GWT: World Cup - Group H (Portugal and South Korea Advance)

[Live in the Now]

I think Uruguay are just too old by now, Valverde is in great form, but I just don't see them having much success despite that. One of the teams most likely to disappoint, imo.

I'm not sure what their lineup will be but I assume the old guys they'll use as starters are Muslera, Godin, Suarez. But there are also five subs. If some old guy is having a bad match they can just pull him out. I expect Suarez would only play 45-55 minutes in any case.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

1. Uruguay
2. Portugal
3. Ghana
4. South Korea

Uruguay will quietly go about their business and finish first with Portugal being a mess. Top two won’t be challenged by the other two.

 

[Evilo]

Portugal has a massive squad. They have quality players at every single position.
Their only three drawbacks?
1/ Lack of depth compared to other contenders but they have zero injury.
2/ Poor coach but the team has enough quality to overcome this.
3/ Ronaldo will start (partly because of #2, but let's be honest few coaches would have the balls to bench him on the portugese NT) and as usual, the players will play for him to score. Bernardo already said this WC was for Ronaldo. This IMO is their main weakness. And injury or a ballsy coach would make them instant favourites IMO.

What's scary about them also is that their quality players are fairly young and will be dangerous for years. Also they have tons of excellent young coaches so the next one could be quality as well. This is IMO the most dangerous contender for titles after France in the next 8 years.

 

[cgf]

I don't trust any of these teams though I can see any of them putting in a good performance.

 

[Karterthadon]

The drinking games that can be had with this lineup.

 

[Apex Predator]

Portugal has a massive squad. They have quality players at every single position.
Their only three drawbacks?
1/ Lack of depth compared to other contenders but they have zero injury.
2/ Poor coach but the team has enough quality to overcome this.
3/ Ronaldo will start (partly because of #2, but let's be honest few coaches would have the balls to bench him on the portugese NT) and as usual, the players will play for him to score. Bernardo already said this WC was for Ronaldo. This IMO is their main weakness. And injury or a ballsy coach would make them instant favourites IMO.

What's scary about them also is that their quality players are fairly young and will be dangerous for years. Also they have tons of excellent young coaches so the next one could be quality as well. This is IMO the most dangerous contender for titles after France in the next 8 years.

Diogo Jota is hurt.

 

[Savant]

Diogo Jota is hurt.

Portugal would be favorite if Diogo was healthy and they dropped Ronnie. Just saying

 

[GabeTravels]

I picked Uruguay to top the group and South Korea in second.

Excited to see Portugal play tonight though!

 

[Evilo]

Diogo Jota is hurt.

Which is relatively mild compared to France's 6 starters for instance.

 

[maclean]

Should be an interesting game.

Full back line of Kims

 

[N o o d l e s]

I have a big soft sport for Portugal being from Massachusetts but I have them second then losing to Brazil

 

[maclean]

for Portugal being from Massachusetts

Like there's lots of Portuguese in Massachusetts? Tbh I feel like there's kind of lots of Portuguese everywhere

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

South Korea could be a nightmare for radio commentators "And Kim passes to Kim, Kim finds Kim on a run on the outside, Kim is really going for it, Kim is in the box open, but will Kim see Kim? Kim is now raising his arm and Kim finally sees Kim, sending a long ball his way. And free kick! Kim was toppled. Was it inside the box? The referee says no. Kim, Kim and Kim are making their disagreement known to the official. Kim has to be careful here, he's already on a yellow."

 

[N o o d l e s]

Like there's lots of Portuguese in Massachusetts? Tbh I feel like there's kind of lots of Portuguese everywhere

Not to mention Cape Verde who we have the highest population of who also I find in my experience pull for Portugal

 

[Panteras]

Korea playing very good

 

[maclean]

ONE MINUTE???

 

[Panteras]

ONE MINUTE???

This ref didn’t get the memo

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Godin, Caceres and Suarez...three guys starting this game for Uruguay who played in South Africa 12 years ago. The Uruguayan team feels like a high end version of Costa Rica.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Godin, Caceres and Suarez...three guys starting this game for Uruguay who played in South Africa 12 years ago. The Uruguayan team feels like a high end version of Costa Rica.

Godin only playing because Aruajo is made out of glass

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

There's many reasons to laugh at juve these days... Bentancur is one of them. what a baller

 

[Very Stable Genius]

2026 is going to be dreadful with the expanded tournament. Half of these teams can barely string together 2 passes together.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

There's many reasons to laugh at juve these days... Bentancur is one of them. what a baller

Yeah, he's been Spurs best player these past two months.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

This game now has 0-0 written all over it.

 

[TMLeafer]

The last few minutes have been great!

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

You would have thought that in this group constellation a win would be massive in this match. But of course the reason a win would be massive is also the reason a loss would be massive. In an interesting illustration of human psychology both teams' fear of potentially being put into a deep, deep hole already at the start outweighed the aspiration of gaining a major advantage.