WC 2018 predictions thread

oh, look, another WC 2018 predictions thread ...

Semi-finals will be
>Belgium - Argentina
>Italy - France

>Argentina
Kek

>Semi-Finalist
Germany
Brazil
France
Chile

>Belgium

lol

>Belgium

biggest meme team on earth

I believe that we will qualify

people still fall for the Belgium Meme

each WC has one unexpected upset in semis, so my choice is Belgium

It's coming home

Just give us the title already

this

>Unexpected Teams in the Semies since 1990
>1990
England?
>1994
Sweden
Bulgaria
>1998
Croatia
>2002
Turkey
South Korea
Germany?
>2006
Portugal?
>2010
Uruguay
>2014
Netherlands?

Final will be Chile - France desu.

Well there are often unexpected teams in WC semis
For 2014 I'd say Brazil, their level was so low they didn't deserved to be in this place, Chile was way better (and since proved it)

tournament quality
>2014
good
>2010
shit
>2006
good
>2002
shit
>1998
good
>1994
shit
Let's hope 2018 breaks the pattern

nah. Fifa gonna rig this for Russia harder than they rigged 2002 for worst Korea

>Italy - France
Not this shit again.

I thought your unexpected team was France

>semis
chile
germany
USA
argentina

>2006
>good
kek

there's a stain on your flag m8

italy and germany like every fucking time

Argentina still has to qualify, tho...

how to cope with post WC depression? im already feeling it

Brazil, like Germany, Argentina or Italy, is never an unexpected semifinalist, no matter how shit their current NT is. There's a history backing them up.

Chile would be an unexpected semifinalist in 2014, despite playing well. They wouldn't be different from the countries mentioned here

Brazil
Spain
Chile
Italy

There's no way to predict a WC until you know the draw since a GOAT team can get eliminated after playing 4 hard games and getting exhausted while a shit team can get to the senifinals facing shit opposition (Turkey 2002, Urgay 2010, etc)

>A semifinal without Germany
>A semifinal with Belgium
topkek m8

Well it depends on the draw, but I'm gonna go with Brazil, Germany, France and Argentina.

>2002
>Worst Korea
>Semifinal

so much REFBALL in that WC desu

>Netherlands?
not after 5pa1n

not after being a world cup finalist the previous edition, you mean

We cant do worse than 2014 and 2016..
The team is now older and no more Wilmots so semi finals is a minimum i guess

I trust Chile more than every single one of those 4 teams unironically

>mfw everybody rates Chile now
thanks u guys, this is a great feel and i'm from the first and probably last generation in history that gets to experience it

why the last? now I bet everybody in your country is obsessed with your NT, and know that you can be successful

Semi finals will be:
Usa vs chile
France vs belgium

a non-CONMEBOL non-UEFA in semis? no chances

Brazil
Chile
Locombia
Nigeria

Best chances:

Spain, Germany

GAP

Brazil, France

GAP

Chile, Argentina

GAP

Italy, Portugal

GAP

Lelgium, England, Croatia, Poland, Colombia, Uruguay

>Best chances:
>Spain

top kek

Spain is objectively better than France right now.

Yeah, but Brazil is better than both

>2014
>good

nigger there were all 0x0 or 1x0 since the round of 16 (obviously blitzkrieg exception)

finals:

England vs The Islamic State of Hamburg and The Rhine

>Englel
>Chances at all

Argentina/Italy wins it
France will choke at the finals

meme teams like Belgium and Portugal wont make it out of the groups

screencap this

utter shit

>FAVOURITES TIER
Brazil
Germany
France

>GOOD CHANCE TIER
Spain
Chile
Argentina

>OUTSIDER TIER
Italy
Portugal

>MEME TIER
England
Belgium
Poland

>WON'T EVEN QUALIFY TIER
Netherlands
USA

>1986
Belgium
>1990
England were very lucky against Belgium, in extra time, after a bad call gifted England a freekick, Platt scored a late winner from it, and won the game very much against the run of play

LMAO

More like

>FAVOURITES TIER
Brazil
Germany
Spain

>GOOD CHANCE TIER
France
Argentina (?)

>OUTSIDER TIER
Chile
Italy

>MEME TIER
Portugal
England
Belgium
Poland

i believe in portugal

Often think that Portugal actually play better without penaldo; they're horrifically reliant on him because of his talent

>current millennium
>no Germany in the top 4
>still rating Belgium
>rating 'us' even though Sampaoli hasn't proved himself yet
'lol'

then you might want to watch our match against Mexico, because TSU won't be playing

>it's a european team wins the cup season
as usual

France is so overrated on this fucking board, disgusting desu
They litteraly cant beat a zlatanless sweden, let that sink in.
They barely won against one of the weakest english team of all time..
They got trashed by fucking lelgium last time we played them
They only met shit teams at their Euro except Germany who dominated them for 90min too
People who put them on Germany/Spain lvl are pacey nigs lovers

1. Germany for obvious reasons
2. Spain
3. Brazil for history
4. Italy
5. Maybe >we but I don't believe in this team anymore
any other memeteams like portugal, chile and belgium shouldn't even be considerated

You can only fit in if you rate the flavour of the month team.

