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My biggest win so far in the world cup. I also have the Colombia Congo later today at a draw too with similar odds.
Oh boy, oh boy... Did you make the bet before the game started or right during the game?
You really have strong intuition if you actually predicted a draw before the game : D
No idea how England managed to draw with Ghana
Honestly
I think many of us misjudged how the match could turn out because of what we saw from Croatia but Ghana played a different kind of game.
world cup is all about these dissapointments but congo also played well
Yeah, it's football in general... that's what makes it worth it. The unexpected things that happen
Like how Congo shocked many of us in the Portugal game... Everyone thought Portugal were going to smash them before the game even started and then they even scored early in the game : D
I will be busy in the coming days, so I will drop my predictions for the coming days in advance
June 24th
Bosnia 1x2 Qatar
Switzerland 1x1 Canada
Scotland 1x2 Brazil
Morocco 3x0 Haiti
South Africa 1x2 South Korea
Czechia 1x2 Mexico
June 25th
Curacao 1x3 Ivory Coast
Ecuador 1x2 Germany
Japan 3x3 Sweden
Tunisia 0x4 Netherlands
Paraguay 1x1 Australia
Turkiye 0x3 USA
June 26th
Norway 2x3 France
Senegal 4x0 Iraq
Cape Verde 2x2 Saudi Arabia
Uruguay 1x3 Spain
Aye aye, Captain... That's a nice thing to do. I shall represent you in the best way possible
Take care and we look forward to having you back. Spammers will miss you too : D
Reason #1: Ghana are ex-British colony, so these African nations tend to get extra motivated when playing against their colonizers. The same reason for which France lost to Ivory Coast in their pre-WC friendly...
Reason #2: Ghana are always a tough (African) nut to crack at the WC, especially by nations that are deemed stronger than them. They have WC pedigree, they're feisty, and they've adopted the well organized style of European footballing nations.
Reason #3: they're managed by Carlos Queiros, which is known for his defense-oriented and well organized style. And Ghanaians are experienced and good enough to be able to follow Quieros' instructions to play as a unit, thus being hard to break down.
Reason #4: England have probably underestimated them and / or had a bad day (such days are frequent in football, no nation or club is exempted from it, and today just happened to be England's bad day)
Haha... I think I would agree with most of these as well
For #4, yeah I would say they were underestimated. They also faced a different kind of opponent and maybe that just didn't work in their favor with the style of game England plays now, unlike what we saw with Croatia and the setup Croatia played with
At the end of the day it's football, like a box of chocolates and you can never really tell what to expect in games like this : D