Nigeria looked way out of their depth during the Confeds. Young squad is unlikely to help them here. Big difference between Africa Qualifying and the World Cup. Not that Bosnia are overly strong either but I think they have at worst as good of a chance of getting through that group as Nigeria do.
Could see Italy beating England. Uruguay beating Costa Rica.
England and Uruguay drawing. Italy beating Costa Rica.
England beating Costa Rica. Uruguay and Italy drawing a dull game where both don't mind the result thus knocking England out
Italy vs England is the most guaranteed draw in the history of guaranteed sporting outcomes. That heat plus neither wanting to be on 0 while the other on 3. Not a chance. I'll put the bet on now.
Love the fact that the only game to be played after midnight is England's. Well done FIFA.
And also that France somehow managed to squirm there way out of being put in pot 2, that way ensuring that they wouldnt get a tough group. Well done FIFA, and Platini.
Anyways, I definitely think England can beat Italy. If they can get some pace in going forward, then they can score against the Italians. Costa Rica should be a game England win, no matter what and Uruguay you have to hope we can get a point, but I remember watching the Confed Cup and some Uruguay games and the only player that looked really good was Suarez. There was a lot of talk about Cavani, but he did not perform at all so hopefully he turns out to be someone who struggles at major tournaments. I might seem optimistic, but I definitely see Enlgand getting to the quarter finals.
I'm Nigerian. Our squad is young atm but it's far better than the one before our current coach, Stephen Keshi inherited. I'm not expecting anything huge at the World Cup though the guys performed immensely at AFCON. Majority are home grown players with no real experience out there. No one really gave them a chance at the AFCON but they ended up winning it.
The support for the national team here is strong but the expectations are low. Though it's significantly higher than the previous Int'l tournaments with the AFCON win and the recent under 17 World Cup success. Remains to be seen but I think we have as good of a chance of qualifying as Bosnia.
I've never been one too high on Mikel as a player since his move to Chelsea where he plays as DM. Guy is a natural AM with immense potential at a young age but is far from realising it. I doubt he'd ever realise it at this point btw.
Abk is Nigerian? :wilkins. Huh never saw that coming.
Anyway just saw the pots and yeah England got fucked over :hayden3. Can't really see them advancing over Uruaguay GOAT SUAREZ & Italy. Brazil & Argentina should really walk their groups. I wanna say France should walk their group too but welll....they should have also walked there group back in 2010 so yeah.
It's ok Aussies and Muricans. When all three of us (England) get knocked out in the groups, we'll pretend that the World Cup 2014 never existed :draper2
England at least have a chance. Our only chance for a single point is against Vidal, Sanchez and co :jose Oh well, for this world cup i'm Uruguayan. Suarez gonna go in dry on England :suarez1
i mean its no diss against croatia, mexico and cameroon. i mean theyre all fine teams but brazil is easily a step above each of them. very complete in all areas
Cameroon, Mexico and Croatia are still decent teams, Brazil will still get through though and compared to some other groups like the one Argentina got, it's a bit more difficult.
Mexico are piss poor right now. Had 4 coach changes very recently. Only reason they advanced was because U.S. scored a late goal in their game, and they got through on goal difference or something.
Don't think Cameroon will be a challenge either. Croatia could be good, but Brazil will comfortably advance.
U.S. will probably finish dead last, oh well. Would at least like to win against Ghana.
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