The official 2018 World Cup thread

[betmen]

Who's your team?

i dont want to talk about it

[AllBoxingAD]

i dont want to talk about it

Well you guys will get out of your group for sure.

[MOTHERDUCKER]

I don't buy this 'a non-European can't win a WC in Russia' theory.

It might come to pass that it is a European team that wins but I don't think the WC being in Russia will have a bearing on that. The weather isn't bad there in summer and the players in the Brazil squad for example will have played just as many, if not more games in Russia at club level than the players in the Spain/Germany/France squads. 99% of the squad play club football in Europe!

I have Brazil down to win it - beating Spain in the final.

It's not a "Theory" it's been backed by almost 90 years of competition lol.. you may like it or not South Americans do usually win the world cup Europe, that's a fact. The winner is most likely coming from Europe.. could it be Brazil/Argentina? possibly i mean it has happened ONCE before out of what? 10 attempts

[El Fenomeno]

It's not a "Theory" it's been backed by almost 90 years of competition lol.. you may like it or not South Americans do usually win the world cup Europe, that's a fact. The winner is most likely coming from Europe.. could it be Brazil/Argentina? possibly i mean it has happened ONCE before out of what? 10 attempts

People said the same thing for the last 2 world cups:

2010 - "No European side has won a WC outside of Europe"

2014 - "No European side has won a WC in South America"

Brazil would've probably won in 1998 if Ronaldo didn't have the seizure the night before the final. Argentina could've quite easily won it in 1990. It's not like they've arrived in Europe and just turned to mush.

Back in the 60s/70s/80s that thinking probably held more weight as most of the South Americans played in their home countries.

Why would Dembele-Griezmann-Mbappe be more adept to take on Russian conditions than Neymar-G.Jesus-Willian?

[siablo14]

Who's in the group of death this year?

GROUP D
Argentina
Iceland
Croatia
Nigeria

But I have my eyes on this group too

GROUP F
Germany
Mexico
Sweden
Korea Republic

[AllBoxingAD]

GROUP D
Argentina
Iceland
Croatia
Nigeria

But I have my eyes on this group too

GROUP F
Germany
Mexico
Sweden
Korea Republic

Who can beat Germany in group F?

[siablo14]

Who can beat Germany in group F?

Same for Argentina in group D but it's the other three that we are pondering.

[siablo14]

Who can beat Germany in group F?

I don't even trust Nigeria to go through.

[ShoulderRoll]

Might Croatia be a darkhorse?

[siablo14]

Might Croatia be a darkhorse?

Nah Shoulder. Even though I don't want them to be, I believe England will be the dark horse this year.