Pre-World Cup Friendlies

[Joca97]

France lost 1-2 to Ivory Coast. France also lost 1-2 after taking the lead.

The match between Spain and Iraq ended 1-1. I was expecting Spain to win easily, but it seems it's not easy to concentrate during friendly matches.

France looks so washed in this game. They were unable defending their lead, and this is showing how fragile they are without Saliba. So we can't expect them to have a cake walk in the group stage.

The lose against Ivory Coast is also decreasing France's position from the number one of men football team to the 3rd. I think they play without Saliba in WC, they're gonna knocked out earlier. 

Beside that this proves how African teams become rediculously strong atm.

For me the problem isnt in Saliba not playing for me the problem is that they have such a good attacking power that they couldnt score more goals. They missed a couple of chances but this team should be destroying everyone in attack and i blame the coach here for not making a better tactic in offense. Its just bad to see so many top tier players not playing like they do in their own clubs.

Still this is there first game and i think once the world cup starts we will see a different story and a France team that will beat easily this kind of opponents.

[Danica22]

France looks so washed in this game. They were unable defending their lead, and this is showing how fragile they are without Saliba. So we can't expect them to have a cake walk in the group stage.

The lose against Ivory Coast is also decreasing France's position from the number one of men football team to the 3rd. I think they play without Saliba in WC, they're gonna knocked out earlier. 

Beside that this proves how African teams become rediculously strong atm.

I was very surprised by France's performance. After having such a strong squad, why are they in such a bad position!?? Both France's attack and defense were strong. Attacking  players made a lot of attempts to score. Even then, they could not break the defense of Ivory Coast. On the other hand, Ivory coast's players had relatively few attacks. Even then  they managed to break the french defense. France was leading 1-0 at the end of the first half. But, they lost the match 2-1. France will play against Senegal, Norway and Iraq in the world cup. These opponents are not considered weak.

[mandown]

I’m very shocked and surprised with this result, France and Spain are the two major countries everyone is believing will lift the World Cup, but looking at this yesterdays result I believe the World Cup will surprise everyone the country that may win this World Cup may not actually be the country we expect.
Yes I understand that this match is just a friendly match and some people may say they didn’t take it serious but I really don’t believe they didn’t take it serious, don’t be surprised when you see results like this in the World Cup.
The question to ask those who are saying France and Spain did not take this match seriously so was it Iraq or ivory coast that took it seriously?
The World Cup match results is going to actually surprise everyone.

Scores were surprising, in my opinion. Spain taking a 1-0 lead and then drawing, and France taking a 1-0 lead and then losing, were equally surprising to me. It's also important to remember that when betting is involved, anything can happen. I never bet on friendly matches, but if I were to, I'd bet on teams with high odds and potential underdogs. In these matches, I wouldn't bet on France or Spain, even for a single dollar.

[Slow death]

France lost 1-2 to Ivory Coast. France also lost 1-2 after taking the lead.

The match between Spain and Iraq ended 1-1. I was expecting Spain to win easily, but it seems it's not easy to concentrate during friendly matches.

France looks so washed in this game. They were unable defending their lead, and this is showing how fragile they are without Saliba. So we can't expect them to have a cake walk in the group stage.

The lose against Ivory Coast is also decreasing France's position from the number one of men football team to the 3rd. I think they play without Saliba in WC, they're gonna knocked out earlier. 

Beside that this proves how African teams become rediculously strong atm.

This is no surprise at all. The French coach and his players don't put in much effort in friendly matches against weak opponents. I guarantee you that if France had played seriously and it had been a World Cup match, they would have won very easily. Just look at what happened in that game:

1 - France fielded some of their best players; Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué didn't play.

2 - France scored first in the 45th minute, and guess what happened after that?

3 - After the first goal in the 46th minute, France substituted: Dayot Upamecano, Michael Olise, Kylian Mbappé, Aurélien Tchouaméni.

