Football Thread 21/22


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Premier League winner?
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jason1637 on 26 June 2018

HomokHarcos said:

jason1637 said:

They have an American player playing for them. Since the US didn't quality the Mexican team is the team I'm going with.

Are you talking about Jonathan Gonzalez who chose to play for Mexico instead of the USA? He didn't make it to the team.

Yeah I was rooting for them when he choose them and just stuck with them anyway since they're so close to the US.

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Metallox on 26 June 2018

KLAMarine said:

jason1637 said:
Hoping Mexico wins tomorrow.

Why?

Because we're awesome and everyone knows it.

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Dark_Lord_2008 on 26 June 2018

My points from last night have not been added in. 3 correct predictions out of 4 last night. I have so far correctly predicted 8 teams through to round 16 and only have 30 points.

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HomokHarcos on 26 June 2018

Kapi I'm not sure if you forgot to insert my predictions but I did make them for the final round of group games the day before they started but they're not on the chart.

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LipeJJ on 27 June 2018

Hiku said:

haxxiy said:

Or they will prevail regardless the next time around, it's not that unusual in football. In 1990 Argentina pretty much stumbled the whole tournament all the way to the finals.

I felt the same about Spain in 2010. In spite of being extremely strong on paper (they were basically Barcelona - Messi + a few Real Madrid players) they only managed to do 1-0 all the way throughout the entire knockout stage. And the goal in the final from Iniesta came during overtime.
In the group stages they weren't convincing either, losing to Switzerland.
Argentina during the 2014 World Cup also stumbled their way to the final, with basically Messi making an unlikely goal in the last minute half of the time.

So you never know. Even teams I expect more from like 2010 Spain some times fail to be convincing, but can still go all the way.
I was still happy that Spain won though and was rooting for them all the way, because I know what they're capable of at their highest level. They just weren't able to display it on many of those particular days unfortunately.

The difference is that Spain was a coherent and organized team that dominated most of the matches played. Meanwhile, Argentina is unstable, plays badly most of the time and has a very bad management by their coach. Not to mention their mental state which is not very good after all the traumas they suffered in the past 20+ years (losing on 7 finals, media’s and nation’s pressure, Messi threatening to abandon the national team, and so on). They also heavily depend on one player (Messi), which was not the case of Spain either.

I get what you’re saying, but Spain was a solid team during 2010 WC, but that’s not the case of Argentina, that don’t even look like a team, like specialists say.

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The Fury on 27 June 2018

Serbia 0 - 4 Brazil
Switzerland 2 - 2 Costa Rica
South Korea 0 - 2 Germany
Mexico 2 - 1 Sweden

Hmm, pie.

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Lafiel on 27 June 2018

South Korea vs Germany 1-4
Mexico vs Sweden 2-2
Serbia vs Brazil 1-2
Switzerland vs Costa Rica 2-0

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AZWification on 27 June 2018

Mexico- Sweden ( 1-1)
South Korea- Germany ( 0-1)
Serbia- Brazil ( 2-2)
Switzerland- Costa Rica ( 2-1)

France- Argentina ( 2-0)
Uruguay- Portugal ( 1-1/ 5-4 win on penalty to Portugal)
Spain- Russia ( 2-1)
Croatia- Denmark ( 3-1)

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