FIFA 2022 world cup

[kro55]

So happy that Argentina are through.
To be honest netherlands were scaring me with the fact they might win, and then when I saw Lautaro Martinez stepping up, I thought he’d miss by miles but fortunately he scored

The chances were 50/50 for both teams. If Van Dijk had scored the first penalty, the motivation not been gone. Van Dijk won both coin flip, the side and who starts and then he misses himself. Messi's penalty was bad, Holland's goalkeeper just chose the wrong side. But Argentina had more luck and now play one semi-finals.

I would say scoring from penalties is mostly down to luck. It is difficult to score from penalties unless luck helps. Virgil Van Dijk's performance in this match was outstanding. He played very well in the entire match. Unfortunately he couldn't score from the penalty spot. Steven Berghuis missed the penalty only for Martinez to make a superb save. Martinez's contribution to Argentina's victory was outstanding. However, after Argentina scored 2 goals I thought they would win easily. But the Netherlands played very well. We enjoyed a breathtaking match.

[Fesatmas]

France vs England this is the real tested for both of teams in this tournament because so far whether England or France never been meet strong team during group stages or round of 16 and according to meeting statistics England records was slightly better than France and England too as the most productive teams so France have to be careful with England but France has Mbappe that this player always be performing well if played since early minutes and with 5 goals during this tournament he currently as top scorer and i have a feeling he might be will scoring goals in this match and for betting option France win seems good choice and i wish this match will ended without penalty kick anymore and France has odds @2.55

The two countries that will compete, namely England and France, do not have a very striking difference. So it can be said that this match will be a balanced match between the two teams. France has Kylian Mbappe who is very productive in the World Cup this time with 5 goals he managed to pack. So the England national team should be more aware of the movement of this one player because it will trouble them in defense. It would be a close scoreline in my opinion, or it would be a game that had to be settled on penalties.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

It's okay if Morocco loses this game, it's because Morocco is a dark horse team and they are not the favourites. But if Morocco manages to beat Portugal then obviously it is one big hit and it will be spectacular. I think Morocco will be very defensively focused against Portugal and they will try to do everything they can to keep a clean sheet. I was expecting Portugal to be overwhelmed against the Moroccan defense like when Morocco beat Spain, but Portugal are a different team.

Support for Morocco today will be overwhelming. They are a team that represents Africa and of course they will get great support from Qatar, African countries and others. Even if Morocco loses, then they must lose in an honorable way.

Morocco will try to take the game to plenty kicks and will play defensively as they did against Spain. Morrocco attack is not as strong as Portugal but they were able to create some good chances in there last encounter. Argentina was surprised by Saudia in there opening game, can we see another upset today ?

Morocco will do their best to stop Portugal to score a goal and to take the game to penalty shoot out,  they did the same thing with Spain all they did was to stop their attacks and defend goals and than extra time and penalty shootout.  Penalty shoot out is all about your luck and confidence in time of pressure .
Morroco attack and strike Is way behind Portugal so we will see a tough match today.

[ginsan]

After seeing many surprising results, I wouldn't be surprised if Croatia and Morocco meet in the final. In fact, if we see such a thing, we will experience a world cup that we will talk about for many years. Nobody could have predicted that these two teams would win so many matches, since our predictions surprise us, I started to think that Morocco could be the champion.
Let's see what Portugal can do tonight

I think it's going to be one pretty interesting finale if it comes true. morocco will be able to make a number of big teams amazed by what they showed at the Qatar world cup. right on this day we will see morocco against portugal. Even though on paper there are many bettors who chose Portugal to win this match, everything could change on the field later. especially after the few shocks that happened now is it possible that morocco will beat portugal.

besides that we will see england and france in today's game. I want to see Mbappe score goals and break records again. he is the top scorer in qatar world cup and he has a chance to add to the coffers of goals against england.

[MinoRaiola]

I would say scoring from penalties is mostly down to luck. It is difficult to score from penalties unless luck helps. Virgil Van Dijk's performance in this match was outstanding. He played very well in the entire match. Unfortunately he couldn't score from the penalty spot. Steven Berghuis missed the penalty only for Martinez to make a superb save. Martinez's contribution to Argentina's victory was outstanding. However, after Argentina scored 2 goals I thought they would win easily. But the Netherlands played very well. We enjoyed a breathtaking match.

