**The World Cup 2018 Official Thread**

[JayGatsby]

its nervy,this is how semi's should be, tight and close

kante and hazard brilliant

lukaku hasnt seen much yet......

mbappe doin well, he really wants that 1 on 1 with the fullback

KDB is so calm and calculated

 

[African_brehda]

If this Umtiti and Yery Mina ever start a big game for Barca

 

[African_brehda]

KDB is so calm and calculated

Imo he should win the Balon D'or if Belgium gets the cup

 

[Citi Trends]

england would get washed by either of these teams

 

[JayGatsby]

tbh umtiti has done well, he has done some important clearances

 

[Rell Lauren]

Both teams have had their chances.

 

[Black Nate Grey]

Hard to believe Mbappe is only 19, kid is too good.

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Kante is the best DM in the world without a shadow of a doubt...he's worth two men out there.

Forreal. Pogba and Matuidi are leaving him alone out there and hes still killin it.

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

Nah, that's peak. Not only would that reduce its prestige, but would unnecessarily increase the football schedule

Now that it's the half, I'll come back and respond to these good points:

1. First, I don't think it would reduce its prestige. Champions League happens every year, but winning that still has extremely high prestige. The level of play/talent is what creates prestige to me. I think expanding to 48 teams is really going to hurt prestige as trash teams like, say, Vanuatu or the United States start getting into the tourney and dragging down the quality of play (though you might well agree and think that it should stay at 32 teams every four years; I'm just speaking to what I think determines "prestige" of a competition)

2. Second, the point about the football schedule is probably the strongest one, and in truth, I don't know if doing it every three years would be too much. I just am too ignorant of all the different cups and how that might change schedules. Adding a bunch of qualifying games to the schedule really might hurt player fitness. You could be right about that one.

 

[Trajan]

This is a great match

The whole first half I was

 

[Roid Jones]

Yeah, this is the real final, huh?

So what happens if the winner of this match loses in the real final on the 15th

 

[LurkMoar]

Pogba and Mbappe are the future of France, gonna be so good

 

[Premeditated]

So what happens if the winner of this match loses in the real final on the 15th

it'll be a fluke like Portugal at Euros

 

[JayGatsby]

I wanna see Mbappe play on the shoulder a lil bit more....

once he toggles around on the defensive line he is hard to control , he makes such great runs

 

[CEO of Morgan Industries]

So what happens if the winner of this match loses in the real final on the 15th

...it comes home?