PES Fan wrote:Photek wrote:Spindash wrote:Colombia and Sweden were good teams until England beat them.
They really wheren’t both limped into the last 16 and Quarters.
I predicted every England result right, should have put bets on.
Limped? How?
They both got 6 points in their group in a 3 game group, which were both tough groups. Colombia could have got 9 points if they didn’t get a sending off 4 mins into their first game.
Sweden should have beaten Germany. They beat a Swiss team that Brazil couldn’t beat. They beat France and knocked out Italy during qualifying.
This is what I don't understand. First Photek says how poor Colombia and Sweden are, whilst simultaneously hinting he's some kind of oracle for predicting England would beat them.
It's a matter of perception. No matter how poor and underwhelming the likes of Spain and Germany are (let's face it, Germany were fortunate they still had a chance going in to that last game), it's somehow more of an achievement to beat a big team playing abysmally than it is to beat a "lesser" team who has been playing well and getting results are a tournament.
We weren't given a bye. We were on the side of the draw of Spain and Germany (and the FIFA rankings meant Poland and Switzerland were there too). Those teams didn't perform and were sent packing. They didn't play well enough to act get to the point where they could face England.
None of the sides we played in the knockouts didn't deserve to be there, with a "bigger" side replacing them.
Yes, the disappointing thing is that such a draw might not happen for a while. And big teams might not disappoint again, but why not focus on that aspect? It becomes "oh England have played crap teams" instead of "Spain and Germany were so bad they didn't even get to the knockouts". You can't use the standard of the opposition to knock England, when we had absolutely no say in who that opposition were.