World Cup(merged with original world cup thread)

[got tonkaed]

They werent terrible for stretches against Italy, though the final scoreline doesnt really end up doing them too many favors.

Also, given the current issues with Argentina, some lols should be had at that prediction.

[DAZMCFC]

I never watch soccer, but for some reason I love the World Cup.

USA! USA! USA!

Does anyone know if Greece qualified? Does anyone know if Greece has a soccer team?

did none of you lads have the heart to tell greekdog it's football, not fooking soccer.



anyway, let's hope Scotland make the play-offs and get an easier team to play. over the last few qualifiers we've had to play England and Holland in the play-off.

[thegreekdog]

North Korea has just qualified!!
On the commies!

I'll cheer for them.

Just for the heck of it.

I wonder what would happen if a North Korean cheered for the US? Ah... those crazy communists.

[Serbia]

I am going to pick an underdog to cheer for.

[pmchugh]

I am going to pick an underdog to cheer for.

How about Serbia

I never watch soccer, but for some reason I love the World Cup.

USA! USA! USA!

Does anyone know if Greece qualified? Does anyone know if Greece has a soccer team?

did none of you lads have the heart to tell greekdog it's football, not fooking soccer.



anyway, let's hope Scotland make the play-offs and get an easier team to play. over the last few qualifiers we've had to play England and Holland in the play-off.

Sorry for neglecting my duties And England are easy

I'm pretty excited as well. I watched way too much of it a few years ago. Here's hoping the US can actually score a goal on their own power this time around.

Your playing Brazil tommorow (if you didn't know) so it will be intresting to see how you do.

Did you see the USA get shellacked in qualifying Costa Rica? Yeah, they don't stand much chance against Brazil.

No I didn't, that's intresting they looked OK against Italy though.

[sam_levi_11]

We all know the final will be Spain against Argentina. Lets not pretend.

Aguero will get Argentina there, but spain will win it.

Spain? To fulfil its potential? You must be kidding. Spain will lose in the semi's, like they always do

Well they did win euro 2008 without breaking a sweat and are by far the best team in the world...

Also, ill say this now, teams who will cause an upset (Unless in the group of death)
Chile
Venezuela
Japan
Slovakia

[thegreekdog]

I never watch soccer, but for some reason I love the World Cup.

USA! USA! USA!

Does anyone know if Greece qualified? Does anyone know if Greece has a soccer team?

did none of you lads have the heart to tell greekdog it's football, not fooking soccer.



anyway, let's hope Scotland make the play-offs and get an easier team to play. over the last few qualifiers we've had to play England and Holland in the play-off.

I'll use the term football from now on.

[sam_levi_11]

Also, given the current issues with Argentina, some lols should be had at that prediction.

Well there would be no lol's if you realised their attack:
Sergio Aguero
Carlos Tevez
Lionel Messi
Diego Milito

Now try telling me they arent the most potent attacking force in the world... The first three are some of the best strikers in the world, and Diego Milito is pretty close and under rated.

[Neoteny]

::fap fap fap::

f*ck off, I'll call it dancing in the fucking lilies if I want to.

[pmchugh]

Also, ill say this now, teams who will cause an upset (Unless in the group of death)
Chile
Venezuela
Japan
Slovakia

Yes
No
Maybe
No- Slovenia would be a better bet here.

My upset teams:
Chile
South Africa (the hosts luck)
Ivory Coast
Russia (again) I could see them reaching the semi's with a little bit of luck

As for Argentina's attack, what about their defense?

[pmchugh]

Brazil 3-0 USA. It could have been more tbh, USA were not very impressive.

[got tonkaed]

Also, given the current issues with Argentina, some lols should be had at that prediction.

Well there would be no lol's if you realised their attack:
Sergio Aguero
Carlos Tevez
Lionel Messi
Diego Milito

Now try telling me they arent the most potent attacking force in the world... The first three are some of the best strikers in the world, and Diego Milito is pretty close and under rated.

