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@thereelestt 👀

gonna surprise loads of casuals how comfortably spain beat france today

Women’s football transfer culture is genuinely strange 😂 Your best player can leave for a direct rival and everyone just carries on. United to Liverpool, City to United, United to Arsenal… absolutely zero loyalty. And why on earth are United selling Malard? This has come completely out of nowhere. So sudden and so strange.

Chelsea reach an agreement with Manchester United to sign forward Melvine Malard. Initial fee is worth around £850k with add-ons on top taking the total package just shy of £1m. Club-record sale for Manchester United Women, as @TomJGarry first called.🔵

@FabrizioRomano Brutally honest from the captain. France abandoned their identity technically and tactically, while Spain executed their plan almost perfectly. They simply did not deserve the final.

🚨 Kylian Mbappé: “Our touches and movement WERE NOT worthy of a World Cup SEMIFINAL”.

@MadridXtra Brutally honest from the captain. France abandoned their identity technically and tactically, while Spain executed their plan almost perfectly. They simply did not deserve the final.

🚨 Kylian Mbappé: “I think we didn’t play our game, TECHNICALLY and TACTICALLY. When you don’t do what you’re supposed to do in a World Cup semi-final, you don’t win. Spain stayed true to their game plan. If we are honest, we did NOT have what it takes to go to the final.”

@FabrizioRomano Mbappé is absolutely right. France were nowhere near the required standard, but Spain’s relentless pressing also forced many of those mistakes. They were completely outplayed.

🚨 Kylian Mbappé: “We did too many technical mistakes. It wasn't up to the standard of a World Cup semi-final”.

@Jaack The talent was never the issue. France had more than enough quality to win it, but they never looked like a coherent team and Spain finally punished them.

I don’t think in my lifetime there has been a World Cup with SUCH a clear favourite, who’s ended up shitting the bed as much as France have in this.

@UTDTrey Portugal and France fans forming an alliance against one teenager 😭

Yamal really took out Portugal & France You’ve made an enemy for life in me lil bro

@TouchlineX That is a serious tactical failure at this level. France’s press was disorganised from the start, and Spain repeatedly played through it with ease. Mbappé is right: the performance simply was not good enough for a World Cup semi-final.

🚨🗣️ Kylian Mbappe: "Right from the start, we were pressing 3 against 2." "We MESSED up there. Against Spain, you have to press MAN-FOR-MAN." And even when we won the ball back — our touches and movement WERE NOT worthy of a World Cup SEMIFINAL."

@Marko_Omang 😭😭😭

at least Belgium scored a goal 😝😝

@PkPkPiQue France were very poor, even Belgium did better to be honest. I concedes, they were favorites at the end of the day.

I think France 🇫🇷 is Belgium 🇧🇪

@EagleOnthePitch @theMadridZone France were very poor..very poor.

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone What. Are we saying now ! Belgium got a goal atleast 😂😭

🚨 Lamine Yamal: “If France have to fear anyone, it’s US. We’re the ones who knocked them out last time. We are NOT afraid of them."

@Valenc1a3 @theMadridZone They were very poor...i concedes.

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone They’re worst 😆

@siseko_M24 @theMadridZone 😂😂😂😂

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone

@M_Jobz @theMadridZone 😂😂😂

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone Come back to this

@Aydens_props @theMadridZone 😂😂😂

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone France is Uzbekistan maybe

@evilFatBuu @theMadridZone 😂😂😂😭😭😭

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone

@Desmund_Oris @theMadridZone They actually were unfortunately.

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone Here to tell you that France was worse than Belgium

@gatto0102 @theMadridZone 😭😭😭

@gatto0102 @theMadridZone What competition was this? Lol

@gatto0102 @theMadridZone 😂

@TheSports_Hook @theMadridZone Go Home Boy 2-0 Spain is the Daddy of France.

@OfficialVizeh Back to transfer rumours for a few weeks, then club football returns. The football cycle never really stops.

So what the fuck do we do after the World Cup ends?