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

[pastro243]

seiya19 said:

pastro243 said:

If I had to bet, I would say you will get through, I think it will be Italy-Uruguay or the other way. England is a strong side but Italians are playing better and in south america we all know of your magical powers to advance even if you play bad added to the fact that you have great players

Hmm... I'm not sure if I like all this... We tend to do better when we go as underdogs, not favorites. And in such a complicated group...

We do have great players (mostly on the attack), but our problems are usually on the creation side, as a team. Italy is playing more on the offensive these days from what I've seen, but if they or England score us a goal and then close themselves well... They know Suárez and Cavani quite well, so I expect 2 strong defenses in those matches at least. Maybe we end up a tie with both...

By the way, you guys have it quite rough, but you do have the team to surprise there. Your matches will be very interesting... Probably more open than ours, so careful with that defense !

Ive always thought the same about your creation problem, but I think Cavani and Suarez will probably get some chances that they will probably score them(Im not so sure about Cavani, everytime I see him play for Uruguay he seems invisible and not the same players he is in his club, not like Suarez).

Against Italy I think you just have to stop Pirlo and you take away 70% of their creation.

Speaking of us, Im pretty confident we can make good matches against Spain and Holland, if we somehow manage to "control" them with pressure hopefully we wont get many one-on-one situations where our defenders(except for Medel) would probably loose.

Bad thing is that both of them play the offensive-posession thing that we do and are not the traditional european stiff teams(Like England) that would fit us much more.

Anyway, after Chile, I will always support the rest of south americans, so good luck