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And then there were 8
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) |
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France, Columbia, Belgium, Netherlands are my last four
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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.
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Three out of four European semi finalists is possibles despite the doom and gloom
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I'm still going for a Colombia/Argentina final.
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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.
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All 8 winners of their respective groups in the group stage.
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I like Columbians, mang.
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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
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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... |
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Brazil, Netherlands, France and Argentina
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France, Columbia, Belgium, Netherlands are my last four
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Am I the only one who wants Germany to win?
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Am I the only one who wants Germany to win?
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Germany, Colombia, Argentina and Netherlands to get through is my prediction
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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.
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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Interesting little stat I heard tonight - all the group winners went through to the žs. Only seven last time.
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Interesting little stat I heard tonight - all the group winners went through to the žs. Only seven last time.
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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. Why are you hoping for a Brazil v Argentina final? |
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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?
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France vs. Netherlands final.
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No, they weren't.
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Netherlands have had an incredibly easy run.
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