+1 to the comment about defense.

[sam_levi_11]

ok they arent great defensively, but they do have heinze, burdiso and the ageing zanetti.

[Dublanous1]

Messi is awesome, he really gets messy with the defense when he schools them.

[DAZMCFC]

Egypt 1 Italy 0

it's only the Confederations Cup, but i don't think Italy will be to pleased about that. they have to beat Brazil to make the Semi's.


Robinho scored a good goal for Brazil, hopefully he'll be still playing for us next season.

[pmchugh]

Wow that was one of the most amazing comebacks I've seen in a long time. Congrats USA any of you intrested in football in the slightest then you must be amazed by your countires achievement today.

USA needed to win agianst Egypt and Italy to lose to Brazil and then for their to be a change in goal difference of +6 in comparison to Italy and what do you know:

USA 3-0 Egypt
Italy 0-3 Brazil

Unbelievable achievement well done

[Falkomagno]

We all know the final will be Spain against Argentina. Lets not pretend.

Aguero will get Argentina there, but spain will win it.

Spain? To fulfil its potential? You must be kidding. Spain will lose in the semi's, like they always do

Well they did win euro 2008 without breaking a sweat and are by far the best team in the world...

Also, ill say this now, teams who will cause an upset (Unless in the group of death)
Chile
Venezuela
Japan
Slovakia

Venezuela??you are crazy right???

It's almost predictable that colombia will not qualify, at least directly, but maybe we can achieve the playoff with a team of Concacaf (maybe Costa Rica...or Mexico)


Spain can be the best in the world, but they never pass trough semi finals

[Falkomagno]

Messi is awesome, he really gets messy with the defense when he schools them.

hahahaha

[Serbia]

Wow that was one of the most amazing comebacks I've seen in a long time. Congrats USA any of you intrested in football in the slightest then you must be amazed by your countires achievement today.

USA needed to win agianst Egypt and Italy to lose to Brazil and then for their to be a change in goal difference of +6 in comparison to Italy and what do you know:

USA 3-0 Egypt
Italy 0-3 Brazil

Unbelievable achievement well done

I watched the whole USA match, flipping over occasionally to the Brazil match. Quite surprising to see them pull it off. Of course this means the USA will lose to Spain by 3 goals.

[sam_levi_11]

We all know the final will be Spain against Argentina. Lets not pretend.

Aguero will get Argentina there, but spain will win it.

Spain? To fulfil its potential? You must be kidding. Spain will lose in the semi's, like they always do

Well they did win euro 2008 without breaking a sweat and are by far the best team in the world...

Also, ill say this now, teams who will cause an upset (Unless in the group of death)
Chile
Venezuela
Japan
Slovakia

Venezuela??you are crazy right???

It's almost predictable that colombia will not qualify, at least directly, but maybe we can achieve the playoff with a team of Concacaf (maybe Costa Rica...or Mexico)


Spain can be the best in the world, but they never pass trough semi finals

From what iv seen Venezuela were great, altho they have slipped a little recently.

[DAZMCFC]

Wow that was one of the most amazing comebacks I've seen in a long time. Congrats USA any of you intrested in football in the slightest then you must be amazed by your countires achievement today.

USA needed to win agianst Egypt and Italy to lose to Brazil and then for their to be a change in goal difference of +6 in comparison to Italy and what do you know:

USA 3-0 Egypt
Italy 0-3 Brazil

Unbelievable achievement well done

I watched the whole USA match, flipping over occasionally to the Brazil match. Quite surprising to see them pull it off. Of course this means the USA will lose to Spain by 3 goals.

Serbia, you'll be lucky if it is only 3-0. done well to get through by beating Egypt 3-0.


Brazil v Spain final should be a cracker if they both get through.

[e_i_pi]

The thing I can't believe is that New Zeland, who are an awful team only have to win one more game to qualify for the world cup and so far the hardest team they have played is Fiji The match they have to play is against either Bahrain or Saudi Arabia Meanly even Iraq are favourites to beat NZ easily.

