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The Official "COME ON CONGO" Thread - Fight for Pot 3
How are Poland the best team for us to draw from Pot 1. They aren't even the weakest team. They are resolute and hard to beat. They have talented players all around and arguably the best striker in the world up front.
I think most people would agree that Russia are. They will have home advantage which makes them a more difficult test but on paper head and shoulders above everyone as the most likely team in pot 1 to gain points from.
France and Argentina have great players in their team but both of their teams form is questionable at present. Can teams so top heavy in talent play together.
We want to avoid Brazil or Germany. No question about that. Belgium breezed through qualifying and would likely get the better of us over 90 minutes as well.
Portugal or Poland... well I'd rather Portugal. As I said in an earlier comment on this thread "they may have won the Euros, but they did so after finishing 3rd in their group and only winning 1 game out of 7 in 90 mins". Ronaldo was ineffective for most of that tournament and they scraped through so many games. In the groups they were abysmal after the kindest of draws.
My order of preference for the pot 1 team would be:
Russia (best chance of a win)
Portugal (could draw)
Poland (draw/loss)
Argentina (revenge)
Belgium (probably loss)
France (probable loss)
Brazil (loss)
Germany (loss)
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