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Tomorrow the World Cup semi finals get underway. Leonardo Messi continues his quest to lead Argentina to a World Cup title. But in their way are the kings of the pk.

Luca, Mojric and Croatia. Who will make it to the World Cup final? Find out tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern on Fox.

I just read the geo rena Instagram. He said he's a very emotional person.

I'm sure you and I were at 20 21 right? Very.

It's just that let's let's settle down on the you fans out there knowing what Greg Berhalter is dealing with. He's dealing with a highly emotional youngest player on the team.

And decided I'm going to go with guys who are adult. You know can handle the stage. I'm not going to go with the youngest player on my roster in this crucial time.

Totally defender halter. But again everybody's an expert on Twitter. He was dealing with a real crisis and they almost sent geo rena home.

Yeah. It was like a razor hands out of here and it was like it was a little too close for comfort.

And I think that's what's got fans mad like why would his teammates want to send him home well if he's a if it's a toxic atmosphere because of one guy.

Maybe it's not like no World Cup players ever been sent home. There was a player sent home. This World Cup. I think some stars have been sent home in the past like it happens.

That's how you treat. I mean soccer is sudden death when you get to the knockout stage like it's high emotions.

When you only have every four years. Like it just can you imagine the NFL playoffs for every four years.

You think the NFL playoffs are intense. This stuff you're representing a country. And for some of these countries this is there.

They don't have the college system like we do where you know your your your local team gets knocked out. You love the Falcons. Well Georgia's going to be playing in the national title game or something.

This is everything. Yeah. Like Italy didn't make the World Cup. I mean it is depressing if you're a football soccer fan in Italy. Yeah.

By the way the Lions beat Minnesota was one of our blazing five picks. Here was Dan Campbell after the W.

You guys being ready to go. You guys have been ready to go for six weeks. That's the way to come out and set the tone for the day.

Yes sir. Exactly what you guys think you did by the night. Guess what? It wasn't quite the clearest game either.

But that's okay man. We did what we had to do and we took control that game. Man stay hungry. Just suck you on man. We're on fire right now. We got to keep it.

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