World Cup Prediction game

[grim_tales]

Who thought Brazil would beat North Korea by only 1 goal

[Yi-Long]

Who thought Brazil would beat North Korea by only 1 goal

Kim Jong Ill probably thought North Korea would win it by a landslide...

Great performance by the North Koreans though. Very impressive display; good tactics, great effort, and pretty good individuel skill and vision by many players.

...ow... and Brazil were pretty poor, but they win it because of the individuel skill.

[Yi-Long]

Wow... Spain lost to Switzerland...

BTW, those 2 matches of today weren't in the prediction-list.

My prediction for tonight is a win for Uruguay. Let's hope the fabulous Suarez will finally be able to show his quality.

[degeneration]

yeah that was my bad... forgot to up the next set of fixtures!! Will start if from tomorrow's!

Argentina v South Korea
Greece v Nigeria
France v Mexico
Germany v Serbia
Slovenia v USA
England v Algeria
Netherlands v Japan
Ghana v Australia
Cameroon v Denmark
Slovakia v Paraguay
Italy v New Zealand
Brazil v Ivory Coast

My predictions:

Argentina v South Korea 1-1
Greece v Nigeria 0-1
France v Mexico 2-2
Germany v Serbia 3-1
Slovenia v USA 0-1
England v Algeria 1-1
Netherlands v Japan 2-1
Ghana v Australia 1-1
Cameroon v Denmark 2-2
Slovakia v Paraguay 0-2
Italy v New Zealand 3-0
Brazil v Ivory Coast 3-0

[degeneration]

Current scoreboard:

degeneration - 9
grim_tales - 7
Yi-Long - 7
Markgway - 6

[grim_tales]

I think it will be England 2 - 0 Algeria

[Yi-Long]

Degen, you forgot a bunch of matches again...

[Yi-Long]

Current scoreboard:

degeneration - 9
grim_tales - 7
Yi-Long - 7
Markgway - 6

How come you have 9 points? You had 7 matches right in the first round... if I checked correctly.

[degeneration]

I got 9 points as I predicted the winner correctly in 7 matches, but also got the score right in one of them which is a 2 point bonus.

I'm doing the matches in 5 days blocks, although this set missed today's matches cause I'm a numpty.

[grim_tales]

Spain lost to Switzerland

[grim_tales]

Argentina v South Korea 3-2
Greece v Nigeria 1-1
France v Mexico - 1-1
Germany v Serbia 3-0
Slovenia v USA 0-1
England v Algeria 2-0
Netherlands v Japan 3-1
Ghana v Australia 2-1
Cameroon v Denmark 1-3
Slovakia v Paraguay 1-2
Italy v New Zealand 3-0
Brazil v Ivory Coast 3-0

[Yi-Long]

I got 9 points as I predicted the winner correctly in 7 matches, but also got the score right in one of them which is a 2 point bonus.

I'm doing the matches in 5 days blocks, although this set missed today's matches cause I'm a numpty.

Aw ic ic... so scores get extra points

Why do it in 5 day blocks, and not just 1 block for every round? Cause now the Spain game is again missing from the prediction.

Ow yeah, even though you forgot the new block, I did predict the Uruguay-game yesterday before the match began, and got it right

Argentina v South Korea 1-2
Greece v Nigeria 0-2
France v Mexico 0-1
Germany v Serbia 3-0
Slovenia v USA 2-0
England v Algeria 4-0
Netherlands v Japan 4-0
Ghana v Australia 1-0
Cameroon v Denmark 2-1
Slovakia v Paraguay (draw) 0-0
Italy v New Zealand 1-0
Brazil v Ivory Coast 2-3

[degeneration]

Doing it in 5 day block so that:

1) I don't have to update too regularly. Every day would be a pain.
2) Not doing it in one "group stage" block as to e honest I had no idea how good/bad some teams were. This allowed everyone to reassess their opinions of certain teams as the matches progressed. Rather than completely cocking up one team's predictions because you though they were much better/worse than they actually are.
3) there are 15 days of group matches, and 5 goes into 15 nicely.

[grim_tales]

England 0 Algeria 0
We were shit Now we have to beat Slovenia to qualify (I think), on this evidence we won't

[degeneration]

So I don't miss the first matches, here's the last set of group fixtures.

Portugal v North Korea
Chile v Switzerland
Spain v Honduras
France v South Africa
Mexico v Uruguay
Greece v Argentina
Nigeria v South Korea
Slovenia v England
USA v Algeria
Australia v Serbia
Ghana v Germany
Paraguay v New Zealand
Slovakia v Italy
Cameroon v Netherlands
Denmark v Japan
North Korea v Ivory Coast
Portugal v Brazil
Chile v Spain
Switzerland v Honduras

My predictions to follow later.

[grim_tales]

Didnt expect Italy v New Zealand to be 1-1

[Markgway]

Portugal just ass-fucked North Korea 7-0.

[grim_tales]

Well done England. Through to last 16.
Nervy last 10 minutes though but with England they always are.
US go through as group winners,

[degeneration]

Let's just hope Germany beat Ghana and win their group to set up an England V Germany next round. About time England actually play a decent team...

[grim_tales]

I'm just pleased we're through. We seem to do better against better sides.

[Markgway]

England were pretty lucky to be honest.

Two poor performances and a win against a piss-poor Slovenia who couldn't hit a barn door.

[Shingster]

We scraped through one of the weakest World Cup groups I can remember. Very lucky but hey, at least we're still in it. That's all that counts.

[grim_tales]

True. Bloody nervy last 15 minutes, I think the team were sh*tting themselves then Slovenia might score.
What exactly did Cole do when he came on?

[Markgway]

What exactly did Cole do when he came on?

Nothing. But that didn't stop the team bullying Capello into it.

[grim_tales]

He did his job of wasting time to protect the lead I guess.
Did you see Italy have gone out?
Finished bottom of their group with Slovakia and Paraguay qualifying. NZ came third.
Italy lost to Slovakia 3-2, some great goals.
I would argue Italy's group was quite easy like Englands, at least they managed to qualify!