Neowin's Official World Cup 2006 Thread



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Its too bad Portugal gets no love from anyone. Every station and analyst here in the US gives Portugal no chance against England, which I find laughable. What World Cup have they been watching? They predicted a Mexican win over Portugal; Dutch win over Portugal; now they are saying Portugal doesn't stand a chance against an English team that has yet to show itself in this cup after four games and had a horrendous showing against an Ecuadorian team that didn't even play to their fullest.

Time to prove everyone wrong, for a second straight week tomorrow.

Well the US media coverage of the World Cup is laughable. You can tell they dont know much about football. All in all though I am quite worried about Portugal today, but if England play to their potential (about time they did) then I am confident we will beat Portugal, but then again we probably wont play like we can do which means we will be screwed. Let's hope the US media get there prediction right, third time lucky...

COME ON ENGLAND!!

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Its too bad Portugal gets no love from anyone. Every station and analyst here in the US gives Portugal no chance against England, which I find laughable. What World Cup have they been watching? They predicted a Mexican win over Portugal; Dutch win over Portugal; now they are saying Portugal doesn't stand a chance against an English team that has yet to show itself in this cup after four games and had a horrendous showing against an Ecuadorian team that didn't even play to their fullest.

Time to prove everyone wrong, for a second straight week tomorrow.

I'm Portuguese today! (and maybe french)

:D

As much as I'd like England to win, I just don't think it's going to happen. Our team has been playing terribly recently and Portugal will be the first proper team we've come up against... even if we do win we stand no chance against some of the better teams (Germany, Brazil, France, etc). Our chances have been hugely overhyped by the press here... we've done much better than I was expecting but I think that's mainly because we've been against pretty poor teams so far.

England ARE going to win the world cup. we are going to beat Portugal today and we aregoing to win the simi final and thus putting us into the final which we are going to WIN as England is the best team. world cup winning teams allways start of slow, like when we won in 66 we drew our first game. starting fast dosent mean anything look at Argentina everyone said they would win it but once again since Maradona has gone they have not yet got past the quater- finals.

England ARE going to win the world cup. we are going to beat Portugal today and we aregoing to win the simi final and thus putting us into the final which we are going to WIN as England is the best team. world cup winning teams allways start of slow, like when we won in 66 we drew our first game. starting fast dosent mean anything look at Argentina everyone said they would win it but once again since Maradona has gone they have not yet got past the quater- finals.

Dream on :rofl:

Englang sucked @ 1st few games, i dont see that improving any time soon..

Don't take me at flames, but England society need stop this scary WE NEED WIN bias.. and look more to outside UK has live and Premier League is not only thing exists on the planet.

L3thal, the tv/news dont know a **** about football, they just go with the hype.

For ex.: Spain scored 4 against Ukraine in the first round, so the next day all the press was saying that Spain was favourite.

Portugal would win against England, thats for sure. You just need to know a bit of football to notice that.

But now without Deco, Costinha and maybe C. Ronaldo im a bit unsure. But still have chances.

Btw, today i can use my new PT tee for the first time....before the BR game of course. :D

Agree (Y) as a good Vasco da Gama supporter I much know what is hype and what is lose.. (for Flamengo). I just remeber L3thal and lot of others chicks here hyping Spain and saying they are destroying all... and ironic how France are getting bored.

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