Official(ish) World Cup 2014 thread. FULL draw and fixture list inside.

[pastro243]

DamnTastic said:

pastro243 said:
Well, even if we(Chile) dont qualify, at least Im expecting great matches against Spain and Holland.

Last time, a few months ago, against Spain we drew 2-2 with them scoring in the last minute, so I think its not impossible to beat them or Holland.

It will depend on our important players like Sanchez, Vidal, Medel and Valdivia to arrive in good form

Do you guys still have that trainer of 2010? Because he was good!

No, Bielsa left after the president of the federation changed. We changed to Claudio Borghi who almost leaves us out of the WC and we changed him on time to bring Sampaoli, who would give us a 5W-1D-1L in the last matches of the qualifiers.

The thing is, Sampaoli is a huge fan of Bielsa, so we play very similar, only that with Bielsa our tactics were almost suicide and it was "attack, attack, attack" and playing with 3 in defense with crappy defenders(our weakest players) meant that sometimes teams with good strikers would kill us easily in counters.

Now we are more versatile and focus on attack but with posession in the midfield, high pressure and always mantaining the offensive mentality. This has given us better results added to the fact that young players in 2010 have grown.