FIFA WORLD CUP 2018?

[Mahmoud87]

he Spanish team, a difficult victory against the Tunisian team .
Lago aspas scored the only goal of the match in the 85th minute, the Tunisian team showed that it was ready for the World Cup and was able to compete with European teams used to play in this  cup .

Even though Spain did only managed to score one late goal against Tunisia in this match, but since this was just a friendly match, I think the manager in charge of Spain national team might be just testing out some strategy, and I believe Spain performance in the coming World Cup tournament will be more convincing than this match.

I don't share with your opinion because spain had won all the friendly match and with a big result , Tunisia had a good team and they blocked them  .

[emberbekas]

he Spanish team, a difficult victory against the Tunisian team .
Lago aspas scored the only goal of the match in the 85th minute, the Tunisian team showed that it was ready for the World Cup and was able to compete with European teams used to play in this  cup .

Even though Spain did only managed to score one late goal against Tunisia in this match, but since this was just a friendly match, I think the manager in charge of Spain national team might be just testing out some strategy, and I believe Spain performance in the coming World Cup tournament will be more convincing than this match.

Friendly match can be evaluated to make the best composition during the real matches. And I wish on this event Spain will be back to their best performance and able to win the trophy. I guess Spain will pass the group phase easily along with Portugal.

[Zlatna Kopa4ka]

Reeeally hard to predict. What if everything goes with luck, like the European Cup, when Portugal won, clearly the path to the finals was pure luck and nothing else. I would love France to win, as I'm a fan of Les Blues for a while now. They have a bomb first eleven, even the substitutes are like a firs eleven squad. Everything it takes to win, France have it, great manager as well. Germany and Span are a threat as well. I really don't know, I'm just going by my fanboy instinct and I'll say that France will win.

[tomahawk9]

I guess Spain will pass the group phase easily along with Portugal.

I wouldn't underestimate Iran and Morocco, I'm not saying Spain won't be able to advance to the knockout phase, but to say it'll be "easy"...I don't know, remember what happened in the WC 2014, Spain was the main favorite to win the WC and they were KO'd in the group stages. This is the WC, there are no easy stages in this tournament, every match is a final.

[bering]

there was several different results for friendly matches for world cup participants today that Brazil can win 3-0 against Austria and yesterday germany only can win 2-1 against Saudi Arabia but very unfortunate France still can't win against USA however i think this the last friendly matches for them and whatever the results they have to ready entering the real tournament several days again

[Lordshiva]

Good to see already this thread being created and already 20 pages without a match being started....surely one of the biggest tournament coming up...and this time again i will be supporting argentina...always performed well but never got across the line..this time i really hope they do

[Pab]

What is favourite outsiders team or what team what is not favourite can qualify to semifinals
I love Iceland they have very strong group
Maybe Senegal is able to qualify to at least quarter final
Columbia has good team
There is still not sure will Salah play
Big lose if not
 

[LFC_Bitcoin]

What is favourite outsiders team or what team what is not favourite can qualify to semifinals
I love Iceland they have very strong group
Maybe Senegal is able to qualify to at least quarter final
Columbia has good team
There is still not sure will Salah play
Big lose if not
 

Salah’s arrived in Russia & has declared himself fit for the World Cup.

[DIA7]

he Spanish team, a difficult victory against the Tunisian team .
Lago aspas scored the only goal of the match in the 85th minute, the Tunisian team showed that it was ready for the World Cup and was able to compete with European teams used to play in this  cup .

Even though Spain did only managed to score one late goal against Tunisia in this match, but since this was just a friendly match, I think the manager in charge of Spain national team might be just testing out some strategy, and I believe Spain performance in the coming World Cup tournament will be more convincing than this match.

Friendly match can be evaluated to make the best composition during the real matches. And I wish on this event Spain will be back to their best performance and able to win the trophy. I guess Spain will pass the group phase easily along with Portugal.

i have seen Spain against Tunisia and i can say done good job in minimizing the threats that Spain created despite the big difference in the quality between both teams even in first half Tunisia created better scoring chances then Spain the only thing that Spain we're great in doing was possession of the ball other then that not much have happened but at the end it's not something that worries because playing against mediocre teams you will see them defending with teeth and nails trying to leave no free space to create scoring chances. And that will not be a problem when you advance from group stages to knock out phase many of these teams wouldn't go too far but I'm afraid for England when they face Tunisia because to be honest England does not have the best Midfield comparing to Spain or their other lines.

[futile-resistance]

On Friday 8 June 2018, several friendly matches were played for some of the teams participating in the 2018 World Cup Russia.
Uruguay 3: 0 Uzbekistan
Lithuania 0: 1 Iran
Croatia 2: 1 Senegal
Switzerland 2: 0 Japan
Germany 2: 1 Saudi Arabia
Poland 2: 2 Chile .

FIFA has just started and that we will be witnessing some very good matches and that I am very much sure that this event will be a great entertainment for all the football lovers. The way players are showing their class indicated how prepared they are and that it is too soon to say anything about the winners as all the teams are having a string potential and that they will put up a great show.

