World Cup predictions - first round

[Dauphin]

Champions odds (based on predictions thus far:

Italy & Argentina 5/2 favourites
France 3/1
Spain 11/1
Russia & Brazil 23/1

[JohnIII]

Oops.

[JohnIII]

Bah, Senegal are very organised defensively and have a talented young forward who is actually (gasp!) willing to work for the team. His name: El-Hadji Diouf.

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
Champions odds (based on predictions thus far:

Italy & Argentina 5/2 favourites
France 3/1
Spain 11/1
Russia & Brazil 23/1

Glad to see Italy so high-ranked!
It will ne tough with our horrible midfield... but our attack and defense (+GK) our between the best this year

Saluti

[JohnIII]

Trapattoni admitted today that you are nothing without Totti .

I like Doni, though...I like Atalanta.

[Az]

Re: World Cup predictions - first round

World Champions: Spain
Top Scorer : Raul Gonzales
(they've got to suceed some time , I say. )

Group Winners:
-France
-Spain
-Brazil
-Portugal
-Cameroon
-Argentina
-Italy
-Russia

A 31-05 13:30 France - Senegal (Seoul) 3-1
A 01-06 11:00 Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) 0-0
B 02-06 09:30 Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) 2-0
B 02-06 13:30 Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) 3-1
C 03-06 11:00 Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 2-0
C 04-06 08:30 China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 2-2
D 04-06 13:30 Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 2-1
D 05-06 11:00 USA - Portugal (Suwon) 1-2
E 01-06 08:30 Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) 0-2
E 01-06 13:30 Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) 2-0
F 02-06 11:30 England - Sweden (Saitama) 0-2
F 02-06 14:30 Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) 3-1
G 03-06 08:30 Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 3-2
G 03-06 13:30 Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 1-0 ( )
H 04-06 11:00 Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 2-0
H 05-06 08:30 Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 3-1

A 06-06 13:30 France - Uruguay (Busan) 2-0
A 06-06 08:30 Denmark - Senegal (Daegu) 1-1
B 07-06 11:00 Spain - Paraguay (Jeonju) 2-0
B 08-06 08:30 South Africa - Slovenia (Daegu) 0-2
C 08-06 13:30 Brazil - China PR (Seogwipo) 3-0
C 09-06 11:00 Costa Rica - Turkey (Incheon) 2-2
D 10-06 08:30 Korea Republic - USA (Daegu) 2-1
D 10-06 13:30 Portugal - Poland (Jeonju) 3-2
E 05-06 13:30 Germany - Republic of Ireland (Ibaraki) 2-1
E 06-06 11:00 Cameroon - Saudi Arabia (Saitama) 3-0
F 07-06 08:30 Sweden - Nigeria (Kobe) 2-1
F 07-06 13:30 Argentina - England (Sapporo) 3-1
G 08-06 11:00 Italy - Croatia (Ibaraki) 2-1
G 09-06 08:30 Mexico - Ecuador (Miyagi) 1-0
H 09-06 13:30 Japan - Russia (Yokohama) 3-2
H 10-06 11:00 Tunisia - Belgium (Oita) 1-2

A 11-06 08:30 Denmark - France (Incheon)1-3
A 11-06 08:30 Senegal - Uruguay (Suwon) 2-1
B 12-06 13:30 South Africa - Spain (Daejeon) -1-3
B 12-06 13:30 Slovenia - Paraguay (Seogwipo) 2-2
C 13-06 08:30 Costa Rica - Brazil (Suwon) 1-1
C 13-06 08:30 Turkey - China PR (Seoul) 2-0
D 14-06 13:30 Portugal - Korea Republic (Incheon) 2-1
D 14-06 13:30 Poland - USA (Daejeon) 2-0
E 11-06 13:30 Cameroon - Germany (Shizuoka) 2-2
E 11-06 13:30 Saudi Arabia - Republic of Ireland (Yokohama) 1-2
F 12-06 08:30 Sweden - Argentina (Miyagi) 1-3
F 12-06 08:30 Nigeria - England (Osaka) 1-2
G 13-06 13:30 Mexico - Italy (Oita) 0-2
G 13-06 13:30 Ecuador - Croatia (Yokohama) 1-2
H 14-06 08:30 Tunisia - Japan (Osaka) 1-2
H 14-06 08:30 Belgium - Russia (Shizuoka)1-2

[yaroslav]

Re: Re: World Cup predictions - first round

Originally posted by Dalgetti
World Champions: Spain
Top Scorer : Raul Gonzales
(they've got to suceed some time , I say. )

Thank you for your supporting. Is sad that always Israel is on our classification group and we must kick off you.

BTW, In spanish is Raul Gonzalez, with z.

[Saint Marcus]

Senegal is a real joke. They won't make it past the first round.

[JohnIII]

No, but they will frustrate France.

[Giovanni Wine]

Originally posted by JohnIII
Trapattoni admitted today that you are nothing without Totti .

