Sportsbet.io's FIFA World Cup 22 Prediction Pool Discussion thread

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8.  France vs. Australia
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[Little Mouse]

Will it work out like that again against Poland and Mexico? I honestly don't think so.

No one expected this result. I have predicted 4-1 win for Argentina, if I'm correct, no one in the pool even predicted Saudi will score. It wasn't luck of course. They played better, specially they defended better. If you look at their last few matches score, you will find that they didn't concede a lot of goals. Most of the games ended up conceding zero goal or one.
This match will certainly boost up their confidence. Anything can happen. I wouldn't if they manage to win one more match or get a draw against both team.

On current match, Denmark was expected to be one of the best teams in this world cup. Their win against France and consistency was signalling something. They are favorite but still having hard times to score against Tunisia. Would it be another shock tonight?

[swogerino]

Holy f*ck man.I never expected a Saudi Arabia win especially when I recall very well the 8-0 loss they had in such earlier event against Germany.This clearly shows that Argentina did not take them seriously as adversaries and were surprised for the worse,I didn't bet on money line but had a lot of tickets at over 3.5 goals because that was the most natural thing to do and had a pool prediction of 4-0 for Argentina.Now this puts Argentina in a very dangerous position forced to win the two remaining group games which not always can come true,it was the biggest surprise of the World Cup and I doubt we will see a bigger one.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Phew, this was unexpected
The Saudis actually played really well - I said that they look quite organized after their last friendly against Croatia.

Still, Argentina did enough to win - but this is the beauty of football. This will make the group more interesting for sure.

No one was seeing it. After long streak of winning Argentina never thought they will have to lose against a team like Saudi Arabia. No one even imagined it.

Bale saved me on pool prediction as I was doing really badly up until then, and also saved my sole acca so far. Just need Argentina to score 3 goals and I bring home my first World Cup acca

It's gone. It was supposed to be a sure scoring for your acca. They were unlucky too besides the poor playing.

Today really is the day for the bookmakers. They made billions from Argentina vs Saudies. They also made money in Denmark vs Tunisia.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

France vs Australia

6 minutes to kick off. I’m looking forward to this one, obviously Mbappe is on show but I want to see big Konate play. As you all know he’s a Liverpool player & based on form for club he’s been better than VVD.

Expecting France to win comfortably but as the earlier game showed with Saudi Arabia, this is the WC, anything can happen.

[swogerino]

France vs Australia

6 minutes to kick off. I’m looking forward to this one, obviously Mbappe is on show but I want to see big Konate play. As you all know he’s a Liverpool player & based on form for club he’s been better than VVD.

Expecting France to win comfortably but as the earlier game showed with Saudi Arabia, this is the WC, anything can happen.

This was different and started with a goal from Australia but France reacted really well and is now leading and most likely will win since the result is 4-1 for France.France turned things around since the first half and that is how a Champion team should react to no matter how the game precipitates.

For me is the only 1 point from all today games,for Argentina everybody lost points,for the others I don't know but I expected a win from Denmark and Poland and Lewandowski lost the penalty which could have won them the game.

[cryptofrka]

Was a very nasty collision. One of the worst I've seen but he seemed to be ok leaving the pitch.

I read that he has a broken jaw and a shattered bone in his face, as well as internal bleeding. It was shared in a Whatsapp group so am unaware of the source, but apparently he is already in Germany, where he has to do reconstructive surgery.
A private jet was organized by Mohammed bin Salman - the new Newcastle owner.

Take all of this with a pinch of salt before it's officially confirmed, but this guy is usually spot on with his info.

Hope the guy will be OK, really a horrible way to end the tournament after such a performance.

[LTU_btc]

Giroud now equals with Henry by scoring 51 goals for national team. He is simply perfect player for national team and I think that he is underrated a bit too much. France won comfortable, despite conceding first. Simply better team won.
It's already lot of said about Argentina loss, but Saudi Arabia coach is genius or idiot to play with such defense line against Argentina. And when Argentina conceded 2 goals in few minutes, it looked that they weren't ready for such scenario and didn't knew what to do.
Not much what to say about Tunisia - Denmark game, it was boring and Denmark looked disappointing.
Mexico - Poland. Guillermo Ochoa  appears once in 4 years during World Cup and becomes best goalkeeper in the world for few weeks. He did it again today. While Lewandowski still have 0 Wordl Cup goals in his career.