In 2014 and 2016 the flavour of the month team was Belgium, but Sup Forums finally realized it was just a meme. Colombia was also favoured in 2014.

Now the flavour of the month teams are Chile and France.

France
Chile
England(?)
Germany

>nevertina

Overrating France is where spee and leddit meet each other.

Portubro normies had turned against Belgium because they didn't score a gorillion goals with a bunch of kids in Brazil. Belgium were only normie's "dark horse" ahead of WC2014. Not so much during WC2014 or after.

>Belgium only recently started producing top players
>reached QFs in each of the first two tournaments after returning to the big stage
>at EURO2016 Belgium had the youngest starting line-up in the history of the euros
>at WC2014 Belgium had the second youngest squad (would have been the youngest if not for injuries)
>Belgium's big name players are only now coming into their prime
>few of them are even younger than 25yo and the likes of Nainggolan and Mertens are late bloomers (Mertens having his best season ever but before normies had never heard of him)
WC2018 will be the first tournament where Belgium can start an XI with all players in their prime.

Brazil, France, Argentina and either unexpected meme team or refballed Russia at semis

Germany will choke spectacularly just like their Wehrmacht ancestors did

>englel

Argentina (The GOAT gets one last shot with Sampaoli in shot)
Germany
France
Brazil

Turkek

*Sampaoli in charge

Messi will win one for da 'tina

>internatinal foot
>the GOAT

lmao international-wise messi is not even top500.

some day we will beat them

>2014
pool round was great, but elimination round was just plain shit, even if it gave us >7-1 for eternity

kek

>be Chilel
>round of 16
>against sopa de macaco
>lose

Chile should try their best.

>picking two conmelels to reach the final four
>only happened in a handful of WCs and never in Europe
>in the last WC there was such a rare occurence (on the home continent of course)
>the previous WC with 2 conmelels was 1978 in Argentina (obviously rigged)
>2006, Germany, and 1982, Spain, were the last two WCs with an all-european final four
LMAO, another all-european final four is more likely than two conmelels reaching the final four in Europe. 1 (one) conmelel and 3 europeans in the final four is what will happen. That conmelel will probably be Brazil.

Semi-finals will be another European sausage festival.

>hahahah lol two conmebol in the final four how could they Xd

Yeah it's kind of difficult when you have shit like THIS (pic related).

>Chile
>win his group
>brasil second in his group
>round of 16

Block your path*

It's between Brazil and France imo

Don't see Germany winning it back to back, last time that happened it was still the Jules Rimet trophy.

Would love to see Messi lift the holy grail though. The GOAT discussion would be over.

Messi will end his international career with another loss against Germany.
That would be the fourth time.

Why are people rating Brazil so much? I think their team isnt what it used to be. Im putting my money on Germany. Also Portugal will eliminate England on penalties, check em.

Brazil is playing very good under Tite.

That being said, last time they won the world cup they were terrible in the qualifiers so I don't know if this means anything.

>anecdotal evidence
That's what happens if conmelels don't win the group. Europeans can't even avoid each other in the group. 5pa1n, Portugal demolished by Germany, etc. Those matches happen all the time and you don't hear the europeans crying. Man up monkey.

>france and nigeria
>two african teams facing each other on round of 16
Unfair tbqh

How many times do I have to debunk this bullshit theory?

That shit happened by pure coincidence.
If Chile had won their group they would face Mexico. If Uruguay had won their group, they would be facing Greece.

>people actually believe that Sampaoli's Argentina w/ Messi won't win the WC or at least get to the final

>4 of 5 conmebol teams in the same box
>pure coincidence

lmao

I just want France to choke against Algeria or Cameroon in the Ro16

Well, because we're trashing every team we face so far.

And mind you, our worse team ever (2014) beat both Italy and Spain with some ease.

Semi finals
Spain
France
Brazil
Argentina

Confederations Cup is what destroyed you. Felipao thought the squad was good and went with it for the WC.

Confederations Cup is a lie. Just see Spain in 2009

Yes, it's a coincidence. I already stated the reason why.

england will get to the final

SCREENCAP THIS

Kek, we neved had a chance whatsoever with that team, we only went to semifinals because we faced only sudacas.

Confed cup had nothing do to with it.

>If Chile had won their group they would face Mexico.

You mean if an underdog NT had beaten the current world champions and Netherlands (the 3rd best team in that tournament)? Such an easy thing to do, right?

oh so Chile and Uruguay being 2nd placed in their group was all part of FIFA's evil plan?

It's about probability, little genius.

Poortugal education, everyone.

That didn't stop CONMEBOL teams from reaching the semifinals. I even saw 2 of them.

You mean to tell me there's a plan from CONMEBOL to put 4 teams in the semifinals? Who the fuck cares about that?

I'm saying disadvantage, you keep mentioning conspiracy.

And who the fuck cares about anything? We're all nihilistic deep down.

What's the disadvantage then?