No kidding. Also, how is it fair that the US gets put in the same group as Germany, Ghana, AND Portugal? Apparently, we're 150-1 long-shots to win the World Cup!
Group G is probably the most competitive group in the whole tournament. All 4 are good teams: 3 very good (though the US always gets unfairly written off), and even Ghana is no slouch.
The US is extremely overrated, in my opinion. (I'm American, BTW). We won't get past die Mannschaft unless the Miracle on Ice from 1980 comes to Brazil. (2-0 DEU) Portugal is right up there with Germany. I think that we can hang with them but we won't beat them. (2-2 tie) And I think that Ghana will be a very competitive game, but we will beat them. (1-0 USA)
How is the US overrated? Everyone always predicts they will lose, and then they frequently upset like they did vs England last time. In '09 the beat Spain to finish 2nd overall in the Confederations Cup. They played and beat Portugal before in '02. Sure, their best World Cup finish was 80 years ago, but they finished 12th in South Africa which isn't too shabby, and right around where they are currently ranked worldwide. Most Americans simply don't care, and nobody else gives them any credit.
nah man you should have seen the games im iranian and i really enjoyed the first 90 minutes with argentina but after that messi randomly scroed a goal and nigeria against argentina was an amazing game with surprising results 3 2 for argentina
in fact , Argentina will have their 1st difficult game in the quarter finals. they will finish 1st in their group, they will face either France or Switzerland and then they will have to win Portugal probably, or even Ghana
@mrpappas... now I'm waiting for Argentina to fall on their faces, perhaps in the style of France in 2002--defending champions who failed to score a single goal...
I think if anyone can make a surprise run to the QF, it'll be Switzerland. I'm sure Swiss will make it out of the group, battling for 1st with France (I have Swiss on goal differential), and then they'd play one of Bosnia, Iran, or Nigeria in the R16. Swiss are 8th ranked for a reason, but they're still probably underrated. Just because of a good draw, I could see them finishing ahead of Brazil, Colombia, and France. Brazil will have tough R16 match against either Spain or the Netherlands. France be up against Argentina, and Colombia against Italy, England, or Uruguay (I have Italy).
Group C and Group H are better than the other groups. Why? Because it's not so easy to predict 2 teams to go to knockout phase while the contenders are Cote d'Ivoire, Colombia, Japan, and Greece. Or a group contains Belgium, Algeria, Russia, and South Korea. Almost all bets to all matches in those 2 groups will be 50:50 or 55:45, no 60:40.
From an Englishman's point of view the United States team may not have the best players in the tournament but I would absolutely love our team to play with the same spirit and fight. Great to see so many stars and stripes at every game too, fan base is clearly growing.
Group G
Germany 3-0-0-9pts +6GD
Portugal 1-1-1-4pts +1GD
USA 1-1-1-4pts -1GD
Ghana 0-0-3-0pts -6GD
we've got a genius over here