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Surprised to see you so low on Senegal. I don’t particularly think Colombia is that strong and I think Poland has issues at the back. Tho, their front line makes up for it imo, in the group at least. 

Also surprised to not see you on Spain to win the group. I understand your point, but if you think they beat Portugal in the first game, then you gotta really like their chances to win the group. 

I really wanna believe Mexico will take 2nd in their group but some very reputable cappers have taken some hard stances against them. I just don’t know where Sweden is gonna get the goals from. I have the same worry with El Tri tho too lol. 

Even tho you have the Danes to win the group, I figured you would have them to advance -150 to -165 depending on the book. How come you passed on that play?? 
 
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Love this...  But I think Iceland will really struggle.

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Top fella, top analysis, top picks 

Nice to see you Mr.V have a good one 

Bookmarking this thread for your daily WC read comes highly recommended.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

Group Stage Predicted Finish (keep in mind this is WITHOUT ODDS.  So you might see a predicted finish that is in conflict with what I bet.  This is because once you put odds in place, it makes it worth the price.) Group A Uruguay 7, Egypt 4, Russia 3, Saudi 1 Group B Spain 9,  Morrocco 4, Portugal 4,  Iran 0 Group C Denmark 7, France 5, Australia 2, Peru 1 Group D Argentina 7, Croatia 7, Nigeria 3, Iceland 0 Group E Brazil 9, Serbia 4, Switzerland 4, Costa Rica 0 Group F Germany 7, Sweden 5, Mexico 4, S Korea 0 Group G Belgium 9, England 6, Tunisia 1, Panama 1 Group H Poland 5, Colombia 5, Sengal 2, Japan 2
   If you look at bet 365 they have Group Forecast bet where you predict first and second place of the group. They allow you to put a few together which makes for good odds.  This group bet, a pick 8, with the these teams coming first and second is almost 60,000 to 1.  I also take any 7 from 8 and 6 from 8 since the odds are so good. :)

 
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Posted: #30

Spain has fired their coach this morning?????

 
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Quote Originally Posted by Silk24:

Spain has fired their coach this morning?????

Yes, just waking up to this news.  I was worried when I saw he signed with RM yesterday, but didn't think this was possible under any circumstances.

Sitting on it for now.  Will see what comes of it in the coming days.  Obviously, not what you want to see the day before the competition starts.

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Posted: #32

Fernando Hierro is the replacement for Spain.

Not good.

If you haven't bet Spain yet, DONT.

Still trying to process this, but at the very least the odds will get better, but at first glance this is terrible news for them.

 

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Posted: #33
Vanzack the legend

Have a prosperous tournament outside of fading Russia

Yikes the news about the spanish is quite bizarre one day before it all starts.

Good luck?
 
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Posted: #34

croatia......really? 

 
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Posted: #35
Quote Originally Posted by vanzack:

Yes.  Overrated.

Look - Belgium is one of those sexy teams that people think are flying under the radar, but when everyone knows a darkhorse, by definition - is it a darkhorse?

They have problems scoring.  Maybe because Benteke and Lukaku really can't score on their club teams either?  On paper - this is a great side - but I am done believing in potential - and I don't think they will score the goals to win.  I can't really explain why because they should, but I have seen enough.

They are going to get out of their group because Panama and Tunisia are in their group.   The bracket also favors them as Group H is weak and will be Belgiums opponent in the round of 16.  But I cant see this team winning 4 in a row in the knockouts.

Pick your spots with this side.  There will be times to be them, but my guess is they go out in spectacular fashion in the round of 8.


Belgium  (together with Germany) broke the record for goals scored during qualifying for this World Cup, scoring goals is not the issue. 
Wasting chances, that they do and there are other structural issues with this team. I have them reaching QF and I'm hoping for a semi. Benteke btw is not even in the selection.



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Posted: #36
From Keeper Back and midfield I think Spain doesnt have any problem. The question is who will score goals to them. Costa? Aspas? Rodrigo?

I can still think that they can win this even though they fire lopetegui. 

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Thank you for this Thread Brother 
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I was waiting for evah for a WC capper! Keeping an eye on you man...!! Was thinking taking Saudi at +1 10 units. ???? Any thoughts on this?
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Quote Originally Posted by Maximus1978:

I was waiting for evah for a WC capper! Keeping an eye on you man...!! Was thinking taking Saudi at +1 10 units. ???? Any thoughts on this?


Saudi Arabia has no business being in this tournament. I am not a big fan of parlays in other sports simply because of the increased juice makes them losers over the long run. However I don't see how Germany doesn't advance, Uruguay doesn't advance, France doesn't or Saudi Arabia does advance. So I made parlays in the bets that I made including a couple of these in each. Yea I could lose, maybe I will, but I just love the world cup and putting a little on these parlays dramatically increases what I win and I have more games that interest me.

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Posted: #40

I see you like Poland making it to the quarterfinals. I agree.. what do you think about Poland total WC goals OVER 4.5? If they get 4-5 games out of it, you would think 4.5 would be an easy mark to hit. They didn't seem to have any issue scoring in the qualifiers.

 

Thoughts??

 
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Nice to see you bud 
 
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thoughts on russia vs saudi tomorrow?

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Van! Good to see you  
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Quote Originally Posted by DestroyThePitch:

Surprised to see you so low on Senegal. I don’t particularly think Colombia is that strong and I think Poland has issues at the back. Tho, their front line makes up for it imo, in the group at least. 

Also surprised to not see you on Spain to win the group. I understand your point, but if you think they beat Portugal in the first game, then you gotta really like their chances to win the group. 

I really wanna believe Mexico will take 2nd in their group but some very reputable cappers have taken some hard stances against them. I just don’t know where Sweden is gonna get the goals from. I have the same worry with El Tri tho too lol. 

Even tho you have the Danes to win the group, I figured you would have them to advance -150 to -165 depending on the book. How come you passed on that play?? 
Like Senegal to advance as well. Poland is very overrated. Who did they really beat to get here? Strength of schedule.

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Can was looking forward to seeing you post. You're probably one of the two or three people ever on this site since I joined in the early 2000s that I would blindly tail. No USA takes a little luster out but still very excited for this world cup I wish you the best of luck thanks for posting
 
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Posted: #46
I was lucky enough to get the option of under 2 and 1/2 - 110 and the Russia game the other day play it a little more because of that.
 
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Posted: #47

Quote Originally Posted by CrusCrnshw:

Can was looking forward to seeing you post. You're probably one of the two or three people ever on this site since I joined in the early 2000s that I would blindly tail. No USA takes a little luster out but still very excited for this world cup I wish you the best of luck thanks for posting
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I think it was mid to late 90s. Early 2000s it kicked in and by mid 2000s times were great. 
 
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Posted: #49

Great to see your post! Always love seeing your International Soccer analysis! 

Best of luck VanZack!

 

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Thank you to all the guys here that follow soccer and offer to share their knowledge peace_5

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