Damn Conte left D. Luiz completely off the team for the game vs Man U!! And looks like he wasn't needed!
Immobile will score 2 goals and Insigne will come off the bench for the winner!! 3-0 Italy wins and will go to the World Cup!! And if by some chance I'm wrong(which it won't) I will NOT make any predictions during the World Cup!!
Just keep your jinxing powers away from Brazil but feel free to predict Germany, Spain, France and Argentina games.
On a more serious note, Italy's absence is a sober reminder of what might have occurred to us had Tite never replaced Dunga. Italy was the first team to follow us as tetra... Ser potência, ter camisa com mística: it means nothing when the whistle is blown and the game begins.
To be fair, they fell in the same group as Spain and probably got the worse possible play-off draw. Although Sweden is fairly average.
This is some bullshit!! Ventura needs to be stripped of his Italian citizenship!! Gone were the days when Italy loss they used to be pelted with rotten tomatoes!!!
Stripping Ventura of his citizenship won't do anything other than make one man's life more difficult for an event which wasn't fully his fault (2 consecutive first-round exits in the World Cup were more than enough warning) and provide momentary relief for worked-up emotions over an issue which will only be solved with long-term planning, diligence, humility, persistence, and resolve. And please do not make any more forecasts - definitely not concerning Brazil anyway.
As focused as I am on England vs. Brazil and after the news of Italy's elimination, I had no idea Argentina had a friendly today. I knew they'd beaten Russia 1-0 in stoppage time, but after being up 2-0, they suffered 4 goals in 29 minutes. If you have not yet done so, watch the highlights of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Nigerian goals. The 2nd showed awesome passing, with the goal coming in at a difficult angle; the 3rd was a futebol bonito counterattack with several 1-touch passes (minus 1 Nigerian who had 2 touches), and the 4th included a caneta on Javier Mascherano (who in his defense was not the only slow man in defense). This has nothing to do with our rivalry with them. If anything it showed Nigeria could do some damage and that our neighbors are not as free from danger as they may have thought.
Barca was a laughing stock when they acquired Paulinho especially from Madrid fans. Now, it Lord Paulinho laughing.
My 2 cents on the Champions League 2nd round draw Man U v Sevilla PSG v Chelsea Roma v R. Madrid Barcelona v B. Munich Liverpool v Juventus Man City v Porto Besiktas v Shakhtar Tottenham v Basel