Are they any good?

Are they any good?
Will they make it into knockout phase?

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They'll win it, don't think Putin will allow an opportunity for amazing propaganda go to shit.

>Major stars will be outed as gay
>Blacks will be bullied into breakdowns
>Teams will be poisoned

Russia will march on to victory

Anything is possible with a "proper" referee.

They're shit...but as the other anons said, they might have a "chance".

Exactly, South Korea reached the semi finals of 2002 World Cup thanks to the referees, I don't doubt the same might happen in Russia.

>he doesn't remember Arshavin

desu if they had that GOAT 08 team now, I'd put them as a dark horse.

>Will they make it into knockout phase?
Depends if they rig the draw and/or bribe the refs

If they can rig an election, they can rig a WC

>t. I know shit about politics

but you're right, Cherchesov is a very good manager. And, what is important, russian. Not foreing.

the thing is Russia would beat you wetbacks

>t. Donny Trump

>Are they any good?
nope
>Will they make it into knockout phase?
yup

No, they are rubbish. Literally only thier as a thanks for hosting it.

They will be seeded so they have a good chance to qualify the group stage.

nope just hate beaners

Get out the group, that's about it
Same as England
>boo hoo hoo

They made their first World Cup in 12 years in 2014 and couldn't get out of a group containing Algeria and South Korea. Two years later they got 1 (one) point in their Euros group.

Now do you think two years without a competitive game will have made them better or worse?

To be fair Algeria gave Germany a tough if not the toughest challenge on their way to the cup.

That was because Lahm was still meming it up in midfield for most of that game. His selfish bullshit nearly cost your team the tournament, all because he was "too intelligent" to play right back.

Pep really filled his head with bullshit.

>this damage control

> Now do you think two years without a competitive game will have made them better or worse?
Currently learning from the best

It's not damage control, it's the truth. I remember Algeria well. They changed half their starting team around during the group stages because they were so shit at the start of the tournament. It was easily one of the weaker groups, behind only Group E.

kek
were those accidental own goals or "accidental" own goals?
i mean with everything on tape and online surely intentional sabotage is easily identifiable

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No, we've been in a steady decline since Euro 2008

their ice hockey team got BTFO in the sotchi olympics and putin couldn't do any shit about it

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No one in real nations give a flying fuck about ice hockey.

Football world cup is meaningful

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>Now do you think two years without a competitive game will have made them better or worse?
How to spot a person who has no clue
Friendlies are better for practice than qualifying games
>play teams of equal skill instead of Spain and Gibraltar
>have practice and teamwork in mind and not the result while playing
>free to test different strategies and tactics
>more flexible with substitutions

This is actually the second most important reason why host teams perform well in their tournaments (First being matchfixing)

spasiba, sergei

We finally have found more or less decent forward, Own Goal. He scored four goals this year - more than any other player. We put a lot of hope on him

Please tell me Dzagoev isn't still their best player