Columbia’s 2-1 win over Ivory Coast in Brasilia was the prelude to the big match in Sao Paulo. The Columbians virtually secured a place in the knock out stages with their second 2-1 win in consecutive games.
Only two of our teams, Potters Mould and Shortdean United, predicted the correct score line to pick up a maximum 3 points.
Luis Suarez’s 2 goals for Uruguay broke the hearts of England supporters to set up the second 2-1 score line of the day.
Five teams picked a maximum 3 points with Shortdean United making it 2 out of 2 fully correct predictions on the day and Mauritian Flyer making it 5 all correct predictions in total . Hardly Athletic came up with their first 3 pointer leaving just 2 teams (George Heslop’s Souper Doopers and All Roads Lead To Rio) yet to predict a fully correct score.
The 0-0 draw between Japan and Greece was predicted by 3 teams with Potters Mould picking their second correct score prediction of the day and moves up to second place with 31 points, just 1 point behind Sarah Rowley. Four teams are bunched behind the top two with 29 points.
The table reads:
Sarah Rowley 32
Potters Mould 31
Groucho's Gooners 29
Gilmore 29
Rio De Timperley 29
Good Guessers 29
Shortdean United 28
The Hand of God 27
The Flaggers 27
Mauritian Flyer 27
GC XI 25
Pukka Is Best 25
Barkley's Brave Harts 24
Phil Jones 23
Hardly Athletic 22
I'll Beat George 22
One Over The Eight 21
Foz 21
Wilmslow Wanderers 20
Timperley Toon 20
Super Doopers 20
They Think It's All Over 19
All Roads To Rio - BR - 116 18
Pete Foster 18
We're On The First Plane Home 17
Following Thursday's disappointing England result In Group D, it’s the turn of the two winners from the first round of matches to meet on Friday when Italy take on Costa Rica in Recife. All England followers will now be supporting the Italians in the hope that they can come up with two victories in their remaining group matches to keep England’s qualifications hopes alive.
Despite Costa Rica’s surprise win in their opening match against Uruguay no one has predicted a win for the South Americans. Only 3 people expect a draw with all 3 going for 1-1 (including Pete Foster!).
22 out of 27 participants have gone for an Italian win, with no fewer than 13 going for a 2-0 win
The second match again sees two unbeaten teams face each other in Group E when Switzerland take on France in Salvador. 1 person has predicted a Swiss win, 6 have gone for a draw (including Pete Foster) and France are favourites for a win in the minds of remaining 18. A 2-1 French win is the most popular outcome with 8 predictions.
The late kick off sees rough tackling Honduras take on Ecuador in Curitiba. We have 15 predictions for a draw (5 for 0-0 and 6 for 1-1 including Pete Foster), 1 person has gone for a Honduras win and 9 selections for a win for Ecuador.
Come On You Italians !