⚽ International Football Prediction and Discussion Thread ⚽

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There are teams in this World Cup that should be avoided to bet for or against. Brazil is one of them and some other European nations that are not in the top tier there.

Agreed. I lost the other one betting on the Netherlands to win...

After the Dutch failure against Japan, here we go with a big blow up with the Belgian national team. They were lucky to save a point from Egypt which was very disappointing. And the champ of epic failure is by far the Spanish team with their goalless draw against a barely known small nation or let's say against their goalkeeper.
Seeing these results, I am starting to worry about the French national football team because I consider it as a top tier European team..

[Bd officer]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

[satscraper]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

This World Cup is full of surprises. Who could have thought that Spain could not beat Cabo Verde? I think no one. Another surprise, at least for me, is that Egypt equalized against Belgium, making the final score 1-1. I bet on Belgium to win and lost. Almost all the bets I made so far are losing. Why? Because my favorite teams in each group ended their matches with draws instead of wins while playing opponents that were considered weaker than they are.

[Italian Panic]

It was certainly a first class performance from the Cape Verdean goalkeeper, but Spain were truly poor in front of goal. It is clear that Oyarzabal cannot provide the consistency for the national team that top class strikers like Fernando Torres and Morata have offered over the last 10 years. To add some bulk and height, they had to take Borja Inglesias to the World Cup, a player who, a few years ago, wouldn’t even have made the bench. The same problem is faced by national teams such as Germany, who have only Woltemade, and also England, who, with Kane past his prime, have no great prospects for the future in the role of a powerful centre forward.

[swogerino]

So far this World Cup has produced a lot of draw results from big teams like Brazil, Spain and Netherlands to name a few which shows that the bookies have made a lot of money while bettors have lost a lot of money so far. I hope it starts to change as so far this is the World Cup with the most surprise results ever at such early stage of the event. So far only Germany has shown resilence and great game play although against a very weak opponent like Curacao.

[snipie]

So far this World Cup has produced a lot of draw results from big teams like Brazil, Spain and Netherlands to name a few which shows that the bookies have made a lot of money while bettors have lost a lot of money so far. I hope it starts to change as so far this is the World Cup with the most surprise results ever at such early stage of the event. So far only Germany has shown resilence and great game play although against a very weak opponent like Curacao.

That's right. The only nations that showed a normal performance and expected results are Mexico, South Korea, USA, Australia, Scotland, Sweden and Germany. After that, weird results, we are talking about a lot of draws obviously, occurred. Mainly European nations failed to prove themselves and even Germany result in the first part of the first half of the game was beyond expectations but at least they didn't bleed the reserve of money of bettors around the world the way Spain or Belgium or Netherlands did.
Ten hours left for France and Senegal match. We will see if the bleeding will continue or people will be able to recover their money here

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

The result of this match did not go as expected because we all believed that Spain would collect full points from this FIFA World Cup game but they drew 0-0 against Cabo Verde, honestly it seems that this is a stumbling block for an experienced team like Spain at the beginning of this World Cup. Also another thing you should notice is that the manager of that team did not put many talented players on the field in the early stages, which made Spain's attacking power very fragile, so it can be undoubtedly assumed that Cabo Verde's draw in the FIFA World Cup match against a team like Spain is a great achievement for them. Another thing I noticed is that Spain attacked a lot but their opponent Cabo Verde's goalkeeper Vozinha was like a wall because he made great saves and gave his team a great start in this 2026 World Cup.

[cakir1]

Agreed. I lost the other one betting on the Netherlands to win. Who could have expected that they wouldn't manage to beat Japan, which equalized every goal the Netherlands scored during the match? Japan's last goal came near the end, when I thought everything was over and the win was in the Netherlands' hands ^{but that's not how it turned out}.

I lost my money in this match. I had bet on Netherlands to win. Netherlands squad was also pretty decent. They have some great players like Gakpo, Reijenders, De Jong and Vand Dijk. But they failed to play as well as expected. It is not possible to say that Netherlands dominated the match. Japan played quite well. They were confident. At the same time Japan was a bit lucky. They scored the last goal in the 89th minute. The road to qualifying for the round of 32 became quite difficult for Netherlands.

So far at least 5 games already got brutal results for punters because these results were not expected, but this is always part of the game; sometimes you win, and sometimes you learn about how to gamble, but it's never been easy to have money from bookies. Three games give the worst losses due to overconfidence in betting.

Morocco did a good job after this Australia shock. Turkey and the Netherlands have injury time goals. This was terrible for gamblers, but Japan did an impressive job and has an important point due to a good game in the last few minutes, which disrupts the Dutch team's defense and has an equalizer. This event has good performances from a few African and Asian teams.

[KTChampions]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

Spain have weak opponents in the group, only Uruguay can compete with them and even then Spain will be huge favorites in the game against them. It's good that Uruguay and Saudi Arabia also tied, as this increases the risks for everyone. The shorter the distance, the higher the volatility, and the first round can be ruled out, as all teams have just one point after it. I wonder if it's worth hoping Spain will pull itself together and win the remaining two games? The odds are low, but if you consider the multi-bet, the profit could be significant.

[IjawMan]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

This World Cup is full of surprises. Who could have thought that Spain could not beat Cabo Verde? I think no one. Another surprise, at least for me, is that Egypt equalized against Belgium, making the final score 1-1. I bet on Belgium to win and lost. Almost all the bets I made so far are losing. Why? Because my favorite teams in each group ended their matches with draws instead of wins while playing opponents that were considered weaker than they are.

