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All true but, as I've pointed out before, the timing of the event - the unheard off November - may explain part of the upsets. And the French team was "diverse" how, exactly? They could had stolen the name of the New Zealand rugby team - All Blacks! :P

Wow! What a feast for the neutral fan! How do you say "eat my hat" in French? Mbappe is one for the history books now :)

You blood thirsty white supremacists you :p - were there any post-game riots in France after the Morocco match? Seems you got that one right :) With some 15 minutes to go, Argentina looks poised to win - 2:0 is very rarely overturned in such a short time.

Yeah, let's nuke them from orbit! :) Still, chapeux (turban?) bas to Morocco - it's their greatest footballing success ever! I'm still digesting the incredible success rate that Croatia has - three Top Four places inside 24 years - 1998 to 2022, six tournaments, two different generations of...

Yay! Na zdar Hrvatsko!!!!!11

The racists are whinging about Argentina's team composition? This makes me start hating Argentina less.

Settled: Croatia-Morocco on Saturday for 3rd place France-Argentina on Sunday for MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!1

If against France, the "little final" will be easier (like that against Netherlands in the ... 90s?), as they were gunning for the Big One and will be demotivated. Morocco, same as Croatia, will "chew on grass" (Polish idiom :)) to win, as 3rd place is a Big Thing for them.

A pity. Still, Croatia is AFAIK the most consistently overperforming "small country". Uruguay's titles came in a different era (1930-50), whereas Croatia's in the last 30 years.

Yup, some disgusting woke ritual.

Croatia supporter here Although I'd rate the chances of France/Cheating Handballers/Croatia as 60:30:10 IMO Morocco winning the World Cup is ... rather unlikely.

For the past 40 years - if not 50 - France has had the better national XI :p And probably is on its way towards back-to-back World Championships. A repeat of the 2018 cannot be ruled out.

Is this the first time an African team made it into the semis? I expect a France- Argentina final.

Criticism of Qatar in general and its (ab)use of migrant labour in particular has been around since the day it bought was selected as host. What I mean to say is that he was not some sort of whistleblower in need of "silencing", nor - considering that journos are not known for healthy lifestyles...

Turboslavs of the World Rejoice! Croatia beats Brazil in penalty shootout 4:2

Yup. According to this story https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/mundial-2022/w-katarze-rozpoczynaja-sie-pierwsze-prace-demontazowe-jedna-z-aren-mundialu-zniknie/kzhr6wn the 974 stadium (named thus as it made from such a number of "blocks") is already being dismantled. It was designed to be built...

Maybe. Footballers - even if mostly not among the brightest that humanity has to offer - are still human. And they may be unhappy about having their professional and domestic lives upset by the queer timing, they are not immune to the various controversies surrounding the venue, etc., hence...

Largest/2nd largest surprise of the event - Morocco wins with Spain. After goalless 120 minutes, including Extra Time, in a penalty shootout tie-breaker. As it is a small world, it is likely that their next opponent will be ... Portugal, another neighbour across the Gulf of Cadiz. EDIT: Yup -...

LOL! Netherlands are one of the sport's greats, always a dark horse World Cup winner candidate, just behind the heavyweights - Argentina, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Germany. USA barely registers here, it's a 3rd string team - the 1/8th is a quite good result for them. The quarter finals would...

Szczesny is top-notch too, as evidenced by a career in top PL and Serie A sides.