World Cup 2014

[OumaFan]

huh uruguay had plenty of chances just couldnt capitalize on em where as costa rica seems rather efficient

Uruguay's midfield is utterly shit. Having Suarez would help, but it wouldn't change that.

Costa Rica deserve it completely. They've been the better team.

Concacaf dominating

[ryanman]

huh uruguay had plenty of chances just couldnt capitalize on em where as costa rica seems rather efficient

Uruguay's midfield is utterly shit. Having Suarez would help, but it wouldn't change that.

Costa Rica deserve it completely. They've been the better team.

Concacaf dominating

That is a very tenuous link to glory OumaFan

[OumaFan]

huh uruguay had plenty of chances just couldnt capitalize on em where as costa rica seems rather efficient

Uruguay's midfield is utterly shit. Having Suarez would help, but it wouldn't change that.

Costa Rica deserve it completely. They've been the better team.

Concacaf dominating

That is a very tenuous link to glory OumaFan

Champions of Concacaf (obviously the most difficult region) should get an automatic pass through the group stage in my opinion.

none of this group of death shit.

[ryanman]

huh uruguay had plenty of chances just couldnt capitalize on em where as costa rica seems rather efficient

Uruguay's midfield is utterly shit. Having Suarez would help, but it wouldn't change that.

Costa Rica deserve it completely. They've been the better team.

Concacaf dominating

That is a very tenuous link to glory OumaFan

Champions of Concacaf (obviously the most difficult region) should get an automatic pass through the group stage in my opinion.

none of this group of death shit.

I'd say group of mild illness was more apt.
Group D is tougher.

[OumaFan]

Disagree just cause I think Uruguay is very overrated. Their midfield is awful. They barely qualified (tough region obviously, poor man's Concacaf)

Germany and Italy are a bit of a wash
Right now I would say Portugal > England (that could change depending on Ronaldo's health and how England look)
Ghana > Uruguay
US > Costa Rica

The two candidates for group of death IMO are our group and the Spain, Chile, Netherlands, Australia group. I would have Group D in third.

[OumaFan]

Although, I wasn't impressed at all with either Chile or Australia, really.

It wouldn't surprise me if Uruguay finished with 0 points. I think England are better even with a healthy Suarez.

[ryanman]

Disagree just cause I think Uruguay is very overrated. Their midfield is awful. They barely qualified (tough region obviously, poor man's Concacaf)

Germany and Italy are a bit of a wash
Right now I would say Portugal > England (that could change depending on Ronaldo's health and how England look)
Ghana > Uruguay
US > Costa Rica

The two candidates for group of death IMO are our group and the Spain, Chile, Netherlands, Australia group. I would have Group D in third.

I'd rather play Ghana over Uruguay every day. On the other hand though I would put Germany comfortably above Italy at the moment. So banter aside you do have a very tough group. I'd say the toughest groups are Spain group, followed by our group and your group being hard to split.
Worth noting that this is probably the first time ever England have been ranked 3rd in FIFA rankings in their group.

[OumaFan]

Seriously though, this has been an awesome start. I know FIFA is just absurdly corrupt -they literally might be telling officials to give Brazil calls - and I don't care, it's still an amazing sports event.

Even today has been fun, and frankly the first two games were kind of shitty looking on paper. I was looking forward to England-Italy from the start (watch that be a fucking bore).

[OumaFan]

England should get out of this group, considering how completely and utterly average Uruguay are.

But I wouldn't count out Costa Rica at all. They're set up to be difficult to beat - defensive setup and good on the counter with a quick lone striker. And now they already have 3 points.