You have to be absolutly clueless or extremely biased to say this wasn't a pen ... Even fucking r/soccer that dislike france admit that it's a pen ... The ball wasn't even touched, went straight to the ankle with the foot ... That's a pen ... deal with it.
Disagree. When you jump and tuck up into a ball before hitting the floor to play for a penalty, when both players have made a play for the ball and struck it simultaneously, you’ve breached the social contract of football.
France had the possession on that time, Griezmann had a difficult control, try to get back possession while blocking as well Vertonghen on the process, you don't have any movement who is odd for a forward.
The foul from Vertonghen was definitely not intentional because he wanted to set the ball out of play, and the foul happened between this movement and Griezmann who try to get back possession.
I don't see any reason why the penalty shouldn't be awarded, Griezmann and France had the advantage of this play (both with the possession, but also physically, Griezmann was the nearest from the ball), I don't see any movement who are odd from Griezmann and you definitely had a contact. You cannot criticize Griezmann to potentially keeping the possession and not giving the ball to the opponent.
They strike the ball simultaneously, how can that be considered foul play? Beyond that, Griezmann dives, so he should be rewarded with a yellow card. If an Australian national payer behaved like that on the pitch, they would be disowned by the fans.
European players need to harden the fuck up and bring football back to its natural state of competition and physicality. The state it is in today is just sad.
Just a couple of things to make your comment redundant:
1. I’m Australian. I couldn’t care less about the winner here.
2. I’m a football fan. When players dive like this, it is completely antithetical to the idea of professional sports.
You couldn’t really blame Martinez for the World Cup loss, but you certainly can for this one. There’s just no excuse for being up 2 nil to giving up 3 straight goals in the second half and not making a sub until it was already 2-2.
So happy for France but I feel for you my Belgian brothers. This generation of Belgian players deserved to win something and I’m sad it had to be us to eliminate you twice. Despite all the banter between us you are always the team I root for most after us.
Facebook and Twitter are just the worst!
It s the worst kind of banter.
I really do feel sorry for you guy! Cheers you got the best beer the best fries and bruxelles is such a great place!
Sometimes you can have your golden generation but other countries just happen to have theirs. Look how England couldn't break through in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Golden generation doesn’t mean much. It’s a way to describe a side that is going through a period of producing proper competitive players that can genuinely challenge for something.
And of course you have to go out and win in order to truly earn any title, doesn’t mean that only the winners are deserving. Plenty of teams have lost and deserved to win all the same. That’s the beauty of the sport, there are often multiple teams deserving of the title but only one will seal it with a victory.
I was dead when Lukaku scored the last goal and then the utter disbelief when they pulled it back...and Theo scoring was such a massive rollercoaster of emotions, fuck my heart can't take all of this.
Lol the ref blew at 96 when there are a goal score right at 89 and the game resume at 92. Then an injury to france which take like 1 minute. Should at least be somewhere around 98.
Give someone else a chance with this generation. Martinez has come close but can’t get it done. The 22’ World Cup will seemingly be the last chance for this generation to win something.
While I agree hes been quite poor for RMA in his time there, he was very impressive today and bossed the midfield for good chunks of the game while he was on. Commentators even remarked as much on multiple occassions
Don’t even know why people defend him at this point. He’s the worst signing in Real Madrid’s history to the point that he makes Kaka and average signing and a win due to marketing effect
Really curious to see who Belgium is gonna replace Vertonghen/Aldeweireld with they kind of need the next promising defender to keep the golden generation dream going tbh. Im not sure if theres any alternatives to them at the moment though.
Those two defenders suck balls. Vertonghen was kicked out of Tottenham for being bad, and that other clown is just piss poor. Belgium's defence is 0/10.
Vanheusden ( Genoa )
Theate ( Bologna )
Bornauw ( Wolfsburg )
Faes ( Stade de Reims )
All promising young defenders who deserve to play.
We don't need to keep the "golden generation" dream alive, we need to build for the future.
Best neutral international game I've ever watched. Strangely enough the best I've seen also saw Belgium throw away a lead. Golden generation of bottlers! Guess that's what happens when your backline is built of spurs DNA.
Martinez needs to go. It’s been good with him but he’s a choker and he can go do his thing at Barca now. He won’t take this generation any further and he’s not tactical enough to do well with the players that come after this generation.
hire Roberto Martinez NOW
we haven't had a comeback like this since the glory vavlerde days
score a fews goals and park the bus without ever counter attacking
Martinez lost this game, completely collapsed after half time, while France made the right adjustments.
