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Brazil v Croatia Matchthread

wiggo24

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Prediction: Brazil 3-1 Croatia.

Croatia have a very solid team, and their midfield is excellent, but I can't see past Brazil for this one. Think they'll win easily enough.
 

idontgetit

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Think Croatia will outplay them but lose, have a lot of class in the middle but I'm not sure it will be enough
 

mark87

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Great game to get it all kicked off!

Agree, you have the hosts and a very good team against in my view dark horses of the tournament, with some very good players in their side. Potential upset on the cards?
 

idontgetit

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Agree, you have the hosts and a very good team against in my view dark horses of the tournament, with some very good players in their side. Potential upset on the cards?

I want Croatia to do well but it would be nice not to have the capital torched after only the first game :rolleyes:
 

Chris12

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Be interesting to see Croatia's midfield... Kovacic Modric and Rakitic? Or is that too attack minded?
 

THFCSPURS19

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Jan 6, 2013
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I'm going to miss the first half FFS.

I guarantee I'll miss all the goals
 

Blake Griffin

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funny how croatia have three sublime ball-playing centre mids whilst brazil have a couple of cloggers and an off form oscar.
 

Spurger King

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I'd love to see Brazil win it, but I think the pressure on the players is going to overwhelm them.
 

L-man

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Arrived in Sao Paulo this morning, heading out to the fan-fest in a bit for this, but the buzz around the city and airport so far has been amazing. Croatians definitely seem to have travelled in numbers and were in great spirits from what I saw in the 3 hour ticket collection que :shifty:
 

LSUY

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ITV goal faces?! How about you focus on making your actual football coverage less crap and forget about rubbish like sharing people's goal faces?
 

riggi

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Jun 24, 2008
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Seen as ive been conned into nights tomorrow and Saturday night, im well up for this!
 

beats1

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This is a great first game. I think it must be one of the toughest first games tbh.

South Africa had Mexico iirc.
Germany had costa rica
France had Senegal
Brazil had Scotland
 

felmani26

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Jan 1, 2008
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A very intriguing match first up - huge pressure on the shoulders of the Brazilians, particularly Neymar and you'd imagine they will want to hit their stride right away and come out the blocks fast like they did in the Confederations.

Croatia though certainly aren't here to make the numbers up and if they can keep things tight early on and get the crowd a bit edgy then they have the brains and guile to hurt Brazil and in Modric they have a world class playmaker pulling the strings after a fine season.

Should be a great game and I'm hoping for the plenty of goals and more importantly, some bloody good football played!
 

yawa

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Aug 9, 2005
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Jesus. ITV really got some dire presenters for the starting of the World Cup.
 
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