Prediction Thread

[johan neeskens]

Congratulations, well deserved win, we looked flat in attack all game long and didn't really do anything that warranted a better result.

Commisserations. But you can take a lot from that tournament really. I hope the manager of your national team proper has learnt from it.

[vancity eagle]

knockout rounds

Argentina v Holland
Nigeria v Ivory Coast
Brazil v Cameroon
Italy v China

Semis

Argentina v Brazil
Nigeria v Italy

Bronze

Brazil v Italy

Gold

Argentina v Nigeria

my predictions on Aug 6 before tournament kicked off. Should have put some money down. Just didn't see Belgiums success but everything else was exact.

[vilafria]

Arg 2-1 Nig

Braz 2-0 Belg

[tomwilhelm]

Argentina 3:2 Nigeria
Belgium 1:0 Brazil

[ITALIA1982]

Nigeria 2-1 Argentina

Brazil 4-0 Belgium

[Belgian guy]

I think the Nigeria game proved that we won't win anything with a third-string defense. Would be nice if we had a footie federation that wasn't afraid to show clubs the middle-finger like Brazil did.

[goke313]

I wouldn't say that. The Netherlands in very poor form managed to get a draw against Nigeria. I can't see why the Belgians couldn't do better. The Nigerians have physically strong and technically gifted players but they'll always concede chances against them as they're not very well organised defensively.

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[Maruti]

The Nigerians have physically strong and technically gifted players but [B]they'll always concede chances against them as they're not very well organised defensively.

I have to butt in... this Nigeria side is very well organized defensively. They've lost 3 goals so far. One from a spot kick, whilst being 4:0 up, a the other two from blunders from the goalkeeper (not the defense).

[Belgian guy]

The Nigerian defense is solid. They also won almost every 1 on 1 duel against Belgium, something that hadn't happened to us before in this tournament.