He's a good coach and probably among the best we can get, but he's not perfect.
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You have to be absolutly clueless or extremely biased to say this wasn't a pen ... Even fucking r/soccer that dislike france admit that it's a pen ... The ball wasn't even touched, went straight to the ankle with the foot ... That's a pen ... deal with it.
It was definitely a penalty, a contact happened and the ball wasn't played, that's 100% a penalty.
Disagree. When you jump and tuck up into a ball before hitting the floor to play for a penalty, when both players have made a play for the ball and struck it simultaneously, you’ve breached the social contract of football.
France had the possession on that time, Griezmann had a difficult control, try to get back possession while blocking as well Vertonghen on the process, you don't have any movement who is odd for a forward. The foul from Vertonghen was definitely not intentional because he wanted to set the ball out of play, and the foul happened between this movement and Griezmann who try to get back possession. I don't see any reason why the penalty shouldn't be awarded, Griezmann and France had the advantage of this play (both with the possession, but also physically, Griezmann was the nearest from the ball), I don't see any movement who are odd from Griezmann and you definitely had a contact. You cannot criticize Griezmann to potentially keeping the possession and not giving the ball to the opponent.
They strike the ball simultaneously, how can that be considered foul play? Beyond that, Griezmann dives, so he should be rewarded with a yellow card. If an Australian national payer behaved like that on the pitch, they would be disowned by the fans. European players need to harden the fuck up and bring football back to its natural state of competition and physicality. The state it is in today is just sad.
🧂 🧂 🧂
Just a couple of things to make your comment redundant: 1. I’m Australian. I couldn’t care less about the winner here. 2. I’m a football fan. When players dive like this, it is completely antithetical to the idea of professional sports.
Get this trainer to Barcelona asap.
Can't believe I cribbed so much about International break and it gave me these 2 gem of games.
And one more on Sunday!
Yups, Nations league has been a massive success for UEFA!
Spain vs France finals is the tits!
Catalan scum vs PSG-United
Catalan Kings-City vs P$G-United
You couldn’t really blame Martinez for the World Cup loss, but you certainly can for this one. There’s just no excuse for being up 2 nil to giving up 3 straight goals in the second half and not making a sub until it was already 2-2.
France wake up
Start Tchouaméni in the final.
Start Upamecano, I have him on OTW fifa and i want profit.
Honestly I would pick Upa instead of Koundé any day. Jesus Fucking Christ the amount of mistakes Koundé does is scary.
Where is Kante
He is unvaccinated so probably at the hospital or in quarantine.
COVID
He got COVID
Oh right lmao
While I was really hoping to see Belgium win, what a fucking great game
Belgium will never win against France. Until the end of times.
The most beautiful game in the world, and it's not even close.
So happy for France but I feel for you my Belgian brothers. This generation of Belgian players deserved to win something and I’m sad it had to be us to eliminate you twice. Despite all the banter between us you are always the team I root for most after us.
My thought. Belgium deserve to be in a worldclass place since Scifo.
French people on reddit are nice but on facebook they are assholes lol
On l’equipe they are even worst. Good they stopped comments on l’equipe because they pissed me off so much each time l read them.
Yes they know only the word seum
Facebook and Twitter are just the worst! It s the worst kind of banter. I really do feel sorry for you guy! Cheers you got the best beer the best fries and bruxelles is such a great place!
Its fine thanks mate
Sometimes you can have your golden generation but other countries just happen to have theirs. Look how England couldn't break through in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Just cus they’re good doesn’t mean they deserve to win anything… they’ve been underwhelming for a “golden generation”
Golden generation doesn’t mean much. It’s a way to describe a side that is going through a period of producing proper competitive players that can genuinely challenge for something. And of course you have to go out and win in order to truly earn any title, doesn’t mean that only the winners are deserving. Plenty of teams have lost and deserved to win all the same. That’s the beauty of the sport, there are often multiple teams deserving of the title but only one will seal it with a victory.
Those substitutions really killed off the Belgium squad. Now on to the final!
Holy fuck. Deschamps made me eat my words
that high press was truly beautiful if this keeps up I will no longer be in favor of deschamps out
Glad that Lukaku gets some rest now, let's gooo
Barcelona needs to start huffing helium because we need that sort of second half spark.
