Uruguay - France The program of the quarter-finals for the 21 World Cup opens Friday afternoon with the Uruguay-France showdown, which is undoubtedly expected to be of enormous interest.
For Uruguay, Oscar Tabampes, we have spoken several times with flattery comments from this corner, and you will remember that we did not have the slightest resentment on supporting her with a strong bet on the previous round when she won us with her win (2- 1) to Portugal. Excellent team that runs incessantly, presses, marks and generally has a terrible inhibiting function with continuous overlaps, not allowing each opponent to create phases. For truth, the finish that was accepted by Pepe is the only one to record in her pass to date while she is the team that has received the finals to her home - hardly the average of her attempts to reach her goal exceeds the two per game.
On the other side, almost everyone talks with very flattering words about France and especially after 4-3 with Argentina in the previous round. I do not misunderstand, obviously, and there is no question of quality in the Desamps team, nor of course we will ignore the value of players such as Empape, Griszman and Pogba (to name a few) or even Kade who makes the silent and at the same time "dirty "Work in the center of the team. Clearly, this is an excellent team with huge potential - no one doubts that - but you will allow me to disagree with the various dirbaric comments I've read or heard lately because in my humble view, my overall picture does not seem to me it allows them to such a high degree.
Do a quick flashback? Premiere with Australia and 2-1 with the first goal to come from a penalty shootout and his second run to end up with nets with a good fortune as long as the game as a whole made it hard to create opportunities for the opponent's outfit, rather to threaten. In the next game with Peru almost identical image, with difficulty again in the creation of phases being quite predictable and after saving 0-1 on the lost goal of the Geroire, score the winning goal after ... billiards - then, for the story, the beam (among others) escaped it from 1-1. As for the last game of the group stage with Denmark, we just watched a game ... a parody that reminded a "talk" game in the second half of Italy in mid-May, especially since Australia received early goals in another match played at the same time - in any case, to be fair, I will not count on her "bad" games, considering the special circumstances created.
Then followed 4-3 with Argentina. Undoubtedly the best team won and we all saw how dangerous it is to make France an open field and when it finds you "bossy". My point, however, is that ... he found and did it because at the opposite side we had an Argentinian non-existent and probably the worst Albiesthete that we have ever seen, with players slower and by the ... delay by playing the system three spells and two dancing . I have the feeling that there is no more "bulk" and under these circumstances, I think that even Panama - which says the word - would have been fortunate to expose it. To put it another way, when even Messi from one point and then gives you a sense of indifference, you understand that the situation is uncorrected.
But do not be misunderstood. France has done well and did its job, as anyone else would do in its place. The "tampaki" in this whole discussion is that I should not, in my opinion, be fooled by the image we have seen in her recent game with Argentina (this, in fact, gave the great occasion for the excitement that prevails) because it is simply the other. .. Argentina and another one of the most well-organized and well-organized ensembles of the tournament, like Uruguay's Tabarez. Neither "field" will find France there to flatten, nor some soft team that will easily handle. There, on the other hand, she will find against her a team that is almost inhibiting her ... you drink in the glass because, besides the big figure sitting at the edge of her bench, she has the right "tools" to do it with players who do not walk the time of the fight. Everyone runs and everyone marks, including her two star in the attack, Swearez and Kavani.
I already know what I want to end up with, but I say two basic things about the betting track. France's win at 2,00 on average is simply not available, as it does not mean if 4,60 pays Uruguay. Favori, that is, a team that basically convinced you for one hour of play (and against a team of ... carriages) and such a big outsider whose opponent has begun with 4X4 victories and has the best defense of the game, with just one passive goal and the fewer final ones to its focus?
Beyond that, clearly the matter of the days - and certainly affecting the odds with which the betting companies came - is the injury of Kavani during the fight with Portugal, also putting his part in this quarter-final, let alone racing readiness. By the time these lines were written there was no newer development but I would risk the prediction that not only will it be ready but will also start normally in the core of its team - just to say it, it does not lose it ... never the game is the star of Paris Saint-Germain.
As for the prehistory of the two groups, "Select" has it entirely on its side in the sense that it has never been defeated by France. More specifically, in a total of six matches, Uruguay counts two wins, with the remaining four having ended in a draw, while at the World Cup, the two teams have met three times, with Uruguay counting a win (2-1 1966) the remaining two times both ended 0-0.
To conclude, yes, I accept that France may have a small lead, but I do not accept the great variation in the sets that are in circulation, with victory of Uruguay at 4,62 of goalbet to be my choice. Clearly I take a significant risk, with the additional reason for the question mark that exists for Cavani's participation, however, having the belief that he will finally give the present, I do not rule out (especially if the relevant news comes out in the next few hours) betting companies "gather" . Even if he does not play, my opinion is that Uruguay does not have as few chances of winning as the current odds suggest.
