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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: (S)ALTY on June 18, 2014, 01:25:03 AM
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Algeria’s early penalty against Belgium scuppered the chances of no less than 21 of our teams picking up a maximum 3 points by predicting the correct 2-1 score line in favour of the Belgians.
With no one picking up a maximum 3 points, 10 people who predicted a 2-0 Belgian win were able to pick up 2 points, and only one team (All Roads to Rio) failing to pick up a point in the first match of the day.
Mexican goalkeeper Ochoa’s heroics in keeping a clean sheet against Brazil meant that for the second game running, no one managed to pick up 3 points by correctly predicting the 0-0 score line. 22 out of 25 had gone for a Brazilian win and only 3 had gone for a 1-1 draw.
However things changed dramatically in the final match between Russia and South Korea with no less than 9 people correctly predicted a 1-1 draw between the last two teams to complete the first round of qualifying matches.
Special mention to The Flaggers, Barkley’s Brave Harts and Pete Foster for breaking their ducks and coming up with their first fully correct score prediction.
Congratulations to Pete Foster in particular who predicted that all 48 matches would end up 1-1 ! By the law of averages the first 1-1 score line finally came up after 17 matches. The result moves Pete up to 20th place but does ask questions as to those teams below Pete who presumably gave some serious consideration to their selections ?
That leaves just three teams who have yet to successfully predict a maximum 3 pointer.
As a result the top of the table has all of a sudden become very close indeed with just 1 point separating the top five teams. Gilmore and Sarah Rowley are top, level on 24 points and both have correctly predicted 3 correct scores.
The full table reads:
1 Gilmore 24
2 Sarah Rowley 24
3 The Hand of God 23
4 Rio De Timperley 23
5 Groucho's Gooners 23
6 Potters Mould 21
7 Good Guessers 21
8 Mauritian Flyer 20
9 The Flaggers 20
10 Pukka Is Best 19
11 Phil Jones 19
12 Foz 19
13 Shortdean United 18
14 One Over The Eight 18
15 I'll Beat George 18
16 GC XI 18
17 Barkley's Brave Harts 18
18 Timperley Toon 17
19 Wilmslow Wanderers 16
20 Pete Foster 16
21 All Roads To Rio - BR - 116 15
22 They Think It's All Over 15
23 Hardly Athletic 15
24 We're On The First Plane Home 15
25 Super Doopers 14
The first match of Day 7 sees Australia take on the impressive Dutch team who will be seeking to build on their impressive 5-1 demolition of Spain in their opening fixture. Not surprisingly 24 out of 25 have predicted a win for the Netherlands with 6 each going for either a 2-0 or 3-0 winning margin. Guess who has gone for 1-1 ?
In the same group Spain will be looking to bounce back against Chile and 23 people have gone for a Spanish win with the most popular prediction being a 2-0 win (8 predictions)
The late kick off is between Cameroon and Croatia in Group A. It’s a case of loser goes home after Mexico’s draw with Brazil. Both teams lost their opening fixtures to Mexico and Brazil respectively and will be looking for a victory to keep their slim hopes of making the knock out stages alive and avoid the ignominy of being on the first plane home.
Only one of our entrants predicts a win for Cameroon (by 2-0) with 15 going for a Croatian win (8 going for 2-1) and a further 9 predicting a draw (1-1 being favourite with 6 forecasts)
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10 out of 10 for attention to detail on this prediction competition Mr. Salt. It is appreciated!
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So how many entrants can only get 9 out of 12 points for 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th now Spain are going home (after they play Australia of course!) ?? :( - ME 4 ONE!
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Spain's elimination has blown a few chances of getting a full house in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place predictions.
We had 2 predictions for them to win,
3 predictions to be beaten finalists,
10 had gone for them to finish 3rd, and
8 had them down to finish 4th.
and that includes me also !
By my reckoning that leaves only 2 who didn't tip them.
The only two are George Heslop's 'Souper Doopers', and Phil Jones (Mind you he's gone for England to finish 4th !)