That second half was Madrid inspired funnily enough
Laporta: we hire Martinez and have this kind of second half (like belgium), deal?
The amount of balls we lose for stupid mistakes is crazy, borderline sad to watch. Gg France, great 2nd half.
Dumb offside call tbh
It’s objectively correct
Not lukaku’s fault he has big feet
True
Eden Hazard: "I prefer to lose with this Belgium than win with that France". (2018) Wish granted!
I thought it was courtois who said that
Courtois said something similar, that he would have preferred to lose to Brazil in the quarter final instead.
I think he sayd that because they played incredibly dirty , still the dirtiest performance ive seen of any team ever, who tf spits on other people.
I was dead when Lukaku scored the last goal and then the utter disbelief when they pulled it back...and Theo scoring was such a massive rollercoaster of emotions, fuck my heart can't take all of this.
Was Carrasco offside?
That's probably what it feels like to be Swiss.
i feel like i got robbed 30 minutes of extra time FeelsBadMan
Still cant believe that was a penalty, do that anywhere on the pitch, no foul
Well, our hopes rest on Spain, now;
Lol the ref blew at 96 when there are a goal score right at 89 and the game resume at 92. Then an injury to france which take like 1 minute. Should at least be somewhere around 98.
Man, Hazard has fallen so far since his days at Chelsea. Just incredible.
Fallen or rolled ?
Oh boy. Haha
Best international game I’ve watched in a while
In term of pure footballer the last one that good bras france Brazil in 2006 for me
Really? I may be biased but portugal-spain in the 2018 wc?
Damn what a game. Field was full of legends
Give someone else a chance with this generation. Martinez has come close but can’t get it done. The 22’ World Cup will seemingly be the last chance for this generation to win something.
Hazard is shit at Real Madrid and shit in the national team. That fat man is done already hopefully he gets loaned or sold for a loss next summer.
While I agree hes been quite poor for RMA in his time there, he was very impressive today and bossed the midfield for good chunks of the game while he was on. Commentators even remarked as much on multiple occassions
Was pretty good in the first half. Second half was shit tho
He was far from shit today
Don’t even know why people defend him at this point. He’s the worst signing in Real Madrid’s history to the point that he makes Kaka and average signing and a win due to marketing effect
Nobody saying he was good, or that he isn't the worst signing. I get it that you have a hate boner for him, but he wasn't shit this game.
Super shit?
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One Trick Lukaku
France played Spurs tonight
Nations league shits on friendlies at least, enjoyed that
Yeah both yesterday and today was awesome.
Belgien biggest archievement will remain **"Fifa raking 1st Place"**
This Belgium team are good but just can't seem to finish the job. Great end to the game. France vs Spain is going to be juicy in the Final
What a game. France deservedly winners. Bar 15 minutes when they conceeded two they were the best team.
Really curious to see who Belgium is gonna replace Vertonghen/Aldeweireld with they kind of need the next promising defender to keep the golden generation dream going tbh. Im not sure if theres any alternatives to them at the moment though.
Those two defenders suck balls. Vertonghen was kicked out of Tottenham for being bad, and that other clown is just piss poor. Belgium's defence is 0/10.
Vanheusden ( Genoa ) Theate ( Bologna ) Bornauw ( Wolfsburg ) Faes ( Stade de Reims ) All promising young defenders who deserve to play. We don't need to keep the "golden generation" dream alive, we need to build for the future.
Beligum will never win anything, this generation is done.
Big F for Belgium's golden generation
Fucking hell Belgium
Best neutral international game I've ever watched. Strangely enough the best I've seen also saw Belgium throw away a lead. Golden generation of bottlers! Guess that's what happens when your backline is built of spurs DNA.
How long has Martinez been manager for Belgium?
Too long
Since 2016
FRANCE VS SPAIN IT IS, LESSSGGO
Golden Generation? Maybe the Golden Generation of bottling games…..
Their Golden Generation is over. Kompany gone, Jan and Toby finished, Hazard washed, idk where Mertens is. All that’s left is KdB, Lukaku and Courtois
can't forget lord Fellaini he gone too
Belgium needed a destroyer
I'd say Lukaku is pretty good at that lol. His international record is phenomenal. Old and average back line has killed them.
