Random Soccer Chatter

• gorocks99

  

  Fuck, Honduras gets lucky as shit.
• gorocks99

  

  We're fucked. Group of death.
• Iliketurtles

  

  gorocks99;1548844 wrote:Fuck, Honduras gets lucky as shit.

  Yeah fucking terrible. We will get Germany and Ghana.
  
  Lol knew that was coming. Hopefully we will get some revenge on Ghana.
• like_that

  

  MAN, fuck group E what a fucking joke.
• Mulva

  

  God dammit.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Revenge on Ghana will be great. That loss in '10 was devastating.
• Iliketurtles

  

  DUTCH VS SPAIN! AWESOME!
• gorocks99

  

  We are SO fucked.
  
  We will not win a game.
• Fab1b

  

  Not a good draw
• Iliketurtles

  

  Lol knew we would get Portugal. Fucking Group of Death.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Every World Cup. Every fucking one.
• like_that

  

  I knew Switzerland being ranked was going to fuck things up smh.
• gorocks99

  

  Predictions:
  
  A
  1. Brazil
  2. Croatia
  
  B
  1. Spain
  2. Netherlands
  
  C
  1. Colombia
  2. Who the fuck cares this group is shit
  
  D
  1. Italy
  2. Uruguay
  
  E
  1. Ecuador
  2. Seriously what the fuck is this bullshit
  
  F
  1. Argentina
  2. Goddamnit, fucking Iran and Nigeria?
  
  G
  1. Germany
  2. Portugal
  
  H
  1. Belgium
  2. Oh look a third shitty group
• like_that

  

  Fuck France. They were on the brink of not qualifying and they get a great draw smfh.
• Iliketurtles

  

  Just need to beat Ghana in that first game. The USA/Portugal game will be on my 1 year wedding anniversary lawl. It sucks we got a terrible draw wife and I talked about going to the WC.
  
  My Predictions:
  
  A
  1. Brazil
  2. Croatia
  
  B
  1. Spain
  2. Netherlands
  
  C
  1. Colombia
  2. Japan
  
  D
  1. Italy
  2. Uruguay
  
  E
  1. France
  2. Swiss
  
  F
  1. Argentina
  2. Iran
  
  G
  1. Germany
  2. USA (Really Portugal but I'm not giving up hope!)
  
  H
  1. Belgium
  2. Russia
• I Wear Pants

  Winning against Ghana is vital. We do that and we have an outside shot if we get a draw against someone.
• Automatik

  

  Didn't Portugal barely qualify?
  
  Regardless, I think we're fucked. The US is Ghana's bitch.
• like_that

  

  Automatik;1548894 wrote:Didn't Portugal barely qualify?
  
  Regardless, I think we're fucked. The US is Ghana's bitch.

  Yeah, but qualifying in Europe is much tougher than any other confederation .
• Automatik

  

  People are saying we drew the "group of death".....I'd give that to Group D.
• sportchampps

  Our group is the group of death. It has one of the top 3 seeded teams. Then it has the top teams from pod 2 and Pod 3. (Ghana and USA) the forth team is a world soccer power with one of the two best players in the world.
• Mulva

  

  I think I'm gonna try to go down for one of the matches. Not going to the jungle, so Portugal is out.
• OSH

  

  Automatik;1548894 wrote:Didn't Portugal barely qualify?

  like_that;1548901 wrote:Yeah, but qualifying in Europe is much tougher than any other confederation .

  That's all relative. Confederation strength and weakness is all dependent upon the makeup of your own team. Of course qualifying for the World Cup is "tough" for Jamaica, Canada, and the like in the CONCACAF. So, would anyone really expect them to qualify and they would consider the CONCACAF to be tough to qualify in. Every confederation is tough in its own regard to the competition within.
  
  Portugal drew against Israel and Northern Ireland in their qualifying stages. Not saying they are bad by any means, but anything can happen in qualifying AND teams can struggle in any confederation. A team like Portugal should not struggle against Israel and Northern Ireland.
• Laley23

  

  I have slight hope, that Germany wins their first 2 games.
  
  that means they sit on 6 pts. We beat Ghana and draw Portugal. We sit on 4, Portugal on 1 and Ghana on 0. Germany and USA don't try at all and tie!!! Lol.
  
  i will also be praying, and god help my soul for this, a Christiano Ronaldo Injury in the coming months...
• like_that

  

  OSH;1548996 wrote:That's all relative. Confederation strength and weakness is all dependent upon the makeup of your own team. Of course qualifying for the World Cup is "tough" for Jamaica, Canada, and the like in the CONCACAF. So, would anyone really expect them to qualify and they would consider the CONCACAF to be tough to qualify in. Every confederation is tough in its own regard to the competition within.
  
  Portugal drew against Israel and Northern Ireland in their qualifying stages. Not saying they are bad by any means, but anything can happen in qualifying AND teams can struggle in any confederation. A team like Portugal should not struggle against Israel and Northern Ireland.

  
  Russia is no slouch team. There is little wiggle room in the UEFA qualifying. You have a 6 team group, and you have to finish on top to gain automatic qualification. Even 2nd place doesn't get you into the playoff if you are in the worst group. Typically each group has two teams that are going to compete for that top spot, and since they are competing to win the group, there is little wiggle room to fuck up (even a tie could fuck you over). In soccer we see it all the time where a team slips up and loses 1-0 or ties to a team that had no business being competitive with them. Look at the US for fucks sake, they lost 2 games and still finished on top of their group. In europe if you lose once (and especially twice) you are looking at being in the playoff.
  
  The main point of all this is don't down play Portugal because they "barely" (i use that term loosely, because portugal whooped sweden's ass in the 2 game playoff) qualified. They are still better than the US and any of the teams the US played during qualification.
  
  If you want to talk about a team that barely qualified, then mention France. It took them a 3-0 victory on the 2nd leg to get in the tournament. I'm not sure if the US qualifies for the WC if they play in Portugal's or France's qualification group.
• ohiobucks1

  

  We have no hope. No fucking hope.
  
  goddamnit.