by elkanofan » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:46 pm
Subjective:
- Most Entertaining Game: 1st Spain vs Portugal!!!! Honorable mentions 2nd Argentina vs France, 3rd Brazil vs Belgium
- Fav Goal: Quaresma vs Iran (I'm biased)
- Fav Moment: Pavard's goal vs Argentina
- Player who impressed you the most: Rebic
- Rank your team's performance/campaign: World Cup soon come fi Jamaica
The Hit List - Objective:
- Best Player: Modric
- Best Young Player (under 21 at the start of the year): Mbappe
- Best Manager: Martinez (he messed up in the semi but he was very dynamic,i give it to him!
- Best Team: Belgium
- Your TOTT: Courtois; Mina, Varane, Hernandez, Trippier, Modric, Kante, De Bruyne; Hazard, Mbappe, Cheryshev
Where would you rank this World Cup out of all the ones that you've watched live?
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Really enjoyed the tournament. 8.5/10 (I voted 9) Fell away towards the end and while the final was exciting in terms of goals was an anti climax ruined by the ref. Its understandable why he gave the penalty becuase Perisic gained an advantage when it hit his hand but still it was an accident. France are worthy winners but I'm not happy they won it because their motivation to kick on in 4 years will now be gone since they already reached the summit without being outstanding.
My issue with the tournament is there really where no outstanding teams whatsoever, there where more flops than players who really shone from Werner to Neymar to even Greizmann, the defending was truly shit from every team bar Uruguay, Sweden and to an extent even though they extreme parked the bus Iran. Dreadful though from every team, hence all the excitement and goals including France who had to resort to parking the bus all knockout stages. This France team would get destroyed by every other winner in the last 30-40 years easily. they where very much the 'least incompetent team' rather than a truly outstanding team which defined a generation like Spain, Italy, Brazil and the previous France. I feel with Germany 4 years ago it was a similar story but they where better than this France team.
The two Gods of this generation went out early in Messi and Cristiano and we really don't have anyone yet ready to take their place, whatever you say about Mbappe, he's amazing but still very raw. This added to the tournaments excitement and openness but lacked that spark of seeing true greatness.