OWNING UP to my TERRIBLE World Cup PREDICTIONS | 2022 World Cup Prediction Reaction

[@arjunmohandas8870]

Even being an Argentinian fan , I feel sad that worldcup s over. I wish like going back to group stages when every team n every player was there. 4 games a day that s the daily dose of happiness. One of the best wcups and we have already given farewell to many legends

[@amine4412]

I think we witnessed the best World Cup ever played. I miss it too

[@vesenx]

While everything was crazy going into the World Cup, the football played and underdog stories were some of the best I’ve seen. Definitely will remember this World Cup for awhile

[@andres7_dragneel]

I will forever remember this World Cup

[@Toxic-th4si]

So will the world

[@dunnowy123]

An amazing WC. My friend picked Morocco as one of his 4 teams, because he'd visited and wanted to show them some love. Little did he know Morocco (and correctly choosing Argentina) would seal the deal!

[@Sandworm779]

Morocco was the only unforseen. I actually predicted an Argentina wc victory from the group stage

[@Biskawow]

you had an insider in FIFA?

[@kageryu311]

Did you forsee Japan, Australia, or Korea?

[@DrZaius3141]

@@Biskawow Their last loss before Saudi Arabia was in July of 2019. Everyone unbiased would at least have given them a solid chance.

[@stealthiscool]

@@DrZaius3141 and probably the last team to go into a World cup as hot as Argentina was Spain in 2010 and they also lost their first game but went on to win the competition regardless of that.

[@Sandworm779]

I knew Germany will choke so yeah. I actually bet against them every time

[@juliusfrancisgomes4802]

Adrian, first of all, among all the football analysis channels I follow you were the only one who predicted Argentina to be the eventual champions. Not only you were correct in guessing the name of the winners, you were correct in predicting why they would be the champions. You focused on 2 major strengths of Argentina, UNITY and FLEXIBILITY. In hindsight, we can all say that UNITY played a huge part in getting back up from the defeat against Saudi Arab, however, Scaloni's tactical flexibility was the key to this success. For me, it was also not only the wish of Scaloni to tinker with different formations and tactics, more about how all the individual players were able to cope with various systems. For sure, not all tactics looked excellent, but they were effective at the end of the day. Huge shout out to you for focusing on the Flexibility side, especially when you think Argentina only used to play with either 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 formation for the last 3 years. In this one month, they added 4-3-1-2, 3-5-2. 5-3-2, and 4-2-2-2.

[@swee2251]

It's understandable. Unlike where I live, most countries don't show the majority of the games that don't involve their teams.

[@david3188col]

Belgium and Brasil were my worst predictions on teams going far. Called Germany going out. Called Spain falling short early. Called England out against France. Had Brasil winning it all with France getting 2nd place. And Argentina out in Semi Final against Brazil. Decent bracket, but I made the mistake of doubting the GOAT and Scaloni. Also, by far the best WC final of my lifetime. Amazing game. Even if I lost money betting on France, it was worth it. The GOAT got the only award missing in his long list of accolades.

[@froglifes6829]

WC 2014 and 2010 were better in my opinion

[@david3188col]

@Frog/Life S the tournament as a whole yes. The final game, this was the best no question

[@froglifes6829]

@@david3188col Yes the final was the best final in a long time. As for the whole tournament id say 2010 is better. More exciting matchups like spain vs portugal,the good old germany vs england and argentina,ghana beating usa,paraguay beating japan,brazil vs netherlands...In my opinion 2010 tournmanet was better but the 2022 final is the best

[@SoulAlmighty1660]

i wanted argentina to win too but i doubted scaloni too cause i didnt know dybala was injured

[@cotnesiradze3520]

Love the sticker albums. Still have mine from the 2008 Euro.

