Looking Back At My 2022 World Cup Predictions 

Actually, I rightly predicted that Japan would win thier group, Morocco going to the semis, Argentina beating Croatia in the semis and France losing to Argentina in the final through penalties. I was totally right. A small detail I missed to mention is that I made all these predictions after the WC final, but that's not really a biggie right?

I'm astonished that Eto'o actually predicted a semi-final pairing correctly... Like, in all that nonsense he got something quite hard right.

The stars of this world cup were Japan that became Super Sayan against Spain and Germany. Croatia who had a spectacular second run, Morocco who where a real life movie story and of course Argentina with Messi being the last champion of the old football guard that won a dream that he d been chasing for almost 20 years. This Cup was batshit insane and I loved it

Morocco were the team of the tournament. They were a brilliant team to watch and to see an African nation reach the semis while beating some strong opponents was an amazing feat.

That save in extra time won Martinez the golden glove on its own. Epic moment.

Despite all the commotion off the field, this was honestly a great WC with lots of interesting twists and a FANTASTIC finale! 👍👏

I would kill for a Japan vs Morocco match man. The amount of pure insanity in that match would have been legendary.

Martinez wasn't the best GK at the tournament, but he was the goalkeeper of the tournament, you don't have to be the best to win the award, you have to be the most impactful and Martinez was definitely the most impactful GK in his 2 penalty shoot outs and making 2 last second game saving saves in 2 different games, add that all up Martinez affected the outcome of 3 different games, and all 3 games were in the Knockouts, so yeah it's obvious he deserved the golden glove.

Aussie here, you're forgiven for not expecting anything out of us. Nobody here expected us to do anything either. Miracle run that hopefully hasn't been too soured by the FFA, APL, and OSM

I love the British bias with him mentioning Saka as young player of the tournament but not Josko Gvardiol

I must have been one of the few people who backed Morocco over Belgium, it's one of my proudest predictions

To be fair, no one could have possibly predicted half of this world cup

14:45 It's okay, Alfie, Feds Square was brilliant down here. Rather impressive that all of the positivity surrounding it was wrecked by a fortnight after the tournament, but still, it was brilliant.

“Most lethal World Cup ever” well said.

To be fair Alfie, I predicted Argentina to beat France, the problem is that I thought it would be in the round of 16 And I also said Europe would play South America in the final and I was right, but I said it would be Brazil vs Belgium, I seem to be rivalling the Irish Guy in my predictions 😂😂

Ahhh English guy underestimates Croatia, who would have thought.

As a German, I knew Germany would somehow manage to choke it and fail to leave the group 😂

Thank you for reminding me how awful we were 🇷🇸 and how much we hoped to get out of the group

Alfie, you messed up on Cameroon. They did not get eliminated in their second group game. They got a draw against Serbia and only went out because Switzerland got a win against Serbia, if Serbia won by 1 goal or drew, they would have advanced.

I was looking forward to seeing this vid more than seeing the final

Funnily, my anticipation for who would play in the final was 100% on, which I expected wouldn't be the case. Almost everything else I expected WOULD be the case ... was rubbish. Loved every second of it! :D

16:06 "I think there is potential for something crazy to happen in [Group F]." Well, you weren't wrong about that one. 😅🤣

Alfie do a video about all young player award winners at every world cup and how their careers turned out or how their careers are going (in the case of the last 3 tournaments)

Please do a video on position changes that saved careers like Leão and Martinelli from center forward to left wing.

Hahaha I love those call outs at the end! 😂😂👍👏🥳🥳

Yeah, so about Germany: no actual German football fan would have believed they'd make it past the quarters max, many even believed in a Group Stage elimination right from the start. To me, it's still insane how highly rated that German team was from the point of view of some international watchers. The whole discourse in Germany about that world cup was not about football at all (just like in Russia), and it proved detrimental yet again. On that team, maybe three or four players wanted to be there at all and it showed.

Great video, you should keep using the filter you used before. Makes it easier to separate past and present Alfie.

