10. Colombia – Greece
3-0: And the third South American team managed to win, scoring 3, exactly as Brazil and Chile Greece
Defence:
0,5 – 0,5
Midfield:
1,5 – 0,5
Attack: 1,5
– 0,5
Interplay:
1,5 – 0,5
TOTAL: 5 –
2
10.
Rodriguez (COL
9. Gutierez
(
11. Cuadrado
(COL
8. Kone (GRE)
– 0,5
9. Uruguay – Costa Rica
than the group nickname assumes.Uruguay
simply underestimated their opponents, and Costa Rica
than the group nickname assumes.
Defence:
0,5 – 1
Midfield: 1
– 1
Attack: 0,5
– 1
Interplay:
1 – 1
TOTAL: 3 –
4
9. Campbell
(CRC) – 1,5
7. Bolanos
(CRC) – 1
6. Duarte
22. Caceres
8. Defence: 1 – 1,5
Midfield:
1,5 – 1,5
Attack: 1,5
– 1,5
Intrerplay:
1,5 -1,5
TOTAL: 5,5
– 6
6. Candreva
(ITA) - 1,5
9.
Sturridge (ENG) - 1
9.
Balotelli (ITA) - 1
21. Pirlo
(ITA) – 1
19. Sterling
8.
Marchisio (ITA) - 0,5
12. Sirigu
(ITA) - 0,5
11. Welbeck
(ENG) – 0,5
7. Ivory Coast Ivory Coast Japan
Defence:
0,5 – 0,5
Midfield: 1
– 0,5
Attack: 05,
- 0,5
Interplay:
1 – 0,5
TOTAL: 3 -2
4. Honda
(JAP) - 1
17. Aurrier
(CIV) - 0,5
11. Drogba
(CIV) - 0,5
6. The Swiss started their previous World Cup with a fine win over Spain. Spain went on to win the title afterwards, but Swiss couldn’t capitalise on it and were left away of tournament after the group stage. Ottmar Hitzfield’s team is a favourrite to advance from the group this year. It is a quite strong side with many young Swiss players starting to make impact in European top clubs. Other than Eren Derdiyok, Hitzfield didn’t drop any of his prominent players. Benaglio, Lichsteiner, Senderos will be ensuring clean sheets for the team, while creative players of midfield as Shaqiri of Bayern and the Napoli trio of Inler-Behrami-Dzemaili will be a strong resistance for all the opponents. Ricardo Rodriguez of Wolfsburg and Josip Drmic of Bayer Leverkusen, both 21, are ready for a breakthrough in this tournament.
5.Ecuador will not be a big favourite for a fascinating World Cup this year. But Reinaldo Ruedas team is travelling to Brazil to destroy some plans of favourites. After a tragedy, when an Ecuadorian star striker Christian Chucho Benitez died of a heart attack at the age of 27, the team has got a big shock to recover. Ecuadorians, having only five players representing European leagues, have got Manchester United’s Antonio Valencia as trier captain. Felipe Caicedo and Christian Noboa are the other more or less famous players of the squad. Youngsters Renato Ibarra from the Dutch league and Carlos Gruezo of Stuttgart will do everything to make a mark in their first ever major tournament.
4.There are a lot of expectations from Didier Deschamps’s French team, and, as always, it can go either way – a total fiasco or all the way to the final. The captain of the legendary teram of France in 1998 has decided not to take Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy, Andre-Pierre Gignac, Adil Rami and many others, while Franck Ribery was one of the biggest injury blows of the whole tournament. But this doesn’t make France less capable of going further in the World Cup. There is a massive generation of flourishing talents, who are surely going to make a name next to Evra, Cabaye and Benzema. The biggest of all are the expectations from the Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, Porto’s Ellaquim Mangala and Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane. Pogba is already one of the most expensive players in France, next after Franck Ribery.
3. Honduras is not considered to be one of the potential openings of the tournament. They do, however, have some local stars, which are definitely going to fight for the necessary results on the Brazilian pitches. The strongest of all is the reputation of the 37-year-old captain Noel Valladares, who is the second-most capped player in Honduras's history. After David Suazo's retirement from international football, Jerry Bengtson and Carlo Costly took the role of a goalscorer. Both of the players are among the top 10 goalscorers of the national team history. Costly is even pretty close to appear in the second position of this ranking. The 21-year-old Andy Najar, who is one of the few representatives of the European club football in the Honduras national team, might be the most promising youngster of the Honduras team. Celtic’s Emilio Izaguirre is meant to be the most indispensable figure in defensive actions against France and Switzerland.
2. The South Americans are especially strong this year. And Alejandro Sabella’s Argentina has probably never been closer to the title in the past 20 years. Lionel Messi is expected to lead his team all the way to the final and anything less will be unacceptable in Argentina. Traditionally there are so many talented Argentine players all over Europe, that one wants to see all of them in the action. But there are only 23 places in a bid. With Ezequiel Garay and Pablo Zabaleta having just finished some fantastic seasons for respectively Banfica and Manchester City, the defence has got all the chances to be reliable this time. The opposite part of their formation has never been a problem for Argentina. Even Juventus’s topscorer didn’t manage to get a place among those, as Messi, Lavezzi, Aguerro and Higuain have cemented their place after some great performances for their clubs. Sabella is so serious about the title to be won here and now that he hasn’t found any place for youngsters. The youngest player of the squad is 24 years old. The time for Tottenham’s Eric Lamela and Inter’s Mauro Icardi is still to come. Now they need the World Cup at home in Argentina.
