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World Cup Finals - Match prediction
Both France and Italy are surprise finalists in this year’s World Cup. Italy, coming out of the Group of Death, and with the world class scandal going on at home, I had expected Italy to crumble to the pressure somewhere along the line, and be knocked out. Italy has been the strongest defensive team in [...]
World Cup 3rd place Match predictions
Well, someone had to lose. Germany, who had been playing so well was even with Italy for 117 minutes, then gave up a fantastic goal with less than three minutes to play, and a second less than two minutes later after throwing everyone forward. This was a great match, and Italy has still not given [...]
World Cup Semifinal predictions
Wow, it is all I can say right now, wow! France pulls off the upset of World Cup 2006, with a 1 - 0 win over Brazil. France, the team that failed to score in 2002 after winning at home in 1998, the team that barely escaped the worse group in this year’s cup, dominated [...]
Quarterfinal Predictions
During the 8 matches in the round of 16, there really was only one surprise. Spain had been playing so well, really dominating their three group stage matches, while France had stumbled through their group, barely qualifying. I just didn’t see any problem in this match for Spain, and they pretty much dominated the match [...]
Round of 16 Predictions
Game 1 - Germany vs. Sweden - With Germany playing at home, and playing well, we should see Germany advance past Sweden fairly easily. I have not been impressed with Sweden at all, they are dangerous up top, but their defense is suspect, and should give up several goals to the German strikers. Prediction: 3 [...]
Group G and H decided
Group G and H were both extremely weak, with France in group G with no one else in the top 30 and Spain in group H with no one in the top 20. These two groups are a perfect example why FIFA’s ranking system is horribly flawed. My guess is there are 5 or 6 [...]
Don’t Tread on Me, unless you are Ghana
Going into World Cup 2006, the US team was regarded as it’s best ever, a vast improvement that advancd to the quarter finals of World Cup 2002, and most likely the semi-finals had it not been for Torsten Fring’s hand. Once seeding had been announced, and the US was not seeded, but Mexico was, it [...]
Group C and D decided
Going into the matches today, Group C had already been decided (group of death, my foot), while Portugal had already advanced out of group D, and both Mexico and Angola had a chance to be the second team out of the group.
Group C
Both Argentina and Netherlands had already qualified for the second round with 2 [...]
Group A and B decided
Even though pretty much everything had been decided before the matches today, now that everyone in both group A and B have played all three matches, all is now decided.
Group A
Both Germany and Ecuador had qualified for the second round after just two matches, but going into their clash, each had 6 points, and Ecuador [...]
Revisiting the Group of Death 2006
Prior to the start of the World Cup 2006, most people believed there were two groups of death, Group C with Argentina, Netherlands, Cote D’Ivoire and Serbia and Montenegro and then Group E with Italy, Czech Republic, United States and Ghana. We have now seen each team in the tournament play 2 games each, and [...]