The World Cup: Costa Rica

ThisDrinkingLife and The World Cup: Costa Rica

Little Costa Rica were my favourite team in the last World Cup, playing some great counter attacking football, with passion and no fear for the big names, going on an amazing run that was just about halted by the Dutch in a penalty shootout in the last eight of the World Cup. Brilliant. I’d settle for even half of that excitement again!

Keylor Navas and Joel Campbell made names for themselves in the last World Cup and are back again for another adventure. Otherwise they dont really have any other stand out players in the squad. But is that any different to last time round? I certainly didn’t expect them to get up to much in 2014 and they ended up causing shock after shock, so who knows what gems lie in their squad this time round.

Apart from Brazil, I fully expect Costa Rica to give both Serbia and Switzerland a hard time, and wouldn’t be surprised at all if they came out of those two encounters with six points. Playing Serbia first they really need to start with a win, as they have Brazil up after and I fear for them in that game. Switzerland could be a game where both teams need a draw to progress and it could be tight, but Id fancy Costa Rica to have that little bit more skill to shine through. If they come out of the group they more than likely then will play Germany, so that’s the end of that!