An excellent first half from England, they outperformed Croitia and the early advantage made everything easier.But all this is not enough. There is another 45 minutes in which Croitia switched gears in and they made a comeback. I expected them to suffer more in the second half but no they showed us that they have the energy to play .The equalizer for the Croats came at a time when England was going to kill the match, the goal brought life back to Croatian players. Unfortunately, the English coach's substitutions have lost his form. Sterling was better next to Kane despite him missing a lot of chances but i did not see anything positive from his alternative Rashford and Dier was too heavy and never had any added. Perisic and Mandzukic were the man of the match no wonder why Mourinho wanted to get Perisic last season for 90M but Inter didn't back pff from their demand of 100M Euros.

48 hours what seperate us from seeing CR7 in Juventus shirt. I think that Juve will have to sell Higuain at the end to fund this move because it will be a lot on the club especialy with his wages they already saved some money from Buffon exit when it come to wages and Higuain will get them 60M Euros plus 15M liberated from his wages the rest also there is rumors tha tJuve will also sell central defender Daniele Rugani to Chelsea and also there is rumors of Pjanic koining Bayern not sure if it will be worth it for Juve to lose all of these players for just the sake of Signing ronaldo sure he will make them a Serious Power in Europe but it will be at a cost for good players they have other then Higuain whom i think time for him to seek another club. Juve still also monitring Manchester united Defender Darmian not sure why since they signed Cancelo unless they need him as a left back for Alex Sandro if they decided to cash him. This season Juve will not see  big competetion since Napoli is selling their players and still under new management.

Enrique left Barcelona in 2017 so staying out of job for too long will not help him since most of the teams have selected their managers only Chelsea is yet to confirm the arrival of sarri so staying without a job  for 2nd year will not work for him well also MAanaging spain should not be that difficult since they have good individual players he needs just to get them to the right track
i doub't to see Benzema leaves to Napoli despited that Anceloti himself needs him but the future exit of Ronaldo is one of the reasons that Real Madrid didn't sell him yet. but the reason that Real didn't keep Morata last season instead of Benzema was Zidane the french manager wanted to keep him instead of Morata but if heaves for Napoli at the end i don't know how Ancelotti will play him with Mertens and Insgne unless he is going to sell one.

The Rockets have lost Trevor Ariza and Luc Mbah and now they went from having 2 quality defensive players to be able to put them at KD and Lebron James.they should be  to looking tot Melo and Green as their SFs. Doesn't look good for them trying to get back to challenge the Warriors again. if they get Melo they definetly improves their offense since he's still a force if used right, but defensively KD and LBJ will basically get whatever they want.Also, I would be careful of putting all my chips on Melo just yet. He didn't have a great relationship with D'Antoni, so it will have to be a good sell. He can still get to lakers at the end but it's better then getting Anthony Carmelo they should just take Melo at the end because there is no better alternative at tis time.

I belleive that England have better chance then Croitia to get to the final because Croatia’s been fizzling a bit and kind of gotten through by the skin of their teeth after being the best team in the groups. Seem to be battered and bruised at this point as well. England showed a bit of an good performance in their previous game, they gotta be liking their chances to make the final here. Also Croitia lost player that will be not playing against england due injury that is Atletico right back Sime Vrsaljko also Croitia have been struggling a lot since the group stages and after that match against argentina i didn't see them do a lot with them spending too much energy to progress to this stage i belleive they will not be able to remove England especialy in second half you will see a lot players tired.

England have a good team and so far organized an their way to reach the semi-finals was not that difficult now  They have to fight against Croatia if they want to reach the final Croatia will not be an easy team like the ones that england faced before because Croatia defeated many teams and the country organized unfortunately they have played 240minutes in their preivious 6 days and i don't think that they will recover their energy in the next two daysEngland known for their fate by finishing 2nd And their loss to Belgium 1-0 really is not a coincidence they certainly wanted it to pass through the easy pass to the semi-finals and perhaps the tournament. Belgium to come out of the top of the group but that puted them in the most difficult position but often in the World Cup team that crosses a difficult road is the one crowned World Cup so I expect the arrival of the English to Final but they can not win over either France or Belgium especially if they have shown their great potential in the final and everything is possible in the world of football, but the four teams best everyone so far, without exception, they are the best four teams in this World Cup.

from the last rumors i'm hearing is that United have asked about inquiring ronaldo but the negotioations with Juventus are in more advanced with Juve and i'm sure if given the opportunity United will pay more then the italien side but i think Ronaldo has chosen Juventus not only for money but this is for the Champions League and the SerieA because Juventus always wins the Italian championship and always reaches the final of the Champions League means a team can bring with him the Champions League while he will find difficulties doing that with United as For Ronaldo Leaving Madrid i'm pretty sure he will be leaving this summer he wants the move also Real Madrid are in good position to sell him for good price he knows next season how he will be doing and he will be also 34 that means no wone will pay the amount that they are looking to coup.

