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World Cup 2018

Jed

Fancy Belgium to go all the way. What a squad.

banduan

Jed wrote:
Fancy Belgium to go all the way. What a squad.

They've had an amazing squad for 3-4 years now and haven't impressed much.

Clrnc

They had a terrible manager before this.

Klaus

They're still a disappointing football team though. No identity or real philosophy guiding them. They'll be going out in the first knockout round again.

Asterix

I quite like France for this World Cup, but reserve my right to change my mind come mid June.

Gazza M

a french colleague of mine refuses to accept his team is one of the favourites, citing lack of on-pitch leadership and experience as the main factor. fair call really. there aren't many players that team can lean on if shit starts going wrong

Segway

France have amazing players, probably the best squad if you compare player-to-player, but will come up short against Germany and Spain who are more experienced and cohesive teams.

I would rank the favourites as follows:

1: Germany
2: Spain
3: Brazil
4: France

Irishgunner

Gazza M wrote:
a french colleague of mine refuses to accept his team is one of the favourites, citing lack of on-pitch leadership and experience as the main factor. fair call really. there aren't many players that team can lean on if shit starts going wrong

Yeah, none of the French people I know feel that France have a real shot. Most of them moan about Deschamps.

Clrnc

Argentina have good odds. Gonna put some money on them winning the entire thing.

banduan

What the French team lack right now is bottle. Expecting them to go out in Semis or be the losing finalist.

Anfield1884

Clrnc wrote:
Argentina have good odds. Gonna put some money on them winning the entire thing.

They're horrible, can't believe people are betting for the Argies, will be lucky to even get to the semis.

Brazil or Spain for the win.

Jed

Never rule out a team that has Messi in it.

TambourineMan

Exactly. Having said that though, this might be too much of a push even for him. This Argie side look shite. If he does pull it off, it'll cement his place in the top 3 along Maradonna and Pele.

Jed

It would cement his place as the top 1.

jones

Jed wrote:
It would cement his place as the top 1.

I don't think there's any serious doubt about it right now but yeah a WC would remove the last theoretical argument anyone could bring up.

Bryant

Apparently, they've been training a bear to give the ball to the ref in the opening match of the World Cup! 😆

QuincyAbeyie

That is one cute bear.

Bryant

Dani Alves is out of the WC: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/11/dani-alves-brazil-miss-world-cup

Brazil has a big hole at RB now, I wonder who's going to replace Alves.

Ricky1985

Danilo isn't a bad replacement surely?

Bryant

I think he'll be Alves replacement too ricky, but i don't think he's going to start for them. Hasn't been called up to Brazil since last year.

Apparently, Fagner might be the likely starter.

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