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I'm calling it. 5-0 Belgium. Belgium are flat track bullies and Panama are awful away from home. Lukaku or Hazard to score a hat trick.
Hope Belgium actually live up the hype and are one of the more entertaining sides. 2014 and 2016 was disapointing...
Belgium are a hungry team full of individual talent who love scoring goals for fun. In qualifying, they literally scored at will. I too expect them to rout Panama.
Given how this world cup has gone, an upset is very possible. Hell Belgium may only win via one goal considering how interesting this world cup has gone.
🗣”Titulares mañana, Penedo, Román, Escobar, Davis, Murillo, Gómez, Godoy, Cooper, Bárcenas, Rodríguez y Pérez”, DT. Hernán Gómez. #PanamáEnRusia #Rusia2018 pic.twitter.com/tjLv2jwvhi— FEPAFUT (@fepafut) June 17, 2018
I would go with the general consensus that Belgium will thrash Panama 5-0, 6-0, or worse, but... what the hell.... that will be too easy. Let's have some fun I predict a 2-0 win by Belgium with LOTS (like 20+) of missed clear goal chances. Just to make it more interesting
Kompany and Vermaelen are being saved for later (reportedly Kompany won't even play before the final group game against England).
they won't need him to be honest. Belgium's group is so easy... and yet, Belgium will still concede goals. I can easily see courtois blunder
Wow ... it's going to be a long night for Panama. On the other hand it's still 0-0 in 10th minute, so they've already exceeded my expectations.
I kind of hope so. I need an excuse to stop watching. Haven't gotten much sleep time the last few days, juggling work and trying to watch as many games as possible. I'm more excited about tomorrow's games anyways. All 3 games look very well matched.
Perhaps. Perhaps the excitement from his prediction will get my bowels going as I jump across my living room, invariably injuring myself in the process.