FIFA World Cup 2014

[Jimbuna]

The only thing confirmed by last night's draw with Honduras, is there are 23 seats on an early flight home.

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

The only thing confirmed by last night's draw with Honduras, is there are 23 seats on an early flight home.

I must admit, it's hard to forget that they are notorious 'chokers' when it comes to big tournaments, however, surely you guys over there have some sort of iota of optimism?

If you look at their group, they have Costa Rica, surely they should beat them, then you have Italy, who is known as grinding out results with a rock solid defense, well, that is going to be a cracking game, could go either way, and then you have Uruguay, 2-time champs. That is a bit of an enigma for me, since Uruguay are currently ranked 7th, but really, rankings don't mean much on the pitch on match day.
If i was a England supporter, the only 'really big' worry for me would be the Italy game, the others certainly not so much.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

I must admit, it's hard to forget that they are notorious 'chokers' when it comes to big tournaments, however, surely you guys over there have some sort of iota of optimism?

If you look at their group, they have Costa Rica, surely they should beat them, then you have Italy, who is known as grinding out results with a rock solid defense, well, that is going to be a cracking game, could go either way, and then you have Uruguay, 2-time champs. That is a bit of an enigma for me, since Uruguay are currently ranked 7th, but really, rankings don't mean much on the pitch on match day.
If i was a England supporter, the only 'really big' worry for me would be the Italy game, the others certainly not so much.

You could be right but over the years England have developed a penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in major tournaments

[BossMark]

Am going stick my head on the line and say England to draw with Italy and Uruguay and beat Costa Rica 5 points should be enough to take us out of the group.

[Moonlight]

I'll go England for a win draw and a loss, I'm hoping that will be enough for an early flight home.

[mapuc]

can't remember which tournament it was but Sweden lost every of their matches in group play everyone ended 1-2 I do however remember a colleague from who said if you are a Swede you support the Swedish team and do not talk negative about them.

That's was before this world Cup started

No its not you are not committed to support your countries football team.

My favorite team has always been Germany and Holland

Of course when Sweden played I had high hopes they would win I even crossed every fingers I had.

Markus

[mapuc]

Advice on the outcome of these 12 matches:

1. Brazil-Croatia
2. Mexico-Cameroon
3. Spain-Holland
4. Chile-Australia
5. Columbia-Greece
6. Uruguay-Costa Rica
7. England-Italy
8. Côte d'Ivoire-Japan
9. switzerland-Ecuador
10. France-Honduras
11. Argentina-Bosnia and herzegovina
12. Germany-Portugal

I'm not looking for how many goals its going to be in each matches but which team will win or will it be a draw?

Markus

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Advice on the outcome of these 12 matches:
1. Brazil-Croatia Brazil
2. Mexico-Cameroon Mexico
3. Spain-Holland Spain
4. Chile-Australia Chile
5. Columbia-Greece Columbia
6. Uruguay-Costa Rica Uruguay
7. England-Italy Could be a draw or Italy
8. Côte d'Ivoire-Japan Japan
9. switzerland-Ecuador Draw or Switzerland
10. France-Honduras France
11. Argentina-Bosnia and herzegovina Argentina
12. Germany-Portugal Germany
Markus

They are my picks. Let's hope number 12 in particular happens.

[BossMark]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Advice on the outcome of these 12 matches:

1. Brazil-Croatia Brazil
2. Mexico-Cameroon Cameroon
3. Spain-Holland Spain
4. Chile-Australia Chile
5. Columbia-Greece Greece
6. Uruguay-Costa Rica Uruguay
7. England-Italy Draw
8. Côte d'Ivoire-Japan Draw
9. switzerland-Ecuador Switzerland
10. France-Honduras France
11. Argentina-Bosnia and herzegovina Argentina
12. Germany-Portugal Portugal

I'm not looking for how many goals its going to be in each matches but which team will win or will it be a draw?

Markus

Well that my selection

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Advice on the outcome of these 12 matches:

1. Brazil-Croatia Brazil
2. Mexico-Cameroon Mexico
3. Spain-Holland Draw
4. Chile-Australia Chile
5. Columbia-Greece Columbia
6. Uruguay-Costa Rica Uruguay
7. England-Italy Italy
8. Côte d'Ivoire-Japan Draw
9. switzerland-Ecuador Draw
10. France-Honduras France
11. Argentina-Bosnia and herzegovina Argentina
12. Germany-Portugal Portugal

I'm not looking for how many goals its going to be in each matches but which team will win or will it be a draw?

Markus

My predictions.

[Moonlight]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Advice on the outcome of these 12 matches:

1. Brazil-Croatia Brazil
2. Mexico-Cameroon Mexico
3. Spain-Holland Spain
4. Chile-Australia Chile
5. Columbia-Greece Columbia
6. Uruguay-Costa Rica Uruguay
7. England-Italy Italy
8. Côte d'Ivoire-Japan Côte d'Ivoire
9. switzerland-Ecuador Ecuador
10. France-Honduras France
11. Argentina-Bosnia and Herzegovina Argentina
12. Germany-Portugal Germany

I'm not looking for how many goals its going to be in each matches but which team will win or will it be a draw?

Markus

I'm hopeless at football predictions so I'll be happy if I get 3 right.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by BossMark

Am going stick my head on the line and say England to draw with Italy and Uruguay and beat Costa Rica 5 points should be enough to take us out of the group.

Lose to Italy, draw with Uruguay and scrape a 1-0 win over Costa Rica...then the flight home.