[@mohammadalathamena3251]

I won my office pool! Thanks to my pick since the beginning of the WC to win it. I was second most of the tournament until the end when I had Argentina and first place had France and I won. I love you videos and your world cup content was amazing!!! Hope you enjoy your holidays with family and we'll see you in the new year :)

[@rgqwerty63]

Just a quick suggestion: Maybe have the footage of your predictions edited to be in black and white, or inside a smaller border. Just so we can tell when its current you vs past you speaking

[@WorisonTV]

9:24 The coach of Morocco totally changed the formation of Morocco due injuries we had. we haven't played with our two main center backs Aguerd and Saiss, Mazraoui was injured, Hakimi didn't give his 100% because he was injured and exausted too, Selim Amallah was not playing...we played 5 at the backs, like of course we gonna lose what do you expect, imagine we played with the same team and formation we did against Portugal Spain and Belgium and Canada, we would of at least had a draw against France and Bono would save us again in penalties.

[@MikaelLV]

Really enjoyed this world cup. Better than both 2018 and 2010.

[@husain4718]

I honestly thought Uruguay would make a deep run. 😂

[@TachoSJ]

Same 😅

[@biggiedii4889]

I knew right after their first game against Korea that they weren't going to the knockouts. They were horrible.

[@mattpotter8725]

Thanks for doing a reaction to your predictions. I think you got a lot right, but it's always hard to predict certain things, especially because at the middle level I think it's becoming a lot closer in quality with Asian and especially African teams making strides (and I don't want to downplay them, but having watched a turgid African Cup of Nations fina that was very defensivel I did wonder how they'd go). Having said all this I'm not sure just getting the top 2 in the group stages right is enough, where you said a team would finish first and they finished 3rd or even 4th you needed to be hot harder (sorry, it has to be said). It is almost impossible to predict these things though so I would be happy with your predictions. It's very difficult to think that teams like Belgium and even Germany, who haven't been at all good for a while now, will lose to and go out to smaller countries in footballing terms. There isn't much between Germany and Japan for example, and I've always thought that Martinez has had his shortcomings whilst overseeing a very talented group of players. Maybe going into future tournaments unless new exciting players come through, or a quality manager/coach takes over and rejuvenates a national team, the myth of some of these countries will be less of an automatic choice over lesser known teams. It's still not easy though even with this in mind.

[@M.Sajid98]

This unpredictability is why I absolutely loved this world cup and from the 5 world cups I have watched so far in my life (since 2006) I will say this was the best one so far and I know recency bias is a real so maybe that is why I am leaning towards it so I don't know let us see what happens in 3.5 years. Anyway, now back to Europa league 😅

[@maximus1318able]

Man I remember having those panini stickers and books from the late 80's early 90's. They had every sport. I remember the smell of the sticker packs.

[@TheLMBLucas]

I love how everyone forgets that something unpredictable will happen with 2 or 3 teams EVERY SINGLE WORLD CUP. While Morocco was a surprise, a weak team getting that far, was actually not.

[@froglifes6829]

I wouldnt say that they are a weak team since they got 4th place in the world. More like an unexpected team. Most of their players play for european teams so their level is higher than the average african players.

[@TheLMBLucas]

@@froglifes6829 I believe this is the 2nd time ever they made it out of group stage and the last one was in 1986. And while I don't think that De Bruyne is a big deal, Belgium also has players in European leagues and even in some of the top 15 or 20 strongest teams. Morocco got 4th place this cup, doesn't count, they were weak before the cup, they even changed the boss recently and were not the African champions.

[@froglifes6829]

@@TheLMBLucas It doesnt matter if they were weak BEFORE the world cup. They are clearly not a weak team since they placed 4th in the world beating spain,portugal and belgium...Thats not a weak team..

[@TheLMBLucas]

@@froglifes6829 It matters because you are missing my point lol. I'm saying that it's common for a team with no records of being very good before the WC, to achieve a lot and surprise the world... the thing is that we don't know which one will be, but there is always one

[@khal7702]

what a final! Happy to watch it with u. You're my go to guy for "soccer"

[@uriustosh]

One might even say it's about the mistakes we make along the way. Argentina got in.

[@willemstadartgroup4576]

Great channel. I had Argentina from the start but I am wrong 99% of the time. Glad to be right this time. Enjoy your break

[@vladimirad]

Waiting for word on the office winner! My chances blew up with the Croatia and Morocco runs but I did ultimately pick Argentina to win and France’s route.

