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Originally Posted by Xandax My bet is either Argentinia or Brazil. There doesn't seem to be a european national team at the moment which can compeete in stability, especially after tha abysmal performance in the last european cup.

Agreed. Perhaps Holland for third place?

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Anyways - I hope we'll see some surprieses, my take is that the sweedish team, if they can keep their stability, can indeed go far (hehe - got money on them as winners to odds 25:1 )

Hehe, I would take you up on that any time. I think they will make it to the quarterfinals at best.

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Unless they show something new, I don't see the other more tradionally "larger" european teams - France, Portugal (which never seems to show anything in a cup), Spain and England actually performing out of expectations.

I nurturing a small hope that England will do better than usual. They will have a nice team this time, so it would be a shame if they went out early. The BBC predictor said they are going out against Argentina though.

To bad Ivory coast got in the same group as Holland and Argentina, sad to see any of those teams not reach second round.