The favourites won all 4 matches, Spain , Italy, Romania, Lithuania, Belgium. Poland was the only big name that had to end with a 3-1 ratio. Still the surprises were few at this level. We couldn't say the same thing when talking about Estonia, UK, Denmark or Brazil. Brazil, Austria, Denmark said good-bye to this championship after failling to cope with the outsiders. Uruguay on the other hand started the WC strong and keep an eye on them in group D. In the same group Slovenia might have a chance but their consistency has been questioned many times before.
4 will qualify from each group, this means 8 will go home. Who will be these 8? First impresion is that the 6th seeds in each group are doomed, but will UK be so easly beaten? or even Norway and Estonia.. they got enough power to come back. Estonia has a big problem..they have no coach, still they need to get over Chile, Uruguay and Slovenia which is posible. USA is the same position, dough they managed to keep it up by themselves (players) preatty well.
Group A: Greece and Canada are a sure thing. USA will strugle a little. The 4th spot is a gamble between the remaining 3.
Group B: Spain , Lithuania, Nederlands will advance. Uk will post some serious challenge against Germany.
Group C: Italy, Romania and Israel are clear favourites. For the forth nothing is sure, dough i doubt France has a chance.
Group D: Poland and Belgium will dominate, but for the last 2..all others have a chance, even Slovenia who is 2nd seed might have to put a serious fight to keep it going.
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I'd say about Group C that Israel/Latvia has some 50-50 & there'll be hard days for Portugal to qualify, also France realy doesn't have a real chance...
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