Men's Field Hockey FIH World Cup 2018

[Function CR Lee 468]

  On 12/7/2018 at 3:06 PM, LDOG said:

Good for England to finally be able to show a bit of their quality. Ireland can only blame themselves for not beating a regional China side.

 

BTW France has now a GREAT chance to make QFs and climb several places in the rankings, which will in turn help them with the seeding for the olympic play-offs, if they make it via FIH Hockey series.

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I think it is also a good chance for China to get into the QF.

[LDOG 2,432]

  On 12/7/2018 at 3:09 PM, Function CR Lee said:

I think it is also a good chance for China to get into the QF.

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I think that France (despite being ranked lower than China) has the quality of a top 10 team. It's not impossible for China to win but I have a hard time seeing that happening.

 

[heywoodu 15,354]

Ugh  

[Fly_like_a_don 1,113]

I can sense France reaching semis Beating China and Australia 

[LDOG 2,432]

And France did it.

 

I think this result will let them climb to top 13 of ranking which will help them avoid the toughest teams in OQ play-offs.

[LDOG 2,432]

It sucks to lose to a team like England but our team defended way too bad all tournament.   

  

At least the predictions will be easier for me now.

[heywoodu 15,354]

1-0 India  

[LDOG 2,432]

India lost 

 

Still, predictable. They simply don't have patience in key moments and make mistakes that end in PCs or goals against. 

[heywoodu 15,354]

Plus some Dumbo f*cked his team by completely unnecessarily hitting a Dutch player on his arm, resulting in him being sent off with a yellow card and his team having a player less  

[heywoodu 15,354]

Belgium destroyed England in the semi's, Netherlands was on the way to kick out double reigning world champion Australia but less than half a minute before the end the Aussies made 2-2