Discuss the World Cup 2010: England vs. USA

[fluidistic]

I'd really love to see a 100-0 for South Africa-France. Since all is lost (say France qualifies, it will then get its head cut by Argentina), if I was Lloris I'd took the chance of being the best scorer in world cups of all time. Score 100 goals against his team... that would be awesome to watch, this would make history. Let's hope the game turn this way and that a goal keeper becomes the best scorer ever in world cups.

 

[Monique]

2-0 already for SA!

The prediction for tomorrow, before I forget:
Slovenia - England (0 - 2)
USA - Algeria (1 - 0)
Ghana - Germany (0 - 1)
Australia - Serbia (0 - 2)

 

[Borg]

South Africa-France (3 - 0)

Not disputing this, but wow.

2-0 already for SA!

Da da da dum
Da da da dum...

 

[Borg]

France scored. Arrrgh!

 

[Dadface]

Slovenia-England(0,2)
USA-Algeria(2,1)
Ghana-Germany(3,1)
Australia-Serbia(1,1)
Big day tomorrow.

 

[zomgwtf]

Ghana beating Germany 3-1? lol did you mix up the teams

 

[Dadface]

Ghana beating Germany 3-1? lol did you mix up the teams

Whoops I did mix up the teams.
Some unexpected things have happened in this world cup so I'll keep it as it is.

 

[Identity]

Oh I do hope Ghana beat Germany... it's not that I dislike the German team, but I like the Australian team more

Chance of that happening is probably 0.01% lol

 

[cristo]

23rd June:

USA - Algeria (2-0)
Slovenia - England (1-2)
Australia - Serbia (0-2)
Ghana - Germany (1-2)

 

[Borg]

June 23rd:

USA - Algeria (4 - 0)
Slovenia - England (0 - 3)
Australia - Serbia (1 - 2)
Ghana - Germany (0 - 2)

 

[BobG]

USA - Algeria (2-0)
Slovenia - England (1-1)
Australia - Serbia (0-1)
Ghana - Germany (0-3)

 

[zomgwtf]

ugh think I'm too late to submit :(

Oh welll
USA - Algeria (2-0)
Slovenia - England (1-2)
Australia - Serbia (1-1)
Ghana - Germany (0-0)

GO BLACKSTARSSSS. Man I really hope they can pull off a tie. All they need to do is concentrate on defense and prevent Germany from scoring. If Serbia ties Australia, which I think is likely, and Ghana loses by 1 point only then Ghana still goes on because Ghana took more points from Serbia.. . Hopefully it comes down to that so I can rub it in all my friends faces haha.

 

[D H]

Oh shoot! Missed the deadline!

Since this doesn't count ...

USA - Algeria (2-0)
Slovenia - England (2-1)
Australia - Serbia (1-0)
Ghana - Germany (0-1)

 

[Monique]

Way to go USA! Keep that score!

 

[Monique]

Congrats! And that means that I've accumulated a huge amount of points in my work's football pool

 

[estro]

Congrats to the US team, well deserved place in the 1/8 finals.

 

[Evo]

This is part of a schedule that Kurdt made for the pub.

 

[D H]

This is part of a schedule that Kurdt made for the pub.

I'm looking at that schedule as comprising top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right sets of teams that feed into the two semifinal games. Assuming Germany and Serbia win this afternoon, the US will have landed in what will arguably be the softest of those quadrants. Match 49 is Uruguay v South Korea, and those predicted results will make match 50 be USA v Serbia. We have a somewhat reasonable chance to advance to the semifinals! Thinking we could go further than that is wishful thinking because the bottom left quadrant looks to be nasty. I foresee Netherlands v Italy in match 53 and Brazil v Spain in match 54.

 

[Monique]

Just check the calendar: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/calendar.html

 

[Gokul43201]

Can someone explain what puts the USA ahead of England in the standings? They have the same number of points, drew against each other and have the same goal differential (+1). So what measure is used to break the tie and decide that the US plays 2D and England plays 1D?

 

[Monique]

USA scored 4 goals in total, England only 2. That actually messed up my prediction, I had England advancing as number 1 and USA as number 2.. oh well.

 

[Gokul43201]

USA scored 4 goals in total, England only 2. That actually messed up my prediction, I had England advancing as number 1 and USA as number 2.. oh well.

So that's what they use to break the tie - goals for? That seems to suggest that offense is more important than defense. Oh well. I guess any randomly selected metric is a fair metric so long as all the teams know about it in advance.

 

[Monique]

After the number of points accumulated, the goal differential is the first tiebreaker, the total number of goals scored is the next tiebreaker. If that doesn't give an answer, they look at the result between the teams. If that doesn't give an answer they flip a coin

 

[cristo]

Assuming Germany and Serbia win this afternoon, the US will have landed in what will arguably be the softest of those quadrants.

Tell me about it: that was meant to be our draw. Still, England looked a bit better today and have some chance of advancing at least beyond the Germany game.

 

[Monique]

Thursday:

Slovakia - Italy (0 - 1)
Paraguay - New Zealand (2 - 0)
Denmark - Japan (1 - 0)
Cameroon - Netherlands (0 - 1)

 

[Dadface]

Slovakia-Italy(0,1)
Paraguay-New Zealand(0,1)
Denmark,Japan(1,1)
Cameroon-Netherlands(1,2)

 

[zomgwtf]

GOOD JOB BLACKSTARS. .

Anyways.

For tomorrow:
Slovakia - Italy (0-1)
Paraguay - New Zealand (1-1)
Denmark - Japan (0-1)
Cameroon - Netherlands (1-2)

 

[cristo]

Paraguay - New Zealand (2 - 0)
Slovakia - Italy (0 - 1)
Cameroon - Netherlands (0 - 2)
Denmark - Japan (1 - 1)

 

[BobG]

Slovakia - Italy (0 - 1)
Paraguay - New Zealand (2 - 0)
Denmark - Japan (0 - 1)
Cameroon - Netherlands (0 - 3)

 

[BobG]

Tell me about it: that was meant to be our draw. Still, England looked a bit better today and have some chance of advancing at least beyond the Germany game.

Argentina, Mexico, Germany, and England

That's the bracket of death.

Actually, the USA might have a tough time against Uruguay. But, surely a South American team has to lose in this tournament eventually. (Won't be tomorrow, though.)