[@fiftysteps]

Best World Cup in the last 30 years easy. Happy for the dark horses and there were many. Was really hoping to see more from countries like Ecuador and Serbia, Senegal, who were stacked. The drama and chaos these games caused....just amazing for the sport.

[@10lauset]

Cheers. Waiting for the next one and hoping for a game in Edmonton.

[@sergiofernandes9106]

Hey, can you make video about potential Portugal national team coaches or who would you think would be successful with the current squad.

[@hkmarhk]

Yeah, I was able to get every winner of the knockout stage, except for the games won by Croatia/Morocco. Thankfully I was still able to correctly guess the winner and runner up of the world cup.

[@AKUNJIG]

Japan went "Blue Lock".Croatia Locked it down. Morocco turned into Colonizers. It's awesome to have Three Cinderella Stories in this World Cup.

[@BojanF]

tl;dr never bet against Croatia. Well, almost never but you get my point

[@ClaymoreRoomba66]

Hey Adrian, I have a bunch of duplicate stickers for the album if your interested! I also have a couple extra red, blues and purples

[@powerplant12345]

As much as i love club Football, this world cup really made me forget about it for a whole month. Looking forward to the liga mx season now

[@genepirate7114]

12/16 group stage (75%) 7/8 round of 16 (88%) 2/4 round of 8 (50%) 1/2 semifinal (50%) 1/1 final (100%) 23/31 overall (74.1%) fun fact 9/64 games correct to the scoreline

[@massimodelpaggio7527]

You need to collab with the IFTV guys!! Antonio is a gem!

[@mohamedalighouse4353]

My best prediction was 1. Japan to go thru 2. Croatia to reach final ( i had them winning the group and meeting Arg in final) 3. Belgium to be crap. Didnt expect Morocco or Portugal to be so good.

[@Wladislav]

Japan finishing first in their group and Uruguay being awful really ruined my predictions. At least I got the final 100% right.

[@mimomp]

that wc made me cry bro 🥲

[@cvkm]

I got Germany correct since I based it on their terrible Euro performance which turned to be right. I sucked at Belgium.

[@jinnys4338]

My firm did a World Cup sweep. 32 people (inc myself) chipped in 15 and got randomly allocated a country. $300 if your team finished 1st, $120 if you finished 2nd and $60 if you finished 3rd. I got France. Genuinely thought I’d be out in the group stages or Round of 16s cause ya know World Cup curse and so many of France’s top players were out with injuries. Did not expect them to go all the way to the finals. For me, it was a win-win situation cause either I won $300 or $120 and Messi got to end his career with the World Cup. I was actually rooting so hard for Argentina in the final match. 😂

[@daniellaszlo8626]

I am gonna steal the idea sounds like so much fun

[@Jazz-mj5tx]

I did not predict, but wanted Argentina to win, as they are the only big nation I have not seen lifting the trophy (watching from 1998) and that happened.

[@BC-th3mx]

Lol, you don't include England

[@yuritussolini1347]

Adrian, salute the Concacaf kings. USA 🇺🇸 all the way. Please cover the under20 World Cup! Really enjoyed the channel throughout the World Cup

[@hamletwatson5561]

@RabonaTV can you please do a video on the juve situation it’s hard to figure out what’s going on

[@bemo8943]

Idk how I'm supposed to go back to watching Potterball after this insane tourney

[@Zeus57234]

So my world cup finals prediction was Argentina winning the whole thing... after beating Belgium 😑

[@BeakaD]

Same lol

[@JuanVilorio]

Our KZbin football nostradamus overlord Adrian is getting worse at this prediction stuff lol 😂 🤣

[@Maj1794]

Sad that the world cup is over 😢

[@freddiemarien]

Which WC was better? 2014 or 2022

[@BeakaD]

2018 🗿

[@vinny9177]

I think overall 2014 was better ya know the whole Brazilian vibe you just can’t beat it but, that 2022 final was probably literally the greatest sporting event in history of mankind 😂😂😂

[@EvieWillNotDie]

I too got 9/16 for the groups but got 7/8 ro16 correct, 3/4 quarter finals correct, both semi finals correct as well and of course the final too. 71% correct in the craziest world cup ever is pretty good

[@kageryu311]

Adrian I predicted Morocco making it out of their group but no one ever has faith in African teams.

