World Cup 2018 General Discussion

[Adriano@10]

France overrated? On paper they are easily amongst the best teams in the next world cup i would even argue that they are up there with the germans and Brazil!!
Than again they usualy fuck themselves with some internal suaq trouble BS.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Germany going to tie up with Brazil with 5 cups. They destroyed all the confederation champs with a B/C team last summer. Don’t see anyone stopping them. Would be awesome to see a new team win the cup. Obviously want Colombia to win but they play like hot garbage. All South American teams minus Brazil are shit right now and the games are in Europe so I count the other 4 out haha.

Croatia squad looks pretty sick. Think Spain, France and Portugal are pretty over rated.

C'mon non of those teams are overrated. For a team to be overrated you actually need to rate them high, I don't think anyone rates Portugal high even though they won 2016. I don't see Spain or France being overrated they are both pretty solid teams.

 

[crzdcolombian]

C'mon non of those teams are overrated. For a team to be overrated you actually need to rate them high, I don't think anyone rates Portugal high even though they won 2016. I don't see Spain or France being overrated they are both pretty solid teams.

From what I seen not impressed

2-2 tie last min goal against Colombia in Spain. Brazil is a lot a lot lot lot better then Colombia. Plus have a better winning mentality

Portugal didn’t impress me at all against Mexico, US or Chile. Every South American team is better then these 3.

Not that I think Spain or France suck. They just aren’t up there with brazil or Germany to me.

Just think the level between teams is a huge huge gap

 

[JJM]

favs: Germany,France,Brazil,Argentina...surprises:Belgium,Croatia(nah...dat df is shaky af),Uruguay...i see Portugal sucking baws here,England with another epic fail tbh

 

[crzdcolombian]

favs: Germany,France,Brazil,Argentina...surprises:Belgium,Croatia(nah...dat df is shaky af),Uruguay...i see Portugal sucking baws here,England with another epic fail tbh

Have any of you watched Argentina play? They New Zealand level bad when they are bad and maybe as good as Panama when they are good.

 

[brehme1989]

I'm gonna wait on the groups to form but let's see

On paper the top 5 favourites are Germany, France, Spain, Argentina and Brazil. The three European teams seem stronger and more deep so they have the edge. Belgium also has a very interesting team and has an outside chance while there are some nice teams yet with almost zero chances of winning but some chances of going to the last 4 if the draw is favourable enough and they avoid most of the big teams. Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Portugal, Croatia, Poland and even England come to mind. It's something that's been happening since 1994 at least. 94: Sweden/Bulgaria, 98: Croatia. 2002: Turkey/Korea(corrupt though). 2006: Portugal to an extent (could argue they were 7th favorites, dont remember the odds now, but Germany, France, Italy, Brazil, Argentina and the Netherlands were probably considered better. 2010: Uruguay, 2014: arguably the Netherlands.

I'm expecting Serbia, Russia and one of the three northern African teams (Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) to do better than expected. That basically means last 16 for Serbia and the N. African team and last 8 for Russia.

But without the draw and the finalized rosters it's too hard to speculate.

 

[crzdcolombian]

Belgium is not better then Mexico, Colombia or Uruguay. Them
Having more guys in England doesn’t make them
A better team

 

[Ed.]

Haha Uruguay to me isn’t that great. Portugal is garbage.

Croatia tho to me is the dark horse their team def looks nasty.

Brazil or Germany will win this cup easily.

All of those teams have at least 1 inter player, hence one of them will reach final.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Mexico better than Belgium

 

[America]

Brazil and Germany are the only candidates this year. I expect Brazil more than Germany, but still.

I'm hoping for a deep run from Argentina and Mexico.

 

[wera]

Brazil and Germany are the only candidates this year. I expect Brazil more than Germany, but still.

I'm hoping for a deep run from Argentina and Mexico.

It is very hard to say, there ain't a NT team right now that is in real World Cup form except for Brazil. Portugal, Uruguay, Argentina (depends on the roster they will have), Spain, Germany, Belgium and France are all plausible contenders.

I believe it will be amazing to see a revamped Spain team, the many talents of France and probably the last chance for CR7 to win the WC.

Hopefully dark horse like Croatia, Denmark and Belgium have the best possible WC. I'll be cheering for them.

 

[Armes]

Brazil yeah, if they can do that shit they did in qualifications with European teams that is.
Why exactly is Germany so pop here? Because they won it 4 years ago?

 

[Javier'sSon]

Because it's Germany, they are always contenders.

There's a saying about them: "A bad German team will reach the finals of the World Cup, a good one will win it".

 

[firmino]

Gary Lineker said: "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win".

 

[Ed.]

Brazil yeah, if they can do that shit they did in qualifications with European teams that is.
Why exactly is Germany so pop here? Because they won it 4 years ago?

Because in the last 4 World Cup they always reached semi final at least.

But, the fun fact is.. Germany always struggled in the following world cup after they won it.

 

[J..]

Talking about Brazil and Germany then don't forget

 

[brehme1989]

That was a really bizarre game. Too many gifts by David Luiz, Fernandinho and I remember also Julio Cesar making a parry that rebounded for a goal. But you shouldn't expect Brazil with Fred, Hulk and Dante to beat Germany. Nonetheless, the game didn't merit that scoreline. Similar to our thrashing by Milan with freaking Commandini... Disappointed, wanted Brazil vs Argentina that year, would have been epic.

Brazi's team looks more serious now.

 

[wera]

Brehme ofc forgets that Neymar was the lucky charm. Brazil looked pretty good until that Neymar injury. Against Germany, they already looked defeated from the start.

 

[brehme1989]

Brehme ofc forgets that Neymar was the lucky charm. Brazil looked pretty good until that Neymar injury. Against Germany, they already looked defeated from the start.

Of course I recall Neymar's influence. But the team was shaky to begin with. Shaky against Croatia, couldn't beat Mexico and only beaten Cameroon who lost to everyone. The Chile game had the wrong winner. Their only big performance was against Colombia in the last 8. It's not just the results but the way they came. But I'm not gonna lie and say that there were much better teams. It wasn't a World Cup to remember, most teams got marginal victories (eg Germany-Algeria, Argentina vs everyone, the Dutch and their penalties. But these teams sort of dominated their games. Brazil relied on Neymar and to some extent on Oscar to make something. They had like 4-5 players in the lineup that didn't deserve that shirt.
Iirc France and Colombia looked like the most dangerous teams until the quarters. Like in 2010 with Spain who struggled against almost everyone, Germany wasn't really good (apart from the heavy beating of Portugal) until that semi.

 

[Sassuolu]

If I recall correctly that Brazil side had one good performance against Colombia for the rest of the tournament their weaknesses were really evident and those favours from referees really helped them progress.