Argentina or Holland?

If Argentina plays Portugal in the second round it would be the game of two teams with a good chance of winning the cup. That should make for a great game! As far as Italy vs Brasil that would be two teams that have underachieved in the first round but have tradition. Brasil is not going to win this world cup. their players dont move off the ball enough so there are not a lot of openings. To many chiefs not enough indians.

Posted from  United States

Ok Fabio, maybe a Trent did, I thought it was in reply to my post.

Who can guess which game will be most tantalizing, the surprise of which games are good is another reason why football is soooo goooood.

Posted from  Canada

I thenk that Portugal teem have bedder chanse agenst Nederlands becus Portugal beet Nederlands in Euro 2004 and Nederland team was bedder in Euro becus thay had Seedorf and Davids, now thay have nobuddy who can play like Seedorf in midfeeld and stop gols from been score. Rude Van Nistilroy is OK, butt Robben is amazeng. I thenk that Portugal team have bedder chance to stop teem wifh one all-star in Robben, than a teem Argentina who have all-star like Tevez, Messi and Aimar on sideline seats. I thenk Argentena have better sideline teem then teem on start field. Butt i thenk that Portugal can pley guud agenst both teems and beet dem boat.

Posted from  Canada

Deer O Grande Trinco, I theenk yu ar write aboat the yello card problim. I thenk that Scolari weel start sideline player ensted of start field players. I thenk Ronaldo shood be sideline and deco be sideline and nuno Valente be sideline, and everone wit yello card be sideline. Portugal start Tiago, Paulo Ferreira, Boa Morte, Simao, and praps Ricardo Costa so Pinto Da Costa be happee. But i theenk dhat Portugal kan beet Mexico with sideline team ane wey. Angola weel ween 4-0 vs Irao and move on in tournament face Argentena. The End.

Posted from  Canada

OGCDF, um num para rir

I still play Carvalho and Meira together. The 2 central defenders and goalie need to play as much together as possible to know how to work with eachother as best as possible. Neither have cards so they play regardless of the risk of injury.

FORCA PORTUGAL

yes, Italian

angola beat Iran 4-0! No way. Angola has yet to score a goal, what makes you think they will put up 4 on Iran.

Besides I think Mexico is a tougher opponent than you think. I doubt the subs can beat Mexico.

Lets be real agian guys! This is uncharted teritory for Portugal.

Posted from  United States

mexico isn’t all that great

they are over rated to say the least

portugal will be better off facing holland as the styles of play would do portugal better

Posted from  Canada

Are you crazy ??? Of course Portugal would like to play Holland. There is no way thet want to face this Argentine team. Unlike some ppl say, portugal can take on Argentine, if they play against each other, Argentine will tear up the portugese defense into peices. Once they score the first goal, the goals will roll on, they are moving machines.
I like hat guy who said Mexico will beat Argentine, I bet you still thinking about couple of instances of success in the past, dude wake up, this is a difeent team, and notice, I said team, when they are playing like a team, they will rip the mexican net like there is no tomorrow. If I were either team of you, I would not wanna face us. Thats why in our game vs Holland, we don’t care who wins, cuz we can beat either of mexico or portugal.

Posted from  United States

If Portugal plays Holland, I hope Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo stay away from each other…I can seee a potential yellow card coming out…

Especially since the comment that Ruud said to Ronaldo about going to “talk to his daddy.” That’s messed up, the kid’s dad died not too long ago.

Anyway, let’s hope they stay away…

Posted from  United States

O Grande Cagao De Faro:

That’s some funky English you got going there.

Posted from  Mexico

Scolari just announced that we will have NO yellow carded players play, “even if Mexico is winning 30-0″. So no Ronaldo, Deco, Pauleta, Costinha and Valente. Everybody say it with me…NUNO GOMES! and hopefully Boa Morte.

Posted from  United States

if tht is the case then id have, ferriera at left back maybe?? simao on the right, boa morte left, and maybe petit in centre midfield, figo in the deco role behind gomes who id start with. Looking at tht it just shows what great depth in the squad we have which also shows what great potential we have on the bench like say argentina and spain.

Posted from  United States

Definitely Boa Morte working the wings in the renaldo role, Figo playing in the Deco role, one half only please. Petit centre and Sabrosa on the other wing, hopefully his head is on straight and he is not running around the pitch like a wind up monkey.

Posted from  United States

EVERYBODY IN THIS BLOG, FIRST FOUCUS TRYNG TO BEAT MEXICO. EVENTHOUGH WE HAD A BAD GAME AGAINTS ANGOLA WE HAVE PROVEN THAT WE ARE AT THE LEVEL OF ANY EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN TEAM. LAST CONFEDERATION CUP
MEXICO 1
BRASIL 0
MEXICO 0
ARGENTINA 0
AND MANY OTHER ACOMPLISHMENTS. SO I WOULD SUGGEST TRY TO BET MEXICO FIRST, THEN THIN ABOUT OTHER TEAMS NEXT.TOMORROW’S RESULT

MEXICO 2
PORTUGAL 1

VIVA MEXICO CABRONES!

