FIFA World Cup: Group H Predictions & Discussion

[DusterDave]

Group H Schedule:

Columbia vs. Japan	Tuesday, June 19	8 a.m.
Poland vs. Senegal	Tuesday, June 19	11 a.m.
Japan vs. Senegal	Sunday, June 24	11 a.m.
Poland vs. Colombia	Sunday, June 24	2 p.m.
Japan vs. Poland	Thursday, June 28	10 a.m.
Senegal vs. Colombia	Thursday, June 28	10 a.m.

Predict who advances and discuss Group H here.

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[DusterDave]

1. Poland
2. Columbia
3. Senegal
4. Japan

This was a difficult group to predict. Columbia are favourites but I give the edge to Poland here. Solid D and a deadly goal scorer in Robert Lewandowski will be the difference. Poland will lose their first knock-out round game against England on penalties as will Columbia, but to Belgium.

[lucafen4]

I'll take Poland & Columbia as well.

[PenguinHunter]

1, Poland
2. Columbia
3. Senegal
4. Japan

I am basically running out of reasons for my reasoning... so I just went straight rankings on this one!

[Belexus75]

hope you 3 are right, i was born in Poland and lived there until i was 17.

i do have different order prediction however

1. Senegal
2. Poland
3. Columbia
4. Japan

[hockeyrobot]

Columbia and Poland.

[Mr. Guru]

Columbia and Japan

[Tobias Funke]

I’m also having a hard time choosing between Poland and Colombia but feel both should advance easily. Both have arguably their strongest NTs in decades. Polar opposite in style but both effective. Colombia looked devastating coming from 0-2 in France to beat them 3-2 last month. Poland is one of the toughest teams in the world to currently score against on top of having a dangerous finisher at the other end.

1-Poland
2-Colombia

[Belexus75]

I’m also having a hard time choosing between Poland and Colombia but feel both should advance easily. Both have arguably their strongest NTs in decades. Polar opposite in style but both effective. Colombia looked devastating coming from 0-2 in France to beat them 3-2 last month. Poland is one of the toughest teams in the world to currently score against on top of having a dangerous finisher at the other end.

1-Poland
2-Colombia

actually you must be refering to Euro 2016. In qualification matches for WC their D was quite porous. But i do have faith they will fix it in time. Kamil Glik (central D- their best D) is also hurt atm....

[Tobias Funke]

actually you must be refering to Euro 2016. In qualification matches for WC their D was quite porous. But i do have faith they will fix it in time. Kamil Glik (central D- their best D) is also hurt atm....

I stand corrected. Boy, with how good they’ve been in the 2-3 years previous, that GA in the qualifying group crept up on me. They have been one of the toughest Euro sides to beat clean since the last World Cup cycle though.

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actually you must be refering to Euro 2016. In qualification matches for WC their D was quite porous. But i do have faith they will fix it in time. Kamil Glik (central D- their best D) is also hurt atm....

I stand corrected. Boy, with how good they?ve been in the 2-3 years previous, that GA in the qualifying group crept up on me. They have been one of the toughest Euro sides to beat clean since the last World Cup cycle though.

[DusterDave]

Each team played between 1-4 friendlies/warm-up matches heading into the World Cup and they are all wrapped up. Here are team forms heading into the tournament....

Columbia
0-0 Draw vs. Egypt

Japan
2-0 Loss vs. Ghana
2-0 Loss vs. Switzerland
4-2 Win vs. Paraguay

Poland
2-2 Draw vs. Chile
4-0 Win vs. Lithuania

Senegal
0-0 Draw vs. Luxembourg
2-1 Loss vs. Croatia

[Mr. Guru]

Poland is out. Everyone had Poland to advance but me.

Senegal and Japan both have looked pretty good