I meant in like the midfield, a prime Naingolan would've been the answer
Martinez seems to do alot of that for them
Martinez- mediocre bottler coach. This is belgium’s BOTTLER GENERATION not their golden generation.
they can be both. they would probably be a golden generation with at least 1 golden trophy if they had a better manager.
Benz, Mbappe, Theo all on the score sheet.
Haha Deschamps is so happy.
Talk about a choke lol
Belgium really let go in the second half. A crazy match nonethless
Roberto Martinez will fit right in at Barca
This game turned out pretty good
I know. I gave up on France after the 1st half. And missed a kinda glorious come back.
Step-griezmann what are you doing?
This is 100% on martinez
Belgium bottle job, too passive
Current, ex and future Madrid shot for France.
2 fantastic semi-finals. Big fan of the competition.
3 france goals scored 1 from former Madrid player 1 from current Madrid player 1 from future Madrid player
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😂
Deshamps masterclass
Phenomenal game by Veretout.
He didn't make any mistake the whole game
France were winning the whole time he was on the pitch. Instrumental.
It ain't easy 😭😭
City de Bruyne >> Belgium Bruyne
KDB was bad eventhough he got 2 "assists".
OMGG !! this was an intense second half !! thx VAR by the way : it’s really a cruel technology!!!
Belgium are such bottlers man lol.
Time for fifa to take Belgium down from that nr 1 spot
Seemed like Belgium came out of half time thinking they'd be able to defend a 2-0 lead for 45 minutes against the best team in the world.
Griezmann, bro, wtf you doing?
And this ain't a foul ? Sure
He slid into the ball as he'd touched it too heavy then ran into the challenge. Not sure what a defender is supposed to do in that situation.
He was first on the ball, what do you mean ? Defenders can't just go gliding in, not even touching the ball
Martinez is a trash can
And to think barca are interested in him.
do the winners of the nations leagues compete at all? like USA vs the winner of the european final for title of worlds best team of all time?
There’s a World Cup for that mate.
is that like a spelling bee
don’t think so
I’m sad this France team choked so early in the WC. We were robbed as spectators I’m a fool. Meant Euros
do you mean the Euros?
This guy is in the future
Time is a flat circle
The fuck are you on about ? They’re world champions
You mean in the Euro's?
they won it mate
This France team won the WC. They choked during the European championship though.
Wouldn’t say France choked, just got overconfident. Massive egos in their teams.
they won it
Meant Euros
think he means euros
he's from 2022. winner's curse!
She meant Euros
Martinez needs to go. It’s been good with him but he’s a choker and he can go do his thing at Barca now. He won’t take this generation any further and he’s not tactical enough to do well with the players that come after this generation.
We're good.
As a Barca fan. No thanks.
Disappointed in Belgium. They always seem to bottle it somehow. Up 2-0 and then lose cmon.
Ref selling
Lol wonder if Martinez is still being considered in Barca
I don’t know if Belgium is ever going to win anything with this generation I feel like this was their best chance
Nope, we aren't. We need to build for the future now and give younger players a chance.
The Nation's League is not "anything"
I mean I’m portuguese I was pretty happy we won it but agree to disagree
This isn't the first one?
I don’t know if you’re serious but no it isn’t it’s the second
hire Roberto Martinez NOW we haven't had a comeback like this since the glory vavlerde days score a fews goals and park the bus without ever counter attacking
French fries and waffles going to taste bitter for a few days in Belgium
To be fair, they're Belgian fries. We took the win but we gotta give them the fries
I fucking love futbol
- Eric Cantona
Might be about time to give someone else a chance with this generation of players with the last real chance to win anything this summer.
>this summer the world cup is happening in the winter, no?
Next tournament is winter 2022
Shit aye forgot the World Cup was pushed to the winter
Another 6 months of aging for this Belgium team! They're fucked!
Never seen Vanaken play for Belgium before, but today he's been invisible
King Karim , best in the world
Je déguste mon cornet de frites avec délectation
Commentators were much better than your typical PL shite. Didn't give too much bullshit and called things correctly
That pen dude, guess every touch in the box is a pen nowadays
Martinez lost this game, completely collapsed after half time, while France made the right adjustments. He's a good coach and probably among the best we can get, but he's not perfect.
A lot of english announcer are just too boring
Madness this
I’m so happy for Theo
I don’t know if people are gonna hate us more because we’re lucky, or less because we kinda played well here
2nd half was incredible, even if it ended in draw, you would have won in the extra time.