WC draw thread-predictions and analysis.

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

Big day today of course.

Here's the Pots...

# Pot #1: Germany, Brazil, Argentina, England, France, Italy, Mexico and Spain.

# Pot #2: Australia, Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia, Ecuador and Paraguay.

# Pot #3: Croatia, Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.

# Pot #4: Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago and the United States.

# Pot #5: Serbia and Montenegro. (We cannot land Serbia in our group)

My dream group:

Germany
Ecuador
Poland
Trinidad & Tobago

My nightmare group:

Germany
Ghana
Netherlands
USA

My prediction: (let's make this a contest!)

Germany
Tunisia
Croatia
South Korea

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

other thread if people want to read more
https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=264425

"Eisenfuß" Eilts · Dec 9, 2005

Germany
Angola
Ukraine
South Korea

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

Damn, I forgot about the other thread.

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

Jaison said:

Damn, I forgot about the other thread.
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s'ok. It's Friday and I am feeling good.

IASocFan · Dec 9, 2005

Dead Fingers said:

s'ok. It's Friday and I am feeling good.
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Is that your hand? It looks like my daughter's did several years ago when she broke a bone in her hand.

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

Dead Fingers said:

s'ok. It's Friday and I am feeling good.
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It's Friday and I just pulled an all-nighter writing my thesis...

Oh well... as long as I can grab a few brewskies tonight, it's all good!

Plus, we get to indulge in nerdy WC speculation all day!

wolfsburgh · Dec 9, 2005

I did a mock draw yesterday over at the German club over lunch. Here's the results (asterisk is projected group winner; double asterisk is runner-up):

A1 Germany*
A2 Paraguay
A3 Poland**
A4 Costa Rica

B1 France*
B2 Togo
B3 Croatia**
B4 Saudi Arabia

C1 Mexico*
C2 Angola
C3 Switzerland
C4 Japan**

D1 Argentina**
D2 Ghana
D3 Czech Republic*
D4 Serbia

E1 Italy*
E2 Ecuador
E3 Ukraine**
E4 Trinidad

F1 Brazil*
F2 Ivory Coast
F3 Portugal**
F4 Iran

G1 England**
G2 Australia
G3 Holland*
G4 USA

H1 Spain**
H2 Tunisia
H3 Sweden*
H4 Korea

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

I wouldn't mind that grouping at all!

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

I would

Mani · Dec 9, 2005

My prediction:
Germany
Tunisia
Sweden
Iran

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

Certainly not the "wurst" though...

All 3 would be tough, but we could draw worse from each pot.

All in all though, there isn't going to be many easy groups this year.

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

Jaison said:

Certainly not the "wurst" though...

All 3 would be tough, but we could draw worse from each pot.

All in all though, there isn't going to be many easy groups this year.
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I was actually thinking about Group G
Someone else did a draw and got the same grouping

Jaison · Dec 9, 2005

Dead Fingers said:

I was actually thinking about Group G
Someone else did a draw and got the same grouping
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Ahh yes... that would be hella hard for the U.S.

bltleo · Dec 9, 2005

my prediction

GERMANY
USA
GHANA
Czech Republic

wolfsburgh · Dec 9, 2005

In my draw, the Germans did pretty well. Paraguay is a tough draw, but they did well with Costa Rica (who I think is down this year and won't be nearly as competitive as in 2002) and Poland (one of the weaker Euro draws). The US draw is fairly brutal. Just saw an article on Soccernet in which the England coach said that exact pairing would be his nightmare scenario.

bltleo · Dec 9, 2005

wolfsburgh said:

I did a mock draw yesterday over at the German club over lunch. Here's the results (asterisk is projected group winner; double asterisk is runner-up):

A1 Germany*
A2 Paraguay
A3 Poland**
A4 Costa Rica

G1 England**
G2 Australia
G3 Holland*
G4 USA
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Germany group looks fine in your forecast.

but USA group hard one, USA-England hm..and Australia

actually it does not play which group we will have..we can make it

bltleo

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

wolfsburgh said:

The US draw is fairly brutal. Just saw an article on Soccernet in which the England coach said that exact pairing would be his nightmare scenario.
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you said it...brutal.

Saw that article as well. None of the teams would want this one.

bltleo · Dec 9, 2005

Dead Fingers said:

you said it...brutal.

Saw that article as well. None of the teams would want this one.
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well England can have brutal group
but not USA...they should have softer group

prymetyme · Dec 9, 2005

Germany
Poland
Tunisia
Trinidad

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

bltleo said:

well England can have brutal group
but not USA...they should have softer group
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I just want us to get out of the group phase again.

bltleo · Dec 9, 2005

Dead Fingers said:

I just want us to get out of the group phase again.
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what is your dream group?
or would you like to have Germany in the group?

Dead Fingers · Dec 9, 2005

bltleo said:

what is your dream group?
or would you like to have Germany in the group?
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To tell you the truth, I really have not given it much thought. Certain teams I would like to avoid: England, Holland, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, the usual big squads. Then again, those teams would get us pretty pumped and would make for exciting games.

As I said before, just getting out of the group would be good, or if we do get put in a "group of Death" that we at least make a good show of it. I have no shame in going out of the group phase if the group ends up being tough.

scorpio81 · Dec 9, 2005

bltleo said:

my prediction

GERMANY
USA
GHANA
Czech Republic
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that would be brutal!

eissman · Dec 9, 2005

wolfsburgh said:

G1 England**
G2 Australia
G3 Holland*
G4 USA
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My god... can you say Group of Death??!!!