Belgium beats England 2-0 to finish third place in the World Cup

[sandensea]

Belgium earned its highest World Cup finish on Saturday by beating England 2-0 in the third-place match.

Thomas Meunier and Eden Hazard scored a goal each for the Belgians, who lost to France in the semifinals on Tuesday.

Both teams were playing for the seventh time in 26 days, but Belgium entered the match with an extra day of rest.

Meunier scored in the fourth minute, knocking a cross from Nacer Chadli past England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Hazard added the other off a pass from Kevin De Bruyne in the 82nd.

Toby Alderweireld denied England’s best chance of the game, sliding on the goal line to clear a shot from Eric Dier.

England, which lost to Croatia in the semifinals on Wednesday, matched its best World Cup result — fourth in 1990 — since winning the tournament for the only time in 1966.

At: http://time.com/5338840/world-cup-england-belgium/

[MaryMagdaline]

1. Poor England. But at least they beat down the Twitler 1-0.

[sandensea]

2. They certainly did.

Cheeto's no match for British wit.

[MaryMagdaline]

3. No one is!

[bluecollar2]

4. As an Englishman...

Obviously I'm disappointed....

But to have reached the final four was brilliant.

Proud of the lads. Southgate did well...

I'm sure he'll go back and look at what happened.

Well done lads.

[sandensea]

5. Absolutely.

England is always a contender.

And Football itself is an English sport after all.

[bluecollar2]

6. France vs Croatia

Should be a hell of a match.

Rooting for France tomorroe.

[sandensea]

7. So am I.

Frankly, I don't feel strongly about either one; but as I am of part French descent on my mother's side (La Passade), I suppose France it is.

And good on Croatia for knocking Russia out of the World Cup. I guess you can buy the hosting rights; but not the big prize itself.

[bluecollar2]

8. Croats

Didn't exactly distinguish themselves during the war...

I know I shouldn't hold that out but as an Englishman sometimes I find it difficult....

[sandensea]

9. The Ustase were indeed a Nazi's Nazi

At least as brutal, and far more murderous proportionally to its population, than even Hitler.

Not surprisingly, Prescott Bush and the Dulles brothers brought in a number of Ustase figures to help staff the CIA in its early days.

One of their children, Mira Radielovic Ricardel, later served as Rumsfeld's chief policy adviser, and is now reportedly Cheeto's eyes and ears in the Pentagon (Cheeto, as you know, doesn't trust Gen. Mattis).

Crazy times, these.

[bluecollar2]

10. We're on the same page

But then I should put aside my prejudices in the name of football.

Looking forward to tomorrow's match

Hope France wins....

Hope French Man. Utd. Players suck...

YNWA