[@RabonaTV]

Great shout! I had Senegal getting out, I'm sure many did though.

[@eoghaininfacundodiarmuid]

It's ok to be wrong as long as good things happen. I was wrong about Argentina's prospects of winning this World Cup. But I am a lifelong Argentina fan so I feel so happy I got my prediction wrong.

[@PeacePetal]

I had Argentina going all the way!

[@Itz_TJ]

Shame I’m no longer a betting man. Long before it kicked off, had Argentina as the winner. Also had France making it to the Semi’s…Got my Brazil prediction wrong. Nonetheless, it was an interesting WC.

[@khal7702]

this World Cup got me interested in football again, haven't been interested since 2002, mostly since in US there is no good football.

[@tomasmateus17]

My big achievement was guessing portugal v marroco quarter final :>

[@uriustosh]

You're a wizard Leo

[@joelmonteiro1419]

Worst predictions I remember seeing on this channel, but it was a very atypical World Cup. A ton of historically small teams surprising the world.

[@domenicdaluz]

Hey I got a messi Panini card, how much you reckon I can get for it?

[@hoanglongtran2707]

The Quatari spent some hundred billions on the project, let them fix some matches for ez money :)

[@MotswanaTota-012]

The prediction I got right was Mexico stinking up this tournament. Everything else, oh my! Why did I have to like pedri and back Spain for his sake

[@Luijbi]

This was certainly one of the world cups of all time

[@croskoal]

This year has been so shit that I couldn't even complete the panini album... broke my streak going back to the 1990 WC

[@Čangrizavi_Cinik]

You forgot about the bronze medal match.

[@DanielCantonaGarrod]

we

[@jeddeeks]

Great world cup for the underdogs: Japan, South Korea, Senegal and Australia getting out of the group stages and especially Morocco and Croatia who made it all the way to the semi finals!

[@froglifes6829]

why croatia? they were 2nd in the world in 2018. I wouldnt call them underdogs.And south korea is the 2nd best asian football country.

[@mthokozisinkomoxulu8097]

I Predicted England,Spain And France To Crash Out At The Groups...There Is Shame.

[@bojanbilandzija9761]

And the game for the 3rd place?

[@Llekamania]

The most unpredictable world cup of all time.

[@boisesoccer]

My group stage predictions were horrible, but I did get the winner of the World Cup right.

[@kamanuvidiluis3952]

Marry Christmas

[@tirusew]

Predicted France. My team since 1982 other than any African teams

[@dvdv8197]

Omg... ROBERTO MARTINEZ takes over as coach for Portugal?? Talk about replacing Santos with an even less inspired person who doomed arguably even MORE talented players... I wonder how you react(ed) to this news...

[@SR-kq2tz]

Nah I was goated, Argentina, France, Portugal for me...group stage lets just say up and downs, put canada and belgium going through so...

[@tirusew]

The Greatest World Cup Final game ever

[@AnteGV1950]

I'm glad that Croatia fooled you...i hope it will continue in the future!!!

[@GiftWrapped]

Wow if I would have bet on my choice I would have been having a party 😊

[@jeemoon1626]

There is no way I could have predicted this WC, but I had Argentina winning the whole thing.

[@yasserglemitch7210]

They didn't give us room or they didn't give us penalties which one is it 🤔

[@abhishekdey9717]

For me it was a dream run guys other than that Saudi game 🙏🏻🥳😊

[@yourcat6341]

See you in 3 1/2 years chief 🫡

[@domenicdaluz]

I have a question for all you were going to TV fans, after Messi has won the world Cup do you still rate ronaldo, doesn't no longer matter that he's scored more goals than anyone in the world, or is all that not important because Messi has won the world Cup? Edit: is there a goat debate

[@sheldonfriesen8901]

I did!! I won a betting pool! 200 USD!!

