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France-Belgium and Croatia-England duels to host the World Cup semi-final in Russia; but in this quartet we can observe many curious and disparate statistics.
The Belgian team has dominated in all of its matches (5) and it's the only team with a perfect rhythm in the tournament, including the brilliant 2-1 win over the A few days ago , only six selections in history of the World Cups won the first five clashes: Brazil (1970, 2002), Poland (1974), Italy (1990), Holland (2010), Argentina (2014) and now the Belgium
Meanwhile, England shows a defeat – precisely against the Red Devils -, France a draw in the group stage and Croatia had to go to the lottery penalties in the second and quarter turn final, his matches against Denmark and Russia. Indeed, according to Mr. Chip's statistics, Croatia is the second selection of the entire history of these events of the world which surpbades two consecutive rounds in criminal; Argentina had already done so in 1990.
With 14 goals, Belgium is the best team of the tournament, but it is in England that lives the first striker, Harry Kane, who plays six goals so far.
If Kane continues to break the networks could match the Brazilian Ronaldo, who scored eight in 2002, the highest number since Germany 1974.
France did not play a half final since 2006; Belgium since 1986; England since 1990; and Croatia since 1998. They are many years – 92 of all – without seeing these teams in the round of the top four. Of course, they had never met before.
England is currently the world champion in the U-17 and U-20 categories, and now it's two wins to win in absolute terms. Only Brazil conquered this treble in unison (between 2002 and 2003.)
Belgium will play the semifinals with a series of 24 consecutive matches without knowing defeat, a contempt, the biggest current series of the planet.
The fourth consecutive World Cup that a European team raises the monarch trophy: Italy won in 2006, Spain in 2010 and Germany in 2014. That is, the fight between America and the Old Continent will be, yes or yes, 9-12
In Russia, there are more than four matches and four days of competition. What seemed like an eternity is now reduced to very little for football lovers.
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