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Goatseye on 23 June 2016
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DakonBlackblade said:
Goatseye said:

In 2014 World Cup they had Bosnia, Nigeria and Iran in their group; only ok team there was Nigeria.  Then they played Switzerland in the 1/8, they won 1-0; followed by Belgium ok team with a lot of hype behind it at the time (again 1-0), then they got a competent team in Netherlands that pushed them to penalty decision. In the final, they got Germany a solid team all around and they lost.

Argentina is everything but a solid team, everytime they play against compact teams like Chile or Uruguay they shake at their foundation. Their defense suck major balls.

So you are saying they lucked into the finals. You know they lost the final on the second half of the extra time after having had like 4 chances ot score and botching it right ? And they wer eplaying defense the whole game (liek they did the entire world cup). Saying 2014s Argentina side wasn't solid as fuck is insane, winning 1x0 means nothing as Spain won a world cup by beating everyone 1x0. Switzerland is a decent side, Belguium is objectivly good, penalty or no penalty they beat Netherlands and basicaly every team get easy games on the gorup stage. You can say germany got Portugal but Portugal has been sucking for awhile now. 

And regardless of who you are playing you need to win or you are out, it happens very frequently on World Cups. Algeria was probably the ahrdest match for germany till the final (it was definetly way ahrder than Brazil) and its the one everyone would think would be a walk in the park. Looking at the match ups in a piece of paper after the torney and saying, this this and this matchs are all easy pickings makes no sense.

 

Nigeria, Iran and Bosnia are not exactly teams to test your defense whenever you got the likes of Messi and Di Maria in the front. Switzerland and Belgium were at most ok teams in the WC. They generated some hype on the road to WC, escpecially Belgium with Hazard but they didn't capitalized on it during WC.

Germany didn't have an easy group, they could've been eliminated if Ghana had played seriously.