Who is your “dark horse” team to have a successful run in the World Cup finals coming up soon? Why do you favour them? - It must be a team outside the top 20 in the latest FIFA rankings. Mine is Ecuador, they don’t score many goals but they don’t concede many either. They were second in the South American qualifiers competition, ahead of Brazil, and have been in good form since.
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Ecuador was unconvincing with a full squad against 10 Dutch players for over 80 minutes. I do not consider either team as a serious contender to lift the trophy. It is my firm belief that dark horses are as prevalent as unicorns this year. Provided that injuries and tropical weather conditions do not exert undue influence on results: the usual suspects will likely dominate this competition.
For obvious reasons I would be delighted if a sudden twist of fate would prove me wrong. But I fear that equality of arms does not even exist on paper on this occasion.
Ecuador was unconvincing with a full squad against 10 Dutch players for over 80 minutes. I do not consider either team as a serious contender to lift the trophy. It is my firm belief that dark horses are as prevalent as unicorns this year. Provided that injuries and tropical weather conditions do not exert undue influence on results: the usual suspects will likely dominate this competition.
For obvious reasons I would be delighted if a sudden twist of fate would prove me wrong. But I fear that equality of arms does not even exist on paper on this occasion.
Your team is rated as 7th best though, and I don’t think Ecuador are ever particularly convincing 😀😀. I only think they might get a bit further than the group stage the way they play, boring as it may be. It’s only a bit of fun. I don’t think they have a chance of winning, but aren’t you very confident about the Dutch team? Agreed, if one of the favourites doesn’t win I will be surprised too. Japan have been quite impressive in their friendlies and might win a few knockout games but they are in the top 20 teams.
Who is your “dark horse” team to have a successful run in the World Cup finals coming up soon? Why do you favour them? - It must be a team outside the top 20 in the latest FIFA rankings. Mine is Ecuador, they don’t score many goals but they don’t concede many either. They were second in the South American qualifiers competition, ahead of Brazil, and have been in good form since.
Ecuador vs Ivory coast could be decisive match. But I think Ivory coast will proceed alongside Germany. Speaking about my national team, I'm more worried about Ghana (my dark horse) than about England
Sorrryyy that i disturb in this forum bc i know almost nothing of football tbh. BUTTT i wanted to tell that when it is really the world cup we normally watch together with our class or at least who wants it. But i dunno if we also do it this time bc some matches are in the middle of the night. But if they are for example in the evening we watch and EVERYBODYYY must wear at least one thing that is orange and bring food or drink and so everybody can share it all. 🙂 But u also get super deaf from the others but it is also nice bc everybody is just supporting orange!!! 😊🧡🧡
First of all I want to be clear I will not cheer for any team at this ... World Cup. In my eyes it is clear that a dark horse will be able to make a big surprise and conquer the game of the big nations. This ... tournament will not be won by the best team with the best players but by the team who can save his power the best or who have blocks 3-5 players from one team. All the top players are since 2023 playing without a big break. Some players had breaks from 2 or 3 weeks but not more. I think Japan can and will play a good World Cup. Since there big win in Wembley many guys know what they can do and fans from Serie A know that Suzuki is a super goolie in Parma. Not just because he scored the golden goal in Wembley, Mitoma is one of the best in the world, he stunned Belgium and became a star when he joined the seagulls in Brighton. Doan and Suzuki are playing big in Frankfurt and Freiburg. So Japan can be big.
First of all I want to be clear I will not cheer for any team at this ... World Cup. In my eyes it is clear that a dark horse will be able to make a big surprise and conquer the game of the big nations. This ... tournament will not be won by the best team with the best players but by the team who can save his power the best or who have blocks 3-5 players from one team. All the top players are since 2023 playing without a big break. Some players had breaks from 2 or 3 weeks but not more. I think Japan can and will play a good World Cup. Since there big win in Wembley many guys know what they can do and fans from Serie A know that Suzuki is a super goolie in Parma. Not just because he scored the golden goal in Wembley, Mitoma is one of the best in the world, he stunned Belgium and became a star when he joined the seagulls in Brighton. Doan and Suzuki are playing big in Frankfurt and Freiburg. So Japan can be big.
FIFA and UEFA are killing football. They have already destroyed WC, EURO, and European club competitions by increasing number of games and with the overall Americanisation of football making it harder to follow. It's ridiculous that 3/4 teams can proceed the group stage. Portugal won Euro by playing very boring and with I think only 1 win within 90 mins (I think it was against Wales, please correct me if I am wrong) which is clear sign of absurdity of the newly implemented rules. Cristian Eriksen was the first well-known victim of their greed, we can expect more Eriksens in the future.
Their greed makes their behaviour shizophrenic; FIFA encourages captains to wear gay armbands while choosing Qatar and Saudi Arabia as WC hosts. Even Infantino personally claims to support gays but he has decided to move to Qatar. Real example of nomen est omen. It would be fun if Iran and Israel qualify to WC 2034
FIFA and UEFA are killing football. They have already destroyed WC, EURO, and European club competitions by increasing number of games and with the overall Americanisation of football making it harder to follow. It's ridiculous that 3/4 teams can proceed the group stage. Portugal won Euro by playing very boring and with I think only 1 win within 90 mins (I think it was against Wales, please correct me if I am wrong) which is clear sign of absurdity of the newly implemented rules. Cristian Eriksen was the first well-known victim of their greed, we can expect more Eriksens in the future.
Their greed makes their behaviour shizophrenic; FIFA encourages captains to wear gay armbands while choosing Qatar and Saudi Arabia as WC hosts. Even Infantino personally claims to support gays but he has decided to move to Qatar. Real example of nomen est omen. It would be fun if Iran and Israel qualify to WC 2034
Agreed. The schedule for the top clubs and players is brutal. Too many meaningless competitions. Just money to FIFA and Infantino.
As I am a freak i will watch as many games as possible but i am no fan of this F... WC. and 2030 it will get even worse, when Spain Portugal, Morocco and ... Uruguay will be hosts. But 2030 will be still better than 2034 when the WC will be in Saudi-Arabia. But wake me up when real football, club football rebegins. In the end no one needs a tournament like that
First of all I want to be clear I will not cheer for any team at this ... World Cup. In my eyes it is clear that a dark horse will be able to make a big surprise and conquer the game of the big nations. This ... tournament will not be won by the best team with the best players but by the team who can save his power the best or who have blocks 3-5 players from one team. All the top players are since 2023 playing without a big break. Some players had breaks from 2 or 3 weeks but not more. I think Japan can and will play a good World Cup. Since there big win in Wembley many guys know what they can do and fans from Serie A know that Suzuki is a super goolie in Parma. Not just because he scored the golden goal in Wembley, Mitoma is one of the best in the world, he stunned Belgium and became a star when he joined the seagulls in Brighton. Doan and Suzuki are playing big in Frankfurt and Freiburg. So Japan can be big.
This is the time to cheer on your own nation though. I agree that there are too many tournaments and more injuries because of greedy FIFA, but I don’t really see a surprise winner. I agree that teams like Japan can go a long way, but france
What have I to do with France, you use the term my own nation and then you ask for France
Many apologies, I didn’t look at your Luxembourg flag properly 🙄🙏🏼