World Cup Knockout Stage Bracket Updates
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Man, queue the conspiracy theories if that draw holds up. Not only the draw but never leave pacific time zone until the semi finals.
Yeah the dates times & locations are locked in. Right now the opponents look very manageable. But without looking at every possible scenario across 4 groups it’s possible a top team could wind up in this quarter of the bracket if there’s a big upset in one of the other groups.
edit: just scanned other groups. I strongly suspect Spain will take Uruguay's place as winner of that group.
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Of the potential opponents, Bosnia and Herzegovina appears to be the most advantageous matchup for progressing to the next stage.
I like that a possible Sweet 16 is in Seattle. They’re soccer crazy and loud.
A lot of us were doubters with the pre World Cup results. But I think Poch has already proved he was the right man for the job.
Russell Crowe is gonna kill it as Ponch when they make the Disney version.
The math shifted again today, has us playing Ecuador in R32 now (this will change daily and won’t be fully settled until next weekend).
I feel like either Belgium or Egypt is winning Group G and therefore your most likely R16 opponent. Both beatable. This isn’t 2014 Belgium. You’d have to deal with Mo Salah if it’s Egypt but still winnable.
The figuring of the third place teams is so dang complicated though.
I feel like either Belgium or Egypt is winning Group G and therefore your most likely R16 opponent. Both beatable. This isn’t 2014 Belgium. You’d have to deal with Mo Salah if it’s Egypt but still winnable.
The figuring of the third place teams is so dang complicated though.
Still showing us playing Ecuador because if it was held today that’s who we’d play. But unless they beat Germany they won’t make the knockout stage. Fortunately for them Germany has nothing to play for.
Got us playing Jordan now (Jordan’s game tonight not final but they are leading).
I don't think we'll know for sure until maybe after all this weekend's matches, but I'd like our chances against Jordan for sure.
I just hope we don’t catch a solid team that somehow has a bad game and falls into 3rd in a group. Most 3rd place teams should be very beatable if we play the way we have been.
Algeria came back and won, so it flipped to us playing Algeria.
A lot of the projections think it ends up being Bosnia, mostly because they play Qatar in their last group game and are expected to win that. But as of right now Bosnia wouldn’t make the cut for the knockouts.
A lot of the projections think it ends up being Bosnia, mostly because they play Qatar in their last group game and are expected to win that. But as of right now Bosnia wouldn’t make the cut for the knockouts.
Yeah, but Lebron is the GOAT.*
Not that rankings tell the whole story, but it looks like Algeria is ranked 28th - so pretty similar to Australia.
Jordan was like 61st before this last match, and Bosnia is somewhere around 65th.
Football Meets Data says USA-Bosnia is 100%. Egypt’s opponent appears to be pretty wide open.
Fortunately he didn’t have much help. But just realized he’ll be going against Tim Ream. So yeah, that’s not good. We’ll have to give Ream a lot of help & pressure their midfielders.
Yeah but at that point in the World Cup you’re going to end up playing someone with a player like that.
Still. They’re #36 in ELO & #27 in FIFA rankings. For a round of 16 match, that’s about as good as you’re going to get. Of course we have to beat Bosnia first. and as good as we’ve looked the last 2 games, we’re still very capable of losing that one.