What do you rather see at the draw friday, a nice an easy group to get to the second round. Or a few opponents that could take some points and the WC really begins at the first match.
I'd go for a tough draw,and most likely we will end up in a tough group anyway with one of the seeded teams.The other two teams will determine whether it's going to be a group of death,but we have a good chance we'll end up being in it. If we manage to win the whole freakin thing ( which I don't think we will ) I can't think of a better way then to advance from a tough group and then winning all the finals.True World Champion !
Easy group. Meaning easier teams from pots 3 and 4. We have qualified from one of the toughest groups in Europe already(argubly, the World.) If you look at World cup and even Euro Cup Histories, you'll see that, usually, the teams that win it all start off very slow(including us in 88) and then go on to show their World championship form in the playoffs. It would be sweet to win it all from a group of death situation but any team requires luck to win the World cup and I wouldn't mind seeing us getting an early break.
Aaayyyyyyyeeeeeee...... I so agree, I wanna see the Boys from Brazil in our Group. That way we wont meet them again until the Semi's or beyond
We typically have a rubbish first group game, a brilliant second, and a mediocre third, no matter how difficult the group we're in is. I'm almost 100% certain we'll progress out of any group so I'd prefer either a group with top seed Germany (because they're rubbish and I love seeing us thrash them) or Brazil (as we won't see them again until the final).
They may seem rubbish, but they also always seem to turn it on when it matters, like Euro 2004 when we looked distinctly poor compared to them. Even in the recent friendly we managed to throw a 2 - 0 lead away. And although it was a friendly I do think it was significant, because you can just turn the form key on and off. You can't say "oh well, it was a friendly, so it does not matter, and we'll do better next time". Euro 2004 shows that.
We threw a 2-0 lead away after Van Basten replaced our best players. Prior to that the Germans were absolutely nowhere, Robben must have felt like he was playing against a pub team he was given that much space. A 6-1 would have been a fair result, even the Germans were embarrassed at the draw. Anyway this is a different Germany. Klinsmann, to his credit, is trying to make them play dominant attacking football. They've now found out that they're rubbish at that - while simultaneously being crap in defense. Seriously this time only an easy draw can save Germany.
Easy draws are dangerous (look at ManU in the CL). I'd rather get a group that puts us on our toes straightaway.
I'm not that bothered myself, I'm pretty confident we'll make it to the second stage no matter what the draw is. I just hope we don't get to play against one of them boring 11 men behind the ball Greece-like outfits, and that we don't get to play in Berlin as that's too far a drive for the orange masses.