In the first of today's games Sweden played against Switzerland. None of these teams ought to be in the World Cup at this stage, so it was efficient to have a game to eliminate at least one of them. Today it was Switzerland's turn. The game was played in St. Petersburg and, therefore, it was one of those games on which Achilles customarily makes predictions. Today he was mistaken again and Cabeça de Macaco was briefly amused by this turn of events... but only until he found out that in the second game England defeated Colombia in the penalties. Terrible news for our beloved monkey mascot, who had predicted that Colombia would win the World Cup!
A notable event in the Colombia-England game was the penalty awarded to Kane after what looked more like an offensive foul commited by himself. In any case, Kane is now the top scorer in the World Cup with 6 goals.
In today's standings, LucasA is 1st, Papa Patrick 2nd, and Will and Carlos (TCW) 3rd. A Man Like Trump is just one point behind, on the 4th place. The complete standings are here.
Colombia and Cabeça de Macaco deserved to win. Shame on the referee!
ReplyDeleteThe average prediction for the semis from the bolao participants was: (see table)
ReplyDeleteFinal: 1. Brazil 2. Germany
3rd place: 3. Argentina 4. France
Only two of these are still standing.
As always, over-predicting success of south american teams, when historically on European soil we have never had more than one south american team in the semi-finals.