Actually, I thought England going forward were alright, but Chris Smalling was a liability.
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Good game by Germany against Armenia. Though the opponent is average, it was a game for the team to get some motivation boost and for them to demeonstrate their strong combination play. In the second half, they really showed some mighty fine football. In the first half it was good too, but they hugely lacked in terms of efficieny and especially stumbled quite a bit in front of the goal... . Podolski real strong. And Kroos in total control - Toni will rock the World Championships.
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Shonak wrote:
Good game by Germany against Armenia. Though the opponent is average, it was a game for the team to get some motivation boost and for them to demeonstrate their strong combination play. In the second half, they really showed some mighty fine football. In the first half it was good too, but they hugely lacked in terms of efficieny and especially stumbled quite a bit in front of the goal... . Podolski real strong. And Kroos in total control - Toni will rock the World Championships.
COMPLETELY irrelevant.
Losing Reus is - by position - one of the easiest fates to get over, but still a major blow.
Anybody see the official predictions from Sports Illustrated?
They actually have USA getting last in their group, even behind Ghana.
They have Brazil Vs. Germany and Uruguay Vs. Argentina as the semi's with Argentina beating Brazil for the world cup.
Thoughts?
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USA suck thats why, their group is a group of death i think Spain again but they may have faded by now i think if Spain don't win it will be Bra, Ura, or Argentina SAmerican teams have a big advanatage with the heat and humidity, should favour USA aswell maybe.
jseadog1 wrote:
Anybody see the official predictions from Sports Illustrated?
They actually have USA getting last in their group, even behind Ghana.
They have Brazil Vs. Germany and Uruguay Vs. Argentina as the semi's with Argentina beating Brazil for the world cup.
Thoughts?
They will fight with Ghana to get 3rd in the group. It would take quite a bit for Germany and Portugal not to go through. I see Ghana as the better team but its possible for USA to beat them.
France look idiots not picking Nasri now Ribery is injured.Nasri should have been in the team anyway from the start. Nasri and Ribery were their main flair in midfield now they have, Valbuena, Menez?. Their cmid will be good but they won't win imo.
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ivan the terrible 2191 wrote:
France look idiots not picking Nasri now Ribery is injured.Nasri should have been in the team anyway from the start. Nasri and Ribery were their main flair in midfield now they have, Valbuena, Menez?. Their cmid will be good but they won't win imo.
Given their recent history with internal problems i think it's wise to not pick Nasri. France needs a tournament without fights within the team and from what i've read Nasri was a really big part of that.
Oh yeah jseadog, Ghana is the favorite against USA If you guys (USA) take a point u've done well.
Edited by gotlandrules on 07-06-2014 04:12
I think I read something that USA has a secret weapon, Julian Green, who could help USA get out of the Group stage because of something along the lines of "he is good at diving in the box and drawing penalty calls"
About France, they have a young team, and I think they are preparing for the Euro's or next world cup, but could do okay this year as well! Dont forget they still have guys like Cabella, Benzema, Griezmann on top of their solid midfield and pretty good defenders. If those players (the attackers) want to do something here France could be a bit of a dark horse.
Actually, I would take Ghana over Portugal any day of the week(especially as Him has got a hamstring knack).
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
Brazil on't get through their group if they play like they did against Serbia this morning. They played awfully. If they play better then they will but I don't think they will reach the semis. Hoping for something big from an underdog, but not Uruguay.
I was told that Klinsmann was being told by an american radio guy to leave the country and that he has won absolutely nothing just because Klinsmann said that if you are in Europe a bad player with a great history you don't get 50 million like Kobe? America
And thats just because of Donovan..
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
I know, really bad news for Germany. What's worse, Mustafi was called up in his place. This is a defender, with 1 cap to his name. If Löw wanted a defender, he should have called up Schmelzer, or if he wanted somebody with one cap, or in general somebody to take Reus' place, he should have called up Volland.