The chances of a player scoring a penalty are about 70%. So normally 7 out of 10 penalties are successfully scored. In this World Cup I think it's quite different, I didn't calculate it. But 3 out of 10 penalties were missed yesterday, so it should be true. In the game Brazil vs. Croatia, it was 2 out of 8.

The next game starts in less than 100 minutes, and I think Portugal ein and starting without Ronaldo.

[Awaklara]

France vs England this is the real tested for both of teams in this tournament because so far whether England or France never been meet strong team during group stages or round of 16 and according to meeting statistics England records was slightly better than France and England too as the most productive teams so France have to be careful with England but France has Mbappe that this player always be performing well if played since early minutes and with 5 goals during this tournament he currently as top scorer and i have a feeling he might be will scoring goals in this match and for betting option France win seems good choice and i wish this match will ended without penalty kick anymore and France has odds @2.55

The two countries that will compete, namely England and France, do not have a very striking difference. So it can be said that this match will be a balanced match between the two teams. France has Kylian Mbappe who is very productive in the World Cup this time with 5 goals he managed to pack. So the England national team should be more aware of the movement of this one player because it will trouble them in defense. It would be a close scoreline in my opinion, or it would be a game that had to be settled on penalties.

I bet for England. however, it is pretty challenging to analyze this fight. but I see England having good luck in this game. England also has several young players in the squad who can be relied upon.
I hope the match will not be forced into a penalty shootout. England must be able to get a goal early to stay safe. hard to predict, to be honest, but I would bet for England.

[Shaha98]

It's okay if Morocco loses this game, it's because Morocco is a dark horse team and they are not the favourites. But if Morocco manages to beat Portugal then obviously it is one big hit and it will be spectacular. I think Morocco will be very defensively focused against Portugal and they will try to do everything they can to keep a clean sheet. I was expecting Portugal to be overwhelmed against the Moroccan defense like when Morocco beat Spain, but Portugal are a different team.

Support for Morocco today will be overwhelming. They are a team that represents Africa and of course they will get great support from Qatar, African countries and others. Even if Morocco loses, then they must lose in an honorable way.

Morocco will try to take the game to plenty kicks and will play defensively as they did against Spain. Morrocco attack is not as strong as Portugal but they were able to create some good chances in there last encounter. Argentina was surprised by Saudia in there opening game, can we see another upset today ?

Today's match between Morocco and Portugal can be predicted to be a new history.  Because Morocco has survived to this day because they can attack well but Portugal has a lot of other players including Ronaldo who are very good attacking players.  But the Moroccan players can show their performance today to show the possibility of victory because history will only look at Morocco's victory.  But in terms of FIFA rank, Portugal is much ahead of Morocco, which is why I think they can win here.

[piebeyb]

i hope for just as exciting 2 quarterfinals today as they were yesterday. since i'm always in favor of the supposed underdogs at big tournaments, i've been supporting croatia and morocco since the quarterfinals.
can well imagine today that mar again creates the surprise via a penalty shootout and maybe eliminated tonight then even with france the reigning world champion

I see Morocco playing well too they have a strong defense and I saw it against Spain a few days ago, but I hope Portugal wins this match so they can advance to the semifinals with France or England because I predict Argentina will meet Portugal or France in the final later and argentina who won the world cup trophy this year, but I'm not surprised if morocco won this match against portugal if the end of the match had to be a penalty shootout

[Doell]

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The tension was so high in both of matches. Morocco and portugal will become a very important match. Portugal needs to win against morocco. I hope that the final will be cristiano ronaldo against messi. That will be making a very high tension of match caused by it's the final that has been waiting by so many people. It seems like that the good performance during the previous match didn't guarantee if the team will win in the current match. brazil has proven if the performance was going up and down. Very sad for brazil must gone from world cup this fast.

based from the poll on this thread, brazil was the favourite getting a 38% from the users who cast their votes. unfortunately, the favourite one was dumped out from world cup. not expecting also about this twist of events. if ronaldo and messi will have a face off in the finals, that would really get a very large audience. for sure, betting sites will get their huge income from the bettors. let's see how this will pan out in the coming days...

