Portugal
Nigeria
England
Serbia
Northern Ireland
Poland
Group C features the surprise teams from last tournament, with Portugal and Poland. If you remember correctly, Group C from last year had top contenders in Scotland and Germany. Both were beaten out by, you guessed it, Poland and Portugal. Portugal ended up in 3rd place to top it off. Now these teams will have to prove that last year was no fluke. Poland is well on their way to becoming a top contender, and should be quite strong this year. Portugal has been quiet, but they have the ability to score on teams at will, so you can never count them out. Northern Ireland was also a part of one of the better games last year, when they beat Ireland 4-3 in the group stage. They'll get their rematch with Portugal from last year's quarterfinal. Nigeria has been a mainstay of the tournament, but they can never seem to pull together as team. England is back again, but has been very quiet. Serbia, the final team, was hyped up last year, but fell hard. Whether they get the players they were supposed to get remains to be seen.
Prediction(in order of finish): Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, England.
Game to Watch: Poland vs. Portugal. The two best teams in the group.
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Poland and Portugal will come out as first and second in this group. But who gets first will depend on the winner of the group game between the two.
this group is way too easy. even portugal isn't good. It's pretty much team audi, and they definitely got last in div.2
From the looks of the friendlies I saw, I wouldn't count on N. Ireland spoilling anything this year. They lost most of their good players from last year.
Whoever gets 2nd in this group will likely face ROI in the next round. Better finish 1st
Poland and France played tonight. Game ended in a 1-1 tie. Pretty good game from both sides
Poland dominated the second half. They've got a key player at each position that could make things diffiult for any teams trying to man mark. Well rounded squad!
not even close I watched them play last night and I wasnt impressed at all.
Then what do you have to say about France. Since your on Ukraine, you have France in your group
Saw poland and france game from a couple nights ago, wasnt impressed at all, poland had a couple good players but i think the team as a whole is not that good.
England and Italy game was the borest game I've ever seen.
Saw Nigeria play against Laos, Nigeria is looking pretty good, If they get it together they could pull off an upset.
portugal always seem to pull it together during the tournament, we will have to see how they do this year.
Now quiet sure how good Serbia and N. ireland will be this year.
I think the battle for top two will be between, Serbia, Portugal and Nigeria. But dont count out the other teams in this group.
anything can happen in this group, wont count out any team so who ever wants it more will win it, Nigerian games are always fun to watch hope they put it together would love to play them in a playofff game
Just watched Nigeria lay a lickin' on Norway (score was about 7-3, but Nigeria controled 90% of the game). Norway had a short bench missing a few of their better players, but they still overall looked sloppy...lots of poor passes and didn't attack the ball at all. Nigeria on the other hand was very quick to the ball and had a lot of nice touch/passes. Nigeria could be the heartbreaker this year...
So I watched Portugal play Afghanistan last night and even through Portugal only had 1 sub it would seem they are severely over rated. Right form the start of the game it wasn't pretty. Lots of dump and chase and bad passes. I left early and Afghan was up about 3-1 (I think). And that's not because Afghanistan was good either...a couple ok players, but they are all ball hogs and are a mess when it comes to formation...guys running all over.
the norway nigeria game was only 5-3
The guy who said he is "Not to sure how good Serbia is." And ranked them number one in this pool is a complete idiot.
No anonymous slandering of names. If you're calling someone out for something like racism, you will put your name on here.
Yeah it's unfortunate that most of the conversations have little to do with the actual tournement like the never ending "Regina vs. Saskatoon" debates and stuff that has little to do with the actual teams.
Can we please shift the focus off baseless accusations to the game? Dave's a good guy.
The match up In our group should be interesting.
Hope we come out on top.
Any comments on the Man U game today?
T.O.
Go Nigeria.
Man U sucks
wat did dave say? i think hes a good guy but if he said any thing inapropriate that would be a shame, but as a person who know him i think he goes well with every race, anyways lets focus on the game, this group is very interesting to watch because anyone can beat anyone, of course Portugal and poland should be the favourites to win this group but england, n. ireland and nigeria will give it all, i dont know about serbia they have been hidding may be its gona be a surprise who knows , they say they picked up lots of new players but no one knows any of them, games between Nigeria, poland, portugal are going to decide who wins, seen \nigeria playing a couple of games and they are ok if they put it together, poland has 1 kid whos going to carry them, seems like they are goig to rely on him but has 1 foot, take away his left leg his done wont do anything, portugal are getting old cant run anymore so going to be shorts from everywere, nigeria have emma whos a man and half ask Noor he will tell you so cant wait for these game,ireland are in good shape but can never put it 2gether so many ppl on that team who shouldnt be playing soccer, all they do is run , shoot and hurt ppl with their tackles
Watch out for Poland's one footed player all he has done so far is set up and score goals good luck stopping him.
Are you not supposed to run and shoot in soccer?
let poland come out and will show them wat soccer is with their one man thewy are talking about, had a cheep short aganst ma brothers team and beat them so if any of these teams play hard this team wont win any games, and N. Irealnd isnt good at all, all they do is favour some ppl to play and leave good players on bench stop that favourtisim
What the hell is a cheep short and what game are you talking about?
