Yes, but also people used to pointed that no team that lost opening game can go on to win the thropy, and Spain did in 2010.
What about the no team from Group F has ever won the World Cup stat? Germany was doomed from the start!
I wonder why none of the big clubs have moved for ochoa he performed well in 2014 and is doing it again?
Neymar was on the field for a total of 200 minutes against Chile & Colombia, no goal no assist. Yea, if he's on semifinal he'd get an early hattrick against that solid German team...
El #sismo detectado en la Ciudad de México se originó de manera artificial. Posiblemente por saltos masivos durante el Gol de la selección de #México en el mundial. Por lo menos dos sensores dentro de la Ciudad lo detectaron a las 11:32. pic.twitter.com/mACKesab3b— IIGEA A.C. (@IIGEAac) June 17, 2018 ********ing Chucky.
Everyone is human. There’s no X-men. You get overconfident you lose. You know they thought well our bench won the confed cup... smells like 1994 lol
I don’t find it that crazy. Mexico is always tough to beat. The only reason Mexico isn’t regularly seeded is that they’re in North America and only get 85% of the points they deserve
Granted anything can happen, but it would be a colossal failure for them to crash out. They are just flat out better than Sweden and S. Korea, Germany was the hurdle that was just too high to top. But it wasn't, and for the first time since '02, winning the group can give them a match where they'd likely be a favorite (though Brazil's draw today complicates thing). Hopefully they can top that hurdle, and then they'd get the winner of (well, my prediction would be Colombia vs England) in the quarters, and then my god, the semi's are actually possible. 1 step at a time, but it's possible if things break well and they handle their business.
I don't see it. Nobody thought about Senegal heading into the Cup in '02. Mexico is a top 16 team at minimum at every World Cup and typically they usually fit somewhere in that 9th-12th area. As such a 9th-12th best team, beating a top 2-3 team (#1 for some, but I liked Brazil, Spain, and France better for the title this time around-of course that view isn't looking great so far either) shouldn't be that shocking. It's an upset, something that probably doesn't happen in regulation 85-95% of the time, but it will still happen, my guess is about once every 15-25 World Cup games. So far we've had Iceland, and the Swiss pull off shock draws, Iran pull of a minor upset, and Mexico pull off a major upset. Every one of those results save the Iran one was a result not far from Mexico's in terms of odds. Germany was -215 to win this game straight up three weeks ago. That's a legit favorite, but hell, after the Caps lost game in the Stanley Cup a few weeks ago Las Vegas was -180 or -185 to win it. I don't say any of this to take away from Mexico's win, I think it was a fantastic accomplishment especially considering that Germany is one of those classic teams that's a nightmare match up for Mexico (just as technical, just as refined and fluid and clever, but much, much bigger and taller, and much more of a complete threat in the attack, and typically more robust and difficult to break down defensively), as such the win will go down as one of the best in Mexico History (maybe the best in terms of the quality of opposition, but not the best in terms of how huge the win was (advancing to the quarterfinals in '86 was bigger in my view-pushing the Finalists, Germany, to penalties in said quarterfinal was bigger as well).