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ChrisKels:
A Spain versus Argentina world cup final would bang!!!

Sorry. It's France Vs England for the final. I don't particularly like any of the two teams. I used to when my eyes was not open to some realities but now I don't fancy them anymore. Notwithstanding my personal feelings, England will win this world cup.

Odunayaw:
Scaloni should know his starting 11 from this game.

Fairytale final for me is either;
FRA - ARG. Mbappe wins it again and becomes a legend in his own right.
SPA - ARG. Kamal becomes ushers the new generation.
Or Messi just wins the damn thing again and Ronaldo fans cause another flood with tears.

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FRA - ENG would have been great for Kane cements his legacy but bruh we don't want noise pollution from the Brits.

France v England for the final. England wins it. Go stake your girlfriend on this.

TheSuperNerd:
We have 2 Semifinal Classics coming up.

France vs Spain
England vs Argentina

The top 4 teams in the FIFA World Rankings be it in Live format or pre tournament listing are in the Semi finals.

4 of my Top 5 favs in the Semi finals. Grand.

England will win this WC. This I have seen.

Joebie:
Morocco played like they were title contenders. But France (my main sub saharan African connection) were too much for them

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they couldn't beat us in. 120 mins. so we are happy. we played not to lose abi haha

Morocco didn't play shingbai. Only one shot on target and that was in the 86' or so.

They were outplayed.

EElopa:
I am a big Super Eagles fan, and I dream of having a Nigerian team as strong as we used to have in the 90s. For that to happen, we need to have our players playing at the highest level. Back in the late 80s to early 90s, football was not as globalized as it is today. The Nigerian league back then was also a very good league. JJ Okocha and some of the stars we had in the early 90s that Clement Westerhoff brought to the spotlight from the local league would have been carried off to Europe at an earlier age if it were in today's market.

Football today is as much a business model as it is about winning trophies. Imagine a club gets a player from some African country for 500 thousand euros and 2 years later sells that player for 10 million euros and a 20 percent sell-on clause; if the same player is sold for 30 million euros 2 years later, this club that has spent 500k on this player would have made 15.5 million euros just in sales profits within 3 years.

This is the reason why you have scouts all over the world scouting and analyzing players because football is now a business for many clubs. This is why it irritates me when I hear people saying that a player languishing in some backwater league is there because he was just unlucky; people just cannot see what he brings to the table, he has a bad agent, or he is so unlucky.

These are all fallacies. Look at the teams that are in the quarterfinals of the World Cup. Look at their rosters, and you will see that they are filled up with players in the top 5 leagues. We often find it difficult to confront the truth in Nigeria; we consistently create justifications for mediocrity, which is why Nigeria constantly fails to perform on the global stage, as we tend to excuse every shortcoming.

Some people believe that players in the NPFL can lead Nigeria to the World Cup, and they argue that some of these players are in the league due to bad luck. Some will tell you that playing in the NPFL is not the true definition of their talent level. Just making excuses for nonsense.

Many of our players of that glorious era were playing for mid clubs.
Siasia
Rashidi
Amokachi
Rufai
Keshi
Emenalo
Eguavoen
Iroha

Watching modern football and the emphasis on positional play, I see why passing dominates the game and why number 10s have vanished.

This change has affected Brazil in a huge way because Brazil relies on free flowing samba with a number 10 in the mould of Ronaldinho dictating play. According to one poster on X, Pep Gaurdiola killed Brazilian football.

Before Pep, the 10 with his dazzling runs and dribbling, defined the game. Now na who 10 wan dribble? As he's approaching with the ball, the opposition team don't come out and try to snag the ball off him. No, instead they retreat and form a low block closing down space and forcing him and his team mates to find a way through by passing the ball.

This accounts for the side to side passing that so much predominates modern football and I hate that shyte.

It's going to be a long night for Brazil. Someone suggested that for Brazil to win again, they have to invent an anti-Pep style of play which will emphasize the uniqueness of Brazilian football. It's an interesting analysis .

https://x.com/i/status/2074482598995190041

Odunayaw:
I had the same feeling at the start of the WC but it shall not come to pass. The world doesn't deserve the noise pollution that comes with it.

I really don't care about England. I don't like mixed teams. But that's the impression I got that England will win

AndSunGorilla:
No be so u see us using back door enter America go play world cup? I almost borrow money for ticket say I go watch SE before my ancestors saved me.

