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World Cup 2018

Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 6:12 pm
by Nexus
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Now the domestic football season is over in England, and Liverpool got laughed out of Kyiv, it's time to start getting hyped for World Cup 2018 - Corruption's such an old song.

It's being held in Russia after they
somehow
managed to win the bidding after
someone
decided it might be the best place to hold a world cup.

Oh Sepp.

Current odds have Brazil and Germany at 5/1, Spain at 13/2, France at 15/2 and Argentina at 10/1. I would think France are at a good price there, but who knows.

First game is on 14th June, which is Russia v Saudi Arabia.

England's squad is interesting, and hopefully they make the Quarter Finals.

Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 8:39 pm
by pickemgenius
cant wait for the english tears in just over a month lul.

ok memes aside, im beyond excited to fuck my schedule up for this.

naturally rooting for iceland.

peru seems insane value at 200-1

Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 9:04 pm
by Faraday
Unfortunate for salah

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:08 am
by BROseidon
Don't buy on Messi and Friends. They are not a good team right now, and frankly they're probably the "good" team most likely to flame out in the group stage.

While it sucks not to be there, the US would have been crap this year thanks to the lost generation. At least now we get a bit of a head start playing our kids in friendlies for 2022. US in 2022 has an insane ceiling rn that isn't on the back of a couple untested pieces. It's on the back of a few kids who at 18/19 are already having and impact + a bunch of promising kids.

Peru at 200-1 is an insane buy. Uruguay is also probably a good buy at w/e price they are at (soft group + Portugal R16 gives them an ez path to quarterfinals, and they are a super fucking legit team that people love to overlook)

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:11 am
by BROseidon
I actually can't stress enough how much Argentina as the 5th best team in this WC is a joke take.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:13 am
by BROseidon
France is also at a decent price because they have a relatively soft group, then they're R16 is against the team that gets out of the group of life, so their first real test will be vs Uruguay unless something weird happens or Ronaldo carries Portugal very hard vs Uruguay

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:14 am
by Nexus
I mean, Portugal was literally just Ronaldo and friends and they won the Euros.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:18 am
by BROseidon
After getting third in their group and Greeceing their way through most of the knockout stage.

They got lucky that they drew relatively soft teams in the third and fourth pools of their group, but I would put them at only a 60-70% chance of getting out. Iran or Morocco could show up for a few games and edge them out on tiebreaks in a 9-4-4-0 group

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:19 am
by Creature
France probably deserves a better position than Spain.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:25 am
by BROseidon
Holy shit Uruguay is at 33-1 buy so hard on that

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 3:26 am
by BROseidon
Sweden at 200-1 is also a buy

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:43 am
by Faraday
In post 4, BROseidon wrote:I actually can't stress enough how much Argentina as the 5th best team in this WC is a joke take.
Icardi not in the squad is hilarious.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:45 am
by Faraday
In post 10, BROseidon wrote:Sweden at 200-1 is also a buy
????

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:49 am
by Faraday
In post 7, BROseidon wrote:They got lucky that they drew relatively soft teams in the third and fourth pools of their group, but I would put them at only a 60-70% chance of getting out. Iran or Morocco could show up for a few games and edge them out on tiebreaks in a 9-4-4-0 group
I agree w this. If they lose to Spain, which I'd expect them to then them trying to break down Morocco and Iran could prove difficult.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 4:56 am
by BROseidon
In post 12, Faraday wrote:
In post 10, BROseidon wrote:Sweden at 200-1 is also a buy
????
Sweden is a good dark-horse buy

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:02 am
by Faraday
They've a difficult enough group and unless they win it probably play Brazil in the last 16. Don't really see them going very far, despite knockibg out a pretty average Italy side.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:03 am
by Faraday
That group looks like it has some fun matches tho for sure

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:04 am
by Majiffy
Netherlands are out yet again so I guess I'm rooting for Germany

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:06 am
by BROseidon
I guess that's fair. Even with the talent they have, they have to hit a number of upsets

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:19 am
by Creature
Spoiler: Group A
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Spoiler: Group B
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Spoiler: Group C
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Spoiler: Group D
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Spoiler: Group E
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Spoiler: Group F
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Spoiler: Group G
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Spoiler: Group H
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:20 am
by Creature
England eliminated on group stage again would be funny

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:22 am
by BROseidon
In post 19, Creature wrote:
Spoiler: Group A
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Spoiler: Group B
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Spoiler: Group C
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Spoiler: Group D
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Spoiler: Group E
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Spoiler: Group F
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Spoiler: Group G
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Spoiler: Group H
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These are some hot takes

Posted: Tue May 29, 2018 5:24 am
by Creature
Yeah, all previous world cup champions will be eliminated during group stage.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2018 7:33 pm
by Espeonage
Can we have a scummer tipping comp?

Posted: Thu May 31, 2018 12:22 am
by Randomnamechange
/ego