[@anamitrasikdar9115]

Vamos Argentina 🇦🇷

[@milk__teee]

My predictions were fucking accurate, I predicted Argentina would win, I predicted the big upset would be France + Germany going out in the group stages, honestly I mainly predicted a Argentina vs Brazil final.

[@ivarboneless999sigma7]

Bruh its always luck for croatia .. If its only luck for Croatiq, why didnt Brasil do better than? If u watched u would see it was quite balanced game, there isnas much luck there as any other game. Luck only gave them extra step, not make them 1000% better..

[@sam_sa09]

Agreed

[@RabonaTV]

I did watch, and in a previous video I spoke about how luck only takes you so far and you have to do the rest. It's okay to admit luck against Belgium (Lukaku and his 4 chances to eliminate) and Brazil (no shot on target for almost two hours and it was a deflected strike to tie it). Everyone needs luck, everyone has some, it's okay to admit Croatia had some, it's not a slur.

[@ivarboneless999sigma7]

@@RabonaTV Its just how u take it. If for example Lukaku 4chances were luck for Croatia, than Mbappe's hat trick is also just luck. Or in other view if Mbappes hat trick is skill, Lukakus chances are lack of finishing quality or bad form. Obviously there is good and bad luck everywhere, its just that in case of Croatia u tend to mention luck way more, than lets say Argentina...

[@PONR2006]

I don't think it's fair to imply that Croatia got to third place just by luck. They reached second place four years ago for a reason and have plenty to feel proud about.

[@captainfalconmain6576]

I think it’s because Belgium literally bottle it agaist crotia an the final match day 😂

[@branislavkonjevic9159]

Don't ever bet against Croatia!

[@benhaney9629]

Mine were quite good. Argentina v France in the Finals. Argentina winning. Belgium and Germany not getting out of group. Morocco fucked me of course.

[@benhaney9629]

And I had Qatar getting out of group. Assumed the fix was in there.

[@MrJoey889]

I predicted terribly 🙃

[@jerryjerry20]

EVIL got the better of Good... France lost 😔...⚽⚽⚽ps: lol Di Maria 🙏

[@deezgutz5330]

Pepe predicted correct 🤣😅

[@rufnek3124]

FIFA really wanted messi to win the world cup. any thoughts on how angel Di maria winning the penalty, not even once the referee thought of looking to the VAR

[@trevorjoneill707]

i died a death

[@Ivan-hb3co]

Semifinals is when we started to see VAR being used / not used when it suits the agenda... 🙄

[@Jevus_7]

11 mins🫢

[@jerryjerry20]

EVIL got the better of Good... France lost 😔...⚽⚽⚽ps: lol Di Maria 🙏

[@Jaxymann]

I had Germany to reach the semis and England to bring it home 💀💀

[@rohittroy6012]

second

[@hazycoco]

Bad

[@con1676]

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[@sam_sa09]

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[@chadultrapromax1735]

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[@sam_sa09]

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[@con1676]

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[@Ponskippa]

I was expecting a France V Spain semi final. I feel like there was better teams than Argentina in the tournament. Y’all can talk shit to me all y’all want but it was rigged. It’s so obvious lol.

[@Ponskippa]

@peskxng4476 ok bandwagoner

[@HADEZFIRE147]

This is the best World Cup ever. First of all, I knew Argentina would win, even after the Saudi Arabia game. I just knew they’d pull through. My friend and I made a bet that whoever gets the winner right must buy the other an official authentic jersey of their choosing. He picked Brazil, I picked Argentina. He taunted me after the Saudi loss and every time Argentina would win, he would just get salty (especially after Brazil went home) and would constantly talk smack about Messi and the team, but I never responded to him. I kept quiet. I knew Messi would do the talking for me. He even made little side bets with. Basically, my friend betted against Argentina the whole time and lost $50 and now owes me an authentic 3 star Argentina messi jersey. Victory!

[@Croatian_Sensation]

No 3rd place prediction? Missed the second most important game

[@mikexstad1121]