Topic: FIFA WORLD CUP 2018? - page 68. (Read 5975 times)

Buffon is no doubt one of the greatest as well as a legendary goal keeper of all time and beside his performance, he is also a man of great courage and spots man spirit and it makes me very sad when I remember this that Buffon has retired from his national team and we will no longer see his reactions in this world cup. Buffon also had great experience that’s why he is leading Juventus up till now.

I'd agree with you on all the four favorites. And for outsiders, I'd add England along with Argentina, Portugal and Belgium. My choice for underdogs would be Russia and Colombia in addition to Uruguay and Croatia. Long shots will be Mexico, Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden.

Germany and Brazil deserve called the most favourite teams in this competition because almost from every generations to generations they have talented players however i'm curious to see the achievement from long shots participants countries such as Iceland or Panama that whether they will able to defeat strong team on group phase or not

Brazil and Germany are the top seeds to win the world cup title this year. But sometimes we have to pay attention to other factors and usually there will always be surprises that will make some big changes, in every title there will always be a team that is not seeded but in the end they can achieve good results. FIFA world cup is an event that gamblers can use to take advantage of opportunities, I'm sure the bet will be bigger and the number of transactions in July will increase. I can not wait to see which team will go to the final.

"Favourites to win the 2018 World Cup : Germany, Brazil, France, Spain.

World Cup 2018 Outsiders : Argentina, Portugal, Belgiun.

World Cup 2018 underdogs : England, Uruguay, Croatia.

World Cup 2018 long-shots : Senegal, Egypt, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, Panama."      

You cant get genuine prediction of the World cup or who will win the cup now since the tournament is yet to be start cause World Cup is a football tournament where every countries want to proud their ability to the World. Mind you, World cup is also tough and the far each countries goes in the tournament the higher their compensation from FIFA.

Croatia is actually 90:10 stronger then Island. Island is a fantastically solid and well-organized team though.

If we don't look at the brackets and take the current form out of the equation, I think this would be the right order:

1. France 1:2
2. Germany 1:2
3. Belgium 1:3
4. Brazil 1:4
5. Spain 1:6
6. Portugal 1:6
7. Argentina 1:8
8. England 1:10
9. Uruguay 1:12
10. Colombia 1:14
11. Croatia 1:15
12. Switzerland 1:20

The raw talent dividend among those teams, especially France at the moment, is incredible.
Then comes the rest of the lot, who can beat each other or any of the top teams, but don't have a real shot at the title.
Possible semi-final surprises could be Egypt, Russia (only because they are the hosts), Nigeria, Poland, Serbia, and Peru, maybe Senegal.

If you look at the form and the brackets, then the situation becomes quite different as there are many possible variants when top 12 teams are playing against each other.

We also have to take into account the possible surprises within groups. It is a question who out of Nigeria, Croatia and Argentina will pass the group. Portugal can easily go back to basics and disappoint. England? Would be far from the first time. Uruguay has hosts and very tricky Egypt to play against. Colombia is everything but stable. Switzerland could play three goalless draws...
Others are pretty confident I think. Spain maybe only one with possible problems - if Portugal beats them, they would have to be at their top against Iran and Morocco, and both of those teams are very solid.

Germany's chances are very dependable on the situation with Manuel Neuer.

I will really miss Chile in this World Cup. Italy and Netherlands are always missed, of course.

Why so much buzz about Croatia? They are a good team... but I can't imagine them winning this year's world cup. They may gave a good performance, like what Iceland did during the 2016 Euro Cup (bating England in PQF).

If we talk about who will win, the strongest candidates will always be in Germany, defending champions who maintain their good performance. But rivals for the champions are very heavy, Brazil, Spain, Argentina, France are also ready with a squad that deserves a champion. Although without the Netherlands and Italy, this World Cup will remain interesting.

