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2014 FIFA World Cup |OT3| Saturday 21st: ARG v IRN // GER v GHA // NGA v BIH

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CelticKnight

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Fisticuffs said:
So FIFA rankings mean jack shit. That's the biggest lesson I've learned in this World Cup.
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They have for ages. They're like some sort of running joke.

Take for example England, they're 10th (at the table I'm looking at) yet they sucked at this WC. But they're 10th because before this WC they're lost only 2 competitive matches in 4 years.
 
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alterno69 said:
I don't understand why the manager never adjusted their strategy, skiping midfiled and trying long passes from the back towards Costly might work in Concacaf but not in a world cup. I'm sure Honduras has the players to try to play wih more possesion and build up instead of long balls to a lonely man upfrunt and trying to break the oponents legs.

You need a new manager.
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I agree. Luis Suarez is clueless. Whats the point of playing two strikers upfront with very similar qualities?
 
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Fisticuffs said:
So FIFA rankings mean jack shit. That's the biggest lesson I've learned in this World Cup.
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That has always been the case. Their rankings vastly overrate European squads while underrating teams from Africa, CONCACAF, and to a lesser extent, Asia.

Germany may be the team to beat and France and the Netherlands may be excellent...but nobody else from EUFA looks even remotely threatening. LOL Spain, LOL England.
 
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jamesinclair said:
The biggest question of the day is how big of a bus does Iran have?
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11 men in the penalty box. Book it.

Final score 0-0 unless Argentina can get the ball through 11 defenders lol.

Rooting for Deutschland to win against Ghana tonight but I hope the Africans will put up a fight. Complacency is their biggest enemy, they cannot be allowed to win it so easily.

As for the final game, I don't mind if it goes to either Bosnia or Nigeria, so long as we get a good match out of it.
 
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Tragicomedy said:
That has always been the case. Their rankings vastly overrate European squads while underrating teams from Africa, CONCACAF, and to a lesser extent, Asia.

Germany may be the team to beat and France and the Netherlands may be excellent...but nobody else from EUFA looks even remotely threatening. LOL Spain, LOL England.
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Like Brazil isn't overrated. :lol
 
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Tragicomedy said:
That has always been the case. Their rankings vastly overrate European squads while underrating teams from Africa, CONCACAF, and to a lesser extent, Asia.

Germany may be the team to beat and France and the Netherlands may be excellent...but nobody else from EUFA looks even remotely threatening. LOL Spain, LOL England.
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I agree that the FIFA rankings are shit, but African and Asian teams certainly aren't underrated in the rankings.

Certain UEFA teams and the whole of CONMEBOL are overrated. Colombia or Greece being anywhere near the top 20 is just a laugh.
 
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Really glad about our performance against this abysmal Swiss side yesterday.

After 8 years of shitty games, the last few games under Deschamps have been a joy to watch.

I hope we'll finish first of our group so as to avoid Argentina in the round of 16. And I'm looking forward to playing zee Germans in the quarters, if we're lucky enough to get there in the first place obviously.

Time to get that revenge for Sevilla in '82.
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France scored 18 goals in the last 4 matchs. The team is getting great at the best possible time :)
 
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@livefootball: Argentina XI to play Iran: Romero, Garay, Zabaleta, Gago, Di Maria, Higuain, Messi, Mascherano, Rojo, F. Fernandez, Aguero #ARG
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@livefootball: Iran XI vs Argentina: Haghighi, Haji Safi, Hosseini, Sadeghi, Nekounam, Shojaei, Timotian, Montarezi, Ghoochannejad, Dejagah, Pooladi #IRN
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If Argentina score early (first 20 minutes) then it could be 4-0, 5-0.

But if it creeps up to, even reaches, half time and it's still 0-0, I wouldn't bet on Argentina to win by more than 1-0.
 
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marc^o^ said:
France scored 18 goals in the last 4 matchs. The team is getting great at the best possible time :)
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It's still a bit shaky I guess, not totally sold by the defence. But yeah, it's great to see a solid offensive French team. If we don't screw this up, we can pull the biggest upset of this tournament by beating ze germans.
 
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I won't be here for the Germany game but let me say one thing.

WE WILL CRUSH GHANA!!!

WE WILL CRUSH THE USA AFTERWARDS!!!


AND WE WILL CRUSH EVERYONE ELSE IN THE KO ROUND!


DEUTSCHLAND!

GERMANY!!!

Lets goooooooo!
 
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As an American I guess I should be cheering for Ghana. An Iran upset would be hilarious, but no way Argentina doesn't win by at least 4. nigeria still won't give us back our goals today, go Bosnia
 
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Lkr said:
As an American I guess I should be cheering for Ghana. An Iran upset would be hilarious, but no way Argentina doesn't win by at least 4. nigeria still won't give us back our goals today, go Bosnia
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Cheering for Ghana as an American makes no sense. Them winning would make it harder to get second place in the group.
 
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Courage said:
Cheering for Ghana as an American makes no sense. Them winning would make it harder get second place in the group.
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Correct. The US side needs Ghana to lose essentially eliminating them from the conversation. Then a draw with Portugal would likely get them to the knockout round provided they don't get steamrolled 4-0 or worse by Germany.
 
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CelticKnight

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L-gon said:
Correct. The US side needs Ghana to lose essentially eliminating them from the conversation. Then a draw with Portugal would likely get them to the knockout round provided they don't get steamrolled 4-0 or worse by Germany.
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The Portuguese are still a bit of an unknown quantity. Yes, they're weaker than previous years coming in to he World Cup but the red card in the first game made it hard to get a proper read on them.

I say they'll draw against the USA, depsite the fact I'd love the yanks to beat them.
 
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