ScottBailey the eternal optimist! You could pass as English š Good luck to your boys, but can see you getting whalloped by both Belgium and Croatia. Peresic is still a weapon and Modric is somehow still of fire.
If I were English Iād say weād be going out on penalties - again! š
I donāt think weāre going to get slapped back into the Stone Age by Croatia, although I do accept that we might take a good kicking from Belgium - but I still think weāll be competitive in the group.
The one advantage I have over the Europeans on here is that Iāve seen Canada play in person in World Cup Qualifiers and also nearly every game theyāve played in the final rounds - along with the build up over the past four years. You guys as far as Iām aware wouldnāt have had their games televised, whereas the European, South American and African games were televised here.
Iām a football junkie. I watch loads, play, ref and for a long time I didnāt believe because of how shit weāve been for so long. John Herdman said we were going to qualify for the World Cup in 2018 when he was hired and the press nearly laughed him out of the room. I firmly believe now.
If we can beat Mexico and draw with them at the Azteca in Mexico City, we are good enough to beat or draw Croatia.
I understand the hesitancy in believing, but the US also ranks higher than Croatia in FIFA (which Iām aware can be contentious) and we also drew with them in the US and beat them - without our best player in Alphonso Davies.
Another thing worth considering is that last year we scored the most goals of any team in FIFA and jumped the highest amount in rankings over any country as well. We also had to play the largest number of games to get to Qatar as well and STILL finished atop of CONCACAF and only lost two games in the entire process.