News reports says Karius will be Liverpool's first goalkeeper next season because they failed to sign with Oblack also the deal with Alison looks very complicated and it will be difficult to get him .The decision of Club if  did not change until the end of the summer it will be a great risk, resulting in either success and whole world will praise him or failure that will defintly leads to the departure of Klopp himself. IMO they should look for other solutions some days ago i heared that they will intrested in Barcelona 2nd keeper Cillessen they are willing to offer 35M Euros while his realease close is 60M but Barcelona will gain 20M as they got him for less the 15M. Frankly I do not understand why this goalkeeper is excluded from the Liverpool options. He is good and his price is good and he has a desire to move as well as his personal ambition to prove that he is the first goalkeeper who will pay him to give everything he has to his new team .....

A very great game ..

The match was lost in the first half for Brazil in the second half changes improved them and made them more balanced Brazil i think if the game started with that lineup the would probably had better chances in winning but the problem is World Cup does not give you a second chance and fans will only remember the mistakes of the manager forever and now Neymar has eroded his reputation and the reputation of the national team . Now he became so famous for daving on the ground does not work and his country is prevented from resorting to the video because the referee is fully aware that Neymar wants to get the penalty with his current performance i don't think he is even worth half of the 220M that PSG payed for him and it will be a big loss for Madrid to go for him they better target Hazard i think he is the best example of fair play and ideal player to replace Ronaldo he is more mature and do not fool around like Neymar does.

Uruguay need to stop France from counter attacks. Both Vounter attacks and set pieces were strong in this Tournament and funny thing is possesion do not matter no more as you can see five of most dominant teams in the World Cup have now gone out of the tournament, including three major teams.
In the past, the ability of a team to move the ball between the players and deprive the opponent of the evidence of the strength and the harmony of players and understanding with each other, was showing interesting reviews and wide results, but now it has become a completely different meaning reflects the loss of skill and creativity in the center players specifically and turn it To a negative acquisition that could turn upside down on you and the evidence that 75% of the goals received by these teams were of counterattacks and perhaps the German team the biggest example. So it will be difficult to predict the winner between both teams Uruguay will play without last game star Cavani but they have proven themselves to be solid in the back and they still have suarez while France have a lot a of fore power they put them favorites on paper but i think we will see both teams scoring atleast

yeah I think that the Mavericks will just need to play the season as it is and not aim to get the team for play off they have to focus on building a team for the season after this but if they came across a good bargains if there are any available they need to take it. if not next season it is because
when u see everyone buying they are going to just place themself in a bidding war in a bear market, and you dont need a financial analyst to tell you that's not a good thing. Signing people now for the sake of signing will just put us in a position to overpay on aplayer that don't even worth it especialy when they are not going to compete this season.

they séay that Ronaldo have already reached agreement with Juventus with a €30 million a year for 4years but Juventus are yet to negotiate with Real Madrid about his transfert fee that meens it's only matter of time untill Juventus because this means that Ronaldo made up his mind and the chances for him to stay in Spain are obselete. but now i'm sure tha tReal Madrid will bring an A list player for his place if not they are not going to be able to compete with Barcelona over LALiga because with even Ronaldo they only won it twice with him for his past 9 seasons with the club and for Juventus Frankly the best alternative to Higuain since he is close to leaving Juve towards Chelsea for a fee close to 60 Million euros. it's defintly will make the old lady club a strong candidate for UCL next seasons.

true Maradona opinions dosen't matter he have been a failure in everything after retiring as a player true he was a great player but when it comes to management or to be football analyst he that's not his speciality he should just lay low and keep his head down and try not to have another heart attack or overdose. Also he is taking about a robbery for columbia and himself have stole from England back in 86 World Cup
The penalty is correct because the Colombian defender who held Kane before the execution knew he was going to drop him and Kane was very smart and got it. also the ref didn't give a red card for Columbia defender when he headed Henderson .The Colombians played with agression in each game if the ref have favorite england we would seen more cards thrown