New Zealand won't make it through, they were trailing Away 1-0 to Vanuatu, and 0-0 at home at the half against Fiji and New Caledonia. Now that Australia has jumped ship on Oceania, that group is dead. I give it 10-12 years before it's amalgamated into Asia as well.

It's so annoying that our continent is easily the best, I wish we could do an Australia and hop off to another continent.

Australia had a tough battle for about 8 decades mate. Don't think that it did any good for us to be in Oceania... we had home qualifiers drawing crowds of less than 4000 people. None of our players would come back for qualifiers, so we had to play domestic players, players who wouldn't even get a spot on the bench in 2nd Division English League. We won every Oceania qualifying procedure except for one, and qualified once for the World Cup - every time we won Oceania, FIFA would say we had to play Chile, Peru, Iran, or some other team to properly qualify. The problem with this was that those teams had just played 20 or so games against top-flight opposition, while we were playing against patsies, all the while gettnig worse as a result. Moving to Asia was the best thing that happened for us. A lot of people said we wouldn't make it through - we got seeded 1st out of all of Asia, and then were the first to qualify. I applaud FIFA for their decision to put Australia in Asia, it's about bloody time!

[e_i_pi]

Here's a list of my biggest "WTF's / wow's" of this tournament so far...

• Zambia, who have never qualified for the World Cup, have the chance to do so if they can beat Algeria in their group
• Australia, first time team in Asia, go through the final round with 20 of a possible 24 points
• North Ireland look poised to qualify, despite being in a group of quite tough opposition
• Norway have only scored 3 points from 5 games, currently behind even Iceland
• Mexico may not qualify, currently being bested by Honduras
• After a horror start, Argentina finally drag themselves into a qualifying position of 4th place
• Chile look set to qualify, but Uruguay and Colombia are still struggling for a place

[pmchugh]

Here's a list of my biggest "WTF's / wow's" of this tournament so far...

• Zambia, who have never qualified for the World Cup, have the chance to do so if they can beat Algeria in their group WOW
• Australia, first time team in Asia, go through the final round with 20 of a possible 24 points
• North Ireland look poised to qualify, despite being in a group of quite tough opposition
• Norway have only scored 3 points from 5 games, currently behind even Iceland
• Mexico may not qualify, currently being bested by Honduras WOW
• After a horror start, Argentina finally drag themselves into a qualifying position of 4th place WTF
• Chile look set to qualify, but Uruguay and Colombia are still struggling for a place WTF

Northern Irealnd are unlikely to qualify, they will have a fight to get 2nd place and even then they need to play a play off.
Norway aren't the same side they once were and Macedonia are underrated. Norway just sit back and defend and they still only scapred a draw against us thanks to a ridonkulous miss.

It would be very strange to see Mexico who virtually have a bye into the World Cup not qualify.

As for Australia I realise you may not have had it easy, but come to Europe and you will soon find it very tough to qualify.

[e_i_pi]

Northern Irealnd are unlikely to qualify, they will have a fight to get 2nd place and even then they need to play a play off.

You don't think they'll make it? I reckon they'll get there. Their record so far is good enough for a runners-up berth

Norway aren't the same side they once were and Macedonia are underrated. Norway just sit back and defend and they still only scapred a draw against us thanks to a ridonkulous miss.

True, they aren't the team they used to be. It's hard to believe that 10 years ago they beat Brazil 2-1 in the Round 1 Group stage of the finals, and half their players were being scalped by top flight clubs in England.

It would be very strange to see Mexico who virtually have a bye into the World Cup not qualify.

True, but if Mexico don't pick up their game, they're going to have to playoff against 5th placed South America, which could be Colombia or Uruguay.

As for Australia I realise you may not have had it easy, but come to Europe and you will soon find it very tough to qualify.

I don't doubt that, but we're never coming to Europe Asia is a tough enough arena for us, much better than Oceania - that continent was the worst preparation possible for the World Cup.