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Messi Rakitic Coutinho HM: Dembélé, Umtiti, Piqué, Alba

2 goals, 1 crossbar, 1 post, many key passes. As great as ever!

... and it probably was too hot in Tanger to run much. Easier to run in Northern England.

compared to Liverpool match this morning - quite a bad performance. Much too slow passing, not much movement. Nice golazo by Dembele.

Dembele Messi Alba

Rebic was decisive in Croatia win against ARG. I thought he would get a second YC for fouling Messi, but referee decided that RC was too much and a few minutes later he scored the goal that decided the match (Caballero's gift). Dirty player, or should he be described as "very physical" and...

Biggest disappointment of Spanish team was GK De Gea. He let Ronaldo score a goal directly at him and made a very weak effort during penalty shootout. Compare what Danish and Croatian GK's did! How can De Gea be ranked so highly? With a good GK, Spain could have reached the final.

I don't understand why there is no mention of the unfair FIFA decision (same in all world cups, remember Germany being stronger than Argentina in extra time 2014?) to let one finalist have 4 days of rest and the other one only 3 days. This year it was even worse than usual because of 3 Croatia...

what's really weird is that France gets an extra day of rest. After a heavy schedule, it's a big handicap to play after only 3 days of rest against a finalist who got 4 days. A big difference, even for extremely fit professionals. It's simply unfair and I don't understand why FIFA is still...

where was Harry Kane?

Varane and Umtiti + Dembélé against Modric and Rakitic!

... and one Barça player!

England not worth playing final - and they have no Barça player, hence not deserving our support

Croatia match: Rebic was on a Yellow and should probably have received a second YC before he scored the Caballero gift. From that point on it went downhill for ARG. France: Which other team has scored 3 goals against France? A WC contender needs a world class GK and a good defense. ARG did not...

France will win if their defense is staying healthy

Messi conversion rate 80%, Ronaldo 84%, top close to 90% (Balotelli, Zlatan)

I am wondering how much effort and preparation Messi puts into practicing Penalties. He knows it's one of his few weak points, so why not doing special work? Barça missed a highly probable CL win when he missed one against Chelsea at home (Pep still Coach) ARG lost a Copa Final and now Iceland...

Watching Messi now I think he is a better player than 4 years ago. He is the clear team leader, he looks very fit and is a better playmaker. Let's hope the ARG team can rise to the occasion.

it's quite simple: Zidane plans for CL matches by resting key players. Valverde plays tough La Liga matches 3 days before CL Away matches and then wonders why our players look tired. We got away with being tired against Chelsea (we were lucky!) but no longer against Roma. It's simply a matter of...