I like Doni, though...I like Atalanta.

Yeah I know!
Totti is great as midfield-forward, but I think that Doni can easily take his spot!

I would like to see Italy play like this:

Buffon
Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini
Zambrotta, Di Biagio, Tommasi, Doni
Totti
Vieri, Del Piero (Inzaghi)

I think that would be great... maybe a little bit unbalanced in attacking, but... I like it like this (It's only Di Biagio and Tommasi that are He should have called Perrotta and Ambrosini )

Saluti

[Zopperoni]

Gattuso and Tacchinardi aren't too bad either, the midfield is definitely Italia's weakest area.
BTW, is Conte selected?

[Giovanni Wine]

Gattuso is a slaughter-leg
Tacchinardi is even worse (trust me, i could berely support him in Juventus, i wouldn't stand to support him in the national team)
Conte wasn't selected... and that was a mistake.
Yeah... Midfield is our weakest area since Mexico 1986

Saluti

P.S. Cool Avatar

[*End Is Forever*]

World Champions: France
Top Scorer: Raul

Group Winners:

A - France
B - Spain
C - Brazil
D - Portugal
E - Germany
F - Argentina
G - Italy
H - Russia

A 31-05 13:30 France - Senegal (Seoul) 4-1
A 01-06 11:00 Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) 1-1
B 02-06 09:30 Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) 2-1
B 02-06 13:30 Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) 2-0
C 03-06 11:00 Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 3-1
C 04-06 08:30 China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 1-1
D 04-06 13:30 Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 0-1
D 05-06 11:00 USA - Portugal (Suwon) 0-2
E 01-06 08:30 Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) 1-1
E 01-06 13:30 Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) 2-0
F 02-06 11:30 England - Sweden (Saitama) 1-1
F 02-06 14:30 Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) 2-1
G 03-06 08:30 Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 1-0
G 03-06 13:30 Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 2-0
H 04-06 11:00 Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 0-1
H 05-06 08:30 Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 2-1

[Monk]

World champion France 8 group winners A France, B Spain, C Brazil, D Portugal, E Germany, F Argentina, G Croatia, H Russia and top scorer Figo

A 31-05 13:30 France - Senegal (Seoul) 2-0
A 01-06 11:00 Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) 1-2
B 02-06 09:30 Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) 2-0
B 02-06 13:30 Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) 3-1
C 03-06 11:00 Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 4-0
C 04-06 08:30 China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 0-1
D 04-06 13:30 Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 1-1
D 05-06 11:00 USA - Portugal (Suwon) 1-3
E 01-06 08:30 Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) 1-1
E 01-06 13:30 Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) 4-0
F 02-06 11:30 England - Sweden (Saitama) 1-1
F 02-06 14:30 Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) 2-2
G 03-06 08:30 Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 1-1
G 03-06 13:30 Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 2-1
H 04-06 11:00 Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 1-1
H 05-06 08:30 Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 4-0

[VetLegion]

its that time of the quarteryear... when reason gives in to passion... YEAAAAAAAHHHH! WORLD CUP AGAIN!

CROATIA CROATIA CROATIA ! ! ! ! ! !

we were third last time, this time watch out for croatia in the first or second

World Champion: France (again, but they are so fvcking good)
Top scorer: Suker (again)
Group winners:
A France
B Spain
C Brazil
D Poland
E Germany
F Argentina
G Croatia
H Russia

A 31-05 13:30 France - Senegal (Seoul) 2-0
A 01-06 11:00 Uruguay - Denmark (Ulsan) 0-2
B 02-06 09:30 Paraguay - South Africa (Busan) 1-0
B 02-06 13:30 Spain - Slovenia (Gwangju) 1-1
C 03-06 11:00 Brazil - Turkey (Ulsan) 3-1
C 04-06 08:30 China PR - Costa Rica (Gwangju) 1-1
D 04-06 13:30 Korea Republic - Poland (Busan) 1-2
D 05-06 11:00 USA - Portugal (Suwon) 0-3
E 01-06 08:30 Republic of Ireland - Cameroon (Niigata) 2-2
E 01-06 13:30 Germany - Saudi Arabia (Sapporo) 2-0
F 02-06 11:30 England - Sweden (Saitama) 1-0
F 02-06 14:30 Argentina - Nigeria (Ibaraki) 3-1
G 03-06 08:30 Croatia - Mexico (Niigata) 2-1
G 03-06 13:30 Italy - Ecuador (Sapporo) 2-0
H 04-06 11:00 Japan - Belgium (Saitama) 0-2
H 05-06 08:30 Russia - Tunisia (Kobe) 1-0

go slovenia kick some spanish butt! (you know how )
go argentina! go england (I know I know I like them both )
go uruguay!

watch out for croatia-italy we re going to trash some italian ass

I ll be away from the forums for a week but I ll be back for more cheering of my favourite teams

btw I suggest we start a thread about every playing day and comment the games when it starts