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BigFoot87
01-07-2014
Friday 4th July:
France vs Germany: 5pm (BBC 1/HD)
Brazil vs Colombia: 9pm (ITV 1/HD)

Saturday 5th July:
Argentina vs Belgium: 5pm (ITV 1/HD)
Netherlands vs Costa Rica: 9pm (BBC 1/HD)
DUNDEEBOY
01-07-2014
France, Columbia, Belgium, Netherlands are my last four
BigFoot87
01-07-2014
A month ago, did anyone expect Costa Rica to be playing a quarter-final against the Dutch? Anyone? Holland should beat them, but you could say the same for Italy, Uruguay, urm England and Greece.
DUNDEEBOY
01-07-2014
Three out of four European semi finalists is possibles despite the doom and gloom
Joooe
01-07-2014
I'm still going for a Colombia/Argentina final.
Bosox
01-07-2014
Lots of talk early on about how it was a disastrous WC for Europe. Well 4 Quarter finalists, guaranteed at least one Semi finalist and big favourites for at least one more is a pretty damn good return in a different continent.
Alrightmate
01-07-2014
All 8 winners of their respective groups in the group stage.
TexAveryWolf
01-07-2014
I like Columbians, mang.
Amanda_Raymond
02-07-2014
Columbia are the only team of the last 8 who've had it easy imo. I think they'll beat Brazil, Netherlands, France and Belgium the other winners imo
Mark F
02-07-2014
Wonder if extra time will have any impact - of course both Belgium and Argentina had it.

Will France gain any advantage for example against Germany.

Brazil need to control their emotions mentally more than anything else...
nevada
02-07-2014
Brazil, Netherlands, France and Argentina
MargMck
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by DUNDEEBOY:
“France, Columbia, Belgium, Netherlands are my last four”

It will probably be the other 4 now, but that's who I'd like too.
Thomas007
02-07-2014
Am I the only one who wants Germany to win?
TheMunch
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by Thomas007:
“Am I the only one who wants Germany to win? ”

Of course not. Why would you be the only one?
Seymour Butts
02-07-2014
Germany, Colombia, Argentina and Netherlands to get through is my prediction
doe_a_deer
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by Bosox:
“Lots of talk early on about how it was a disastrous WC for Europe. Well 4 Quarter finalists, guaranteed at least one Semi finalist and big favourites for at least one more is a pretty damn good return in a different continent.”

I disagree. Obviously there are still 3 rounds to go so we can reassess things at the end but so far it's been a pretty awful showing from Europe and Asia and a strong showing from Africa and South America with North America probably surprising everyone and achieving the best showing.

Europe started with 13 decent teams, yet only 6 of these made it through the group stages. Croatia lost out on qualification to Mexico, Spain to Chile, England and Italy to Uruguay and Costa Rica, Bosnia to Nigeria, Portugal to USA and Russia to Algeria. Only Greece ahead of both Ivory Coast and Japan and then Switzerland ahead of Ecuador achieved any European success in terms of winning immediate qualification battles with rivals from other continents.

Into the last 16 and Greece lost out to Costa Rica and Switzerland lost out to Argentina. The other four European teams, all big teams at that, all scraped through by the skin of their teeth against supposed lesser teams (all were drawing or losing with 10 minutes to go if I'm not mistaken.)

For the 20 years which I have been following World Cups, the 'big teams' and potential winners always consisted of Argentina, Brazil and six or eight strong European teams. That pecking order appears to have been ripped up here and the likes of Colombia, Chile, USA and Mexico in particular have all looked far stronger than many of the so-called big European teams.

I think there will be three European teams in the semis and an all European final which will in many ways gloss over the poor performance of Europe as a whole in this World Cup.
doe_a_deer
02-07-2014
Amazingly we've reached the quarter finals with only Colombia playing well out of the 8 teams remaining. A bit of a bizarre situation really, you'd expect 5-6 of the teams to be playing well.
Steveaustin316
02-07-2014
My predictions

Brazil 3-0 Colombia
France 2-2 Germany (Germany win on penalties)
Holland 3-1 Costa Rica
Argentina 2-1 Belgium

I'm hoping for a Brazil v Argentina final.
Rowdy
02-07-2014
Interesting little stat I heard tonight - all the group winners went through to the žs. Only seven last time.
Thomas007
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by Rowdy:
“Interesting little stat I heard tonight - all the group winners went through to the žs. Only seven last time.”

So when the commentators were saying things tonight like "you can't predict anything in this world cup" "this world cup is full of surprises" they're just talking shite?
doe_a_deer
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by Steveaustin316:
“My predictions

Brazil 3-0 Colombia
France 2-2 Germany (Germany win on penalties)
Holland 3-1 Costa Rica
Argentina 2-1 Belgium

I'm hoping for a Brazil v Argentina final.”

Brazil 3-0 Colombia? What on earth have you seen to suggest that the score will be anything like that?

Why are you hoping for a Brazil v Argentina final?
TheMunch
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by Thomas007:
“So when the commentators were saying things tonight like "you can't predict anything in this world cup" "this world cup is full of surprises" they're just talking shite?”

No, they weren't.
SSReporters
02-07-2014
France vs. Netherlands final.
Thomas007
02-07-2014
Originally Posted by TheMunch:
“No, they weren't.”

Well in the context of the WC being unpredictable, I would argue they are mostly wrong.
ustarion
02-07-2014
Netherlands have had an incredibly easy run.
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