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With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
by Goldleaf
The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:15 pm
by The YeyeMan
Ask Enugu II.

He supports this nonsense.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:19 pm
by Coach
How else will the lesser nations grow if not through eating at the table of Kings? Breadcrumbs are a banquet to the starving, talk less of leftovers.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:19 pm
by Mr. Piffington
There’s also going to be a higher chance of having upsets and underdog stories.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:21 pm
by Bigpokey24
you people are funny, the worldcup started with 4 8, 16, 24, 32 and now 48... I support the 48 teams.. nothing wrong with it, when teams will only play 2 group matches. Right now your argument makes no sense. We currently have 32 teams and we just witnessed Saudi chopping 5 goals.. Saudi choped 8..When we had 24 teams in USA 94, Cameroon chopped 6 from this same Russia, no to talk of Zaire in 82..

All these useless toreys of more teams would reduce the compettion is pure rubbish.. 4 years is a very long time in football

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:25 pm
by Coach
Truth be told, if one wants a true contest from the get go, then there would be fair argument against the inclusion of any African side. How many have bothered to partake in even 15 minutes of a World Cup quarter final? Rather than waste time bojangling only to be battered in the round of 16, why not have a contest of the top ten teams, a mini league perhaps, or two leagues of five, progressing to a semi and final thereafter.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:27 pm
by Synopsis
Bigpokey24 wrote:you people are funny, the worldcup started with 4 8, 16, 24, 32 and now 48... I support the 48 teams.. nothing wrong with it, when teams will only play 2 group matches. Right now your argument makes no sense. We currently have 32 teams and we just witnessed Saudi chopping 5 goals.. Saudi choped 8..When we had 24 teams in USA 94, Cameroon chopped 6 from this same Russia, no to talk of Zaire in 82..

All these useless toreys of more teams would reduce the compettion is pure rubbish.. 4 years is a very long time in football
Saudi chopped 8 in 2002.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:30 pm
by Synopsis
48 teams will be so uneven. Imagine going to the world cup just to play 2 games. The second game won’t be played simultaneously so there will be cheating and a lot of dead rubber matches.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:31 pm
by Enugu II
Goldleaf wrote:The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!
Funny that the result of today's game is a referendum on a 48-team World Cup. Let me remind you that the Saudis beat Japan 1-0 to get here and recently fell 1-2 to Germany in a friendly. IMHO, the Saudis are not going to be mistaken for a favorite to win the World Cup but better believe that the 5-0 today was just an aberration as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany was in 2014. I would suggest you hold your horses until the end of the World Cup to make a conclusive statement on what possibly a 48-team World Cup will look like. But funny enough, we did see a 9-0 and 7-0 result in a 16-team World Cup.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:37 pm
by Bigpokey24
Coach wrote:Truth be told, if one wants a true contest from the get go, then there would be fair argument against the inclusion of any African side. How many have bothered to partake in even 15 minutes of a World Cup quarter final? Rather than waste time bojangling only to be battered in the round of 16, why not have a contest of the top ten teams, a mini league perhaps, or two leagues of five, progressing to a semi and final thereafter.
:clap: :clap: :clap:

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:37 pm
by ohenhen1
Some people like money too much. Sold out their fellow Africans for money and are about to destroy the world cup by watering it down with 16 more countries.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:38 pm
by Bigpokey24
Synopsis wrote:48 teams will be so uneven. Imagine going to the world cup just to play 2 games. The second game won’t be played simultaneously so there will be cheating and a lot of dead rubber matches.
I think they should start playing some of the worldcup games like qualifiers, even the up coming Euros would be played allover Europa

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:41 pm
by Coach
ohenhen1 wrote:Some people like money too much. Sold out their fellow Africans for money and are about to destroy the world cup by watering it down with 16 more countries.
The cordial has been watered down to 32 with the likes of Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Tunisa and Morocco, turning a glass of Ribena into Volvic touch of fruit.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:42 pm
by Bigpokey24
Enugu II wrote:
Goldleaf wrote:The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!
Funny that the result of today's game is a referendum on a 48-team World Cup. Let me remind you that the Saudis beat Japan 1-0 to get here and recently fell 1-2 to Germany in a friendly. IMHO, the Saudis are not going to be mistaken for a favorite to win the World Cup but better believe that the 5-0 today was just an aberration as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany was in 2014. I would suggest you hold your horses until the end of the World Cup to make a conclusive statement on what possibly a 48-team World Cup will look like. But funny enough, we did see a 9-0 and 7-0 result in a 16-team World Cup.
can you imagine, even Brazil lost 1-7 at home :lol: :lol: but no they come here to cry about 48 teams, .. smh.. shows how people lack a tangible prism to think outside the box. They are just repeating the rubbish comments from clueless analyst on TV. Football isn't meant for only the big , big nations, let the small teams get a piece of the pie.. Even our own SE can boast of only one world cup win ( which was just by one goal ) since 1998, we didn't win a single worldcup match for over 16 years

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:42 pm
by folem
Enugu II wrote:
Goldleaf wrote:The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!
Funny that the result of today's game is a referendum on a 48-team World Cup. Let me remind you that the Saudis beat Japan 1-0 to get here and recently fell 1-2 to Germany in a friendly. IMHO, the Saudis are not going to be mistaken for a favorite to win the World Cup but better believe that the 5-0 today was just an aberration as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany was in 2014. I would suggest you hold your horses until the end of the World Cup to make a conclusive statement on what possibly a 48-team World Cup will look like. But funny enough, we did see a 9-0 and 7-0 result in a 16-team World Cup.
There was a 10-1 in a 24-team World Cup.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:45 pm
by Cmoke
I predict that this same Saudi will win a game in this world cup.

