Unofficial Soccer Discussion Thread

england so i get 10£ back from everygoal they score.

buti reackon italy like last time

I'm with you on England. Their offense is now one of the best in the world. Italy can't win; Totti wasn't part of the 30-man preliminary team.

England won't win.

We don't cope with pressure, ever.

I'd put money on the Brits getting to the quarter finals, then bottling it on penalties for the 200th time.

They are going into this game with great mentality and they won't let any team get past them in this World Cup. They've made too many little mistakes that has caused them the match. They just need to focus and not let down after they make a mistake.

U.s. or Germany.

I will watch the u.s. and just get more pissed at our failures.

Good times though for all.

Lol. Watching US soccer is like watching paint dry on a wall. But, if they put 110% effort into their first game against England on June 12th, it'll be a great show.

Is anyone actually attending?

I got a few family members going, would be EPIC to watch it live and get all that world cup atmosphere!

A few of my friends are going. They wouldn't take me because it's too much.

My cousin is going..I wish I could go with him..
I'm usually lucky, and was hoping to win the tickets in a drawing, but I didn't. :/
The only reason I was confident is because my brother won The Asian Cup Finals tickets + a hotel room..
Sadly it was a horrible game, but he still enjoyed it
(it was in 2007)
Saudi Arabia Vs. Iraq
Iraq 1 Saudi arabia 0.
^^^^^^^Saudi Arabia should have won..

Well, back the World cup 2010 in South Africa...
My opinion:



I honestly Don't think many of the other teams have a good chance, but It may happen...
But I'd love to see the US win...but that just won't happen.

Overall, I think either Germany, France or Spain are going to win. Let's hope for France.

Italy has the exact same players as last time, but older and they did win it but can you really expect it again now that they are all 30 somethings? I got South Korea to win it IF they get their strikers back and I got Spain otherwise because of Torres.

They don't have Totti, but I guess Italy can still pull through. Sometimes having an experienced team that has played internationally is better than having a young, non-experienced team playing in the World Cup. I'm looking for a lot of surprises and upsets this year, so let's see what happens.

 

[Shall Skill]

I honestly think Paraguay will do well, if not win, this year.

Most realistically, I think England or Portugal will win.

EDIT: I think if the US play like they did at the Confederations Cup, they have a good chance aswell.

 

[Doodles]

Sweden didn't even qualify for the finals..

LOLD.

Australia.

OI OI OI . WIN WIN WIN

 

[Yeah I O W N]

in my opinion, either argentina or netherlands, both robben and messi have improved in the past couple of seasons, but im going for australia, GO AUSTRALIA.

 

[Feren Silver]

Group A: France + South Africa
Group B: Argentina + Nigeria
Group C: United States + England (US tops England in group play)
Group D: Ghana + Germany
Group E: Netherlands + Cameroon
Group F: Italy + Slovakia
Group G: Portugal + Brazil (Ivory Coast could pull an upset here)
Group H: Spain + Honduras

I'm taking Spain for the whole thing. They're too star studded to deny. Plus, Euro 2008 was their coming out party, finally breaking through on the big stage.

 

[Shall Skill]

Group A: France + South Africa
Group B: Argentina + Nigeria
Group C: United States + England (US tops England in group play)
Group D: Ghana + Germany
Group E: Netherlands + Cameroon
Group F: Italy + Slovakia
Group G: Portugal + Brazil (Ivory Coast could pull an upset here)
Group H: Spain + Honduras

I'm taking Spain for the whole thing. They're too star studded to deny. Plus, Euro 2008 was their coming out party, finally breaking through on the big stage.

Group F: Italy + Paraguay

 

[Shall Skill]

Paraguay's striking talent is relatively good after Roque Santa Cruz. Nelson Haedo Valdez is a burner, Oscar Cardozo scores tons of goals for Benfica (but often doesn't do much for Paraguay), and they just got Barrios who is one of the Bundesliga goal leaders.

Biggest blow to their strikers was the shooting of Cabanas...

 

Paraguay's striking talent is relatively good after Roque Santa Cruz. Nelson Haedo Valdez is a burner, Oscar Cardozo scores tons of goals for Benfica (but often doesn't do much for Paraguay), and they just got Barrios who is one of the Bundesliga goal leaders.

Biggest blow to their strikers was the shooting of Cabanas...

They'll still lose to Italy and Slovakia can give them a good chance. I wouldn't worry too much about New Zealand though.

You're giving Paraguay way too much credit and you have to remember, that the players from Paraguay don't usually play against the better soccer players. This'll give them a disadvantage.

 

[K-C-D]

Spain!

 

[penman2k7]

England will get to the semi's imo. I cant decide on who i think will win but i dont think Italy and France are going to get far.

Mainley because Italians team for me is too old and the french had quite a problem qualifying.

But then againe it is football so anything could happen

 

[volvic]

Group F: Italy + Paraguay

My life savings say they will defo lose to Italy.

 

England will get to the semi's imo. I cant decide on who i think will win but i dont think Italy and France are going to get far.

Mainley because Italians team for me is too old and the french had quite a problem qualifying.

But then againe it is football so anything could happen

Totally agreed. Whenever England is in the semi-finals, they always choke and lose.

My life savings say they will defo lose to Italy.

Who will? Post a reason or an argument.

 

[Shall Skill]

They'll still lose to Italy and Slovakia can give them a good chance. I wouldn't worry too much about New Zealand though.

You're giving Paraguay way too much credit and you have to remember, that the players from Paraguay don't usually play against the better soccer players. This'll give them a disadvantage.

Paraguay beat Brazil and Argentina in qualifiers (if I'm not mistaken). Those teams both include better soccer players. I know I'm somewhat favoring Paraguay just because I'm from there, but I honestly think skill-wise, they will beat Slovakia.

 

[volvic]

on curren't talk who saw that 3 touch goal by inter was pretty sick play, and their defence is undoubtedly the best in the world.

 

[cescfabregas]

Spain!

Honestly, don't just pick someone because they're good. Do you have any reasoning to pick Spain?

 

[Shall Skill]

on curren't talk who saw that 3 touch goal by inter was pretty sick play, and their defence is undoubtedly the best in the world.

Who were they playing?

 

[King Legend]

I want england to win, but spain will win it!

 

on curren't talk who saw that 3 touch goal by inter was pretty sick play, and their defence is undoubtedly the best in the world.

Take that discussion here.
http://sythe.org/showthread.php?t=824068

@Justin: They were playing Bayern Munich.

 

[Silent Assassin]

Shame Iraq didnt get through.

Would have loved to see the US vs Iraq

 

[Silent Assassin]

What wud be funny wud be England and Portugal at Penalties in the Knockout stages