World Cup 2018 General Discussion

[wera]

World Cup 2018 Russia

In Soviet Russia, football plays you.


The World Cup starts on 14th June 2018.

These are the teams that will be going to Russia.

AFC (5)
Australia
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea
CAF (5)
Egypt
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal
Tunisia
CONCACAF (3)
Costa Rica
Mexico
Panama
CONMEBOL (5)
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Peru
Uruguay
OFC (0)
None qualified
UEFA (14)
Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Iceland
Poland
Portugal
Russia (hosts)
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland



Pot 1
Russia (hosts)
Germany
Brazil
Portugal
Argentina
Belgium
Poland
France

Pot 2
Spain
Peru
Switzerland
England
Colombia
Mexico
Uruguay
Croatia

Pot 3
Denmark
Iceland
Costa Rica
Sweden
Tunisia
Egypt
Senegal
Iran

Pot 4
Serbia
Nigeria
Australia
Japan
Morocco
Panama
South Korea
Saudi Arabia

 

[firmino]

i feel so very maltese right now.

 

[J..]

UEFA (14)
Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Iceland
Poland
Portugal
Russia (hosts)
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland

Scandinavia is well represented.

 

[M.Adnan]

Strange to see Panama in the WC while Italy is out. But to be fair, I'm pretty sure that Ventura would still get knocked out by Panama.

 

[Big Willy]

Grande Peru

 

[crzdcolombian]

Grande Peru

How they finished 7th place and qualified on some horse shit!! On a side note Andy Polo the former Inter legend is on their team

Chile fkd themselves and Paraguay super hard in the ass by Sueing Bolivia for points for using a Argie player. Chile tie Bolivia. Peru lost. So Chile got +2 points + 3 goals. Peru got +6 points + 3 goals. That is why they finished ahead of those two teams.

Peru is def the weakest team in pot 2.

 

[Besnik]

I have watched only one game of Peru and that was against Argentina in the qualifiers, they played a great game though. Very nice passing and quick counter-attacking football with Guerrero upfront.

They can be the weakest team in paper but at least they play great football as far as I have seen.

 

[Efrain21C]

Strange to see Panama in the WC while Italy is out. But to be fair, I'm pretty sure that Ventura would still get knocked out by Panama.

Well, we did our job, lol

 

[Tombatu]

I want to see Brazil, Spain, Denmark, and Australia in one group or maybe just watch 2006 WC again and again.

 

[Wings]

It's a good thing that FIFA have decided they need to review the rankings system after they changed WC seeding to be based on those rankings.

 

[Black Knight]

i feel so very maltese right now.

fite me irl

 

[Niarc]

why spain in pot 2 and poland in pot 1?( no offense to poland)

 

[firmino]

Any predictions? Imho it will be Spain for the second time in their history, not because they won 3-0 against Italy but because I think that all the drama regarding Catalogna will somehow make them kind of more focused, as if they have something to prove

 

[monster09]

Any predictions? Imho it will be Spain again, not because they won 3-0 against Italy but because I think that all the drama regarding Catalogna will somehow make them kind of more focused, as if they have something to prove

Spain also have fantastic team. Isco is a first team player for Madrid, so is Morata for Chelsea. They have proper 9 who is focused on football rather than winding up CBs. Isco, Busquets, Thiago, David Silva is like cheating, near impossible to get the ball from them.

 

[J..]

It's a good thing that FIFA have decided they need to review the rankings system after they changed WC seeding to be based on those rankings.

Haha yeah.

Talking about the rankings. Denmark was ranked 51 back in June but will now be ranked 12 next month. The system is absolutely rubbish as it shouldn't be possible to move up 39 spots within 6 months.

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Any predictions? Imho it will be Spain again, not because they won 3-0 against Italy but because I think that all the drama regarding Catalogna will somehow make them kind of more focused, as if they have something to prove

Argentina has not played well at all in the qualifications but I think they will do surprisingly well under the leadership of Sampaoli.

 

[ElDiego22]

No Italy, No Holland, No Chile, No Algeria.

This World Cup is gonna suck hard.

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Germany will win this easily. The host nation is fucking useless, Messi will go missing again and despite being the closest challengers, Brazil will fall short.

 

[Ed.]

Well, one of the finalist will be Brazil, Croatia, Portugal, Uruguay.

 

[crzdcolombian]

Well, one of the finalist will be Brazil, Croatia, Portugal, Uruguay.

Haha Uruguay to me isn’t that great. Portugal is garbage.

Croatia tho to me is the dark horse their team def looks nasty.

Brazil or Germany will win this cup easily.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Hope Ronaldo wins it all. #fuckmessi#fuckbarca#fuckpep

 

[crzdcolombian]

Hope Ronaldo wins it all. #fuckmessi#fuckbarca#fuckpep

Germany going to tie up with Brazil with 5 cups. They destroyed all the confederation champs with a B/C team last summer. Don’t see anyone stopping them. Would be awesome to see a new team win the cup. Obviously want Colombia to win but they play like hot garbage. All South American teams minus Brazil are shit right now and the games are in Europe so I count the other 4 out haha.

Croatia squad looks pretty sick. Think Spain, France and Portugal are pretty over rated.