1.The only newcomers of the 20th World Cup are the Europeans from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who have been a candidate for major tournament tickets for a while now. Safet Susic, a former star of the Yugoslavia team, has gathered a bunch of young promising players, most of them making the headlines in top European leagues from time to time. Vedad Ibisevic and Edin Dzeko are two of the brightest of them. But look at Asmir Bergovic, Senad Lulic and Miralem Pjanic. Isn’t this a side any coach would dream of? The nation is so young, that serveral players of the current side keep on increasing the highest all-time achievement match after match. Particularly, it is Zvjezdan Misimovic, who is the most capped Bosnian with his 82 matches, and Dzeko holds the first place of the most scoring players for the Balkan team, having already netted the ball 35 times. The scouts of the biggest clubs are surely going to be present at Bosnia and Herzegovina’s matches, closely watching the talented players, with the 20-year-old Schalke defender Sead Kolasinac being the youngest of them.
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5.Ecuador will not be a big favourite for a fascinating World Cup this year. But Reinaldo Ruedas team is travelling to Brazil to destroy some plans of favourites. After a tragedy, when an Ecuadorian star striker Christian Chucho Benitez died of a heart attack at the age of 27, the team has got a big shock to recover. Ecuadorians, having only five players representing European leagues, have got Manchester United’s Antonio Valencia as trier captain. Felipe Caicedo and Christian Noboa are the other more or less famous players of the squad. Youngsters Renato Ibarra from the Dutch league and Carlos Gruezo of Stuttgart will do everything to make a mark in their first ever major tournament.
4.There are a lot of expectations from Didier Deschamps’s French team, and, as always, it can go either way – a total fiasco or all the way to the final. The captain of the legendary teram of France in 1998 has decided not to take Samir Nasri, Gael Clichy, Andre-Pierre Gignac, Adil Rami and many others, while Franck Ribery was one of the biggest injury blows of the whole tournament. But this doesn’t make France less capable of going further in the World Cup. There is a massive generation of flourishing talents, who are surely going to make a name next to Evra, Cabaye and Benzema. The biggest of all are the expectations from the Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba, Porto’s Ellaquim Mangala and Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane. Pogba is already one of the most expensive players in France, next after Franck Ribery.
3. Honduras is not considered to be one of the potential openings of the tournament. They do, however, have some local stars, which are definitely going to fight for the necessary results on the Brazilian pitches. The strongest of all is the reputation of the 37-year-old captain Noel Valladares, who is the second-most capped player in Honduras's history. After David Suazo's retirement from international football, Jerry Bengtson and Carlo Costly took the role of a goalscorer. Both of the players are among the top 10 goalscorers of the national team history. Costly is even pretty close to appear in the second position of this ranking. The 21-year-old Andy Najar, who is one of the few representatives of the European club football in the Honduras national team, might be the most promising youngster of the Honduras team. Celtic’s Emilio Izaguirre is meant to be the most indispensable figure in defensive actions against France and Switzerland.
2. The South Americans are especially strong this year. And Alejandro Sabella’s Argentina has probably never been closer to the title in the past 20 years. Lionel Messi is expected to lead his team all the way to the final and anything less will be unacceptable in Argentina. Traditionally there are so many talented Argentine players all over Europe, that one wants to see all of them in the action. But there are only 23 places in a bid. With Ezequiel Garay and Pablo Zabaleta having just finished some fantastic seasons for respectively Banfica and Manchester City, the defence has got all the chances to be reliable this time. The opposite part of their formation has never been a problem for Argentina. Even Juventus’s topscorer didn’t manage to get a place among those, as Messi, Lavezzi, Aguerro and Higuain have cemented their place after some great performances for their clubs. Sabella is so serious about the title to be won here and now that he hasn’t found any place for youngsters. The youngest player of the squad is 24 years old. The time for Tottenham’s Eric Lamela and Inter’s Mauro Icardi is still to come. Now they need the World Cup at home in Argentina. 1.The only newcomers of the 20th World Cup are the Europeans from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who have been a candidate for major tournament tickets for a while now. Safet Susic, a former star of the Yugoslavia team, has gathered a bunch of young promising players, most of them making the headlines in top European leagues from time to time. Vedad Ibisevic and Edin Dzeko are two of the brightest of them. But look at Asmir Bergovic, Senad Lulic and Miralem Pjanic. Isn’t this a side any coach would dream of? The nation is so young, that serveral players of the current side keep on increasing the highest all-time achievement match after match. Particularly, it is Zvjezdan Misimovic, who is the most capped Bosnian with his 82 matches, and Dzeko holds the first place of the most scoring players for the Balkan team, having already netted the ball 35 times. The scouts of the biggest clubs are surely going to be present at Bosnia and Herzegovina’s matches, closely watching the talented players, with the 20-year-old Schalke defender Sead Kolasinac being the youngest of them.
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