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Thoes odd do not give much, wonder who Skel/Fenster/Ono have I will put money on them . Holland look the best money bet.
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The Dutch are gonna win this shit
Their my second team, assuming the US doesn't make it to the finals
I actually kind of agree with that, I think the Dutch could fly under the radar and win everything. I have a hard time choosing between them and Spain....Ivory Coast is also on my list.
I think the US will do well, if we face Germany in the knockout stage we may have a shot to beat them....sure they have really solid players and more depth than us, but the Confed Cup shows us that on our best day we can beat anybody.
I predict an AWFUL outing by Brazil, Dunga is changing their style and I just think they'll suck which will cause Dunga to be fired and ALL(or a lot of them) Brazilian players to come back home to play in Brazil to remanufacture their original style of play.
I doubt Argentina plays well either, I think Maradona is not a good coach and he's beefed with some of their better players in order to get his way and Messi never has done well for his country, but he could change things this time.
I think you're drastically over-estimating Argentina.
Player for player....
Romero - Hart/Green/James (unsure which one yet, although i'd go for Hart, but i'm biased)
Otamendi - Johnson (Johnson is better)
Demichelis - Ferdinand (Ferdinand)
Samuel - Terry (Close)
Heinze - Cole (Cole..easily)
Gutierriz - Lennon (Lennon..easily)
Mascherano - Barry (Close)
Veron - Lampard (Lampard)
Di Maria - Gerrard (Gerrard)
Messi - Rooney (Messi)
Higuain - Heskey (Higuain)
They may have stronger attacking option in Tevez, Aguero, Milito, but we're stronger everywhere else and Capello is a miles better tactician than Maradona.
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I don't think there will end up being much too this but for fuck's sake, man up a little.
Looks like a lot of the African teams are having some problems, Essien being out is just awful, I hate Chelsea but I find it hard to dislike him.
And the Ivory Coast hired Sven Goran Erikkson
Otamendi is awesome on football manager fwiw.
England have looked really rather bad in the two warm-up games so far, and as much as I know plenty of people will want them to lose, I'd like them to do well, but don't think they'll get beyond the quarter-finals. They're not sure of their formation, they're gambling on getting Barry into shape, and too many players are recovering from injuries, or in the case of Ledley King, permanently playing through an injury.
As for who will win, I'd love to see someone new get their hands on the trophy, anyone outside the usual suspects. Or Spain if I'm being boring.
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If you think about it, hundreds of thousands are gonna bet that England win the World Cup (out of blind faith more than anything) and IF England win it, by some miracle, the bookies would lose an absolute fortune if they were the price they 'should' be.
Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal are all AT least 11/1. If that's the case, realistically, England would be around the same. The bookies are just covering themselves. It's the same if a lot of people lump a load of money on a horse, the price is always going to get shorter.
Last edited by boxingbantz; 06-02-2010 at 05:04 PM.
The Dutch are worth a flutter, for sure, although defensively they're vulnerable. Also, if anyone chokes more than England...it's Holland.
Spain are favourites, but I also agree that they won't win it, they done well in the Euro's but I still see them choking.
Germany are depleted, however they have a young team which will be a real force in 2014, with some of the old guard out I feel this will be too soon for them right now.
Obviously I'd love England to do it, however we will HAVE to win a penalty shoot out along the way, every winner in the last 5 world cups apart from '02 has had to win one on the way to the title. Besides, imagine the confidence boost it would give our lads if we finally got that hoodoo out of the way.
Still, when in doubt, always go for Brazil...
Oh and Argentina are not going to win it, they were woeful in qualifying, good individuals but Maradona has no clue how to get them to play together. There is hope for them in that Brazil had a similar path to World Cup 2002, barely making it, and then once there they just ran away with it. Can't see it happening personally.
As for Portugal, I don't think they will win it, I think they will go out early. However I also hope we don't play them as they have some kind of voodoo curse over us in recent tournaments.
Didnt Portugal draw with Cape Verde in one of their World Cup warm-ups?
Id love Holland to win it, Robben/Sneijder/Van Der Vaart/ Van Persie would be pretty devastating if there defence could hold up. I think Dirk Kuyt will miss a ridiculous chance and they go out though.
Maradona's hate of Messi will probably mess any chance they have up.
Spain will probably bottle it... but Villa top scorer for me.
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