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I was going to support England tonight because I liked their performances against Italy and Uruguay and felt they could've gotten more, but I just had a look at how the knock-out schedule is shaping up and decided that Costa Rica needs to win that group:
likely 1/8 finals:
1. Brazil vs Chile
2. Colombia vs Italy/Uruguay
3. France vs Nigeria
4. Germany vs Algeria
5. Netherlands vs Mexico
6. Costa Rica vs Cote d'Ivoire
7. Argentina vs Switzerland/Ecuador
8. Belgium vs USA
The teams from games 1-4 can't meet the teams from games 5-8 until the final. Of course, there are no small teams anymore, etc blabla yadda yadda, but which side of that knock-out schedule would you rather be in?
Or to put it differently: if Argentina don't go all the way in that schedule then one of the finalists will be a massive surprise.
(vamos Costa Rica!)
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