*Official* Final: Portugal vs France

[Magrat Garlick]

Stade de France, Paris Saint-Denis
Sunday 10 July, kick-off 21.00

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Can't get too excited about this. The big debate is whether to watch it on ITV or BBC.

 

[GIMH]

Bbc

 

[fredfertang]

Indeed - commercial breaks just too irritating when there is a means to avoid them

 

[Cabinet96]

BBC has Danny Murphy co commentating though.

Ronaldo

 

[MW1304]

Can't get too excited about this. The big debate is whether to watch it on ITV or BBC.

Clearly the community concurs.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Sympathy for Ronaldo. But he didn't need the stretcher.

 

[Pratters]

Will only motivate Portugal more and they will win.

 

[Tangles]

Game will be less watchable now. Portugal will play more negative with 5 in the middle. Need a goal to get some open play.

 

[Pratters]

It's been quite open so far. Looks like a goal can happen any moment.

 

[Tangles]

Comms here saying that if Pogba signs for United that his wage demands are 300k a week. Same as Rooney then. Lol

 

[Pratters]

Not sure whose half that was. Portugal lost Ronaldo but did hold out to not let France score.

 

[Burner]

God damn it

 

[Tangles]

Portugal will be happy with another half like that. France need the up tempo passing and the pressing they started with.

 

[Uppercut]

Sad to see Ronaldo off early but that's an absolutely top-drawer reducer from Payet.

 

[vcs]

This is like Spain-Netherlands in 2010. Pretty dire game but Portugal have shown that they can shut out the opposition very effectively. Sadly they possess zero attacking threat, especially now, without Ronaldo's ability to pull a goal out of nowhere.

 

[Uppercut]

It's a more even game than that imo. France shading it whereas Spain dominated.

 

[vcs]

Didn't Netherlands have the best clearcut chance though.. Casillas saved a one-on-one from Robben I think. And Spain didn't really create much.

 

[vcs]

Patricio has had a brilliant game. That was a cracking strike.

 

[Uppercut]

Didn't Netherlands have the best clearcut chance though.. Casillas saved a one-on-one from Robben I think. And Spain didn't really create much.

Yeah they created a lot of half chances and Netherlands had the big one. But the possession would have been like 75-25 and today it's nothing like that. Maybe more balanced would be a better description.