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Germany v Paraguay
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Come back well after getting hammered by the Yanks.
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Caramba I wish you luck tomorrow and everything given you have Gyökeres who I'm obviously following and hopes does well, but Sweden are gonner get absolutely pumped by France
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im going to ask VAR to check that reg
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Could add Spain, win it 2010, not made quarters of the last 3
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Caramba must be a South American surely
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The German decline is so weird. They were bad 1998-2004 (somehow fluked a WC final in 2002 in the middle of this). Then they change entire structure from the grassroots and up after the flop in 2004 and ahead of their home WC and go bronze, bronze, gold. Been useless since.
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how tall is that keeper?
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Vorsprung durch schlecht
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Tiger, i googled it, can't remember 51 years ago
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I took a bet on France outright at 4.4 as Germany missed their 4th pen. I was seething hard as Para missed two kicks from there, but it worked out in the end.
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What a result
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Nagelsmann seems like another AVB
Hyped up as the greatest ever in early thirties, out of the game by 40. |
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Germany in 2018 and 2022 at least created chances. This is a useless squad, I don't understand how a big football nation like that doesn't get better players.
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Caramba, France 3.9 now
Well done, but I'm surprised Germany going out took the France price down half a point...would never have considered them a threat |
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Argentina and France both sub 1.3 to make the quarters.
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Yeah, Argies especially got a nice run
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looks like we are either getting Brazil vs Argentina for the first time since 1990 or Argentina vs England.
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Norway v Ecuador hasn't happened in a while
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Traditionally, Brazil's greatest rival is Argentina. The two countries have met each other four times in the history of the FIFA World Cup, with two wins for Brazil (West Germany 1974 and Spain 1982), one for Argentina (Italy 1990) and a draw (Argentina 1978).
Funny these two have only met 4 times in the history of the WC and that was in the span of 5 world cups. /caramba the South American statistician |
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The 2nd group stage in 74/78/82 made big nation match ups more likely
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Mexico are the biggest mystery in football, 130 odd million people, a proper footballing country where it's like religion.
Yet their World Cup record is absolutely abysmal and there hasn't been any top class Mexican player to speak off in years and years. I read a while a list of the best ever Mexican players, just to give you an idea of their calibre, the player rated the fifth best Mexican player ever was....wait for it......Javier Hernandez the little peaIf he was English he'd be the 5000th best ever player. How can a country that big with that many people where football is the number 1,2,3 sport, cannot produce any top quality players at all. Probably have to go as far back as Marquez and he was a defender. If you look at the clubs their current squad are all playing for, most are playing in Mexico, Jimenez was playing at Fulham last season, just signed for a Championship club, the rest are at clubs in Russia, Greece, Cyprus etc. Kind Regards. |
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when you're carrying 2, maybe 3 passengers, and you don't have any quality to bring on. You're goose is cooked, tbh.
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I was only thinking today that I don't think I'd ever seen Brazil play Argentina in a World Cup, was going to look it up but forgot, it is a pretty amazing stat it hasn't happened in the last 8 World Cups
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Those thinking it may be opening up for the Argies, are forgetting the Colombians.
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England are a Mirror Imagine of the German play style , SHYTENHAUSER
they need to sort their game out and Quick Penalty Shoot out into the Congo End, Bongo Drums in full flow , Game over imo |
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A bit like Federer and Nadal - they played 14 times in Grand slams (40 times in total)
but they never played each other once at the US Open |
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The weirdest example of big nations never crossing paths was Brazil not meeting Germany until 2002.
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never heard of Lucha libre, had to look that up
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I don't mind the German's losing, but I am not sure how Shearer can say a side who spent most the match playing for penalties, deserved to win. That's before you take into account the very dubious disallowed goal where it looked like the goalkeeper went down too easily. Two more poor teams.
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I guess because Nadal took a while to be a Top 2 player on non clay, but was always seeded 2 at the US due to clay record, so couldn't meet Roger until the final but wasn't good enough to get there.
And when Nadal came into his all court prime Fed's prime was over. |
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tober they met at the Aussie open (hard court) four times
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Had to look it up, but England haven't played Spain at a World Cup since 1982, that's 11 World Cups ago, must be the longest gap between games for England v another Top nation ?
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Yeah, it is odd they never did play in US Open considering that.
But Federer really dropped off at the US Open after 2011 or so didn't he?, while being more competitive in the Australian until near the end of his career. |
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yeah Novak came in and helped spoil the party as well, that's in part why he is no where near their level of popularity, people enjoyed that rivalry but then post 2011, gluten free n'all, Novak started to split them up, knocking one of the other out of slams stopping more match ups between Federer and Nadal.
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I remember Cannigia scoring against Brazil, brilliant set up by Maradona.
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on a slightly lesser level, Murray and Nadal amazingly never met in a Grand Slam final, despite the fact that between his first slam final USOPEN 2008 til his last, Wimbledon 2016, they played in total of 24 slam finals between then, Murray 11 and Nadal 13, yet somehow they managed to miss each other in every single one.
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The one time Murray got to a French open final, where Nadal usually sat waiting for his next victim, he wasn't there, he had to pull out of the third round, wasn't meant to happen. Would have got beat anyway.
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