The 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil Prediction thread

[YateleyRoyal]

Everyone ignoring the massively obvious dodd?

[Maguire]

Everyone ignoring the massively obvious dodd?

Yep, I like the format of this one.

[Whatevs]

Winners - England
Top scorer - Wellbeck
Biggest flops - Argentina
England - Winners

[LWJ]

Winners: England
Top scorer: Rooney
Biggest flops: Brazil
England: Winners

[Silver Fox]

Everyone ignoring the massively obvious dodd?

The existing thread was just scooby trying to practice making videos wasn't it?

Anyways

Winners - Brazil
Top scorer - Aguero
Flops - France
England - QF

[TBM]

Everyone ignoring the massively obvious dodd?

Yeah, 5 pages long too

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[Starfish]

Winners: Argentina
Top scorer: Messi
Biggest flops: Germany
England: Q-F

[stealthpapes]

Interesting flap .. I mean ... flop choice.

[Handsome Man]

Winners: Brazil
Top scorer: Pogrebnyak
Biggest flops: Belgium
England: Last 16

[Whatevs]

Why Belguim as flops? Not sure they have the firepower up front but don't think they'll flop (unless you think they're being overhyped?)

[Sanguine]

As he had had a few mentions - Ageuro (and Suarez for that matter) is 16/1 to be top scorer. A slightly skewed market as Messi is 8/1, and no-one else is shorter than 14/1.

Winners - Brazil
Top scorer - Aguero
Biggest flops - Holland
England - QFs

[Sanguine]

Why Belguim as flops? Not sure they have the firepower up front but don't think they'll flop (unless you think they're being overhyped?)

Belgium are 5th favourites to win. Scarily young team. Every attacking player is 27 or younger, and only two over 30 in the squad.

They looked solid in Scotland's group, but it was one of the easier qualifications. QFs would be a great achievement, with Germany or Portugal to get past in the last 16.

[Starfish]

Interesting flap .. I mean ... flop choice.

I really want them to do really well, but I cannot see it. Well, I cannot see them winning it or making it to the final, and I can imagine an earlier than expected exit (and hopefully then the exit of Löw). I would love to be wrong so maybe I am just being overly pessimistic - hence my prediction that England will reach the Q-F

[Sanguine]

And fwiw, although we don't have a 'biggest surprise' category - I think Chile might very well get out of Group B; unfortunately they will probably then face Brazil.

[Whatevs]

biggest surprise = England

[stealthpapes]

Why Belguim as flops? Not sure they have the firepower up front but don't think they'll flop (unless you think they're being overhyped?)

Belgium are 5th favourites to win. Scarily young team. Every attacking player is 27 or younger, and only two over 30 in the squad.

They looked solid in Scotland's group, but it was one of the easier qualifications. QFs would be a great achievement, with Germany or Portugal to get past in the last 16.

basically that.

[leww_rfc]

Quick copy & paste of mine from the other thread then...

Winner: Germany

Runner-up: Brazil

Surprise package: Chile (It's their continent so can handle the heat, already put on a great performance at Wembley recently. Dark horses for me.)

England: Group Stages

Top Scorer: Suarez/Neymar. Both with 6.


with the additional biggest flops...

The Netherlands

[stealthpapes]

It's their continent so can handle the heat

love this.

continents - homogenous, small places.

[leww_rfc]

The majority of their team plays in Brazil, Spain, Chile.. I should imagine they can handle the humidity regardless

[soggy biscuit]

It's their continent so can handle the heat

love this.

continents - homogenous, small places.

Its my favourite pundit generalisation at the moment. Heard someone talk up Chile the other day and it was pretty muh purely based on them being 'used to the climate'