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I couldnt agree with you more. I remember that also. A fucking farce.
One man can make a difference, so dont overlook Spain and Lionel Messi.
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Brazil it has to be - rarely let down for quality players, home support and familiar surroundings plus acclimatized with the temperatures.
Spain may be the strongest of the European qualifiers - also familiar with playing in the heat.
Germany normally start strong but often fade away with poor performances.
Italy are often void of quality but are stubborn so and so's and often claw their way to the semi's - it wouldn't surprise me if they reached the final.
My lovely home country of England are just too weak at the back - I'd be surprised if they got through the group stage - but who knows.
Look out for a few other teams to spring a surprise, Chile look a tough outfit and are also full of home grown talent that play in their own country. They too are used to the heat.
My prediction?, somehow I believe the route takes both Argentina and Brazil to the final without meeting one another hmm - say no more.
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Is Maradonna still playing?
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Mexico 1 Cameroon 0
This was the sort of scoreline that I expected from this match so it was no surprise when it finished at 1-0. The only thing that surprised me was that Cameroon finished with all their players still on the pitch!
Next up for mexico is Brazil and then Croatia. I suspect that will be the end of Mexico for this world cup.
Next up for Cameroon is Croatia and then Brazil. This will be the end of Cameroon and I can see them finishing bottom of the group without any points.
I missed this match as I will miss others so perhaps someone else can do a writeup of the proceedings.
Spain 1 Netherlands 5
Well I guess we all expected better from Spain, the current world champions, but as France found out awhile back - all good things must come to an end. You never know what to expect from the Dutch national team although Louis Van Gaal's appointment is bound to give the Dutch a an extra notch or two of quality performance and tonight that certainly seemed to be the case.
But have the Dutch performed too well too early? We shall see! They certainly deserved not only the victory but also the deficit, in fact 7-1 wouldn't have been an unfair result as they missed a few chances to score that were probably easier than a few of the ones they scored. On this form the Dutch could make this world cup interesting - but can they keep it going? Or was this just a terrible performance from Spain. Maybe a bit of both, but one things for sure - there will be tougher tests for the Dutch and if they were to play Spain later on in the tournament, the score would be a lot closer.
Next up for the Dutch is Australia and we'll see what they have to offer against the impressive Chileans tonight.
As for Spain, well at least their manager now knows what he has to work on with his players - and after watching that performance - I'd say he has to work on all aspects of his team - they really were terrible, but they know what they have to do now to qualify and the Dutch were surely their hardest game in the group.
Next up for the Spanish is Chile - another hard game. I watched Chile's visit here at Wembley when they beat England 2-0 and they looked really good. As I type this out Chile are already a goal up against Australia inside 12 minutes, so no easy ride here for Spain, they'll have to get a result against Chile if Chile beat Australia tonight.
The commentator made a good point during tonight's match stating that Spain may be a weaker team after Barcelona's poor form in the Spanish league - I agree with that. Also the last line of defense - their goalkeeper Ilker Casillas has made some blunders at club level and brought one here to international level tonight.
In three matches we've had 11 goals and just checking the Chile match I see they are two goals up now already. This has got to be the most explosive start to a world cup for some time - lets hope it keeps going.
This is Lucy P. reporting blah blah blah
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Lucy your running commentaries are amazing, keep them coming.
I haven't been able to catch every game, and I feel like I haven't missed much when I read your posts.
What happened to Spain??![]()
I'm not counting them out yet.....
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Did you see the piece on tTVbefore about how all the Bosnia players had to flee the war and came back to play for Bosnia instead of their adopted countries?
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Next up for Australia are Holland and I think that match will see one team definitely through to the next round and one team definitely going home.