That one was hope. This one na prophecy. You can go stake on it. This I have seen

France has become the kryptonite to Morocco.

elyte89:
Except if France 🇫🇷 doesn’t get to play England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿..d cup is btw those two countries

Whether France or not, England it is. It's either I am right or wrong

Goke7:
Delaw 😂 hope you’re not seeing spirits

Just dey watch.

England will win this WC. This I have seen.

FiveFootNinja:
Mujtahida

Today is a good day. 😁

Also, can we agree that at this point France is Morocco's husband? Back to back World Cup dominations now.

All my ten green bottles have been knocked off the wall.

I am a happy man.

Modern football na wa.

This Mbappe penalty is worse than that of Chukwueze's.

What a wimpy way to play penalty

minsfelix2:
Na only Mexico tried to compete with England...USA/Can were beating to pulp....Mumu hosts nations, I'm sure if three of them had met those unserious African powerhouse teams them for use our continent catch cruise...Thank God for Morocco for letting us know that SA is trash and SA use gra gra and mago mago no let Nigeria qualify

All those African countries no be am

Football no send ooo. All three hosts were slaughtered at the round of 16.

No time.

All these rumours making the rounds is not good for football. Infantino is too political and he's made FIFA look compromised.

Odunayaw:
though it won't be sweet because everybody expects France to win but we go take am like that.

We will be there

zicky:
in as much as I don't like seeing other African countries progress in sports if not Nigeria, but you see Argentina, I detest their football since the days of Maradona and with what Nigeria have been thru in their hands

I don't have any feelings one way or the other about Argentina even though I supported them yesterday.

But I adore Maradonna, absolutely. Love him to pieces. D10S

Odunayaw:
yes o

I want to give you the Moroccan one. You will like that one

mrwilliams9:
Omo, our last WC was 2018, our last WC KO match was 2014…our WC history is becoming a thing of yesteryear

We don't have pedigree no more. It's become so dwarfed it appears like a speck on the distant horizon.

We need fresh legend.

Odunayaw:
Missed the live match but I've gone to watch the whole replay make person no piss for my leg and tell me it's raining.

Egypt would have made me crash out terribly for deceiving us by taking a 2 goal lead. Where is the dark arts they love to use in Africa

No agenda should be tolerated. The overturned Zico goal mirrors Osimhen's own at 2023 AFCON SF against SA. And there was no foul on Salah, it is rather the shirt tug by McAllister that was worthy of review.
It is the misuse of VAR that has made people expect a foul from just anything.

Do you need one green bottle 🍾 ?

FiveFootNinja:
At this point, na you dey enjoy this World Cup pass anybody. Your bad belle for African teams no get mate. I dey learn work where you dey. 😂😂

The pleasure no be here. My bad belly no even make me know which stage dem dey for this world cup. Once I see an African country playing, I start praying to God for them to be knocked out.

I ain't got no joy for any African country. I don't waste my emotions except on my country Nigeria.

🎶Ten green bottles standing on the wall,ten green bottles standing on the wall
If nine green bottles should accidentally fall
They'd be one green bottle standing on the wall 🎶

I'm satisfied. Morocco can do as they please. Their sports minister even said that they don't need the support of Africa

ChrisKels:
No be only Ororo, na Okoro.

Kai didn't know when laughter bubble comot from my mouth like boiling water from pot .😀😀

Wetin Ronaldo do you na

Baba Chriskels

See your ororo

elyte89:
Seriki (osimhen)- 7 plates of rice 😃😃

With heavy bling bling like real poor man seriki 😀😀

TheSuperNerd:
Jude Bellingham 🤝🏿🤝🏿 Diego Maradona


Azteca Stadium WC Icons

Your Opta Joe no wan count Maradonna two goals against England at the Mexico 86 Azteca Stadium because of the 'Hand of God' goal 😀😀

I don tire for halaand. That guy is not human.

He say na 'well, well, well 😀'

Halaand na bastard! Which kind human being be this

It's not about tactics. It's not about being broken by Germany in 2014. Brazil simply does not have enough talented players like they did in the past.

Their players are mediocre.

Modern football has finished Brazil pata pata. I've never supported Brazil (even though I loved Brazilian players) but to see one of the great footballing nation fall so drastically like this makes me sad.

Even Brazil has no proper 10. I hate this modern football that nullified the 10.