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Spot on quote. The first half was all croatian possession with over 60% and 7 shots while France made only one. The match got better with the second half.

Sooo... France won the World Cup with two lucky goals (autogoal from Mandzukic and a PK from Griezmann by hand touch also by Mandzukic) with a first half completely dominated by Croatia and then, by the second half, they played much better thanks to Pogba making the decisive goal and Mbappé who further makes the distance and then Lloris happened to botch for trying to play cool and dribbling Mandzukic, making the second goal and ending the result in a 4-2. I did rooted for France here but I have to say: half of their score was just a fluke so yeah... I have mixed feelings about the result. Nonetheless, Italy is gonna rage a lot for this but hey... At least I keep it cool XD Anyway... Kylian Mbappé wins the Young Player Award which is earned. Luka Modric gets the consolation prize with the Golden Ball. And Thibaut Courtois, Belgium's GK, wins the Golden Glove. Also earned thanks to his incredible saves. EDIT: The hand touch was from Perisic, not Mandzukic. My bad.

While still Work In Progress, she got a positive reception so I might as well post here

Expecting lots of Italians rooting for Croatia since the majority bear a grudge for the french... but eh, if I have to pick a side for the finals it'll be the latter because I like them more than the croatians as a team and players. Also expecting a great match for Belgium-England too.

Sucks Kylian had to be a jerk and receive a very avoidable yellow card if he didn't act so obviously

My predictions is gonna be France-Belgium and England-Croatia with the finals being Belgium-Croatia (the latter being the winner). As much as I liked swedish's play and formation (as I says myself being Italian), I don't think they gonna come up something to block Harry Kane & Co. other than all defensive formation til the PKs. Same for Russia. They played out pretty well but I'm sure they're gonna get bodied by Modric's team. Who knows what swerve is gonna happen next

@RiseofSpectrum Thanks for the insightful analysis about Portugal's poor performance. I barely watched the match because I tried to reason with a friend (whose supporting Portugal due to his heritage) who thought they could've beaten Uruguay even though I always warned him about the duo Suarez-Cavani, tough defender Caceres on defense and the good keeper Muslera. In the end he got blasted from defeat and now he's badmouthing Portugal for how they played.

Given you have Mohammed Salah as the main player, but sadly one man cannot carry an entire team. On a different note: I never thought dying from a sport-related heart failure could be possible. Here we have a commentator who is so obsessed with AC Milan people started joking he could die like that any day.

The Champions' Curse strikes again as Germany ranked 4th after getting a beatdown with a 2-0 from the koreans.

Fun fact: an Egyptian commentator died of heartbreak due to Al-Dossari's goal. Ouch...

Thank you very much @Oleks It was for a roleplay with my friends and "Dragonheart" was perfect for it.

I'm looking to some brony songs inspired on Spike or the dragons in general. One with lyrics. No specific genre. Do you have any suggestion?

Okay. This G1 Climax is going to be total hype.

Well played matches from Germany-Mexico and Brasil-Switzerland. This World Cup is getting more and more interesting the days passes. Also special mention to yesterday being the National Day of Penalty Kicks XD

Russia - Saudi Arabia I know Putin's team was gonna win but not like this. XD Pretty underwhelming match with the russians dominating and scoring five times, the last one at 94' by Golovin, while the arabians felt undertone for the entirety of the match Egpyt - Uruguay Half expected a dominance from Uruguay but the egyptians played pretty well despite Salah being out and having against Cavani and Suarez. Pretty boring match tho but a good one for the africans despite Gimenez's score. It could have been worse. Morocco - Iran My bet was for Morocco since it had Benatia and Hakimi. One-sided for the african team but a shocking finale as the decisive goal was made due to a mistaken headshot from Bouhaddouz. Spain - Portugal Best match so far. CR7 godly as ever when he seeks the chance in offense but also a good job from Spain thanks to Diego Costa. Overall a funny match.

I just watched Dominion right now... and about the Okada/Omega match

Hey, bronies talking about football and a thread about the World Cup without actual scorn or dissing for each other. Yay My bets on who's gonna win it this year are Germany, France, Belgium and Poland. Regarding the South Americans, I'm gonna say Argentina or Columbia. One of you said it's kind of strange a team like Italy isn't in the tournament. Allow me to say why. Italy has never been good though since 2006. They placed last in 2010, getting third in 2014 due to two shameful losses and they only had decent runs in the European Cups. Sure we had some top tier players such as Buffon, Totti and Pirlo but, truth be told, what Italy lacked was clearly a "generational jump" where other teams (like Brasil, Spain and Germany) just did and now they are at the top of the rankings. Sure we have good players in our country such as Balotelli [as much of a hothead he is], Insigne and Immobile but they're not considered prime stuff like the real talents in Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Monaco, Manchester City or Paris St. Germain. From the former champions in 2006 they turned in mid-tier team at best. Also, Italy lost against Sweden because of coach Ventura who was terrible at his job because he never made an actual module for this year and just improvised stuff all along. Now they have the much-better Mancini although they are still on the verge of being a mediocre team in my eyes. Honestly I'm not surprised or even horrified at my team not getting into the World Cup for a reason. It is still an "immature" team who still need time and care to be on the same league as the others, but at that point they're still garbage.

NXT 5-31-18 With 3 weeks from Takeover: Chicago [not Brooklyn IV as I did last time], time to take a look on this episode. BTW go watch Cedric Alexander vs Buddy Murphy on 205 Live. You're not gonna be disappointed.

So... NXT episode of May 24°

You are forgiven. Nice sketch nonetheless x3

That sounds creepy. How does it work?

Ironically I played it back in 2008 circa and wasn't mainstream and complex at the time. The only cringy part I can remember is the "Decals" section which felt like a section of stolen DeviantArt works..... and a lot of "fanboy-istic" garbage. But to be fair, Roblox has its fair share of fun stuff, past the fandom though.

Allow me to digress. So far he has shown a really bad gimmick of a cross-over between EC3 and Velveteen Dream minus the actual arrogance of the One Percenter and the magnetic personality of Patrick Clark's character. He comes off as your typical vain heel who boast about himself as his catchphrase is "I'm The Finest" [about what?] Also his finisher is a lazily modified Samoan Drop called the "Hawaiian Drop". So I know he debuted really early and needs time to mature, but so far he's proven to be useless when you have better dastardly heels like EC3 and Adam Cole.

As I watched NXT last week, I'm gonna ask: how much garbage is Kona Reeves?