I read that he has a broken jaw and a shattered bone in his face, as well as internal bleeding. It was shared in a Whatsapp group so am unaware of the source, but apparently he is already in Germany, where he has to do reconstructive surgery.
A private jet was organized by Mohammed bin Salman - the new Newcastle owner.

Take all of this with a pinch of salt before it's officially confirmed, but this guy is usually spot on with his info.

Hope the guy will be OK, really a horrible way to end the tournament after such a performance.

That collision was really scary. If it's not fake, here is how his jaw looked after x-ray scan. And I think that everything is ended good for him, there was big risk to be killed or become disabled in such collisions.

[swogerino]

I never lock my picks but yesterday night did so for the games of today as I wanted to see what everyone else was thinking about the games and I was surprised for the good that not a single person as of yesterday night had predicted a draw or lost game for Belgium.This means that I am assuming it is free money for me if I bet on them at 1.53 so far because I think two big surprises in two consecutive days is highly unlikely to happen and Canada is one of the worse teams of this tournament.

[KTChampions]

I never lock my picks but yesterday night did so for the games of today as I wanted to see what everyone else was thinking about the games and I was surprised for the good that not a single person as of yesterday night had predicted a draw or lost game for Belgium.This means that I am assuming it is free money for me if I bet on them at 1.53 so far because I think two big surprises in two consecutive days is highly unlikely to happen and Canada is one of the worse teams of this tournament.

In fact, although Belgium is a strong team, the balance of power in this pair is not at all the same as in the pair Argentina - Saudi Arabia, I would say that this pair is much closer to the pair Denmark - Tunisia, where a draw happened   
I hope Belgium wins but I won't be surprised even if Canada wins. This is a game with mutual chances.

[LTU_btc]

Remember that referee from AFCON who ended game on 85th minute? He is back and will work on Belgium - Canada game. Following new trends of additional time, it's interesting how much time he will add today

I never lock my picks but yesterday night did so for the games of today as I wanted to see what everyone else was thinking about the games and I was surprised for the good that not a single person as of yesterday night had predicted a draw or lost game for Belgium.This means that I am assuming it is free money for me if I bet on them at 1.53 so far because I think two big surprises in two consecutive days is highly unlikely to happen and Canada is one of the worse teams of this tournament.

I didn't even made prediction for this game yet. I don't think that there is such thing in World Cup like free money, unless your opponent is Qatar. But yeah I expect Belgium win, maybe it's worth to put them on parlay together with Germany.

[hilariousetc]

Another 0-0 in the Croatia/Morocco game. That's three so far now in two days.

I never lock my picks but yesterday night did so for the games of today as I wanted to see what everyone else was thinking about the games and I was surprised for the good that not a single person as of yesterday night had predicted a draw or lost game for Belgium.This means that I am assuming it is free money for me if I bet on them at 1.53 so far because I think two big surprises in two consecutive days is highly unlikely to happen and Canada is one of the worse teams of this tournament.

Well everyone went for an Argentina win as well but look what happened to that  . Belgium are obviously the massive favourite's here so I'm surprised they're giving such odds. Maybe stick it in an accumulator with Germany and Spain for todays games. Those are all the strong favourites and I'm sure 99% of people have backed them.

[cryptofrka]

Damn, horrible game from Croatia. The result I can stomach, ok - a draw keeps us in the game. But the actual performance was below standard.

We played such a lethargic game, with no risk, no balls and no offensive threat at all. We'll need to up our performance by a lot to be sure we'll win against Canada.

[Woodie]

I think after that Argentina upset by Saudi Arabia, it seems all teams are approaching the game more precautiously which isn't what I expected and it looks like our favorites are more defensive minded than attacking which is very disappointing! For goodness' sake we are just in the group stages we need goals... what happens when we get to the knockout stage with what we seeing now, maybe no shot on target & no goals..
All bets from now onwards will be on the underdogs or the draw!

[swogerino]

Damn, horrible game from Croatia. The result I can stomach, ok - a draw keeps us in the game. But the actual performance was below standard.