That talksport screenshot got me 😅😂

Going through past world cup, I realized many champions actually lost their first game. Seems it serves like an early wake-up call to put your head down and focus, since such an upset as what happened in this tournament with Argentina and Saudi Arabia could have mentally killed them but seems it actually strengthened their resolve!

Video idea: best 7 World Cup finals - as many claim this one was the best ever, which has a lot arguments for it, but maybe it is a bit too much recency bias?

Predicting the winner is pretty good going!! So fair doo's don't be too hard on yourself I don't think many would have predicted Argentina!

I had Brazil meeting France in the final, with the game ending 2:2 in regulation. So I wasn't that far off.

To be fair to you, almost everyone was backing Qatar to do well as most were under the assumption they had bribed other teams in their group to play badly. Looking back, that was a dumb prediction on everyone’s part 😂😂but even without bribing they should have done better anyway considering they’re Asian champions AND we’re playing on home soil

haha Great job Alfie,you called the winner and you were spot on.

I got right: Japan and Spain progressing the group stage and facing Croatia and Morocco respectively. I also got those results right. I also predicted the match and result of Portugal vs. Morocco. I also predicted Messi winning the thing (he stole it in my eyes). What I couldn't predict was France reaching the final.

6:08 LMAO that justification truly was something else, Alfie! 😅🤣

For those wanting to know what happened in Australia, here's a condensed version of events... Around a week ago the governing body (APL) announced that for though had done a deal to hold the next 3 a leagues man's and women's grand finals in Sydney! This upset majority of fans, players etc as all previous grand finals have the host has won the right by winning it through the finals process. There was side spread condemnation of this from fans and players alike including Craig Goodwin (who some people many know from the world cup) who had quotes misrepresented to show support for the decision, come out on his social media saying he was against it. They had a meeting of clubs bosses which agreed to go ahead with the deal, however I can't remember which club it was but a club boss came out saying the meeting was a farce and they were forced to go along with it or threaten to ruin the league as a whole due to needing the finances from said deal.... So from all this fans organised protests such as walking out at 20th minute or sitting in the stand the camera are on so it looks like no fans are in the stadium etc.... Comes to Saturday just gone and there have already been 2 or 3 games and we get to the Melbourne derby, Melbourne victory v Melbourne city (part of city football group) some victory active supporters bring flares into the stadium and around 20th minute throw them on the field one ends up in the Melbourne city goal box, city keeper picks it up and throws it. Some say he was aiming for a bin to put it out others day he wasn't aiming, my view he threw it without really looking and harder than he realised, flare goes into stand and again reports differ soem say people were already storming pitch others say once flare went into the crowd they stormed the pitch. Regardless there was a pitch invasion and the city keeper was assaulted with a bin to the face which left a cut and concussion, also the ref was assaulted with a punch to the face and a camera man. I would argue the perpetrators were not really fans and there has been a number of comments etc saying that there was a small group agitating to do this kind of thing. Investigations are under way I believe 3 men have handed themselves into police and have been.charged with numerous offences. Police have released imagines of numerous other people they are wanting to talk to. So powers that be making stupid decisions based on money started a sh!t storm of angry fans and further events lead to said explosion

Neuer missed some pretty easy saves. He hasn’t been at his best for a while. A shame as Ter Stegen has been brilliant recently, but Neuer’s rep and status at Bayern sees him start as #1 keeper. Maybe Ter Stegen would’ve kept one of Japan’s goals out.

Alfie, the most lethal WC of all time is the 1978 tournament (Argentine junta) where people were being killed in the streets DURING GAMES

I don't think it was necessary to replay all the clips from the other video ^^, but I am of course happy to be featured :D. I had some proper predictions and some bad ones as most people I suppose, but that's the beauty of the game. This world cup was an absolute banger and I loved it, aside from the whole Qatar thing, of course.

Don't feel bad, Alfie - it never crossed my mind that Argentina could ACTUALLY win (as they're always "favourites" and always bottle it in the end) I genuinely thought it would be either France or England (the match outcome was 50/50 for me) Obviously I never expected Morocco to do so well, Spain and Germany going out early didn't really surprised me, Belgium though - did. Also Croatia played well as I expected them to.