Agreed, it looks like the spectators will start betting from the start of the world cup. They do not want to lose the moment to bet and support their country to qualify for a higher round and earn a lot of money. Many countries bring great spirits including countries that are not at all superior. They want to stand out in the world cup.

Yes, I wrote so. But my predictions are based purely on the base that Argentina is playing so badly that it is a matter of question whether they can get past group at all, so I believe that 1-4 in this group is totally open. If Croatia will be second I don't think they will go past France. And I also really don't think Argentina will be first in it's group. Whether the first will be Croatia or Nigeria, or maybe  Argentina after all, I don't know. But I think that nothing after that is unrealistic. In any case, I had to play with it my way. You can try yours

Croatia traditionally plays good against Germany, and have already proven to be much better than Portugal 1 on 1 (and now has a much better coach). I even think Croatia is more prone to loose again Peru then Germany or Portugal, really.

I based my predictions on current form, a strength of teams, and traditional playing styles which, when confronted, end in various surprises, to everybody but a trained eye (everybody has a "black cat").

Regarding Argentina, the fact is, if they didn't have Messi I would've totally left them out this time.

I wonder who will be the winner of FIFA world cup 2018 because every team has brought the greatest team and they hope that they can be the winner. this will be exciting as we know, in every world cup, the audience is attracting to see the match and whether they are making a bet or not, they still enjoy the game until the end.

This edition of the world cup will be in Russia and obviously the European teams will benefit from familiar conditions. Latin American teams such as Brazil and Argentina will be having a tough time adjusting to the unfamiliar weather and crowd in Russia. And I don't think that Argentina will advance that far, considering their current form.

i think you from croatia
because youre prediction croatia above argentina in group D
and youre prediction croatia can get final in world cup 2018

youre expectation about croatia is very high value

Thank you Barbut. I would even add that anything is possible, even favorites dropping out of group stage. Remember 2002. when Portugal and Argentina, 2 best teams besides Brazil didn't get through? Remember what happened to England, France, Spain not so long ago .. Heck... look what happened to Italy (it this the first one they will miss?)!

Brazil will be almost everybody's favorites against Belgium, but I give Belgium a slight 60-40%. Portugal - Croatia is 50-50%, but I still remember Euro (a hard wound) where Croatia outplayed Portugal in all elements of the game except the reactions from the bench (we had a very lousy coach back then). I also wouldn't put Croatia in the final, but again - looking at the brackets, it looks possible (I tried to be as objective as I could) something similar to the situation with France (although France has a much stronger team.... so many young stars).

But I appreciate their persistency and sportsmen spirit and now Russia is a part of FIFA world cup 2018. At that time, nothing was as advance as it is now. I am pretty sure that many other country would also be having such football grounds years back. All the teams that are playing in FIFA have good players but some are better than others and Russia is a tough team.

Exactly, no doubt that Brazil and Argentina have much more good players than Portugal and people are considering Portugal in the race between these two countries because they have a legendary player and no other player is seen of his aura in team and the lgend alone can never ever help his team to win the title as it is achieved b the team performance and not the player alone.

FIFA announced the list of referees, who will work on the World Cup as VAR assistants. There are many familiar names, but some choices seem to be really strange  

http://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/russia-2018-list-of-video-match-officials.pdf?cloudid=dlf1vsqmmpucihtftsu0

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Thanks for sharing this, I didn`t saw it until now. Interesting odds, and to not speak about others I`m from Serbia and odds are 151, to low if you ask me. Who place a bet on Serbia to win world cup should have better odd`s.very good analysis, when I look at this I think its possible for us to look at this outcome. Odd`s for Germany 5.50, France 6.50 risking to bet on both can be a good decision. 1 btc on one and 1 btc on others, in the end you win a lot of money if it`s happens. If they meet in finals your win is guaranteed.
But world cup wouldn`t be world cup if there is no surprises, Brazil can win Belgium and Croatia can lose from Portugal.. that`s sports betting, you never know outcome, all you can do is to bet and hope for the best.