A big shake waiting for the transfer market from news or normal rumor turns to formal negotiations for Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Juventus. All media said that the negotiations reached an advanced stage, but some of them spoke about the near Ronaldo is even about to do medical examination in Turin and on the other hand the Real comes out today not to deny the rumors of Cristiano but only now to deny negotiations with Mbappe and i think it is normal thing for Madrid to deny the rumors so it do not to spoil the relationship with the Paris Club with this quick response from Real Madrid it makes sens to me  that Real started to search for successor CR7 as they have 2 responses now for both PSG players Neymar and Mbappe. I think Cristiano wants to finish his career with a European club not in China or USA that way he can still break European records and maybe win more league titles as it will be easy to win it in italy with Juve unlike in Spain.

who knows what is true or just a rumors but this is what is currently trending also some spanish tv show called Jugones says that Ronaldo is allowed to leave for with  €100 million from Juve, it's rumored that juve offering him  €30 million a year contract untill 2022 while Real Madrid had quick response over the  €310 million they offered to Neymar with denial and they didn't mention anything about Ronaldo rumors. so i think there is great possibility for him to leave but maybe not for Juve i think they are going to include him with neymar deal with PSG because in my opinion there is no smoke without a fire or it's just Adidas is pulling the shots here as they are planning to sponsor him and bring him up under a new Juventus shirt.
So maybe this is the year we see Ronaldo with another team specially when already sad after Champiosleague final he is thinking about moving.

Mina have been a star defender in this WC in both duties offensive and defensive ... Such a wonderful return, Colombia beat England in its style in the tournament of fixed balls. but at the end Jack Butland have been the man that got the qualification by catching carlos bacca penalty kick. Congrats to Harry Kane and his men to reaching the fianl 8 after missing this milestone for the previous two occasions. Crazy how England now can go to not even Semie finals but actualy winning the WC.
funny thing is that 3 of Spurs players have scored their Penalty kicks i think the rise of Spurs is one of the many reasons that England doing better. As the other top teams do not supply the National team with many good english players as mosth of them tend to buy foreign players.

Brazil is a  one of the biggest candidate left for the title even without Neymar (his presence will certainly increase the power of Samba but this does not affect the team as a whole), especially after the exit of many of the teams that were nominated for the title such as Germany and Spain, Argentina and Portugal to a lesser extent. currently the road still filled with obstacles despite no big teams remained it will whether Belgium or France is able to withstand Brazil before reaching the final and we all know that they lost only 2finals from 7.
Neymar was not at the top of the group stage but Brazil went through the rest of the team now it's time to see him sober up it's going to be  entertainment all the way from this stage as Brasil presses hard upfront with Neymar Willian Coutinho and Firmino as well as those coming from behind such as Paulinho and Casimero

The  Current Lakers team will is not going to beat Houston any time soon so we better not even talk about GSW therefore he will never see the finals again true he joined a team with most finals appearences but now way this team will be able to do that this season maybe next one as the current situation with the team is garbage. The Lakers so far have signed just scrubs of old veterans while young talent is not quality enough even the ones that are not awful like Ball, Kuzma and Ingram. still to make big impressions LeBron propably was thinking about family and his post NBA career by choosing the Lakers. but it will be fun to see him play in the Western Conference despite the low chances he have against Rockets and Warriors but it will be also intresting to see how far he can take this Lakers team.

they say that Ronaldo will join Juventus accoring Tuttosport as he refused a deal worth €31.5m a year PSG and United are also intrested in him but nothing will be change unless Real make a move on Neymar or Kane.
other news Arsenal signed their 3rd player after Leno and Lichtsteiner comes Dortmund defender Sokratis for €19m nothing Special in this deal but it's rumored that he will be leaving for Napoli as he is about to lose his spot for the new german commer. And the other side of london if Chelsea appoints Sarri his main transfer target will be Aleksandr Golovin who will cost £27m from CSKA Moscow.
SAlah renew with Liverpool to 2023.
Ajax looking to bring another player from EPL after Tadic they are eying their ex player D.Blind from Man United, the Dutch player lost his role after the arrival of Jose now he is looking to go bac k to home land as he only made 7 appearences in EPL last season
Inter going strong with two big signings duch defender De Vrij from Lazio and Juventus left back Asamoah for free.

what a sad way for Japan to end they have been solid for more then an hour then everything collapse. the second hald need to be watched again as all the juicy action were there but man, it sucked for japan to go hard for 93+mins. I knew it that after Fellaini scored the second Japan chances to win have gone it was a matter of time for Belgium to win because  it's not a genius move by Martinez to play headers You have a huge height advantage, keep pumping balls into the box. It's common sense also Japan is not prepared to play extra 30 minutes againts that style of play or even on penalty kicks.
At the end Belgium survived. Hopefully its a wake up call for the Brazil. I expect an intresting game with a lot of goals from both sides especaily if both teams started playing offense from the start it's going to be hard to predict the winner but the winner between them i'm sure he will reach the finals.