Rousseau

Another few good scores, bunching up the pack a bit more.

 

Rousseau, Bill, compo, Whosthedado, lenny, Craig, Franc, Gonzo, CD, Gaffer, buster., dB, Barebear, r_s, coop, FS and Sindarin gained 1 point for the Correct Result.

 

Onevision, Yorkie, Malangsob, BD and TB gained 3 points for the Correct Score.

 

Craig, Franc, Gaffer and buster. gained 1 extra point from their joker card.

 

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5 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

I actually got a point!!!

I'd like to thank God, my stylist, all my fans and my granny.

I think every player and their 'dug' got points for this one -- even Gonzo got a point...

 

Rousseau, onevision, Bill, Whosthedado, lenny, Franc...

 

GONZO! (WTF?!),

 

...CD, Gaffer, dB, Barebear, Johnnyk, Coop, Malang, TB and FS gained 1 point for the Correct Result.

 

compo, Craig, Yorkie, buster., r_s, UKCrazyhorse, BEARGER, BD and Sindarin gained 3 points for the Correct Score.

 

Rousseau, lenny, and dB gained an extra point from their joker.

 

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I think we all agree it should have been 4-0, so we'll take that as the official GPL score, yes?  

Come on tae f*ck Belgium!

 

One. More. Goal.

4 minutes ago, TheUKCrazyhorse said:

3rd? How the eff did I manage that? It'll never last...

You had a run of 3 Correct Scores out of 4 matches, and you had a joker applied to one of them. 

 

Incredible run.

 

 

And when you realise you have the same predictions as Gonzo for those matches...

 

Belgium-Panama up next!

 

My joker comes into play for this one...

 

Quite a few scores from the Sweden win against S. Korea. 

 

Rousseau, compo, Whosthedado, lenny3k, Franc Ergs, Yorkie, Gaffer, dB, UKCrazyhorse, coop, BEARGER, TB and Sindarin gained 1 point for the Correct Result.

 

buster. and Barebear gained 3 points for the Correct Score.

 

No Jokers applied.

 

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34 minutes ago, buster. said:

Any particular reason ?

 

I remember finding Seedorf a very good pundit and Billic gave us a very honest and funny line that I saw on twitter.

 

 

For me, the foreign pundits are the only ones who know what they are talking about. 

I was impressed by the Swiss! 

 

After a bad start they got themselves sorted and never really looked troubled. 

Joker card? @Gonzo79 

Well, from those latter two games, only one player gained points. Incredibly, Franc Ergs gained 3 points for the Correct Score in the Brazil-Switzerland game.

 

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Surely we paid Melbourne to take him?

Russia 2 - 1 Egypt 

 

Portugal 2 - 0 Morocco 

Uruguay 3 - 0 Saudi Arabia 

Iran 0 - 3 Spain 

 

Denmark 1 - 1 Australia 

France 2 - 1 Peru

Argentina 2 - 2 Croatia 

 

Brazil 3 - 0 Costa Rica Joker

Nigeria 0 - 1 Iceland

Serbia 1 - 2 Switzerland

 

Belgium 3 - 0 Tunisia 

South Korea 0 - 3 Mexico

Germany 2 - 0 Sweden

 

England 2 - 0 Panama

Japan 0 - 1 Senegal

Poland 1 - 2 Colombia

Sorry about the timing, but Russia play their 2nd round match on the same day Group H plays their first!

 

Anyway, here are the fixtures for the second round of matches:

 

Russia vs Egypt 

 

Portugal vs Morocco 

Uruguay vs Saudi Arabia 

Iran vs Spain 

 

Denmark vs Australia 

France vs Peru

Argentina vs Croatia 

 

Brazil vs Costa Rica

Nigeria vs Iceland

Serbia vs Switzerland

 

Belgium vs Tunisia 

South Korea vs Mexico

Germany v Sweden

 

England vs Panama

Japan vs Senegal

Poland vs Colombia

 

You have until 19:00 on Tuesday 19th June to get these predictions in!

 

Remember to apply your Joker.

 

@Malangsob @Franc Ergs @craig @TheUKCrazyhorse @Whosthedado @lenny3k @Crimson Dynamo @johnnyk @Gaffer @forlanssister @onevision @buster. @Sindarin @Bill @der Berliner @BEARGER @Bluedell @compo @Barebear @Tannochsidebear @cooponthewing @Yorkie Bear @ranger_syntax @Gonzo79

1 minute ago, buster. said:

 

The Germans were relatively poor IMO.

 

They had a lot of the ball but didn't really look like penetrating at any stage. 

 

Mexico wanted it more and gt what they deserved.

 

 

They weren't great, but I think they were made to look poor by a Mexico side that (a) wanted it more, as you said, and (b) were tactically superior.

 

Germany did what they always do -- at least recently -- which works: possession-football, high-fullbacks, fluid front 3/4 looking to run in-behind. 

 

Mexico nullified them tactically: outnumbered them by switching between a back-3 and back-4. Kroos, Ozil and Muller were marked out the game, and their runners in-behind were covered with their back-3.

 

They were also really brave in the counter, leaving 2/3 players up the field -- especially for corners!

 

   

Easiest write yet!

 

No one got anything.

 

As you were LG x  

 

 

 

1 hour ago, BEARGER said:

Why is Wallace not traveling? Is it due to his appeal?

I read somewhere that it was a fitness issue? Not sure, though.

Like I wrote elsewhere, Mexico are a very impressive side, tactically.

 

Their fluidity is brilliant to see, switching from 4-3-3 to 3-4-3, to 3-3-1-3.  

 

They got it spot-on today. 

 

Germany weren't bad, albeit they were slow, but Mexico had them sussed tactically; they just couldn't play. 

Germany-Mexico up next!

 

Some good scores from this game.

 

Rousseau, onevision, Bill, CD, dB, Barebear, r_s, BEARGER, BD, FS and Sindarin gained 1 point for the Correct Result.

 

Whosthedado, Franc Ergs, buster., Johnnyk and Malangsob gained 3 points for the Correct Score.

 

No one had a joker applied to this game.

 

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1 hour ago, craig said:

Natural order restored

And... it's gone. 

What a goal from Kolarov!

 

0-1 Serbia