Germany – Curaçao
What can you even say here? The challenge is guessing how many goals Germany will score against a team that nobody really knows. And those "nobodies" were mostly born and raised in the Netherlands. So basically, it's the Netherlands B team, but on a budget.
Did you watch yesterday's matches? Switzerland and Turkey had huge advantages and still managed to throw their games away. How do teams manage to bottle matches while having 80% possession? Oscar-worthy performances. So if Curaçao somehow manages to grab a point here, I don't think anyone would be shocked anymore.
But let's talk football.
Let's compare the squad values. Germany's 26-man squad is worth around a billion dollars. Curaçao's squad is worth about $25 million. That's a 40-to-1 ratio, so theoretically the score should be 40-0. But this is football, and many national teams have mastered the art of spending 96
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