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    MustWinPlease
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    Are italy the most underrated world cup team?

    great odds on them to make the quarters, semi and final
    especially quarters considering they will play either colombia, japan, greece or ivory cost

    brb one of the best goal keepers in the world (Buffon)
    brb elite centreback partnership (barzalgi/chiellini)
    brb elite core group of senior veteran midfielders, pirlo, de rossi, thiago motta, montolivo, marchisio
    brb rossi finally uninjured (key player in the 4-3-(1)-2 formation
    brb balotelli flourishes on international level
    brb

    loading up on them

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    Partly due to hard group

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    I don't think England will qualify and I really like Italy to reach the quarters but not semi.

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    Why does he keep saying "be right back"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughany View Post
    Why does he keep saying "be right back"?
    where u reading that?

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    brb
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    why was Dani Osvaldo left off the world cup roster?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    why was Dani Osvaldo left off the world cup roster?
    because he hasnt done anything all season apart from beat up a team-mate and score a couple goals for Juve! likes of Immobile and Cerci have done a lot more, and Rossi and Balo were always going to be ahead of him. Cant take 10 strikers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    why was Dani Osvaldo left off the world cup roster?
    More importantly, why was Giaccherini left off the team?

    If we meet Spain we're gonna have to bust out the 3-5-2 formation, and Giaccherini is great in the left midfielder role, with Candreva on the other side.

    We have a really good chance of beating the winner/runner up of group C (Colombia/Greece/Japan/Ivory Coast)

    After that we will play either Spain, Holland or Chile. Hopefully Spain will finish second and get knocked out by Brazil. We can beat both of those (although Sanchez and Vidal will cause a problem if we play Chile)

    Worst case scenario after that is France, Argentina or Germany. If it's Germany, we will reach the finals. Argentina have great attack but their defence is garbage and they have a shit goalie. If Balo/Rossi partnership is working well we can win that.

    France were terrible last World Cup like us, but they're getting better. Lots of pace on the team and Pogba is a beast. Luckily Giroud is shit.

    If we get into the finals, it depends who we get. Hopefully by then, most of Spain/Brazil/Argentina/France/Germany will be out and we get the overrated Belgium team.

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    Most underrated to win the WC,no I don't believe so. If they have the talent to win a WC they are not going to be overlooked,I don't remember the last time a team came out of knowhere in a WC Tournament.

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