2018 Football World Cup

[dogmeat]

All 32 squads here

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/44083365

[dogmeat]

Umai Emery tipped to be new Arsenal Manager

[KiwiPie]

Not an inspiring English squad but then nobody has been left out who could inspire. Looks like a team that could do better against a good team (where they will be pinned back and can play on the break) than a poor team (who will park the bus). Plenty of pace, not much guile.

Should make the last 16 (2 rank outsiders in the group so anything less will be disastrous). Then they avoid the big teams in the last 16 with probably Poland or Colombia. Quarters can potentially be Germany or Brazil.

[MajorRage]

@dogmeat said in 2018 Football World Cup:

Umai Emery tipped to be new Arsenal Manager

Lots of talk here about his limited English.

Not sure that matters looking at the Arsenal squad. Only a matter of time before post match interviews aren't necessarily done in English!

[KiwiPie]

Trivial Arsenal chat to the other thread please!

[Bovidae]

@kiwipie Blame the Fulham fan.

[dogmeat]

@bovidae mea culpa. My only mitigation is overarching stupidity

[dogmeat]

Good write up on the Russian GOAT Lev Yashin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin

[Higgins]

KP, are you running your World Cup tipping contest this time? If not then as defending champion I'm quite happy to retain my title for another 4 years!

[KiwiPie]

@higgins Yes and I did send it out to the same email list as last time. PM me an email address and I'll send it to you.

[Higgins]

@kiwipie Knew you would have been on the ball. PM sent a few minutes ago.

[KiwiPie]

Latest odds for outright winners - Russia should be much higher than 61 although their group is an easy one (mainly because they are in it!). Hard to see the winners coming from outside that top 4 to be honest.

Brazil 5.00
Germany 6.00
France 7.00
Spain 7.00
Argentina 10.00
Belgium 11.00
England 19.00
Portugal 26.00
Uruguay 26.00
Croatia 34.00
Colombia 41.00
Russia 61.00
Poland 81.00
Denmark 101.00
Mexico 101.00
Peru 126.00
Serbia 126.00
Switzerland 126.00
Sweden 201.00
Senegal 201.00
Egypt 201.00
Nigeria 251.00
Australia 301.00
Japan 401.00
Morocco 401.00
Iceland 401.00
Iran 501.00
South Korea 501.00
Costa Rica 601.00
Tunisia 751.00
Panama 2001.00
Saudi Arabia 2501.00

[Sneakdefreak]

Just made my TAB Free Kick picks - my final four are France, Argentina, Germany & Brazil. France V Argentina in the final with France crowned champions.

[Bovidae]

@kiwipie said in 2018 Football World Cup:

Latest odds for outright winners - Russia should be much higher than 61

Russia are the lowest ranked team (70th) so very generous.

[Billy Tell]

Switzerland play pretty boring but I’d like them to do well if only to see how much Switzerland can actually do “excited”.

[dK]

Brazil to beat Germany in the final 1.70 to 1.41

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/world-cup-predictions-pick-to-win-it-all-goldman-sachs-ai-model-2018-6?utm_source=Business+Insider+Australia+-+10+things+you+need+to+know+in+the+morning+in+Australia&utm_campaign=5723a1809d-businessinsider_2018_06_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8a990bd96b-5723a1809d-279312953

[antipodean]

Based on 200,000 rounds of EA Sports? You'd hope they checked it by running a few simulations from 2014.

[Nepia]

When does the Wendyball World Cup kick off?

[KiwiMurph]

@nepia midnight Thurs night Syd time.

[Nepia]

@kiwimurph said in 2018 Football World Cup:

@nepia midnight Thurs night Syd time.

Cheers, clearly my culling of Wendyball fan friends has worked a treat to the point when I don't know when it's on - now if I could only cull boganpalooza fans as well ;).

But seriously, go Portugal, assuming they have made it.