Brazil remain World Cup favourites...
We’re still not sure France are a side we’d want to be backing when they’re particularly well fancied, and while the half-arsed defeat to Tunisia in the final group game was barely a wrinkle in the grand scheme, it did rather threaten our own previously stated claim that France’s second team would have a good crack at winning this whole thing. And it saw them slip from second to third-favourites with the bookies. How fickle.
The semi-final run at last year’s Euros wasn’t ever really truly convincing, but did hint at a return to major form after a very meh run. And is, we think all can agree, a pretty good start to a tournament. Especially after what happened to Argentina, butafter what happened to Germany. Even in drawing with the Germans they looked pretty sodding good.
There were a few, glorious minutes when it seemed both Germany and Spain were heading home at Japan and Costa Rica’s expense, but the Germans ruined everything by scoring three goals.
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