Thibaut Courtois has lashed out at France and their tactics after his country, Belgium’s defeat to the former world champions in the first semifinal played yesterday.
Courtois called them an ‘anti-football’ team which was in relation to France’s defensive tactics for the game.
Speaking to reporters, he said: “It’s just an anti-football team,”
“Their striker plays 30 metres from his own goal.”
Courtois also took the time to praise Brazil who were a lot more enterprising and forced the Chelsea goalkeeper into a number of saves.
“France heads a corner and does nothing more than defend,” he said.
“I would have preferred to have lost in the quarter-finals to Brazil, at least that was a team that wanted to play football.”
Belgium did most of the pressing with France restricted to counter attacks and set-pieces and it from one of these that they scored, Barcelona’s Samuel Umtiti heading in a corner kick in the second half.
After this, France sat deep, getting men behind the ball and leaving Olivier Giroud as a lone man up front.
Courtois, however still made some important saves including shots from Giroud, Mbappe and Tolisso as France looked to make the game safe.
Belgium, who are the tournament’s top scorers will now have to settle for a third-place match which will be between the second semifinalists namely; Croatia and England who play today for a chance to fill in the second slot for the final which will be played in Moscow.
🙁 No final it is 😢
That's #Football. We did our best. ⚽️
The support in 🇧🇪 & all over the world was once again amazing !
👏 Félicitations @equipedefrance et bonne chance pour la finale ! 👍
We go for 🥉 now ! 💪
👊🏽 @Fanclub1895 #REDTOGETHER#WorldCup#FRABEL pic.twitter.com/OnLhIg0zoP
— Belgian Red Devils (@BelRedDevils) July 10, 2018
The Belgian national team’s Twitter account congratulated France on their win while also applauding the team for what has been an excellent World Cup.
The account posted: 🙁 No final it is 😢
That’s #Football. We did our best. ⚽️
The support in 🇧🇪 & all over the world was once again amazing !
👏 Félicitations @equipedefrance et bonne chance pour la finale ! 👍
We go for 🥉 now ! 💪
👊🏽 @Fanclub1895
#REDTOGETHER
#WorldCup
#FRABEL
I am living in France and I can tell you that this way of competing out others by negative tactics is typical of the French in every aspect of life. I have been bullied and mobbed by them during my whole career, and it was impossible to obtain justice because they consider every foreigner as an inferior non-human. The whole society is infested by the corruption of the free masons lodge. They are absolutely cynical, dishonest and supremely arrogant. I have been mobbed weeks ahead of the competition by them telling that they would be world champions and that they are the best in the world. You can see how good they are from their game against Denmark, were the Danes just mirrored their tactics. You find yourself the surrounded by a whole pack of bullies eager to humiliate you. They also have been controlling FIFA for a number of years now through Sarkozy and Platini. The draws for the Euro 2016 and this World cup have been rigged to park all major teams in one half of the tournament and France in the other. The major teams must then eliminate one another. The team that comes out as a winner of the onslaught will be exhausted and will then have to combat a fresh French team that is dropped into the semi final.
In the semi final the referee makes sure that France go through to the final. Think about the penalty against Germany in the Euro. One of the Uruguayan referees of the game against Belgium is the guy who cancelled Lampard’s goal against Germany. He should never have been allowed to referee a game again! In the Euro the French injured Ronaldo in order to make sure victory would come home. Other things that are used to favour them are time tables, travel distances, strategically handing out yellow cards and injuring players ahead of the tournament. You always have to follow the money. Here the money is the selling of French shirts. France is the team of the New World Order who poison everybody’s life on the whole planet just for the fun of doing harm.