Those were my predictions: Group A: 1. Netherlands 2. Ecuador 3. Senegal 4. Qatar Group B: 1. England 2. Wales 3. Iran 4. USA Group C: 1. Argentina 2. Poland 3. Mexico 4. Saudi Arabia Group D: 1. Denmark (I went really bold there) 2. France 3. Australia 4. Tunisia Group E: 1. Spain 2. Japan 3. Germany 4. Costa Rica Group F: 1. Croatia 2. Belgium 3. Morocco 4. Canada Group G: 1. Serbia 2. Switzerland 3. Brazil 4. Cameroon Group H: 1. Portugal 2. Uruguay 3. Ghana 4. South Korea R16’s: Netherlands-Wales 3:1 Ecuador-England 1:2 Argentina-France 3:2 Poland-Denmark 1:1 (1:2 after Extra Time) Spain-Belgium 3:1 Japan-Croatia 1:1 (4:5 after Penalties) Serbia-Uruguay 0:0 (1:0 in ET) Switzerland-Portugal 2:1 QF: Netherlands-Argentina 2:0 England-Denmark 1:3 Spain-Serbia 5:2 Croatia-Switzerland 3:0 SF: Netherlands-Spain 1:1 (7:6 after Penalties) Denmark-Croatia 0:1 Match for Third Place: Spain-Denmark 4:1 Final: Netherlands-Croatia 2:2 (4:4 after ET; 9:7 after Penalties)

Why did you pick Ghana over Korea? Ended up being a good prediction but the rankings were so different I thought any standard analysis would have put group h as POR, URU, KOR, GHA in that order

Honestly Alfie, as far as predictions go, that wasn't half bad.

Alfie, can you possibly do a vid on the rise and fall of FBK Kaunas? Mad story and played some big European Clubs.

"I told you prediction videos were rubbish. Well, your's certainly are" hahahaha class

Team of the tournament IMO: Livakovic Hakimi - T. Silva - Gvardiol - T. Hernandez Griezmann - Amrabat - Modric Messi - J. Alvarez - Mbappe

Alfie dnt we think its worth looking into qatars asain cup win ??........cause based on the performances here i cannot see how they were able to beat anyone of any quality let alone japan !!! was the tournament fixed to make them look better than they are in the lead up to the world cup and to justify their fifa world ranking ??🤔🤔

I had Brazil, Argentina and France as the main contenders and the later 2 were in the final against each other so I was quite accurate

As an Aussie really appreciate the sentiment towards our issue at home with football.

You put Croatia in last place in the group and we finished with bronze 😂🤦‍♂️🥉🇭🇷

Didn't make any predictions myself as it's usually an exercise in self-humiliation but applause to everyone who did regardless of their success.

Your Croatia call in the group stage was your biggest howler.

Actually I wasn't that wrong with some prediction especially on the knockout stage: -Since 2002 Brazil loses the Quaterfinals (Except 2014 for being hosts) with European teams. And these loses came by ego fight (2006) or because the team lacks of talent and/or leadership. Brazil doesn't have the sense of suffering and surviving, so when an European team came as main adversary they tend to be smaller and didn't react properly (Like Argentina did in this WC) -England is just jinxed. When I saw Giroud's goal, I knew England was screwed.

I got 13 out of 16 teams getting out of the groups. Also had the England France side completely right with France getting beat in the final unfortunately I had brazil winning it with Spain & Argentina making the Semi finals.

Oh Alfie, we love you!

Like you said...what matters is that you pick the champion...Well Done Alfie FWIW I also thought England would find a way to sneak past France... In closing...GREATEST WC Final EVER! #NotDebatable

This was truly such an entertaining cup. I understand it was a guilty pleasure but there were so many good matches the whole way through

So what’s gonna happen to most of the stadiums now that the World Cup is over?