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

[panjul07]

i hope for just as exciting 2 quarterfinals today as they were yesterday. since i'm always in favor of the supposed underdogs at big tournaments, i've been supporting croatia and morocco since the quarterfinals.
can well imagine today that mar again creates the surprise via a penalty shootout and maybe eliminated tonight then even with france the reigning world champion

I see Morocco playing well too they have a strong defense and I saw it against Spain a few days ago, but I hope Portugal wins this match so they can advance to the semifinals with France or England because I predict Argentina will meet Portugal or France in the final later and argentina who won the world cup trophy this year, but I'm not surprised if morocco won this match against portugal if the end of the match had to be a penalty shootout

Portugal is the favorite by bookmakers, but looking at the result of both teams so far, I think both Morocco and Portugal has equal chance to win.
Will this match ended with a draw in normal times + extra time the winner will be determined by penalty shootout like the first 2 quarter finals matches?
Too many surprised result in this world cup, so it is really hard to predict which team to win on every single match.
I am hoping to see an interesting match regardless who will win the match, if I have to bet then I'll bet on both team to score in this match.
Although the odds is like a trap since it is more than 2, but I think it is better than to bet on which one to win the match or which one to advance to semifinals.

[Falconer]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

[CryptoBuds]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

Against the likes of Croatia, a strong Brazil team was eliminated. Morocco beat Spain. From this it is easy to understand that strong match strategy is more important than good performance or strong squad in this World Cup. The success of Morocco and Croatia is due to their coach's excellent match strategy. And so it is very difficult to predict which two teams will qualify for the semi-finals in today's match.

England and France are almost equally powerful. On the other hand, although Portugal is stronger than Morocco, Morocco is very tactical. So I will refrain from betting on these two matches. My prediction of type is that France and Portugal will be able to qualify for the semi-finals.

[gagux123]

It was really a tough game for Brazil and Croatia. The match was running at a fairly high tempo, even the two teams also did not hesitate to commit fouls in order to destroy their opponent's attacks. In my opinion, Brazil looks slightly better than Croatia but Croatia has a good mentality and confidence which they were able to equalize when they fell behind Brazil and in the end, they were able to win the game in the penalty shootout.

I think few people thought that it was Croatia that ended up going through to the semi-finals because Brazil does look more convincing than Croatia. But this is football, where there is often a surprise and anything can happen.

Yes, unfortunately! Most of the time you have to take advantage of your opponent's failure in order to have an advantage or even win the game. That's what happened with Croatia vs Brazil...
The Brazilian team lost the psychological/mentality and the Croatians took advantage of it!

[budi691]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

it can happen, in the game of football nothing is impossible, and morocco could have knocked out portugal today, and morocco would be the first african team to reach the semifinals,

[bitbollo]

During this World Championship we have seen many surprises and Morocco was able to beat two of the strongest European teams (Belgium and Spain - penalty).
Ok, Portugal is the favorite and have shown that they are at high levels... but the fact remains that surprises can already happen, and matches are not played "on paper".

[macson]

Well, will Morocco's defense be able to withstand today, or will Portugal repeat their previous success and show how football should be played?  Morocco managed to achieve a very good result at this World Cup, but enough unexpected surprises, it's time to win with the favorites. I'm a little surprised why the odds for Portugal's win are 1.76? I expect that Portugal will win today, the reliable defense of Morocco should fail. I wonder if Ronaldo will play in the starting lineup, or will he start the match again on the bench?

based on the portugal line-up report, cristiano ronaldo is back on the bench, i believe santos prepared ronaldo in the semi-final match ^{(if portugal manages to win over morocco)}.  Morocco has an extraordinary defense and also their goalkeeper ^(bono) has conceded the fewest goals so far, i saw Portugal's narrow victory in this match but with a very big struggle.

[S A KHAIR]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

Against the likes of Croatia, a strong Brazil team was eliminated. Morocco beat Spain. From this it is easy to understand that strong match strategy is more important than good performance or strong squad in this World Cup. The success of Morocco and Croatia is due to their coach's excellent match strategy. And so it is very difficult to predict which two teams will qualify for the semi-finals in today's match.
England and France are almost equally powerful. On the other hand, although Portugal is stronger than Morocco, Morocco is very tactical. So I will refrain from betting on these two matches. My prediction of type is that France and Portugal will be able to qualify for the semi-finals.

