Brazil still has a stacked midfield and defensive line imho, they're just severely shorthanded upfront. Barring Neymar, their second best striker plays in Chinese league, which says a lot![]()

Wow, what a brutal semifinal.
Joke of a tournament.![]()
Brazil still has a stacked midfield and defensive line imho, they're just severely shorthanded upfront. Barring Neymar, their second best striker plays in Chinese league, which says a lot![]()
At least teams like Greece never won the damn thing.
I called the entire bracket weeks ago
Only one I got wrong is Paraguay over Brazil but other then that I was spot on. Even Malvinas winning on penaldos
LOLmebol
brutal
"Argentina has no chance"
5 of the top 10 teams in the planet
asterisk le for Misty
Mapucheland being your biggest test of the tournament
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This really is an embarrassment of a tournament
Copa Oro will provide us with some good football for once tbh![]()
Didn't the last Euros featured a 4-0 final between two teams that can't even make it past the group stage of the WC?![]()
A group of guys in my neighbourhood are also putting up this cup, which is also very compe ive and promises great football. If you want I can tape it and upload it to youtube for you to have fun watching them play.
The WC was in Brazil man, too many mosquitoes and giant frogs. There's no way you can get past the group stage when you have to deal with that .
its debatable whether this is the best chilean generation ever, a lot of people here dispute that (the zamorano salas teams had a world class front line and solid defense, and the 60s and late 80s had some pretty good teams too, the problem for chile is ALWAYS depth). And they are definitely not in their best form, edu vargas wasnt even supposed to play the copa and came back from injury just to play it because of the lack of forwards, the other forwards they had got too old (suazo and paredes), likewise for defenders like ponce and marcos gonzalez who at least surpassed 1.80, as much as i like medel there is a reason that he plays as a midfielder for all his club teams. vidal also never really recovered his best form after the knee injury before the 2014 WC, he's still one of chile's best players but not quite the same as before. And as always, the chileans have discipline and choking issues, the vidal crash, jara finger, and struggles vs peru continue to show that.
Ive been living in Chile for 11 years now, my wife is chilean and so are my kids (even though the eldest hopped on the argentina bandwagon last WC, the little traitor, I blame my dad who talks mad about the chilean team jajaja). I've long had a "Ill root for chile vs argentina" policy, because the poor bas s have never won anything, and they rarely play argentina for anything meaningful anyways. I want chile to win, but I wouldnt even bet a cent on them. They've beaten argentina once in 38 official matches (+67 goal difference for argentina), and even though some of the players saturday played in that game (bravo, medel, beausejour), that was seven years ago. and its well known that argentina team was trying to get its coach fired. not to mention that chile has no depth, compared to argentina that has one of the deepest rosters on earth (outside of the defense at least). the last time chile lost in the estadio nacional was to... argentina, who manhandled them easily, chile was able to mask the domination by getting a broken goal in the 46th minute of the 2nd half (and that was with jara, who also pulled his finger stunt on higuain in that game).
At their top form, i agree that this chilean team could give argentina a game, not enough to be favorites but at least 50-50. But they are not in their top form, plus they've lost their biggest defender to suspension, and this generation has been owned by argentina since the 2007 u20 world cup, kind of like every other generation before it. How on earth should they be favorites? argentina were favorites when they choked in 2004 and 2007 to much better brasil teams than this chile. They are even bigger favorites this time.
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