They all left at the same time. So it was obvious that France wasn't even taking Ivory Coast seriously. I don't even know why this result is so surprising. I don't know how anyone could believe that Ivory Coast would beat present-day France if they were playing very seriously.

[Jewan420]

Scores were surprising, in my opinion. Spain taking a 1-0 lead and then drawing, and France taking a 1-0 lead and then losing, were equally surprising to me. It's also important to remember that when betting is involved, anything can happen. I never bet on friendly matches, but if I were to, I'd bet on teams with high odds and potential underdogs. In these matches, I wouldn't bet on France or Spain, even for a single dollar.

Betting on friendly matches, especially before a tournament, is very risky. In these matches, the favorite teams usually never play well, but they just try to stay on the field for 90 minutes. The main reason for this is to keep themselves injury-free and save energy. We should not be surprised if Argentina also loses or draws the friendly match. Because for these teams, the main stage of the World Cup is important, winning a friendly match does not have any value for them. Even a defeat does not have that effect on the main stage of the World Cup. But for small teams, these matches are also important, they try to increase their confidence by playing matches against big teams and winning, and also try to increase their skills and experience.

[Webetcoins]

You need to checkout the Serbian squad its not first team its not second team its mostly players that never played for national team,all the main players went on holidays and no body is playing for the team ,so im not surprised they lost by this much.  What i am surprised is that France lost 1-2 to Ivory coast and even in a friendly match that is really bad. They went out with their first squad and werent able to win this shows early alerts before the world cup.

Serbia sends their youngsters for this game while Mexico has their best side. This big difference brings results like this Serbia is out of the World Cup while Mexico is hosting and also has a chance of going into the top 8 just because of this result appearing on the board. France surely did not have a good day, or they were not doing any experiments. This is not a good result for them before the World Cup, as they are currently in the top 4 for winning the World Cup.

They needed to have better performance and too many surprising results before the World Cup, having good encouragement for fans because with these results now, their interest is increasing.

[Versatile_choice]

The pre-world cup friendlies is very boring to watch, men! You needed to see how they are pumping goals like is not something hard. This keep me wondering how the main game is gonna look like maybe those underdog will be taking like 10 or more lol. Can't wait for the main competition to kick start because I don't derive joy watching this friendlies, right from the beginning I don't like watching friendless even though it's pre- season match I just like watching the main league or competition. It seems that most of us are enjoying it already as for me, I would wait for the main competition its just 6 days from now.

[Juicyhome]

The pre-world cup friendlies is very boring to watch, men! You needed to see how they are pumping goals like is not something hard. This keep me wondering how the main game is gonna look like maybe those underdog will be taking like 10 or more lol. Can't wait for the main competition to kick start because I don't derive joy watching this friendlies, right from the beginning I don't like watching friendless even though it's pre- season match I just like watching the main league or competition. It seems that most of us are enjoying it already as for me, I would wait for the main competition its just 6 days from now.

Just as the name implies it's friendly and they're no seriousness in it, so if you're staking on it just beware that's nothing serious, the underdogs always win because they want to prove a point against a big team while the big team use it to keep fit and to avoid injury.

I don't also take it seriously or watch it, I'm waiting for the main football, where every team are fighting for something, you will enjoy the intensity and seriousness from both team, don't criticize any team that lose a friendly match and don't waste money on it.

[LTU_btc]

Oh Ivory Coast beating France really is a statement. Didn't imagie they would be such a threat. After all they are in the group with my German team so they better watch out. When I saw the group I had a good laugh but maybe I was laughing to early. Seems like IC might be a serious obstacle in there. Sure, friendlies don't really mean much but carrying such a win into the tournament definitely gives them some sort of momentum!

Don't want to understimate waht Ivory Coast did, but IMO, winning pre-World Cup game isn't a statement. It's not first time when some African team get hyped before World Cup, but in recent World Cups only Morocco achieved something big.
I don't undertand what Spain is doing - it's your last game before Wordl Cup and you take there maybe 10 players who aren't selected for World Cup squad. What's the point? It's not even about result and draw with mighty Iraq.