The Syndicate

Argentina will get to the Ro16 but they will do it with the maximum drama imaginable.

Hence the 3-2.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:54 am my autocorrect wasnt working yesterday, that's what happens.

It's okay Dunya. It was your birthday after all.

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Iran 1-3 Portugal

I haven't gotten this far by predicting big scores.

Russia 2-1 Uruguay

Something something FIFA won't release Russia's doping results.

Denmark 1x2 France
Australia 1x0 Peru
Nigeria 2x3 Argentina
Iceland 0x2 Croatia
Serbia 1x1 Brazil
Switzerland 2x0 Costa Rica
Germany 2x0 South Korea
Mexico 2x1 Sweden
Belgium 3x2 England
Panama 0x2 Tunisia
Japan 1x1 Polonia
Senegal 2x1 Colombia

Uruguay 1-1 Russia
Saudi Arabia 1-2 Egypt
Iran 1-4 Portugal
Spain 2-0 Morocco

If Japan ties with Poland they are in.

Japan isn't that good but it seems they nerf everyone who plays against them.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:41 pm Lmaooooo why tf did all you fooools pick poland

Colombia ftw

Colombia played like amateurs against Japan.

Bad day for me. This group H is insane.

Lots of goals in today's games.

England 2x0 Panama
Poland 3x1 Colombia
Senegal 3x0 Japan

I feel bad for Sweden tho. The video ref was unfair for them.

Last minute 3 points

Sweden just got mugged by the ref.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:53 pm God damn it why does this keep happening I keep having the score right until fuckin extra time

Stop doing this to me.

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Germany 2x1 Sweden

Korea denying me 3 points at extra time.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:18 pm i like the korean goalkeeper's hair tbh

He looks like a girl

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:08 pm
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:42 am Watched the goals. Good stuff.
yeah. dang nobody here picked lukaku for the boot... but I could see it. or it'll just be ronaldo tbh but nobody picked him either so whatevs :P

Implying I knew the name of a single player before this started. Other than Neymar/Ronaldo/Messi ofc.

Watched the goals. Good stuff.

Or at least watch the goals tbh

Spent the morning playing Dominion and ignored a 5-2.

Now I need to download this game.

Germany 2x0 Sweden
Mexico 2x0 South Korea
Belgium 2x1 Tunisia

Sloonei wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:53 pm
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 12:44 pm Damn Iceland.

#teammexico
#teamsenegal
#teamnigeria
#teamportugal
It ain’t over yet.

They ain't beating Croatia.

Damn Iceland.

#teammexico
#teamsenegal
#teamnigeria
#teamportugal

#teamiceland

G-Man wrote: ↑Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:00 am I don't think I've ever seen 9+ minutes of stoppage time at the end of a game. Was there that much flopping and whining in the second half?!?

Yes.

Including Neymar punching the ball to show how mad he is at the judge not giving him a penalty for falling on purpose, and getting a yellow card for the trouble.

Neymar is pathetic.

Costa Rica has been providing most of the emotion but they lack the talent to actually score.

Brazil is zzzzzzz

This could end either way tho. Both teans had some great chances.

I dunno I wasnt that impressed at Croatia today.

I can name a bunch of teams that would beat Brazil tho. Both Senegal and Poland for example. That game was amazing.

Brazil 2x1 Costa Rica
Iceland 2x0 Nigeria
Switzerland 2x2 Serbia

If France is not to be feared then who is? All champions are underperforning here.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:05 pm
G-Man wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:00 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:58 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:58 pm Not to rub salt in any wounds, but Iceland is well-positioned right now.
meh, if argentina win Nigeria they can probably still go through.
Yeah, but if Iceland beats Nigeria, I'd be willing to bet that Croatia and Iceland play for a draw just to eliminate Argentina.
In that scenario Iceland may play for a draw, but Croatia has no reason to. Especially since landing 1st place in the group is valuable so both teams will want to win.

Just to explain, 1st place means you get to avoid France in Ro16.

Imo the only reason Argentina is even in this WC is that South America is hot garbage.

Colombia is horrible.

Brazil is horrible.

Peru is pitiful.

Uruguay is only doing well because their group is a joke.

#teamiceland
#teamsenegal
#teammexico

G-Man wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:08 pm So what I think I've learned is that Portugal relies too much on Ronaldo and Argentina relies too much on Messi. Is that about right?

More true about Portugal than Argentina imo. Argentina has some other great players iirc.

G-Man wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:00 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:58 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:58 pm Not to rub salt in any wounds, but Iceland is well-positioned right now.
meh, if argentina win Nigeria they can probably still go through.
Yeah, but if Iceland beats Nigeria, I'd be willing to bet that Croatia and Iceland play for a draw just to eliminate Argentina.

In that scenario Iceland may play for a draw, but Croatia has no reason to. Especially since landing 1st place in the group is valuable so both teams will want to win.

#teamiceland

Sampaoli is the only reason they are in the WC to begin with.

According to my dad he's only good when he has a long time to train the team. This time he was the emergency solution to save Argentina from disqualifying before the WC started.

It wasn't meant to be.

Argentina players punching the goalkeeper when he's holding the ball and kicking a ball on the head of a guy lying down.

They got at least 3 red cards fewer than they should have.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 3:40 pm fuck football tbh

i quit

Welcome to our side.

We have videogames and netflix.

I'm okay with not getting any points in this game.

It's really painful to root for Croatia.

Going for a higher score for Argentina though.

They have to start behaving like champions eventually right?

... right?

My strategy has been to go for boring and predictable. I dont try to predict upsets. If they happen not many people will get points anyway. But the boring results are easier to guess and keep giving me points.

nutella wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:00 am Ugh why is DDL always right

That's an overstatement, I only got one 3 point result since Tuesday.

It's just that other people are wrong more often.

[mention]dunya[/mention] if you are going to be too busy this week I could update the scores for you. Just so this doesn't stall.

dunya wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:37 am denamrk to score 1 more and give mea lead.

Nah stay 1-1 tbh tbf.

Peru 1x2 France
Denmark 1x1 Australia
Argenrina 3x1 Croatia

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:16 pm
aflickering wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 4:27 pm
dunya wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:05 pm 0-0 Iran x Spain

what are you smoking, @aflickering ?
i feel like that game sort of half validated my prediction even though it was wrong :P
You were right.

Mexico to win it all if there is a god

Nah.

I'm rooting for Senegal now.

Have you seen the way they play? My dad says it's how Brazil used to.

African teams tend to have a pretty wild playstyle that suffers from not being organized. This one is fast and bold, but also well trained and organized. Not sure if it's enough to win but expect those guys to go far.

Poland was pretty great in their game and they were destroyed.

Also it seems the extra 16 slots will give priority to continents other than Europe and SA:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -plan-2026

So we could have a WC with 9 Asia teams!

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