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Who will win the World Cup?

Sylar

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Hard to see an outsider out of the top 5 (germany, Spain, france, Argentina and Brazil)

Almost said 6 and remembered Italy lol.

Ill go Brazil though.
 

Red_Aaron

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the Spain v Germany friendly recently was something else, that's the bench mark right there
Can't discount Brazil given the quality of their squad but I've not seen enough of them.
i'm leaning towards Spain
 

Massive Spanner

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Hard to call.

Think on paper Belgium, Spain, and Germany have the best squads.

Then Brazil.

Then maybe Argentina and Portugal, mainly cause of you-know-who.

I'll go Spain.
 

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I'll go with Portugal because I get to keep the tagline if I'm right. Won't bother watching the games though.
 

CM

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I quite fancy Spain. I think Brazil, Germany and France all have the capacity to go far but will fall away for one reason or another.
 

Brinky

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Biggest doubt over France appears to always be the manager and appears to influence the belief France will crash out early and/or not favorites. If they had a top class manager, this would change.
 

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Hoping Argentina wins.

But I think it will probably go to Germany Again!
 

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the Spain v Germany friendly recently was something else, that's the bench mark right there
Can't discount Brazil given the quality of their squad but I've not seen enough of them.
i'm leaning towards Spain
I agree with your assessment as well.When I watched that game, I realised that it would be extremely difficult for another team to beat either of them to the World Cup this year.
 

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Scotland, Wales or Ireland.
 

King7Eric

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Argentina. Messi's been outshone recently on the big stages by Ronnie and I think he'll be getting his back this time.
 

Grylte

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I miss Fontaine now, can we get him back just for the WC forum?
 

diarm

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Germany I reckon. Everyone will mention them but they are still flying under the radar a little with peoples real expectations being Brazil, Spain, France etc.

They just quietly go about their business and will rock up with a phenomenal squad, no real weaknesses and the biggest winning mentality in world football.
 

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They probably won't but I'll still say France