Moving onto Nostradamus are we eh😂

DAY 60: Hey Alfie, could you do a video on the life, career, controversies and tragedy of Justin Fashanu. It'd be your best video yet and it's a criminally underheard story. ❤️

Dont feel bad about Australia. As an Aussie myself, I was surprised Pikachu face about Australia wining 2 games too. I didnt expect them to win any games at all.

damn, you're a genius.

you picked the winner - I think that’s solid lol

Hahaha, thanks for reading my prediction out. No one should ever listen to me. I'm the one who stuck £20 on Hull to be promoted next summer. :D

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Funny thing is my prediction for the final was accurate lol.

My final prediction before it started was a final between Brazil vs Portugal with Brazil winning it all 😭

alfie recorded his predictions in mexico, going off of the filter

You don't need to apologise to Aussies, none of us expected things to go that well either!

14:49 - I’m an Aussie but I have no idea what you’re referring to when you mention you are ‘saddened by post World Cup events’ Am I living under a rock lol, what happened?

Messi was also the first player to get penalties in each of the games

As a Dane, those optimistic predictions make me sad 😢

Alfie, can you make a video re the goings on with the APL, A-Leagues and fans in Australia I’d love to hear your input on the topic as it’s been absolutely massive in my day to day life currently

I predicted a 2-2 then extra time then penalties. But before the match, not before the finals began. It was a drunken guess the night before.

I literally predicted that it's gonna be Arg - 2 - 2 - Fra on the normal time! Same in the extra time and Win on 4-3 by France. (Yea I was on France) And at 75', I wrote on my left hand : ' I thank you Mbappe, for this wonderful goal that made Arg - 2 - 1 - Fra. Really didn't want to lose to 2-0' !!!!!! Then at 80', Mbappe scored a penalty! You could guess how my reaction was!

tbh i was hoping for an argentina vs england final, but the one we got was cool too

Good video Alfie

Am i the only one who felt the world cup played out like scripted reality tv?

Expectation: Brazil lost to Germany again but Reality is Croatia beat Brazil by penalty shootout because Germany eliminated from group stage for the 2nd time in a row

What's ur top 10, all time

As an Aussie subscriber I think I might need some more Australian mentions in videos before I fully accept you’re apology brother

As an Aussie I also thought we were gonna go out 0-0-3, glad to be wrong tho

Messi had all that match fixing handing him pens left and right, and he still couldn’t win the golden boot 😂 😂

I started my predictions at the Round of 16 and got 14/16 matches right

What happened to Australia after World Cup?

This Aussie forgives you Alfie. We all wrote them off. We were glad to wrong is an understatement. But within 2 weeks of one great football moment for our country, we had the shitshow of the grand final decision and the events at my home town

I also chose argentina spain final. Argentina winning but my group predictions were much better than yours😉

I think Serbia let down A LOT of people this WC, so we won't fault you too hard for that one, Alfie. 😄

Whats happened in Argentina

Group stages i got group C and H perfect group A was awful with qatar in knockouts in B iran and usa was wrong way around group E and F was awful with germany and belgium doing awful i did predict an upset in D but i predicted Tunisia to be the upset and not the auzzis and finally i put Switzerland 3rd and serbia 2nd

Man, it would really help if you indicated where the old footage starts and ends - the sound is the same and the slideshow doesn't help, can't watch till the end, all jumbled.

Group E and F screwed up 98% of all predictions. Stunning cups for Japan Morocco and Croatia 🤣

Picking the goalkeeper of one of the teams you expect to go out in the semi final to win the golden ball really might be the strangest and one of the worst predictions I've seen on RU-vid 🤣🤣

LMAO!! Alfie, this was a horror show. Total car crash😂😂😂

Ronaldo would quote "show me " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I find it hilarious that you refuse to admit that you were wrong about Southgate too

What conflict of interest between Messi and Saudi Arabia are you talking about?? Messi plays for PSG which is owned by the qatari, not Saudi

You forgot the best young player at this tournament Josko Gvardiol

Poor frank lowy @ 1:26