Re: Predict The World Cup

by zarola Wed May 14, 2014 2:11 pm

Who will flop? France
Who will top? Uruguay
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? Netherlands
Who will be the top scorer? Messi
Where will this WC rank? Fantastic
Will Messi score at least one goal? Yes

by McLewis Wed May 14, 2014 2:47 pm

Flop - England
Top - Argentina
Unexpected exit? - Portugal
Top Scorer - Neymar
WC Rank - Good
Mess to score 1 goal? - Yes

And bonus questions:

Surprise Package? - Bosnia & Herzegovina

Dark Horse? - Germany

by BarrileteCosmico Wed May 14, 2014 2:48 pm

In what world is Germany a dark horse? They have the second or third most talented squad in the world lol.

by rwo power Wed May 14, 2014 3:01 pm

Who will flop? Argentina
Who will top? Switzerland :coffee:

Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? France (I wanted to say England, but would that really be unexpected?)
Who will be the top scorer? Josip Drmic
Where will this WC rank? Better than 2022 Razz

Will Messi score at least one goal? Yeah, Argentina is in a comparatively weak group, even Messi should get one or the other World Cup goal there.
Dark Horse: Switzerland (even though Hitzfeld prefers Diego Benaglio to Yann Sommer Sad

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by McLewis Wed May 14, 2014 3:18 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:In what world is Germany a dark horse? They have the second or third most talented squad in the world lol.

Basing this solely off of results between now and 2010 WC.

Dark horse candidates are generally the 3rd strongest contenders, just a shade below the front 2. To me at least, Germany fit that description.

Simply can't bring myself to list them as front-runners considering how they fared in 2010 and Euro 2012.

by farfan Wed May 14, 2014 3:21 pm

why are people expecting france to exit at the group stage?

ecuador or hounduras over france? lol

by Glory Wed May 14, 2014 3:47 pm

Who will flop? Argentina of course, they are my favourite team but sad to say they dont look like title contenders, way too many imbalance and glaring weaknesses in that squad. A pre- quarter exit is on the cards I reckon.

Who will top? Uruguay (will beat Brazil in the final)

Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? England (they are still a big side on the footballing map IMHO )

Who will be the top scorer? Lukaku and Suarez

Where will this WC rank? For taking place on the Samba soil alone, its Going to be an amazing WC.

Will Messi score at least one goal? Sure he will.

Dark Horse ? either Belgium or Columbia. I have a feeling Belgium will reach the semis.

by Robespierre Wed May 14, 2014 7:53 pm

Who will flop? Uruguay
Who will top? Germany
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? Netherlands
Who will be the top scorer? Neymar
Where will this WC rank? Good , better than 2010 surely. But not close to 1998 that is the best World Cup seen by me.
Will Messi score at least one goal? Yes.

by BarrileteCosmico Thu May 15, 2014 2:07 am

McLewis wrote:Dark horse candidates are generally the 3rd strongest contenders, just a shade below the front 2. To me at least, Germany fit that description.

Simply can't bring myself to list them as front-runners considering how they fared in 2010 and Euro 2012.

I think dark horse refers not to 3rd favorite but to unlikely or unexpected winners. I like this definition, which Germany certainly does not meet:

dark horse
noun
a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

by Lupi Thu May 15, 2014 2:33 am

prediction:

by neuro11 Thu May 15, 2014 4:09 am

Lumiere_Blanche wrote:Who will flop? Argentina of course, they are my favourite team but sad to say they dont look like title contenders, way too many imbalance and glaring weaknesses in that squad. A pre- quarter exit is on the cards I reckon.

Who will top? Uruguay (will beat Brazil in the final)

Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? England (they are still a big side on the footballing map IMHO )

Who will be the top scorer? Lukaku and Suarez

Where will this WC rank? For taking place on the Samba soil alone, its Going to be an amazing WC.

Will Messi score at least one goal? Sure he will.

Dark Horse ? either Belgium or Columbia. I have a feeling Belgium will reach the semis.

I think, a group stage exit can only be considered flop for them....... :coffee:

by Gil Thu May 15, 2014 5:57 am

Who will flop? - France
Who will top? - Spain
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? - France
Who will be the top scorer? - Ronaldo
Where will this WC rank? - The greatest
Will Messi score at least one goal? - Of course

by sportsczy Thu May 15, 2014 6:46 am

Who will flop? - Belgium
Who will top? - France
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? - Belgium
Who will be the top scorer? - Benzema
Where will this WC rank? - Best since 1986
Will Messi score at least one goal? - Yes

by Valkyrja Thu May 15, 2014 7:11 am

Who will flop? Germany (semis)
Who will top? Brazil and Portugal
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? Uruguay
Who will be the top scorer? Ronaldo or Neymar
Where will this WC rank? Best since 86
Will Messi score at least one goal? yes
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by McLewis Thu May 15, 2014 10:21 am

BarrileteCosmico wrote:
McLewis wrote:Dark horse candidates are generally the 3rd strongest contenders, just a shade below the front 2. To me at least, Germany fit that description.

