isn't it funny how guys you would expect in semis are in fact in semis
>>156679887That is nearly always the case. There have been very few exceptions historically.When the true challenge starts, small teams choke.
>>156680017How is variance so low in football when games are usually decided by one goal
>>156680596Once they're ahead the better team can park the bus and if the worse team has no real chances the score ends up close even if the game wasn't
Why don't they ever stack all the favorites in the same corner so that the rest really is up for grabs?
>>156679887That's the opposite of funny, retard.
>England take Viagra>reach a semi
>>156680596Small teams can get some upsets by parking the bus and going for penalties but over time they either gas out or their mediocre defence/gk let one in and they can't catch up
>>156681460Because then 90% of matches in knockouts would be "who gives a fuck" countries outside of people specifically from those countries and thus few will watch it so that means less money for FIFA. Plus, while it would be fun to watch all the teams murderball each other before the semis, realistically it means whoever emerges from that bracket has effectively already won the cup barring a major upset as all their major competition is already out
>>156680017>That is nearly always the case.It's almost never the case actually, most world cups a team that isn't expected to make the semi final makes the semi final
