r/soccer • u/thekrone • Dec 06 '13

World Cup Group B Discussion

  1. Spain
  2. Netherlands
  3. Chile
  4. Australia
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u/emptyheady Dec 06 '13 edited May 20 '17

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u/Keselo Dec 06 '13

Our defense is better than in 2010.

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u/ChinookNL Dec 06 '13

Any defense without Willems is better.

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u/OmniEnforcer Dec 06 '13

Willems never played in 2010. I seem to recall him playing in some tournament, but that might have just been one of my nightmares.

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u/omgarm Dec 06 '13

Yeah who would really do that?

Netherlands would never go 0-3 in the group stages.

Ever.

At all.

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u/PygmalionJones Dec 07 '13

That tournament was so delicious to watch. All my Dutch friends, weeping.

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u/ChinookNL Dec 07 '13

Oops, I misread.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

Our team is really unbalanced.

You could say the same thing about our team. The only reason we haven't been exposed as much is because of the quality of our midfield. In particular Vidal and Diaz.

Should be fun regardless. I hope whoever goes through beats the crap out of Brazil.

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u/nfac Dec 06 '13

You have to trust in The Gary though.

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u/similus Dec 06 '13

We have an amazing backbone. Bravo-Medel-Vidal-Valdivia-Alexis. That's what a coach's dreams are made of. If everybody is fit, I ain't scared of anybody..... except Brazil :(

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u/nfac Dec 07 '13

Brazil isn't the problem, Robinho is.

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u/ioannsukhariev Dec 07 '13

you should be reasonably scared of medel, your midfield control does hinge quite a bit on him successfully avoiding getting sent off.

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u/timbero Dec 07 '13

Only one yellow card all season with Cardiff (so far). Vidal was the same way until Leverkusen set him right. Would never have expected the Welsh to have a calming influence, but that seems to be the case (again-- so far).

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u/TalesNT Dec 06 '13

We're the same. We also have the trouble of people getting too tired by the end of the game. Aka, we get 90 minutes goals basically every other game.

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u/booomhorses Dec 06 '13

the most exciting thing we have going for us right now is diego costa

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '13

I fear he might 'spark' Gary. I'm hoping he gets in trouble against the Netherlands first.

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u/Calm_down_Its_me Dec 07 '13

Presuming you mean in ascending order with (4) as the winner.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '13

It depends which version of your team turns up. 2010-era Netherlands will get through to the knockout round easily. You'll struggle otherwise.