France V Australia World Cup 2018

France V Australia

Pregame bets:

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Do not rate Australia at all. In the Confederations Cup they were truly awful to see, no technical ability with a lot of plodders in the team. Not only that but they carry on the great Australian sporting tradition of whinging a lot. That is not going to work against a French team that will be fired up to put on a show, especially after the feast of football we were served last night between Spain and Portugal. Now its France’s turn and I am sure they wont want to disappoint!

I think that as they are such a cynical team, the Aussies might get a man sent off. They might as well as they wont be playing any football.

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France v Australia – A red card in the match 11/2

And if, as I expect, France will win and win handily, then you would fully expect that the goals would come from their usual strike partnership of Antoine Griezmann and Olivier Giroud.

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France v Australia – Anytime Goalscorer Antoine Griezmann 5/6

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France v Australia – To Score a Header O Giroud 4/1

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France v Australia – Anytime Goalscorer Doubles A Griezmann & O Giroud 16/5

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Ok got the Griezmann goal thanks to the ref, Giroud wasn’t on long enough to do anything, and to be fair to the Australians they were not as hot tempered as I expected. Still, considering how awful France played, I am more than happy to come away with something from this game.

Beers: Group C of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group C

Kronenbourg 1664 from France to take on the much maligned “Aussie beer” Fosters

Was expecting on even enough game, but Fosters kind of surprised me as I enjoyed drinking it, was smoother, and very quaffable. Both lagers didn’t have a whole lot in way of tastes or flavours, so it was all done to general drinkablity and for this reason I give the victory to Fosters.

PreGame:

France: Deschamps has assembled a fantastic squad yet again. Last time they were oh so close and this year they might just go one better, and win the damn thing! They have a very strong squad, with a loot of technical players, but sometimes it can be hard to get them to gel as a team, but Deschamps is finally getting them to play as a unit. He has one again made France a team to be reckoned with, and for this we must congratulate him.

I think the pace of the French attack will obliterate the Aussies defence. Add in a striker on form then I can see a lot of goals today against a piss poor Aussie team. Griezmann is on form again and he is always running and harrying away in games. I feel he will have far too much for this Australian team.

Iceland are not a great technically gifted team, but they play with real team spirit and generally play the game in the right spirit. Australia are also lacking in decent players but, unlike the Icelanders, they are a dirty cynical team with players who argue with the ref every ten minutes and who also like to partake on a roll on the floor now and again. I dont know why they have to play like this. Now I could be totally wrong but this is the way they played in the Confederation Cup. Ok they have a new man in charge now, but its Bert van Marwijk, the man who set the rot into Dutch football and will be remembered as getting one of the most horrible Dutch teams of all times into a final where they proceeded to kick and hack Spain all game. I can only imagine how much more cynical the team might be now!!

Ok they have the great Tim Cahill, but he is 38, and I am not so sure he can last more than 30 minutes without bursting a lung. Will be a long 90 minutes for the Aussies.

A more detailed review on France here and on Australia here

What a god damn awful game. France were pathetic, and Australia defended well but maybe, just maybe, they are thinking if they had went for it a bit more perhaps they might have gotten more from the game?

The referee was hopeless all through the match and had a lot to play in this game. I dont think that was a penalty that he gifted France, a slight touch, and VAR is a load of bollix if that is whats going to decide games in the future.

Australia can consider themselves unlucky, but then they also didn’t do a whole lot going forward. Was impressed with their goalkeeper Ryan who linked very well with his back four. Behich and Mulligan also stood out in defence, but wilted a little in the second half.

On the opposite side, France had a whole team of passengers. Pavard, as right back, looked way out of his depth, was embarrassing to see, while the big names of Mbappé, Dembélé and Pogba, and Matuidi when he came on, were awful, truly awful. And what is with Hernández, what is with the little bitch rolling round the floor over the slightest touch, and he is a defender, ffs!! Mark Lawrenson said on the Beeb, that “the French are going backwards”, well where have we heard that before, what a fucking EMBARRASSMENT! Pogba doing flicks in the 67th minute when his team needs a leader on the pitch, then kissing his badge when he scored a fluky goal, what a cunt!

Deschamps messed up a bit today with his team selection, but to be fair to the man, who can he bring on to change things, its a general malaise in french football I think. I know I would be tearing my hair out if I was the manager.

Australia played well in patches, but its so hard to say what they are really like as France were so turgid, and perhaps the fact they let a really poor french team beat them might say a lot about where they are at the moment.

Music to get you in the mood

Daft Punk – Lose Yourself To Dance (France) V Men At Work – Down Under (Australia)