We are caught in same ship buddy and I'm nearly getting confused on what selections to make further in the next matches of this world cup. The surprises keeps unraveling and leaving the gamblers and spectators in awe.

The disadvantaging thing about choosing these favourite nations against the underdogs as it looks is that the size of the odds for the favourite teams are so lowered that you can not double-chance them for a win or draw, and as a result you will be forced to give it a direct win.

Except for South Africa, the African teams are not backing down for their opponents and it beginning to get tempting to start giving this weak looking teams a chance for a win or draw in my bets to watch what fate that can hold for my next bet.

[HaXX0R1337]

So far this World Cup has produced a lot of draw results from big teams like Brazil, Spain and Netherlands to name a few which shows that the bookies have made a lot of money while bettors have lost a lot of money so far. I hope it starts to change as so far this is the World Cup with the most surprise results ever at such early stage of the event. So far only Germany has shown resilence and great game play although against a very weak opponent like Curacao.

That's right. The only nations that showed a normal performance and expected results are Mexico, South Korea, USA, Australia, Scotland, Sweden and Germany. After that, weird results, we are talking about a lot of draws obviously, occurred. Mainly European nations failed to prove themselves and even Germany result in the first part of the first half of the game was beyond expectations but at least they didn't bleed the reserve of money of bettors around the world the way Spain or Belgium or Netherlands did.
Ten hours left for France and Senegal match. We will see if the bleeding will continue or people will be able to recover their money here

It was a surprising draw, while I did not expect Spain to score a lot of goals but expected to score at least one goal. My expectation for Spain as the tournament favorites just shifted.

France will score as they have a really strong line up. How their defense will perform remains to be seen, during the warm up match Ivory Coast was able to score goals and won the match.

Argentina match is also coming up.

[juttsab@]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

Cape Verde did the unexpected and snatched a point from Spain in their World Cup opener. Spain dominated the game entirely at 74% possession , 2.10 xG , 2 big chances created and missed and crazy 27 shots. Spain overall covered 103.1 km distance in the whole game which Cape varde with 26% possession , 1 big chance created and missed , 0.20 xG total of 6 shots and they covered 106.1km in the whole match. Vozinha becomes the hero for his Nations 8 of total Spain, brick wall in his post amazing saves. And he is 40 years old on his Instagram his number of followers increases from 50k to 5M in 1 day. He is 40 years old. Vozinha  was named as player of the match for his incredible performance.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Did you watch the match between Spain vs Cabo Verde? To be honest, many people thought that Spain would win this match but the result of this match did not go as expected. In the end, the result of the match was 0-0. From the beginning of this match, the Cabo Verde players played with the plan to draw and in the end they succeeded. Cabo Verde drew against a strong team like Spain which is a big achievement for Cabo Verde. Anyway, in this match I bet on Spain but I lost, probably many others like me bet on Spain.

Theorically, it should be an easy game for spain because they fought a team who placed at 67th of football rank. The problem is Cape performed beyond our expectation because they were doing defense composedly. So it made Spain so struggle just to score. It gets worsen with how they didn't have someone who have specialization to break the line. It's not only that, Luis de la Fuente's gameplan is also so poor. He's overloading the midfield against a team that is fully defense is obviously a wrong execution.

I also blame him how he's deploying Pedrid as a number 10, which is limiting Pedri to show his best to dictate the gameplay and creating a progressing pass. We can expect the same output when they face more and more countries who played low-block like Cape Verde.
I can say the low rank countries are also getting smarter by playing low block against a big team.

[lombok]

So far this World Cup has produced a lot of draw results from big teams like Brazil, Spain and Netherlands to name a few which shows that the bookies have made a lot of money while bettors have lost a lot of money so far. I hope it starts to change as so far this is the World Cup with the most surprise results ever at such early stage of the event. So far only Germany has shown resilence and great game play although against a very weak opponent like Curacao.

That's right. The only nations that showed a normal performance and expected results are Mexico, South Korea, USA, Australia, Scotland, Sweden and Germany. After that, weird results, we are talking about a lot of draws obviously, occurred. Mainly European nations failed to prove themselves and even Germany result in the first part of the first half of the game was beyond expectations but at least they didn't bleed the reserve of money of bettors around the world the way Spain or Belgium or Netherlands did.
Ten hours left for France and Senegal match. We will see if the bleeding will continue or people will be able to recover their money here

Big tournament are known to be a cemetery of people who trust only on the reputation of their team. The current fashion of draws show the tight nature of the defenses of smaller team today. The France vs Senegal game then concluded with victory to common sense and figure that we calculated collectively. France ended up the winner 3-1.

[LGD2Business]

I was disappointed that I couldn't watch this game live, but I was happy as I followed the score. It's almost a miracle that Spain didn't score. Everyone expected them to score 5 or 6 goals at least. They'll make up for it in the remaining matches.
I also agree that you shouldn't bet on certain teams or matches. I think betting on the first group stage matches is risky. When the knockout rounds come around, there won't be as many surprises. Also if the teams' standings aren't yet determined in the final group matches, you can bet on the favorites there.

[Bd officer]

Today was the match between Algeria vs Argentina where Argentina won 3-0. Many thought the match would be difficult for Argentina because Spain drew against a team like Cabo Verde but Argentina won easily today. Actually this match ended as I expected, I bet on Argentina and I won. Messi is playing great even at this age which surprised me and he scored a hat-trick which is very commendable.

Anyway, congratulations to Argentina for starting with a win in the first match and I hope they do well in this World Cup as well.