<p>Dont under-estimate US. We sucked in our oppener, no doubt. But, over the course of the last few years we have shown that we can beat any of the world’s best teams. The Czechs are the second best team in the world, trailing a practically untouchable Brazil. It is no surprise that when you combine such a great opponent and a poorly played match by the US that we got killed. Yet, the vast majority of the teams in the tournement are far worse though than the US (#5). If it were not for getting put in the toughest bracket in which the second place team faces Brazil next round, the US would surely do better than last year. In a normal bracket the US would likely blow away competition, including traditional powerhouses. But, as it is, we have some work and praying to do.</p>
<p>The Czechs aren’t second best in the world and the US isn’t fifth best. The FIFA rankings are bogus.</p>
<p>Tomas Rosicky is insanely good.</p>
<p>even if I wouldn’t call the czechs the second best team, I definitely wouldn’t rank the US fifth. fifa rankings are definitely whacked. I wouldn’t agree the vast majority of the teams are far worse than the US either… most of the teams are pretty good and have played hard to get where they are. from the US perspective, the bracket might seem tough, but I think the hardest bracket is argentina-netherlands-ivorycoast-serbiamontenegro. the brazil-japan group is also tough (the croats held their own pretty well though!). england lucked out on their group hah. yeah so… *** is a normal bracket? trinidad tobago, togo, and angola? the US talks pretty big, as does any team, but haven’t backed up their words with results. what’s the next round have to do with how well us does? the us lost on their own merits. I’m not whining about how hard Japan’s group or making ridiculous claims on what would’ve could’ve should’ve happened.
I think Nedved is better than Rosicky! so glad he came out of retirement lol.</p>
<p>Impressive Korean comeback today. Just need to win one more game and they’re guaranteed to go next round! Very awesome.</p>
<p>Brazil barely scraped by. Croatia really put it to em. Brazil definitely isn’t looking unbeatable.</p>
<p>Didn’t bother to watch the France Switzerland game, and glad I didn’t either, 0-0 draw? 93 minutes and not a single goal? From what I hear not many good chances either. Its rather sad that France still hasn’t scored since 1998 though…</p>
<p>Match - Time - My Prediction
Spain v Ukraine - 6am - Draw
Tunisia v Saudi Arabia - 9am - Saudi Arabia
Germany v Poland - 12pm - Germany</p>
<p>Amazing game played by Germany today. All those chances off the crossbar in the last minutes were amazing!</p>
<p>My predictions are really sucking though… 6 of 11…</p>
<p>And you all seem to have abandoned me in here =P Guess you didn’t find todays matches exciting?</p>
<p>Match - Time - Prediction
Ecuador v Costa Rica - 6am - Ecuador
England v Trinidad & Tobago - 9am - Draw
Sweden v Paraguay - 12pm - Sweden</p>
<p>ukraine got pwnd!! nice goals. I watched tunisia-saudi arabia… for about ten minutes. it was 1-0, but somehow they had three more goals.
germany is overrated. the game sucked, they had many chances but barely made it 1-0, and that was after poland was down one man. maybe I’m bitter cause I wanted poland to win :P</p>
<p>6-0. Ouch. S&M’s play was so bad, the ref blew the whistle early out of pity…</p>
<p>Ukraine? Pwned? Check your dictionary again, because I’m pretty sure it says SERBIA & MONTENEGRO.</p>
<p>I’m all for Argentina. Even got up early to watch the game. They made their goals seem so easy (though some of them really were). </p>
<p>Ninjaina: I agree with you on Germany. I was rooting for the Pollacks, too, and not even out of pity. Just because the Germans played like ■■■. They had a ton of chances in the second half when Poland’s defense was wearing down and they could only manage one goal during stoppage time.</p>
<p>Sweden vs. Paraguay on Thursday was possibly the most boring game I’ve watched yet for this WC.</p>
<p>Yeah, that was pretty painful to watch, and I’m not even rooting for Serbia & Montenegro…but damn, they played terribly. And Argentina is just amazing, I love to watch them play.</p>
<p>Come on Iran, you need to get back into the running! Take advantage of the Mexico draw!!!</p>
<p>Match - Time - Prediction
Portugal v Iran - 6am - Iran
Czech Republic v Ghana - 9am - Czech Republic
Italy v United States - 12pm - Draw</p>
<p>yay ghana 2-0 over czech republic</p>
<p>Wowwww, Ghana. I think they’re my new favourites, haha. And some of them play for Israel[Israeli pride!]</p>
<p>GHANA!</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>Ohmygod! U.S vs Italy??!! </p>
<p>The U.S totally deserved that second goal!! What happened???</p>
<p>Offsides.</p>
<p>We have a draw with Italy because we scored on their OWN goal. I’d hate to be him right now.</p>
<p>I also still maintain that Mastroeni did not deserve that red card. It was all yellow.</p>
<p>Wow @ US vs Italy’s refereeing…</p>
<p>just wow…</p>
<p>That ref needs to be lynched, I swear to god.</p>
<p>thanks for the patronization newslang, but if you check the date I’m pretty sure you’ll see I was referring to espana’s 4-0 win over ukraine.
damn can’t believe ghana won over us. they did play a great game, just unexpected. anything can happen now ;(</p>
<p>Haha, no problem Ninjaina, but I was well-aware of the date. I just thought that it needed an update since Argentina thrashed Serbia & Montenegro the next day.</p>
<p>Didn’t mean to ruffle any feathers.</p>