The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Slimebeast said:

Scisca said:

So my predictions for today:

England 0:0 Wales - both teams are bad to be honest. This will be a struggle for both players and fans. This whole group is shit to be honest, the worst one in the tournament.

No...

England is great, Russia is good, Slovakia is decent and Wales is decent. The group is on par with group A and F.

No. England is England - good enough to get out of the group stage, but will lose spectacularly once they meet the first decent team - as always. Russia is bad - do you remember the group they had in the qualifiers? They played with Austria and Sweden. Have you seen Austria? Have you seen Sweden? And they didn't even win the group - they are bad. Slovakia is okay, Wales is meh.

Group B on par with A and F? Don't think so. Look, I know that Group F doesn't look scary, but let me remind you - Iceland won its group in the qualifiers. They won the group. And they played against Netherlands, Czech Rep and Turkey! That group was stronger than their group at the Euro People are overlooking them and I have no idea why they are doing it. Personally, I'd bet on Iceland should they play against England. Poland played them last year and it was a very tough game. It ended 4:2 for us, but the score doesn't give justice to how they played. We were down at halftime and it was 2:2 almost till the 80th minute. Down overlook them, these guys deserve respect. On top of Iceland you have Portugal, which is easily on par with England - and you already have a better group.

Group A - France is the host, that alone makes them more dangerous than England, the fact that they have better players also means something. Romania and Switzerland are easily around the level of Slovakia if not slightly better.

Group B is easily the weakest group. D is the group of death, with C and E close behind.