[Sithara007]

OK.. Here is the final scoreline from the latest round of international friendlies:

France 1-1 USA
Peru 0-0 Sweden
Denmark 2-0 Mexico
Serbia 5-1 Bolivia
Spain 1-0 Tunisia
Morocco 3-1 Estonia

Not much surprises there, other than the dull performance by France. And Serbia looks to be in great form..

[tomahawk9]

OK.. Here is the final scoreline from the latest round of international friendlies:

France 1-1 USA
Peru 0-0 Sweden
Denmark 2-0 Mexico
Serbia 5-1 Bolivia
Spain 1-0 Tunisia
Morocco 3-1 Estonia

Not much surprises there, other than the dull performance by France. And Serbia looks to be in great form..

Surprising result from France, they were playing with a great starting lineup against a very young USA NT...I understand it was a friendly, but still, a bit surprising tbh.

Oh, and Peru, I think they are 15 games unbeaten before the start of the WC...I'll keep an eye on this team, they look pretty solid.

Spain, hopefully Aspas will be in Spain starting XI, IMO he's the best striker on the team.

[tokeweed]

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[hilariousetc]

OK.. Here is the final scoreline from the latest round of international friendlies:

France 1-1 USA
Peru 0-0 Sweden
Denmark 2-0 Mexico
Serbia 5-1 Bolivia
Spain 1-0 Tunisia
Morocco 3-1 Estonia

Not much surprises there, other than the dull performance by France. And Serbia looks to be in great form..

Can't really take anything from these results (and all the other friendlies) which is a shame because I think the tournament is pretty open at this point so would have been helpful to gauge perfomances. Most teams have played fairly crappy teams themselves and then you've got a few shocks like Germany losing and bore draws from Sweden vs Peru and Belgium Vs Portugal etc. Brazil and Germany are the obvious favourites but then there's France and Spain who I predict to get into them semis with them, but can't discount Argentina either. I'm sure Ronaldo is going to want to win it as equally as bad as Messi does as well but I don't think Portugal have a team as strong as Argentina, though would be great to see them both play each other at some point (maybe even in the final, but I doubt it). I'd personally like to see a rematch between Germany and Brazil in the final and it could very well happen I think. I honestly couldn't pick a winner from them right now though, so will have to see how they both perform throughout the tournament (and they might not even make it that far to star with).

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[DIA7]

OK.. Here is the final scoreline from the latest round of international friendlies:

France 1-1 USA
Peru 0-0 Sweden
Denmark 2-0 Mexico
Serbia 5-1 Bolivia
Spain 1-0 Tunisia
Morocco 3-1 Estonia

Not much surprises there, other than the dull performance by France. And Serbia looks to be in great form..

Surprising result from France, they were playing with a great starting lineup against a very young USA NT...I understand it was a friendly, but still, a bit surprising tbh.

Oh, and Peru, I think they are 15 games unbeaten before the start of the WC...I'll keep an eye on this team, they look pretty solid.

Spain, hopefully Aspas will be in Spain starting XI, IMO he's the best striker on the team.

As individual names and abilities France equals Brazil and Spain. Deschamp is very lucky to have a strong lineup of players, mostly young, means the French team will be around for many years if they find a better coach they will perform bette for their match against USA France's squad is good but it's best not to play Matudi and Giroud from the start and start Fekir and Demble instead they created a great number of chances but they missed a good finisher and if they didn't perform well enough in WC Deschamp will be the one to blame he have what it takes to reach Semie finals at least.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

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[Trofo]

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[Tungsten-1]

My hope was for Italy, but they are out, and I definitely don't want Spain to win after the Juve - Madrid incident (Gigi Buffon should have punched someone after getting that red card). I would like for Germany to defend its title and claim back to back titles. Their team is solid and they have been doing a great job in the qualifiers and other tournaments as well.

In football majority of the world cup teams are almost all the teams are of the same level but the wining of a mach greatly depend upon the team management, team co ordination and sometimes luck also matters in a math. The role of goal keeper also determines the result of a match, it means anyone can win and I think Spain can win the world cup because it is one of the most experienced and well known team in the fifa history.

[Mahmoud87]

The Belgian team defeated the Costa Ricanteam on Wednesday (11 June 2018) four goals against a goal in preparation for the World Cup finals in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018.
The Belgian star, Edine Hazard, was injured in the right foot in the 70th minute.
On Monday, 18 June 2018, they will face Panama in the first round of Group Seven of the World Cup.

[tbterryboy]

I guess Spain will pass the group phase easily along with Portugal.

I wouldn't underestimate Iran and Morocco, I'm not saying Spain won't be able to advance to the knockout phase, but to say it'll be "easy"...I don't know, remember what happened in the WC 2014, Spain was the main favorite to win the WC and they were KO'd in the group stages. This is the WC, there are no easy stages in this tournament, every match is a final.

You are right friend, every match is final and one should not consider with 100% possibility that my team will win and this and that but should consider it a game of clinching matches and every match is important for players. Almost all the teams are with strong supporters but I will give my support to Portugal which has a match on second day with Spain and would be very interesting.