The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Homo_Sovieticus on 15 June 2014

Iran - Nigeria 0:1
Germany - Portugal 3:1
Ghana - USA 2:1

I'm not sure, it's really hard to predict even result.

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Joaco <3 N64 on 15 June 2014

Germany 3 - 2 Portugal
Iran 1 - 2 Nigeria
Ghana 3 - 1 USA

My predictions, for tomorrow.

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ultima on 16 June 2014

Scisca said:

Slarvax said:

Anfebious said:

Not much of a fan but I like to watch the world cup matches a lot!

Well, let me tell you that everybody thought that this might be Messi's best WC... THOUGHT! >:)

Well, let me tell you that this probably is his best WC...

I still stick to my guns and predict Brasil to win it all. Netherlands were dangerous, but it's way too early, they still have too many opportunities to mess it all up. I'm also very interested in what Belgium shows us. Still, European teams always play shit outside of Europe. Lat WC was the first ever held outside of Europe that a European team won.

The worst thing I see is that there are almost no good strikers present at the tournament. Nearly every single good striker isn't there or isn't really there.

Lewandowski, Ibrahimović, Falcao, Costa (he's just a tourist), Suarez (still isn't capable of playing, the team is using a smoke screen telling us that he's "almost there"). All absent or incapable of playing anything worth watching. The only ones present are Van Persie and Agüero. Such a crisis at this spot :(

Cavani is easily as good as the ones you listed. Benzema and Balotelli too probably. And then there is the lower, but still very good, tier: Klose, Ibisevic, Dzeko, Drogba, Lukaku, Higuain.

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osed125 on 16 June 2014

Fun site to look at the chances teams have to advance to the next round, who knows where they are getting the numbers from.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/world-cup/

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vivster on 16 June 2014

I hope full dedicated strikers die out. I very much like what Germany is doing. Gomez seems to be out forever and Klose won't last much longer. Everyone else is offensive middlefield. We're practically starting with a 4-2-4 where the 4 middle fielders have all the same chances of scoring. It's a highly variable playstyle.

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osed125 on 16 June 2014

mZuzek said:

osed125 said:

Fun site to look at the chances teams have to advance to the next round, who knows where they are getting the numbers from.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/world-cup/

That's really interesting indeed. Though those numbers are kinda stupid, basically they're implying everyone who won in the first round is going through, everyone who lost is already out.

I'm just having fun looking at some "prediction" sites. Here's another one, this one seems to be more balanced.

http://football-lab.com/

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