re: Why is france such a huge favorite?

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Simply put, France is more talented. But the people that have France as major favorites fail to account that Croatia has a talented team that just works together. Modric is arguably the best midfielder in the world and has been for 3 years now. Rakitic was completely dominant against Argentina. Mandzukic and Perisic each have two goals. France have not truly “dominated” a game like Croatia have so far, and it was just a couple weeks ago we were saying how France was struggling majorly in the group. And after everything some of those Croatian players went through as children with the war, I really want to see them win it all. FWIW I think it’ll be an amazing game, my body is ready to see Giroud lift the World Cup (or Modric/Rakitic, I’m not complaining) but I’m sad the tournaments just about over

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yep. i agree with all of this completely. France isnt a joke, but people acting like they are dominating this game are too biased from the belgium game. they forget that this same team tied USA and scored 3 goals in their weak group.

Croatia isnt a team to frick with lol by any means.

Pogba is good but he might get swarmed by 3 great players in a system that allows them to swarm you.

its gonna be an awesome game but mbappe can be a game changer