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Big Question: Which would be the Best and Worst Final?

   

The eight teams that are in the quarter-finals of this year’s World Cup bring a lot of history and tradition to the competition. They also have been involved in some of the more memorable games in World Cup history. All of this makes for some delicious potential match ups for the final.

One of the four teams from each of these groupings will play another in the final:

1. Argentina, Germany Italy Ukraine

2. Brazil, France, England, Portugal

Of the potential final match ups, which which would you like to see the most and which would you like to see the least?


  • Sven

    best: Argentina vs Brazil
    worst: Italy vs England

  • http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/ Euler

    Worst: Ukraine x England

    Best: Argentina x Brazil (BRA WIN)

  • Slartibartfast

    best: Germany vs Brazil
    worst: Ukraine vs England

  • http://www.myspace.com/muse colman1860

    Best:

    Germany – Brazil

    Worst:

    Ukraine – England

  • justin

    Best

    Italia vs Brazil

    Worst

    Germany vs England

  • http://www.1latvia.com/football/ Germany Cup

    Italy-Brasil
    the best, 1;1 in main time

  • Leo

    the best final: Argentina – Brazil
    the worst final: Ukraine – England

  • jacob

    i gotta agree, best would be argentina vs brazil, worst would be england vs italy.

  • Gene

    Worst: England v. Italy
    Best (from my personal standpoint): Ukraine v. Brazil

  • brazil_fan

    Best:
    Brazil vs France

    Worst:
    Italy vs Germany

  • Henrik

    Best:

    Germany – Brazil

    Worst:
    Italy – France

  • http://brazil.worldcupblog.org

    Due to history, Argentina vs Brazil.

    Germany vs Brazil would be cool too, but been there, done that… nothing new.

  • http://www.wozafriday.com Dangerous

    40 years ago it was England vs Germany in England.

    The ideal final would obviously be Germany vs England in Germany.

    The script is written and the actors are warming up!

  • Jonathan

    Best – argentina vs brazil

    worst – ukraine vs england

    I also would not mind

    argentina vs england (history)
    or
    germany vs brazil (rematch)

  • http://portugal.worldcupblog.org Luis Paulo

    Best: Brazil x Argentina
    Worst: Ukraine x England

  • Walter Pswarayi

    Best:-Argentina vs. Brazil will be mouth watering. Not only will we witness some open attacking football, there will be plenty of extaordinary skill on display too.
    Worst:- Ukraine vs. England will be painful to watch.

  • sergio

    very obvious answer:

    brazil v. argentina

    that would be A FINAL!!!!!!!!!

    oh man…. let me imagine it for a second..

    yumee

    its so goooooooooooddddddddddd

  • http://serial.io Olaf

    Best: Germany – Brazil (and the most likely. It’s going to Germany or Argentina)

    Worst: Ukraine – England

  • jmh

    best: Brazil – Germany
    worst: Portugal – Ukraine

  • http://nerdword.blogspot.com/ Lucas

    Best: Germany vs England
    Worst: Italy vs Portugal

  • robin

    Argentina – England [without a doubt...]the most hatred.best.

    france – ukraine [worst]Brazil don’t deserve to be in final-dull and don’t deserve to wear their colours.

  • Kelvin

    Best: Argentina v. Portugal

    Worst: Germany v. Brazil

  • rescorpione17

    best Argentina Brasil

    worst Ukraine Portugal

  • dietmar

    GERMANY VS. ENGLAND
    this would be an entertaining final, and england being shut out 3-zip!

  • deco

    Best:
    ARGENTINA vs BRAZIL

    Worst:
    england vs ukraine

  • Se7en

    Argentina vs Brazil.

    easy.

    worst…?

    Ukraine and England or Ukraine and france.
    I’m sick just thinking of that.

  • John

    Best: Brazil vs. Argentina or Germany

    Worst: England vs. Denmark

    (hehehe, go check the “Are the players partly to blame” question. And don’t post: “Denmark’s not in it you idiot”).

  • John

    I’ve changed my mind. Best: Brazil vs. Shaq and the Miami Heat.

  • Bin Lao

    Looking for best and cool games?
    It would be Germany vs. Brazi — timeless and immortal game!

    I already made a thread like this over in the World Cup subforum but before this gets locked I guess I could toss in my hat in terms of worst games – Ukraine vs. Portugal!

