Magic Matt's Match-Day Machination Part II

Here's my picks:

Group A - France, Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay
Group B - Argentina, Nigeria, Greece, South Korea
Group C - England, USA, Slovenia, Algeria
Group D - Germany, Ghana, Serbia, Australia
Group E - Netherlands, Cameroon, Denmark, Japan
Group F - Italy, Paraguay, Slovakia, New Zealand
Group G - Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast, North Korea
Group H - Spain, Chile, Switzerland, Honduras

And here's how they finished:

Group A - Uruguay, Mexico, South Africa, France
Group B - Argentina, South Korea, Greece, Nigeria
Group C - USA, England, Slovenia, Algeria
Group D - Germany, Ghana, Australia, Serbia
Group E - Netherlands, Japan, Denmark, Cameroon
Group F - Paraguay, Slovakia, New Zealand, Italy
Group G - Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast, North Korea
Group H - Spain, Chile, Switzerland, Honduras

Not too bad, except for France and Italy collapsing. There's only been a handful of good games so far, and not many spectacular games. On the down side are the stupid trumpets, half-empty stadiums, lots of ball issues and lack of Martin Tyler commentary.

Here's my new picks for the rest of the games:

Round Of 16 - Uruguay, USA, Netherlands, Brazil, England, Argentina, Japan, Spain
Quarter Finals - Uruguay def USA, Brazil def Netherlands, Argentina def England, Spain def Japan
Semi Finals - Brazil def Uruguay, Spain def Argentina
Final - Brazil def Spain

It's a bit of a joke that Uruguay, South Korea, USA and Ghana have one section of the draw. One of those crummy teams has to make the semi finals, while Brazil and Netherlands meet up in the quarter finals.