If Poland had only one player they wouldn't have done fuck all. Wait for it...wait for it....
poland is in a relatively very easy group thats why they think they are the shit but i dare them come play a real team after they come out if they do hahah anyways, N. Ireland shouldnt even talk coz they have no one to rely on, their captain plays ppl he likes coz he started the team shame
Squak, "No right foot no right foot"....I think we know which French player wrote that haha. If we only have one player then I think we're screwed. Oh wait....1 player can't carry a whole team through an entire tournament...unless he's Messi. We'll see you on the field anonymous
poland is the worse team i have ever seen in my life, they should fold, and rename themselves lativa
Technically they wouldn't have folded if they just renamed themselves Latvia.
Nigeria should stop building themselves up for failure.
Oh well...I guess we'll see who fails come game day
Quote: "poland is the worse team i have ever seen in my life, they should fold, and rename themselves lativa"
A. Maybe take upgrades in English and Geography before blogging. It would be "worst" not "worse" and it's Latvia, not lativa.
B. Obviously you haven't seen many teams, or you just don't anything about soccer.
its funny that most of these blogers are not real soccer players, and this blog now turned in a joke, its supposed to be strictly soccer no personal attacks just debates of who to watch out on every team and why, and who has improved from last year to make this tournament a success but just gabages coming from ppls mouth, what a shame
that's what happens when there's anonymous commenting. If everyone wasn't so lazy and would just get an account and comment, this wouldn't happen. But with anonymous commenting you can say anything. And unfortunately, almost everyone is an idiot.
Too bad you feel that way about Nigeria. I will not dignify your other comments with answer.
You must be a coward by using anonymous. Your english sucks.
Joe.. You better work on your english as well. "Too bad you feel that way about Nigeria. I will not dignify your other comments with answer." It should read "Too bad you feel that way about Nigeria. I will not dignify your other comments with AN answer or with answerS." Figure your shit out people. Reading slang and poor grammar is a waste of time. This year the tournament will be awesome.
Hey relax people. 1 or 2 idiots are saying ridiculous things. This site used to force people to make accounts but then no one came on it, including all of these people who are shocked and so upset. Get over it. If you want this site about soccer, post something about soccer then. The idiots who say the negative stuff will soon leave if you ignore them. Trust me, your comments about how offended you are aren't accomplishing anything except making yourself feel like a hero. Obviously everyone agrees with you so don't stand on a soap box because you are playing right into the idiots hands. Don't blame the person who created this site. He tried to make people accountable and no one posted on here. Why should the fact 1 or 2 idiots shut down this site? Does it make your conscience feel better? Ignore the idiots and talk about soccer. My thoughts about Nigeria is they are going to lose because they really haven't changed their team. They have talent but no teamwork. Poland and Portugal are guaranteed to go through but won't advance past the quarters.
u feel its ok for someone to let loose of his mind and think u can just let it go? screw u , no onse is taking advantage of wat happened on this ite otherwise u would be seeing lots of blog, its a shame and what ever we do to try making things work, somethings will never change, today its that idiot who said it, tomorrow willl be someone else and u think that would be ok? just let it go? fuck that, this site is a shame my first time and this is wat i get to see, this site is got to go dowm asap, even reporting this shit to leader post, if u think its only about nigeria not other teams he abused shame on u
No I don't think it is OK for a guy to say that gargage but I don't see the purpose of shutting down this blog because of one idiot. I also don't see the purpose of telling everyone on this blog how offended I am. Can't you see that you are playing right into this idiots hands. He wants to get a reaction out of all of us so he gets his laughs. Ignore him and focus on soccer. If you really want to do something about racism, I can send you links to websites of anti-racism groups who desperately need volunteers. You could look into that or you could take 1 minute and type your indignation in a post. Your choice.
finally a group where ppl are talking about soccer, anyways i think this group is going to be interesting, poland is descent, portugal as always if they play their game are a good team i dont know if they still have same ppl from last yr, they need a real goalie tho, \nigeria should be ok, i think they are taking this thing serious seen them playing a couple of games and looked good, havent seen serbia but i here they have a couple of good players, england need help seen their exbh games and didnt look like they are interested in winning just for fun, N.Ireland should be ok had entire team playing in dv2 so i expect them to do better, i wont pridict the winner until i see every team play atleast 1 game
I'm not writing any team off but Portugal and Poland should go through they are the best two teams from last year and the best two on paper.
My team on PS3 is the best on paper.
last year is last yeare so this time its going to be diff, no team is written off yet whoever wants it more will win it
any team can comeout of this group except England, i think they are rebuilding for yrs tocome, theres no way they are winning agame this year so the focus is going to be on the other teams, they are all capable of winning this group from the likes of games i've seen them play, but someyimes ex games are decieving so will wait and see
Hey guys, tournament starts today. Good luck to all the teams and stay safe.
Tim
England is definately a weak team. No offense, but you guys need some serious help on offense.
Poland is looking like a true contender
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