  • OilerFan

    Argentina vs Brazil would undoubtedly be the best final.

    The worst would be England vs. Ukraine…half the world be in coma by the end of it if we had to sit through that for 90 minutes.

  • Gian Luca

    The best final would have been…

    Turkey vs. Ghana

    with a big fun party for everyone in the field for all spectators, German beers in hand.

    Neither qualified, unfortunately.

    I am tired of Brasilians.
    I am scared of the Germans.
    I think the English are not passionate enough.
    I am disappointed at the Italians.
    I saw the Argentinians’ audacity disappear in front of Mexico.
    I never noticed when the Ukranians came out.
    Portugal, maybe.
    Spain, too bad.
    Switzerland, big heart, no penalty.
    Sweden, I wished they didn’t argue as much as the Italians.
    Etc., etc.

    Have fun watching the final…

    I am dreaming of another one.

  • futbol

    Notice that we have 8 groups at the beginning. Now we have exactly one team from each group to go to the next round. Among 8 teams, 6 were ranked #1 in the group, and 2 (FRA and UCR) were ranked #2.

    My conclusion is there might not be truly a group of death this year.

  • Camon

    Best: Germany X Portugal
    Worst: Brazil X Argentina

  • Semen
  • Martin

    Best: ARGENTINA – ENGLAND!!

    Worst: Ukraine – France

  • Jonathan

    all i have to say is if the final was ukraine vs england that would be the only match in the whole tournament i didnt at least partially watch.

  • http://www.aresthetics.ch/trav Adrian Wagner

    Worst: Italy – England (they could start with the penalty-shoot out, at least we could get drunk and still remember who scored the goals next day. Hehehe.)

    Best. Dunno. I guess, I would like to see Argentina – Portugal. Argentina – Brazil wouldn’t be too bad either, I guess.

  • Gis

    best: Germany vs Brazil -

    worst: Ukraine vs Portugal –

    best of the quarterfinals: Argentina vs Germany

  • Claude

    I guess Brazil_fan must be one of those year 2000 Florida voters. How can you pick Brazil – France as the best and Germany – Italy as the worst? Those combinations are impossible for the final and can only happen in the semi-finals.
    Best: Germany vs. England (payback for 1966 and the 5-1 thrashing for Euro Cup qualification a few years ago).
    Worst: Portugal – Ukraine (let’s just skip the potential dozen yellow cards for Portugal and go right to PKs. No use wasting time with the other 120 minutes of shere boredom).

  • NOSTRADAMUS

    BRAZIL 2 X 1 ARGENTINA

    IT IS UNEVITABLE…

  • http://worldcupblog.org JRLD

    Best: England vs. Germany
    Ain’t nothin’ like a home team in the final. It’s been too long since England participated in the Big One.

    Worst: France vs. Germany
    Who wants to watch a 9-0 soccer game?

  • Jenifa

    best would be Argentina vs Brazil – pretty to watch!

    worst – italy vs england

  • Miguel

    Best: Brazil – Argentina
    Worst: Ukraine – Portugal

  • Newcastle for Life

    Worst final would be,
    Ital versus England
    2 very boring teams who would play out a 0…0
    ================================
    Best Final would be
    Brazil versus Portugal
    Brazil are pur class(if they get the back 4 sorted out)….Portugal have the best players and came runners up in Euro 2004…………there form is good and they can take it…………….3…………1

  • Chris

    Best: Brazil v Argentina

    Worst: England v Ukraine (potentially the most boring game in World Cup history, this one should go straight to the penalty shootout)

  • Ludwing

    best- argentina… just because
    they play
    beautiful.
    ukraine….. the only
    team on this
    bracket that
    doesnt cheat.

    worst- brazil….. where is
    romario and
    bebeto?
    england…. they need to
    stop rellying
    on big names,
    they need a
    big “team”

  • The_Raz

    The best would undoubtedly be ARGENTINA vs BRAZIL. This would be THE clash of the ages, insofar as these two countries have produced the most skill throughout the years. The whole world consistently looks at and expects these two countries to produce the next super talented players. However, Germany has had strong team play often throughout the years as well. So Germany – Brazil would obviously also be great. Portugal are France are so talented this year that seeing one of them in the final would also be nice.
    There really is no truly bad final, but the worst in terms of skilled soccer would probably be England vs Ukraine.

