...love Uruguay. I agree with
@Chris O'Connor that they will make it difficult for France to get in behind. They play like a club side, they play like the game matters to them.
I’d have really fancied them against Argentina but I fear France might just have enough energy, power and athleticism to break them down. Cavani going off injured is a concern.
Last night result did my pocket a lot of good but the game was much closer than I thought. I thought 9/5 was a great price for Uruguay and the win certainly gives me a nice profit on the tournament. I’ve got more speculative bets on Uruguay (ew) to win it and a Uruguay/Croatia final, but I fear the next match will see Uruguay bow out.
That's pretty much how I see it too Eggs...
Any chance that Mbappe can repeat his heroics is one not to miss.
I suspect a quite different game however, Uruguay's style is always conceding possession and breaking from deep rather in the Atleti fashion, possession stats will be meaningless, the midfield battle non existent.
Uruguay are likely to make it extremely difficult for France to get in behind. They play it like a club side and one that specialises in defence and counter. With such high quality defenders in Godin and Giménez they have the solid foundation and a platform which in turn gives them the license to launch quick counters, and in Suarez and Cavani they offer a potent and constant pacy threat.
Or as Eggs points out...
Uruguay play like the game really matters to them.
They won't play anything like as high or be as naive or clueless as Argentina's defenders seemed to be, constantly ignoring the danger despite being undone by it time and again. They surely could and should have sat off ten yards and not given so much room in behind, it was just basics, rarely will you see such crass defending outside of a Sunday football league.
Tbf Mascherano the screen, looking twenty or thirty years past his best didn't help much lol
And as Eggs again said..
France though might just have enough energy, power and athleticism to break Uruguay down,
They have with just one superlative performance now shown that they've truly arrived, and are now just starting to realise their true potential, they've put down a marker and can go all the way.
There will be an anticipation and an excitement amongst neutrals at the chance that we might see them fully fire again, their big stars will be full of confidence and could have an apparently revitalised Pogba pulling all the right strings.
In Griezemann and the new superstar Mbappe they have the armoury to blow most defences away.
For Uruguay, Cavani going off injured is a real concern, a nation will be praying he makes it.
