning the world cup in my opinion, they have a lot of problems. As for Benzema's situation, I don't know the details, but it seems to me that Franca's coach doesn't like Benzema and everything got worse because Franca's coach will remain in charge, so Benzema could only retire from France's team

about argentina vs france

as I said before in the game and everything about strategy, DI Maria was causing problems in the defense of franca for this reason that franca started to play in defense because it was very difficult for them to be able to contain messi and di mario at the same time, but as soon as the DI maria left the field immediately, france dominated the game and argentina had no more space to play, argentina's advantage is that they had many good strikers, and on france's side it was only the mbappe that caused danger