FIFA 2014 World Cup - Official Discussion Thread

[Edu]

Isn't there a conflict of interest to have Brazilian referee take charge of a match which can determine Brazil's potential semifinal opponent?

FIFA doesn't seem to care that much, after all, there was an Argentine referee in the Switzerland - Honduras match which determined our opponent in the following round.

[Edu]

Well, at least we are playing better this second half.

[Edu]

LOL, we deserve to lose this match, this is getting embarrasing.

[Edu]

Finally!

LOL, and Switzerland hits the post, why are the match endings so insane in this world cup?

[Edu]

Haha, that Benaglio thing was hilarious

I'm guessing we can still lose

[Edu]

Yes!!!

Playing like this we'll probably lose in the QF anyway, but this would have been terribly embarrasing (more than it already was ).

[Edu]

Tim Howard is having an amazing match.

[Edu]

Belgium is going to destroy us

[Edu]

LOL not over yet

[Edu]

I believe that for the first time since the current format was implemented, all 8 group winners have advanced to the QF.

[Edu]

I'm a bit sceptical of some of the probabilities he's had for several matches so far.

But have any of them been proven wrong?

He gave USA the "absurd" 76% odds of passing through group heading into game three but it happened with very little doubt. He's been derided for giving the group winners too much of a chance for advancing to quarters, yet all they did. He gave Costa Rica-Greece near 50-50 with Costa Rica slight favorite and it went to penalties with Costa Rica winning.  His 20% odds for Algeria to beat Germany when the pundit world was saying 5-0, 6-0, 7-0 Germany ended up being wrong in that it probably should've been 40% for Algeria.

I'm not a huge fan of 538, but I can't say the football experts have shown they have any more of a clue than he does.

All of the things you mentioned (USA having a great chance to go trough in the third match, The group winners advancing, Costa Rica - Greece being a pretty tight match and Germany not winning 7-0 or whatever) seem to be in line with what most people have been saying or predicting.

I mean, all of the group winners were the favorites in every match in the round of 16, Everyone predicted that Germany wasn't going to give much of a damn in the last match (in fact most talked about a pact to make the US go trough) and that the USA had a huge chance of getting to the next round and like Franzl said I don't remember anyone claiming Germany would beat Algeria 7-0 or whatever, but maybe I listen to different people.


Not saying that he's wrong, but the stuff he wrote is similar to the consensus. I hardly think that he's been better than the regular pundits.

[Edu]

Oh wow.

Vamos Colombia!!!

[Edu]

Oh god, the worst possible SF match has come to be...

I guess I should now root for some world power to nuclear bomb Belo Horizonte on the 8th

[Edu]

So far so good...

[Edu]

Haha, this match is terribly boring

[Edu]

Ok, first time since 1990 that we reached the SF of the world cup.

We still play very uninspired football, I suppose Netherlands will crush us

[Edu]

Haha, this match is terribly boring

Was this ironic?

No, I found this a very boring match, I found myself wandering around the room doing something else at times.

[Edu]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

This is insane


So in the tipping competition I've been predicting matches with a decent amount of goals and every motherinking match ended in a 0-0 or somesuch. Now I go easy and predict a 1-0 Germany win and it's an inking blowout.

I hate you all

[Edu]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

This is insane


So in the tipping competition I've been predicting matches with a decent amount of goals and every motherinking match ended in a 0-0 or somesuch. Now I go easy and predict a 1-0 Germany win and it's an inking blowout.

I hate you all

Don't start hating till the late Brazilian 'honor goal' makes it 1-7 or what and costs you two more points.

Haha, oh crap.


So this will mean that we will be the South American hope to keep the cup at home and don't let it go to a filthy european, and for that we need to beat netherlands and Germany...LOL

[Edu]

Neuer is amazing

[Edu]

If we lose against Netherlands and then we beat them for third there's going to be blood on the streets.

[Edu]

Oh my god

if it ends up being 7-1 like Lewis said I'm gonna be pissed

[Edu]

Oh my god

if it ends up being 7-1 like Lewis said I'm gonna be pissed

LOL

Ok then...

[Edu]

Despite the bad performance at football tipping, This result is incredibly awesome, in fact I'm about to head out and go drinking somewhere with some friends, I'm sure all of Argentina is celebrating this

[Edu]

You know, I don 't give a crap is we lose tomorrow against Netherlands. Today was good enough and I don't even like Germany. In fact I¡'mk afraid that even if we beat Netherlands, we will be destroyed by Germany in a bigger dissapointment than 2010.

Frankly I now wish that Germany beat us in the final. It will give us enough hope about winning the title while at the same time we can't complain that we did badly in the tournament and the government won't have that much of political propaganda to throw around.

So, tomorrow is a win - win for me