We are seeing many strange things in this World Cup. Before the World Cup, Belgium was favorites to become champions. But they were eliminated in the group stage. Favorite teams like Germany, Brazil, Spain have been eliminated. And so I will not be surprised if Portugal is eliminated in today's match. Portugal is undoubtedly stronger than Morocco. But if they make any mistake on the field then they are likely to lose. Portugal's players will have to perform very carefully for the full 90 minutes.

[beerlover]

After seeing many surprising results, I wouldn't be surprised if Croatia and Morocco meet in the final. In fact, if we see such a thing, we will experience a world cup that we will talk about for many years. Nobody could have predicted that these two teams would win so many matches, since our predictions surprise us, I started to think that Morocco could be the champion.
Let's see what Portugal can do tonight

;Dhonestly this is so funny I had to laugh very hard after seeing this comment of yours. Last night I had that very thought but I laughed it out and told myself that I joke too much but I am surprised that I have seen someone else who has similar thoughts and I can say that there are two Jokers in the world myself and you. How can we think that Morocco are Crotia will play the final?
 

Lol, it is not impossible neither. I mean sure Morocco would have to beat Portugal and then probably France, or maybe England, and then Croatia needs to beat Argentina as well. Morocco looks to be a bit more difficult, but it is just one game for Croatia and they could end up beating Argentina if they play the way they played against Brazil.

They played a very defensive game where they tried to find an open space to attack, and this took a long time but they managed to do it, and I am guessing that they could do that again and again. They are a very good tournament team and did finals last time and could try to do the same thing again this year as well.

[CryptoBuds]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.
So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

Against the likes of Croatia, a strong Brazil team was eliminated. Morocco beat Spain. From this it is easy to understand that strong match strategy is more important than good performance or strong squad in this World Cup. The success of Morocco and Croatia is due to their coach's excellent match strategy. And so it is very difficult to predict which two teams will qualify for the semi-finals in today's match.
England and France are almost equally powerful. On the other hand, although Portugal is stronger than Morocco, Morocco is very tactical. So I will refrain from betting on these two matches. My prediction of type is that France and Portugal will be able to qualify for the semi-finals.

We are seeing many strange things in this World Cup. Before the World Cup, Belgium was favorites to become champions. But they were eliminated in the group stage. Favorite teams like Germany, Brazil, Spain have been eliminated. And so I will not be surprised if Portugal is eliminated in today's match. Portugal is undoubtedly stronger than Morocco. But if they make any mistake on the field then they are likely to lose. Portugal's players will have to perform very carefully for the full 90 minutes.

You are right. If any mistakes are made by Portugal's players, they are likely to lose. Although Morocco's squad is not strong, the bonding between their players is very good. And so the Moroccan team should by no means be taken lightly. I would say all the teams in the quarter-finals are strong. Also, the infighting within Portugal's squad is now very visible. Portugal coach Fernando Santos did not include Ronaldo in his starting XI today. I don't understand why he kept an experienced player like Ronaldo on the bench. The match will start shortly. Let's see how the Portugal team performs.

[rendravolt]

We are really surprised by the unusual results, betting sites have already made a lot of profit, I guess. Yes, if Ronaldo against Messi in the final, it would be a spectacular match, but against Morocco which successfully winning against Spain before, is it possible Portugal will win today? Let's just hope they can get a win without a penalty shoot-out like yesterday's match, to be honest I don't like penalty tension.

After Spain was eliminated in a penalty, all other teams including Brazil and the Netherlands also had to be eliminated in a penalty shootout. The difference is that Spain was eliminated in the round of 16, while Brazil and the Netherlands were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

So of course the next two matches between Portugal vs Morocco and England vs France are really difficult to predict. There is a possibility of the same scenario, but I don't expect it in Portugal vs Morocco.

Maybe Portugal against Morocco won't end in a penalty shootout, but if it comes to extra time, that might happen. Meanwhile, France against England is likely to go to the penalty shoot-out, considering that both of them are very even, from the strategy to the line-up, all are almost the same, so the two will attack each other and it all depends on the goalkeeper of each team to qualify for the semifinals.