[-Adrian]

Wha, 1 week left and no thread yet? Let's hear your predictions!

Semi-Finals: Brazil, Italy, Spain, Germany
Finals: Brazil, Italy
Winner: Brazil


Brazil showing great team spirit, i think they haven't even been fully challenged yet.
Italy... personally i'd rather they hadn't even qualified, but they've got a quality lineup again.
Spain being very consistent, some say the best team around right now.
Germany is seriously hampered this WC, but for some reason they usually get pretty far no matter what.

Honorary mention: The Netherlands. A pleasure to watch, but as always i seem them flying home prematurely.


p.s. Some humor:

[NicoR44]

[sandykoufax]

my predictin is

Semi-Finals : Brazil, Argentina, Spain, England
Finals : Brazil, Argentina
Winner : Argentina

[RobMitchell]

my predictin is

Semi-Finals : Brazil, Argentina, Spain, England
Finals : Brazil, Argentina
Winner : Argentina

Being a huge football fan born and raised in England, I'm supporting England all the way... But I'd kind of like that prediction to come true. I drew Argentina in the World Cup sweepstake with some friends of mine.

Really looking forward to the World Cup, though. Booked Friday off work to see the opening day. My predictions...

Semi-Finals: Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Germany
Finals: Brazil, Spain
Winner: Spain

I still think Spain have the strongest team. It's taken them a while but they're finally achieving what they should have been achieving for ages.

[sandykoufax]

Our guys won the first game. I'm happy.

[MS]

Our guys won the first game. I'm happy.

Your guys are my secret favorite.

[-Adrian]

Yeah, i was rooting for you Red Devils. Sadly i couldn't watch that game.

USA should be able to reach the next round if they keep it up.

[sandykoufax]

Your guys are my secret favorite.

And I hope it's not the last win of our team at this worldcup.

[glebe digital]

Yeah, i was rooting for you Red Devils. Sadly i couldn't watch that game.

USA should be able to reach the next round if they keep it up.

Not so 'easy', eh boys.
It woz the Sun that dun it...

[w i l l]

I hope England go out first round.

[MS]

I was surprised by German team...

Lukas Podolski - Poland
Piotr Trochowski - Poland
Jerome Boateng - Ghana
Serdar Tasci - Turkey
Dennis Aogo - Nigeria
Cacau - Brazilia
Miroslav Klose - Poland
Marko Marin - Serbia
Sami Khedira - Tunisia
Mario Gomez - Spain
Mesut Özil - Turkey

If they win they will make happy half of a planet

[big K]

well, they all grew up in germany and for some parts of their parents are german.
as germany is a country with lots of immigrants, i think it is usual and a good thing that they also are part of the national teams.
(it is the same in lots of other countries)

4:0 yesterday and nice play (especially offensivly)
go germany!

[numerobis]

I was surprised by German team...
...
Cacau - Brazilia
...

...i think now it's Herr Cacau Cacau

Yes, very nice play! looking forward to see more of this on friday ...hopefully they can gon on in this stile

[RobMitchell]

Germany have played the best so far, by far. They just looked so good going forward. Although Netherlands might be doing OK now. Missing it due to work.

Was gutted with the England result, but the performance wasn't that bad. Took a massive mistake from Green for them to score. I'm hoping Green gets dropped after this World Cup. Not just for his mistake on Saturday, but he's been poor for ages (in my opinion) and makes a lot of mistakes (wrong passes, spilling the ball, handling outside the box) yet still got picked... Now he's made an error on the big stage maybe now people won't feel so good about him in goal.

Like I say, I don't think that one mistake is the end of the world. Stuff like that happens. It's just he's made a lot of stupid mistakes prior to that.

There's not a huge amount of choice of goalkeepers, mind... Hart looks decent though and James would probably be fine in this World Cup.

[-Adrian]

well, they all grew up in germany and for some parts of their parents are german.
as germany is a country with lots of immigrants, i think it is usual and a good thing that they also are part of the national teams.
(it is the same in lots of other countries)

Agreed. For some reason people only feel like pointing that out when it comes to the German team. Whether it matters or not, they're visually still mostly Caucasian.

This is the usual image, with an occasional brazilian or african thrown in for some ball magic.


In contrast, the french team in the past years.