We played such a lethargic game, with no risk, no balls and no offensive threat at all. We'll need to up our performance by a lot to be sure we'll win against Canada.

I think that it was also the fault of Morocco who played a stubbornly defensive game and wanted only on sporadic counter attacks to create chances,Morocco was more happy than Croatia with a draw,I had Croatia 0-1 in the pool and I keep missing points here.If you see the stats it showed that Croatia completely dominated the game but they need a bit more of clarity in the ending of their attacks,up to 80 minutes the result for corners was 5-0 for Croatia which shows a completely dominated game which unfortunately did not translate into a victory.

[casperBGD]

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But yeah I expect Belgium win, maybe it's worth to put them on parlay together with Germany.

parlay with Germany is an obvious blow
is this serious, leading 1:0 and lost match, both Argentina and Germany, I can believe one favorite cannot score, and when whole attack conceive from counter-attack, but to lead and lost through conceiving two goals, it is unbelievable, and signal something else, being tired, or I do not know

especially if you are a favorite, lead should not be lost easily

[swogerino]

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But yeah I expect Belgium win, maybe it's worth to put them on parlay together with Germany.

parlay with Germany is an obvious blow
is this serious, leading 1:0 and lost match, both Argentina and Germany, I can believe one favorite cannot score, and when whole attack conceive from counter-attack, but to lead and lost through conceiving two goals, it is unbelievable, and signal something else, being tired, or I do not know

especially if you are a favorite, lead should not be lost easily

Again,two days in a row,I think this is the World Cup that everyone will remember as one of the worse,truly worse for all the bettors,I had high hopes Germany to win but they screw it up really big,when I saw the first time stats of the game I was sure Germany would end up winning as the ball possession was 83% and it does not make any logical sense to me how the f they lost the game.

I hope Belgium will win tonight in order to cut off any doubts anyone might have of rigged/let games by the strong teams and let's hope this is truly extreme bad luck for Argentina and Germany which for me is highly suspicious.

[KTChampions]

Remember that referee from AFCON who ended game on 85th minute? He is back and will work on Belgium - Canada game. Following new trends of additional time, it's interesting how much time he will add today

When Argentina played with Saudi Arabia and the referee added half of the stoppage time to stoppage time, I thought that the game would last until Argentina won  

Germany's game against Japan also ended much later than it usually does, so I think this referee will be instructed "right" and continue the trend (especially if Belgium is losing?).

parlay with Germany is an obvious blow
is this serious, leading 1:0 and lost match, both Argentina and Germany, I can believe one favorite cannot score, and when whole attack conceive from counter-attack, but to lead and lost through conceiving two goals, it is unbelievable, and signal something else, being tired, or I do not know

especially if you are a favorite, lead should not be lost easily

Too many sensations in relation to the number of games played. I wonder if they continue? After all, starting from the second round, the teams will begin to lose the theoretical opportunity to reach the playoffs so it will be a knockout games.

[cryptofrka]

Asano's 30-minute cameo was world-class today. He singlehandedly led Japan to press more, to attack more, to shoot more. Ultimately he scored the winning goal, although Neuer should have done better there.

Japan is a good team and I was quite surprised to see them perform so badly in the 1st half. Still, I did expect Germany to close the game out, they were way better in the 1st half and should have secured the result before the break.

[Trofo]

Remember that referee from AFCON who ended game on 85th minute? He is back and will work on Belgium - Canada game. Following new trends of additional time, it's interesting how much time he will add today

When Argentina played with Saudi Arabia and the referee added half of the stoppage time to stoppage time, I thought that the game would last until Argentina won  

Germany's game against Japan also ended much later than it usually does, so I think this referee will be instructed "right" and continue the trend (especially if Belgium is losing?).

FIFA decided to put big emphasis on in game playing time in this WC. Referees have been instructed to add everything up both on half time whistle and full time whistle while, we are not used to it so that is why it looks a bit strange.

Did you see that they started doing possession tactics differently as well? Now we have team 1 possession and team 2 possession plus another one when ball is out of play or not controlled by any team. Wouldn't be surprised if we see 30 minutes half times in the future but with the clock stopped any time ball is out of the play.