News Croatia advances to World Cup finals

[ljetibo]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ld-cup-2018-semi-final-croatia-v-england-live

Croatia wins over England in the semifinals and is now facing France in the finals of World Cup football championship....
I can hardly believe it myself. Third overtime game in a row for Croatia.

 

[Marg]

Hm, Croatians are impressive, remember their run til' semifinals, when they lost to France in the beginning of century. Davor Suker some sto my mind....

 

[N_Molson]

France leads 3 to 1. Unless a disaster I think we'll get this one

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4 to 1 ! :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

France leads 3 to 1. Unless a disaster I think we'll get this one

4:1 ... But always remember: Germany played 4:4 against Sweden once after leading 4:0



And this world cup is surprising.

 

[N_Molson]

4:2 ! Obvious overconfidence from the french goalkeeper

 

[Urwumpe]

If Croatia scores the 4:3 before the 80th minute, I would say, we will get many heartattacks in Europe today...

 

[N_Molson]

Ouch that french hand was ugly... Referee was watching the grass grow :lol:

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Done. France wins 4:2.

 

[Urwumpe]

Congratulations to France and thank you to Croatia for making this final way more entertaining then the past finals.

 

[mahdavi3d]

Well done France!

Luka Modric has won the Golden Ball award!

Image: (AP)​

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Celebrations in Paris:

 

[N_Molson]

I must say the little umbrella game between Putin, Macron and Mrs. Grabar-Kitarović was very interesting and entertaining. It was hilarious how Putin got a big umbrella right at the beginning of the storm. Macron & Mrs. Grabar-Kitarović got 2 smaller ones once they were completely washed out by rain. So at the end you had a dry standing, seemingly water-proof Putin and the two others that looked like half-drowned shipwreck survivors standing next to him on the podium (that storm wasn't a light one) :rofl:

It was clear he couldn't be compared to small european countries leaders :lol:

Macron is drenched while Putin remains dry with his umbrella (Sunday Express)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/989248/world-cup-final-france-vs-croatia-emmanuel-macron-rain-vladimir-putin

 

[IronRain]

Congratulations to France and Croatia. It's quite something they have achieved. I'm not a football person, but I've enjoyed this World Cup.