  • Majid

    Best: Germany VS Brazil
    Worst: Italy/Ukraine VS England

  • mightie

    worst Ukraine vs (anyone)
    best Argentina vs (anyone)

    … & argentina wins inshallah!

  • athom

    Brazil v france- best
    England/Portugal/Ukraine

  • Rolf Habich

    Best: Germany vs Brazil
    Worst: England vs Ukraine

  • Fran

    Best: Germany v England
    Worst: Italy v Portugal

  • Brendan

    best Germany (as host nation) v England (of course)

    worst USA v Australia (fortunately not now possible-let them stick to their own sports and not try to hijack ours with ex-pats)

  • Tom

    Worst: France v Ukraine

    Best : Portugal v Argentina

    Reality: Germany v Portugal or Brazil

  • Dave Hamilton

    The worst final for everyone but Chelsea would be any final involving Ukraine, but Sepp won’t let that happen. He and his refs did the best they could to insure only “name” teams made it to the QFs.

  • anti

    I only saw England in their game against Sweden, and it was a very good match. Maybe the game against Ecuador was boring, but generally I dont think the English play bad. I beleive they will get past the Portugese, who wont be playing in their best lineup.

    From what i saw from the Ukraine, they have absolutely no chance to get to the finals.

    Best finals would be Brazli vs Argentina, worst Italy vs France

    ( I actually like the French team, but this game could be even more dull than most of France vs. Spain :)))

  • janus

    Best: Portugal v. Argentina
    Worst: England v. Ukraine

  • dan

    Best: Portugal v Brazil, Scholari will whup his former team’s behind and the ‘poor’ Brazilians will cry foul.

    Worst: England v Brazil. Hate both of them. Ukraine v England would be pretty dreadful too. But Ukraine would win!

  • dan

    Oops. That’s some nonsense i wrote there. Read the fixture list wrongly. Those first two fixtures couldn’t occur. Anyway, here’s my ‘new’ predictions.

    Best final: Germany v Brazil
    Worst: England v Italy

  • Relsek

    Best Final: Brazil vs Germany
    Worst Final: Ukraine vs France

  • http://geo10801yahoo.com rogerio

    worst match will be

    ukriane vs. england

    the best match will be

    brasil vs. argentina

    my pick will be
    germany vs. portugal……….

  • http://pepys_s.rediffblogs.com/ mohan

    Best – Argentina vs England (Remember the Falkland War?)

    Worst – Italy vs Portugal ( The ref would run out of Red Cards :) )

  • faraz

    Best – Brazil v Germany
    Worst – Anyone v England

  • Danilo

    The worst;Ukraine-France,
    The best;Germany-France

  • ben

    best BRAZIL vs GERMANY worst UKRAINE vs ARGENTINA

  • mike

    best- italy vs. england
    worst- france vs. ukraine

  • ALex

    Hey. what the f*** are u telling? Ukraine is the best and it is going to win the world cup.

  • scars11

    best final–>GERMANY vs FRANCE
    worst final–> BRAZIL vs ARGENTINA

  • http://wworldcup2006aol.com zzel

    now we have two teams eliminated ukrane and argentina i would say the best final will be germany and brazil the rematch of 2002 and this time the germans are not going to be intimidated by ronaldo and the absense of rivaldo will make them feel more comfortable i am a brazillian fan but i dont see the gretness of adriano if rubinio is feeling good that is the best player who can change the out come for brazil he has so much skill so my guess is germany will win even though i hate to admit that for the first time in my life i was rooting for germany to beat argentina i admire the skills of argentinians but i simply dont like them Brazil is my favourite and i love the english crazy fans who live and die with their teams if england win the world cup i will equally enjoy as a brazilian victory i would say france italy will be scoreless game and italians will win with penalty the french are ok but they are not like the french of 1998 and they were great and played beautiful football in the days of platini and tigana but those days are gone

  • Sam Maxter

    Best Final would be:
    Australia vs Iran

    Worst Final would be:
    Costa Rica vs Trinidad & Tobaggo

  • kool kat

    BEST FINAL:

    South Korea vs. Brazil

    (David vs. Goliath, how it should’ve
    been in 02′)

    WORST FINAL:

    Germany vs. Brazil

    (So obvious, new variety adds spice to
    life)

  • shuai

    Best : France – Germany
    worst : Portugal – Italy

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