Simply can't bring myself to list them as front-runners considering how they fared in 2010 and Euro 2012.

I think dark horse refers not to 3rd favorite but to unlikely or unexpected winners. I like this definition, which Germany certainly does not meet:

dark horse
noun
a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.

They are definitely not the surefire favorites that Spain and Brazil are, which automatically puts them in the unexpected category. Ergo, if we're going by the above definition, that makes them dark horses.

by sportsczy Thu May 15, 2014 10:22 am

what inspired the term "dark horse"? hmm

by Gil Thu May 15, 2014 12:28 pm

sportsczy wrote:Who will flop? - Belgium
Who will top? - France
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? - Belgium
Who will be the top scorer? - Benzema
Where will this WC rank? - Best since 1986
Will Messi score at least one goal? - Yes

Sports is the funniest poster on this forum tbh. rofl

by futbol Thu May 15, 2014 12:31 pm

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Who will flop?
Who will top?
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages?
Who will be the top scorer?
Where will this WC rank?
Will Messi score at least one goal?

Flop: Argentina
Top: Spain
Unexpectedly out in the group stages: Netherlands
Top scorer: Müller
Rank? Good World Cup.
Will Messi score at least one goal? 2 max.

by El Gunner Thu May 15, 2014 1:02 pm

Who will flop? - Brazil
Who will top? - Spain
Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? - Netherlands
Who will be the top scorer? - Diego Costa
Where will this WC rank? - there and there abouts
Will Messi score at least one goal? - Well, yes of course. Just runner-up to Costa in the scoring charts.

by Glory Thu May 15, 2014 1:51 pm

neuro11 wrote:
Lumiere_Blanche wrote:Who will flop? Argentina of course, they are my favourite team but sad to say they dont look like title contenders, way too many imbalance and glaring weaknesses in that squad. A pre- quarter exit is on the cards I reckon.

Who will top? Uruguay (will beat Brazil in the final)

Which big country will exit unexpectedly at the group stages? England (they are still a big side on the footballing map IMHO )

Who will be the top scorer? Lukaku and Suarez

Where will this WC rank? For taking place on the Samba soil alone, its Going to be an amazing WC.

Will Messi score at least one goal? Sure he will.

Dark Horse ? either Belgium or Columbia. I have a feeling Belgium will reach the semis.

I think, a group stage exit can only be considered flop for them.......

yea if it was taking place in europe or in some other continent. then I agree. But since the WC is in the soil of the great Latin America this time around they are expected to scale heights. anything below a semi final would be massive underachievement considering their familiarity with the conditions. In case of Brazil its one step higher btw. their people wont tolerate if they cant get into the final which they easily will IMO. smoking

by BarrileteCosmico Thu May 15, 2014 2:25 pm

So Argentina are expected to do better because we will play in a country where every match will be an away match? Laughing

That being said with the easy draw we had anything less than semis will be flopping.

by Rebaño Sagrado Thu May 15, 2014 2:27 pm

What exactly does Belgium have to do to be considered flops? Because the only way they would be considered flops to me is not getting past the group stages, and that just seems unlikely. Or do we all just hate jill that much?

by che Thu May 15, 2014 3:58 pm

belgium are basically the defensive midfielder of national teams, it's the hipster pick to do well at the moment... praising them shows how you know a lot about football and don't just follow the biggest teams/leagues so pretty much everybody's doing it, which carries its own hype, so them not doing well will make millions of armchair managers shrug in unison as they agree that belgium did not, in fact, have the needed experience to succeed or some other vague bs that everyone will conveniently forget in two months

by boyzis Thu May 15, 2014 4:01 pm

I was supporting Spain and Holland last time both reached the final. Spain because of sesk and Holland because of rvp. It went to the wire and fab set up inesta to score the winner.

After that sesk betrayed arsenal and left us. I never really forgotten sesk antics but I made my peace with him. Rvp also left us and he was a bigger betrayer.

This time im not sure which team to support But i like germany england this time. I have kits of spain and brazil it would be great if these 4 teams reach the final stages.

by boyzis Thu May 15, 2014 4:03 pm

I predicted each result correctly last time and my family started calling me the human octupus Very Happy

by Hapless_Hans Thu May 15, 2014 4:10 pm

I don't know *bleep* about the Belgium national team but I really don't think they'll make it anywhere near as semis Laughing

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