Maybe na dem King and Putin wey dey stadium make dem fear.

Cmoke :D :D :D :D
Enugu II wrote:
Goldleaf wrote:The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!
Funny that the result of today's game is a referendum on a 48-team World Cup. Let me remind you that the Saudis beat Japan 1-0 to get here and recently fell 1-2 to Germany in a friendly. IMHO, the Saudis are not going to be mistaken for a favorite to win the World Cup but better believe that the 5-0 today was just an aberration as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany was in 2014. I would suggest you hold your horses until the end of the World Cup to make a conclusive statement on what possibly a 48-team World Cup will look like. But funny enough, we did see a 9-0 and 7-0 result in a 16-team World Cup.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:52 pm
by folem
Synopsis wrote:48 teams will be so uneven. Imagine going to the world cup just to play 2 games. The second game won’t be played simultaneously so there will be cheating and a lot of dead rubber matches.
12 groups of 4 should be better.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:00 pm
by sayala
I bet people said the same thing when Ilunga Mwepu and his band of jokers were spelled 9-1 by Yugoslavia in 1974. People asked what African teams are doing at the WC

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:05 pm
by Synopsis
folem wrote:
Synopsis wrote:48 teams will be so uneven. Imagine going to the world cup just to play 2 games. The second game won’t be played simultaneously so there will be cheating and a lot of dead rubber matches.
12 groups of 4 should be better.
I agree, but the 48 would be cut down to 24 after the group stage which would be uneven. FIFA could reduce the number to 16, but that would give an unfair advantage to 2nd place teams with very weak groups.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:07 pm
by Enugu II
folem wrote:
Enugu II wrote:
Goldleaf wrote:The utterly shambolic performance of Saudi Arabia in today's match is a very bad sign of things to come when FIFA goes to a 48-team format World Cup. Useless nations like Ghana, Kenya, Andorra, San Marino may be assured of outings in the World Cup when 16 new places are added to the current 32, which already feature weak qualifiers.

If a poor Russia can put 5 unreplied goals past a pitiful Saudi Arabia, then the likes of Kenya will get 14 or 16 from Germany!
Funny that the result of today's game is a referendum on a 48-team World Cup. Let me remind you that the Saudis beat Japan 1-0 to get here and recently fell 1-2 to Germany in a friendly. IMHO, the Saudis are not going to be mistaken for a favorite to win the World Cup but better believe that the 5-0 today was just an aberration as Brazil's 1-7 loss to Germany was in 2014. I would suggest you hold your horses until the end of the World Cup to make a conclusive statement on what possibly a 48-team World Cup will look like. But funny enough, we did see a 9-0 and 7-0 result in a 16-team World Cup.
There was a 10-1 in a 24-team World Cup.
folem,

Thank you for the info. These things happen. For me logical conclusions are reached by discovering a PATTERN rather than jump to conclusion from a possible ABERRATION. Thus, lets wait till the World Cup is over.

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:07 pm
by Coach
sayala wrote:I bet people said the same thing when Ilunga Mwepu and his band of jokers were spelled 9-1 by Yugoslavia in 1974. People asked what African teams are doing at the WC
44 years later, what have they done, fancy dances and swaggerific strips aside?

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:12 pm
by Enugu II
Coach wrote:
sayala wrote:I bet people said the same thing when Ilunga Mwepu and his band of jokers were spelled 9-1 by Yugoslavia in 1974. People asked what African teams are doing at the WC
44 years later, what have they done, fancy dances and swaggerific strips aside?
WE may just keep them out because they water down the World Cup. We should just keep the World Cup among Germany, Brazil, France, Argentina, Spain, and who ever else has shown the ability to win it. Ain't it a good suggestion for a helluva World Cup? :rotf:

Re: With Saudi Arabia, why 48 teams in the World Cup?

Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:13 pm
by Synopsis
You all are talking about the teams that will play... what you should be talking about is the format of the 48 team world cup. FIFA has said 16 groups of 3. No more draws in the group stage (draws after 90 mins will go straight to penalties). So if the winner of a group has to play New Zealand while the 2nd place team plays Brazil you would have teams purposely trying to lose. Imagine if the game goes into penalties - you’d have teams missing penalties on purpose.

I’d rather have 64 teams than 48.