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" With a festival of football about to take over your TV screens for the summer, we caught up with the BBC pundits and presenters heading out to Brazil to ask the big questions. Who is going to win it? Are England doomed? And what on earth do we do if it goes to penalties? England&amp;#039;s chances?  Things don&amp;#039;t look too cheery for Roy&amp;#039;s boys. Getting out of the group stage is being treated as a major achievement, and even getting that far is being too optimistic for some of the pundits. Mark Chapman: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t see them getting out of the group. I don&amp;#039;t know if that makes me pessimistic, realistic or what. I just can&amp;#039;t seem them getting past Uruguay. Thankfully, I think fans are more realistic and the media are being more realistic this time. We haven&amp;#039;t seen any England players wrapped in the St George&amp;#039;s flag saying they&amp;#039;re going to bring it back.&amp;quot; Jason Roberts: &amp;quot;I think the low expectations could work to England&amp;#039;s advantage. I sense an optimism about the way England are approaching the tournament. You look at the group and it&amp;#039;s going to be a tough group to get out of, but I think the exciting thing for England fans is the attacking options.  &amp;quot;People like Sturridge and Ross Barkley - it&amp;#039;s exciting for those players and exciting for us guys to watch. There are goals in this team - Rooney, Sterling - we have the tools. What I&amp;#039;m interested in is the shape of the team and how we go about this tournament. We have the team and players to go attack.&amp;quot;  Dan Walker: I can see them getting out the group. If Hodgson picks the right side. A solid back four, Gerrard in front, then the key is our attack, which is youthful and exciting. We&amp;#039;re never going to win it, but I think we can get to the knock-outs.&amp;quot; Brad Friedel: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m pretty confident now England will go through. When the draw was made, I thought it would be Italy and Uruguay, but I think England have improved. I&amp;#039;m really excited to see how Roy plays Sterling. If you&amp;#039;ve got pace like that, you can set up to high press, you can set up to counter attack. It just gives you so many more options.&amp;quot; Kevin Kilbane: &amp;quot;I think they&amp;#039;ll get out of the group. I think in the first game against Italy they&amp;#039;ll get a result and I think if they do, they&amp;#039;ll get through. As long as we get a nil-nil or a 1-1 draw, they&amp;#039;ll be OK. I don&amp;#039;t think it will be free-scoring.&amp;quot; Chris Waddle: &amp;quot;Realistically, if they get out of the group, they&amp;#039;ve done well. You&amp;#039;ll need a bit of luck. You never know, Italy or Uruguay could get a sending off and things could go our way. But if everything goes according to plan, we&amp;#039;d do very well to get out of the group. It&amp;#039;s definitely not going to be easy.&amp;quot; Martin Keown: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think we&amp;#039;ve got any aspirations to win it, but we&amp;#039;re in better health than we were in this time last year. I love Sterling, I like Barkley. These are players we can be proud to watch play. Roy&amp;#039;s a manager full of experience and this is his team. &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s at the stage where he trusts the players as well, which is really important. Roy gave a lot of these youngsters their big chance, so I think he&amp;#039;s willing to take risks, which is a positive. We look settled and stable, which is great.&amp;quot; Who is going to win?  If you haven&amp;#039;t got Brazil or Argentina in your World Cup sweepstake, then you&amp;#039;re probably going to be out of luck. Only John Motson and Danny Mills appear to give much hope to anyone outside the big South American pairing. Danny Murphy: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going for Argentina, for one reason - Messi. If he&amp;#039;s fit and sharp, he could be the big difference. Brazil have a good team, but they don&amp;#039;t have that type of player like Messi.&amp;quot; Chris Waddle: &amp;quot;It looks like Brazil or Argentina if everything goes to plan. That&amp;#039;s basically a derby match. It&amp;#039;s Liverpool vs Man United on an international scale. It could go either way with those two. Brazil could freeze under the pressure, or Argentina could find it too much if they go a goal down.&amp;quot; Kevin Kilbane: &amp;quot;I think Brazil will win it. Overall, they&amp;#039;ve got the best squad of players and as long as the pressure of playing at home doesn&amp;#039;t get to them, they&amp;#039;ll win it.&amp;quot;  John Motson: &amp;quot;Everyone says that a European team can&amp;#039;t win it, but I&amp;#039;m not so sure. Everyone is used to playing everyone else these days, I&amp;#039;m not so sure it will have that big an effect.&amp;quot; Danny Mills: &amp;quot;You can never write Germany off, you definitely can&amp;#039;t write Spain off - they&amp;#039;ve got a striker this time, which is something they haven&amp;#039;t had before, and don&amp;#039;t discount the Italians. They know how to play tournament football. They know how to win knock-out football. The French have some great players, if they don&amp;#039;t have a fight, they could really do something. They have a pretty decent run-in as well.&amp;quot; Martin Keown: &amp;quot;Brazil. When the team plays, it&amp;#039;s their chance to give some happiness to the nation. They are playing with such passion and drive. Their manager knows what it takes to win a World Cup, Neymar is a special player and I think if anyone is going to win the World Cup, they&amp;#039;re going to have to overcome all of that.&amp;quot; Brad Friedel: &amp;quot;Brazil is my tip. Everything should be working in their favour with the home support and the conditions. But I can see Argentina doing well, Spain doing well and Belgium look like a really great team also.&amp;quot; Mark Chapman: &amp;quot;I think Brazil. They were so impressive in the Confederations Cup. The only question mark is Neymar, but if he&amp;#039;s on form and mentally right, they&amp;#039;re going to be difficult to stop.&amp;quot; Dan Walker: &amp;quot;I think Argentina are probably my pick. They&amp;#039;ve finally found a place in that team and a system for Messi. It&amp;#039;s hard to look beyond Argentina and Brazil.&amp;quot; Oh god, penalties!  If it goes to penalties, should England fans just give up all hope?  USA goalkeeping legend Brad Friedel thinks it&amp;#039;s purely &amp;quot;a mental thing&amp;quot;, and that the players need to focus on the &amp;quot;positive outcomes&amp;quot; rather than fear the negatives.  But what one piece of advice does the man who famously fluffed one in 1990 wish to pass on to the class of 2014 should it come down to spot-kicks? &amp;quot;Don&amp;#039;t take one,&amp;quot; laughs Chris Waddle. Waddle admits he&amp;#039;s watched the 1990 game back (&amp;quot;I watched it from back to front. It got better&amp;quot;), and said that he thought England&amp;#039;s obsession with penalties was actually becoming a problem. &amp;quot;You hear people say, &amp;#039;He&amp;#039;s got to go to the World Cup because he&amp;#039;s good at penalties&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; complained Waddle. &amp;quot;Can you imagine Brazil saying, &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s not take Neymar, let&amp;#039;s take this lad, because he&amp;#039;s good at penalties&amp;#039;. You must be joking!&amp;quot; Every World Cup match will air on ITV or BBC. The opening ceremony and first match start tonight at 7pm on ITV. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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