Comments on: Croatia 0: 1 Poland

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By: shaunH

shaunH — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:27:50 +0000

Stumbled across this site by accident (actually looking for Top Croatian Goalscorers to put potentially in a Dream Team Competition!). Couldn’t help but read some of the comments; seems EVERY nation thinks it’s team COULD win the World Cup…and EVERY country has it’s pessimists! But for an injection of ‘realism’ from a long term soccer fan/follower of world football please note;

This is how I think the various groups will pan out:
GROUP A 1st Germany
2nd Poland

GROUP B 1st England
2nd Sweden

GROUP C 1st Argentina
2nd Holland
(though Ivory Coast & Serbia-Montenegro could surprise!)

GROUP D 1st Portugal
2nd Mexico

GROUP E 1st/2nd ITALY
& Czech Republic
(not sure which order…but Ghana won’t be easy!)

GROUP F 1st Brazil
2nd Croatia

GROUP G 1st France
2nd Switzerland
(though Swiss shouldn’t be underestimated!)

GROUP H 1st/2nd SPAIN &
Ukraine (close!!)

In the next phase Germany v Sweden will be VERY close.

England will beat Poland

Argentina will beat Mexico

Holland will beat Portugal

SPAIN or Ukraine (depending on who tops their Group!)to bt Switzerland

Which leaves France to play either Spain or UKRAINE (depending on which one is runner-up in their Group)..close call!

That then leaves Brazil to play
Italy or CZECH REPUBLIC

with Croatia v the other one (ITALY or Czechs…ie the winner of the Group stage)
Also very close!

QUARTER FINALS

England v Holland: very close!
could go to extra time – but don’t be surprised if England nick it!

Argentina will beat winner of Germany v Sweden

Then you have winner of BRAZIL v CZECHS/Italy against the winners of the FRANCE v UKRAINE/Spain match.

Which then leaves the winner of the CROATIA v the other one from ITALY/Czech to play the other one from SPAIN/Ukraine

**I’ve highlighted the most probably teams to meet!

SEMI-FINALS

By this stage it’s anybody’s guess!! But if I stick my neck out I reckon it could be as follows;

England v Brazil

Argentina v Italy

To be honest I think the Argies will almost certainly be there, and probable FINALISTS! I think the winner of the potential England/Holland game CAN (though not necessarily WILL) beat Brazil (as could Italy/Czechs in the quarter-Finals!).

So – REALLY STICKING MY NECK OUT -I’m gonna say England v Argentina final……..

what do you all think of THAT then?!!!!!!!!

By: richard

richard — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:29:55 +0000

Hey soze, it says you’re posting from new zealand.Strange
It’s really hard to see games down here so all my info comes
from the internet and relatives.
They tell me that the tv stations have been hard on cico.
Croats are so demanding, the 98
team has made it hard for everyone that follows them.We expect so much but the fact is
Sweden haven’t won a game since
qualifying and Argentina had lost or drawn 6 before playing us so maybe we’re a bit blinded by results that may not be so
impressive after all.I still believe this is the best squad
since 98 but I wish Da Silva was
there for more firepower.Olic and Balaban worry me a bit up front and Tomas and Tokic are
not world class I believe.To be
honest I was fuming after the
Poland game, we should have
smashed them if we’re as good as
I’m led to believe.But I won’t
read into friendlies, I never have.

By: soze

soze — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:27:16 +0000

Richard> I am not in NZ. I’m in Canada. I saw the game on a satellite channel called Setanta Sports. It is a closed circut TV station for subscribers.

I am a fellow Croat and very proud of it..so I feel it absolutely necessary to say when we play badly. I do not think our media has been speaking negatively of our NT. There have only been some peices on Niko Kranjcar and his lack of play shape…other than that, the media has been supportive even in the face of most of Croatia and their criticism of Cico and his tactics as of late.

I am supportive, and I really have to keep my hopes up with the kind of play we have seen lately, but lets face it…one also has to be realistic..unlike those Argentineans and their blog who are all in a love-fest over there no matter how their team does.

By: richard

richard — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:56:20 +0000

How did you see the game soze?
Sattelite? We all want Croatia
to be the best team but lets be
realistic and also support the team, unlike the croatian sports
writers who are trying very hard
to upset team morale as usual.
I’m happy just to see them at the WC but I also have high hopes that at their best they will deliver results and get to
the 2nd phase.But Australia have
a team equal of our 98 squad and they will be really hard to beat unfortunately.

By: richard

richard — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:48:12 +0000

I’m also from NZ soze and I
certainly didn’t see the game so
I have no idea how you could
possibly know anything about the game, and you obviously don’t. Are you a fellow Croat?
Yes, not a great result but we
are capable of much better and
friendlies are only that.