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at the FIFA site (Courtesy of Yahoo) a schedule of the World cup soccer, which you can fill out. You may want to keep the group standings page handy. I uploaded both my predictions (you can click the image on the right) plus the empty schedule template for your viewing (and betting) pleasure.
But without further ado, the why and who: The big question in group A and B is: “who’s going to play Germany or Sweden”. I don’t think Equador will win Group A (Germany is playing Equador next week): the German soccer fans will expect Germany to win their group, which means that there won’t be a Germany vs. England game (which would have been a great game, I think). If my schedule is right, watch for the game Germany vs. Sweden. With some luck, Sweden might be able to kick Germany out of the Worldcup.
Group C and D: Argentina will win group C (it’s going to be a draw against The Netherlands). I expect Mexico to become the group leader. So, in group D, watch for the game Portugal vs. Mexico to see what I mean: that’s going to be a ‘softball game’, with lots of ball circulation and no goals. 1
Group E and F: Australia will make it to the next round and play against the winner of group E, which is naturally going to be Italy. Nothing exciting about that game. Interesting is going to be the other game which will be Brazil vs. Czech Republic. Here’s my World Cup soccer surprise: I expect the Czechs to do really good.2
And the last 4 countries in group G and H: France and Spain will win their groups and play against (respectively) Ukraine [for now I bet my horses on the Ukraine, yes] and Advocaat’s Korea.
1 It looks like Portugal shrug off their boriness (that’s a word I hope) and is in fact in the running of leading group D. It now looks that Portugal will face the Dutch in the next round.
2 The other surprise is that Ghana beat the Czech Republic.