Posted from  United States

Just a quick question. How long will it take the Portugese fans to change into thier Brazilian jerseys, after Portugal is defeated by Argentina or Holland? Like Brazil gives a f–k about Portugal.

Posted from  Canada

To Forte, king gerardo and co

Portugal will surprise the cynics who underestimate them! Mexico is all talk and are very overated! Conclusion- Portugal will embarrass Mexico and will fight their way through to the quarter finals!

Posted from  United Kingdom

I’d rather prefer Holland over Argentina, just because we’ve faced them before on numerous occasions and we have a good record against them (won 5, drew 3, and lost 1). Argentina at the moment look very good, and I’d hate for Portugal to go home very early without getting into their real tempo. If we manage to beat Holland, this is how I predict our path will look like:

Round of 16:
Germany-Sweden
Argentina-Mexico
Italy-Australia
Switzerland-Ukraine
England-Ecuador
Portugal-Holland
Brazil-Czech
Spain-France

Quaterfinals:
Germany-Argentina
Italy-Ukraine
England-Portugal
Brazil-Spain

Semifinals:
Argentina-Italy
Portugal-Brazil

Thrid playoff:
Italy-Brazil

Final:
Argentina-Portugal

A final against Argentina would be a better stage to face them.

Posted from  Canada

KG, wow you’re a douchebag! You represent Mexican fans very poorly. I guess there is always a rotten apple in the bunch.

Portugal already made it to the 2nd round, and cannot control who they play, so it is understandable why there isn’t a great deal of focus on an internet blog, we all just wish for a good game and no injuries or reds.

Don’t worry our substitutes will play very hard to try to earn 1st team action. You may end up wishing Portugal had tried less by the end of the day tommorrow!
FORCA PORTUGAL FORCA ANGOLA

Posted from  Canada

Forte,

The fact that many Portuguese also support Brazil is not like wagon jumping as you allude to. Brazil and Portugal share a common language and history. Many Portuguese people have family in Brazil. I myself have 2 uncles there and am proud to give my support to Brazil, should Portugal not win.

After your team is eliminated do you stop watching the world cup? No, you pick another team and cheer for them.

Posted from  Canada

Answering the question about why the Group D will play before C. It’s because of the TV. Many games were chanced after that. Australia-Japan(Group F) played before the Group E on 1st round.

Look.. I’m a Mexico fan, always have been and always will be, but I’m a realist as well. So far, all of you who say Mexico is overrated, I must concede that yes, so far their play only proves that they are overrated. That is the realist in me speaking.

Meanwhile, the Mexican in me is saying, just because they have not played well so far doesnt mean they dont have the potential to do so. They havent played to that potential yet and El Tri has proven that they can play with any team.

The Realist in me is about to speak again: Portugal isn’t special. They have the same exact issue that Mexico has and that is that they havent shown their potential either. They havent exactly demonstrated anything that should make Mexico, or anybody else for that matter, shake with fear in their shoes. However, Potugal that potential to go far in the tournament.
Everyone can agree that England has it and so do the Italians. Both have shown less. Even Brazil hasnt proven to have that killer instinct (yet); I think Todd Utah said, “To many chiefs and not enough indians.”

So far, if you’re a gambler, your money should be on teams like Argentina, Germany, and Spain. These two teams are demonstrating what it takes to be champions. It’s realistic.

Everyone that is a Portugal fan talks about the Euro championship and every Mexican talks about the Confederations Cup. Who freakin cares in my opinion, both are in the past, and everyone neglects to mention that neither team won either particular event. This is the World Cup, kiddies, a whole new event where great teams flop and unknown teams come up.

Wouldnt it be ironic that both teams from Group D fall to the teams from Group C anyway? All this B.S. about who gets who or who wants to draw what team in the next round will be for nothing.

Posted from  United States

HD..calm down, you’ll bust an artery. Thinking about all the permuatations in the tables is half the fun of the tournament. What you say is true – anything can happen and both teams have ‘the potential’ to do great things, while we all know they could go out early too. We’re just thinking ahead as I’m sure Scolari and La Volpe are too.

Posted from  United States

mexico 2 portugal 1

have fun againts Argentina

Posted from  United States

I freakin hate Maradona!!!! What an ugly, cheating, bad-mannered SOB. I would love for Portugal to beat Argentina just so that our team would be the one’s responsible for this troll midget’s tears!!!!!!

Posted from  United States

WELL IM BRASILIAN AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IF MEXICO PLAYS WITH ARGENTINA THEY WILL PROBABLY LOSE BUT MEXICO DONT WORRY HERE IN BRASIL WE ARE ROOTING FOR YOU GUYS AND WE THINK YOU ARE BETTER THAN ARGENTINA SO ARGENTINA YOU COULD WIN BUT YOU WILL STILL SUCK LIKE ALWAYS WITH ALL NY LOVE TO ALL MEXICANS AND PORTUGUESE PEOPLE AND C.RONALDO TE AMO

Posted from  United States