Saturday 9 June 2018

World Cup 2018 Predictions (Part 1)

The World Cup is here again, so here is the World Cup predictions competition.

Usual predictions rules - 3 Points for a correct score, 1 Point for a correct result.
Overall winner will be decided on the total points at the end of the competition (64 Games).

Extra rules for the knockout stages:
To stop all confusion and arguments the prediction will be the score at the end of normal time (90 minutes + injury time).
Extra time and Penalties will not count.
So if a game finishes 0-0 and goes into extra time and one team has 3 players sent off and lose 7-0 it will count as a 0-0 draw, Hopefully that makes sense :)

All welcome to join in, plenty of time to catch up if you miss a few games.

Here's a list of the first round of games in the 2018 tournament.
Will post the rest in stages a few days before they are played.

These games are being played between Thursday 14th June to Tuesday 19th June

Russia v Saudi Arabia
Egypt v Uraguay
Morocco v Iran
Portugal v Spain
France v Australia
Argentina v Iceland
Peru v Denmark
Croatia v Nigeria
Costa Rica v Serbia
Germany v Mexico
Brazil v Switzerland
Sweden v South Korea
Belgium v Panama
Tunisia v England
Poland v Senegal
Colombia v Japan

Good Luck All :)

15 comments:

  1. Russia 2 Saudi Arabia 0
    Egypt 1 Uruguay 1
    Morocco 1 Iran 1
    Portugal 2 Spain 1
    France 2 Australia 1
    Argentina 1 Iceland 1
    Peru 3 Denmark 1
    Croatia 2 Nigeria 0
    Costa Rica 1 Serbia 2
    Germany 1 Mexico 1
    Brazil 3 Switzerland 0
    Sweden 2 South Korea 3
    Belgium 2 Panama 0
    Tunisia 1 England 2
    Poland 1 Senegal 1
    Columbia 2 Japan 1
    Cheers

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  2. Well done Paulo, I'm not playing this alone ... shame :)

    Got Costa Rica in the works sweepstakes, one way to waste a fiver :(

    Russia v Saudi Arabia 2-1
    Egypt v Uraguay 0-1
    Morocco v Iran 2-1
    Portugal v Spain 0-1
    France v Australia 2-0
    Argentina v Iceland 2-1
    Peru v Denmark 0-0
    Croatia v Nigeria 1-2
    Costa Rica v Serbia 1-1
    Germany v Mexico 2-0
    Brazil v Switzerland 3-1
    Sweden v South Korea 1-1
    Belgium v Panama 4-0
    Tunisia v England 0-2
    Poland v Senegal 2-1
    Colombia v Japan 1-1

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  3. I was not much better I got Egypt 😂

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    1. In the Sweep I run at work:-
      Top 30 teams are split by FIFA ranking into 3 pots of 10 (Saudi and Korea discarded)
      Each person get 1 team from each pot i.e 1 good, 1 medium and 1 not so good team
      prizes for WC Winner, group winner(points of all three teams), goals scored (all 3 teams for all 64 games), and my personal favorite 79th minute goal.

      Keeps everyone interested for the duration

      I have Brazil, Nigeria and Iceland :)

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    2. Seems a bit unfair on South Korea who are 13 places higher than Russia in the rankings?

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    3. Can't discard the hosts...

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  4. Russia v Saudi Arabia 3-0
    Egypt v Uraguay 0-2
    Morocco v Iran 1-0
    Portugal v Spain 0-1
    France v Australia 3-0
    Argentina v Iceland 2-0
    Peru v Denmark 0-2
    Croatia v Nigeria 2-1
    Costa Rica v Serbia 0-2
    Germany v Mexico 2-0
    Brazil v Switzerland 3-1
    Sweden v South Korea 2-0
    Belgium v Panama 5-0
    Tunisia v England 0-2
    Poland v Senegal 2-0
    Colombia v Japan 1-1

    Predict all 64 matches for £100m lol. Which of us here thinks that is possible. If I had 63 straight correct results, would be looking to lay my final prediction.

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  5. Good start for Russia, score flattered but finishing was good.
    Point for all.

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    1. Watched on replay. At 89min thought shall I fast forward...no, will jinx 3-0, at 90 fast forward 5-0 wtf

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  6. 2 Late late goals in the first 2 games, then the big one :)
    Ronaldo winning a penalty, Brilliant goal by Costa and then David De Gea went all Robert Green to fluff in Ronaldo's second .. second half to come :)

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  7. The Ronaldo show, great game.
    Current Points - Lee 4, Paul 2, Paulo 1, (Lawro 4)

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  8. The first VAR decision of the World Cup, and they got it wrong :(
    The Aussie defender played the ball and the ref was right to not give it, but the VAR said it was a penalty?
    Justice as the Aussies go up the other end and get their own penalty for a definite handball :)

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  9. 4 Games done today, best team of the day probably Peru who lost?
    Argentina and France looking very average and a good result for Iceland.

    Good day for Paulo.
    8 Games done - Paulo 7, Lee 5, Paul 5, Lawro 6

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  10. Germany lose, Brazil draw, none of the favourites looking that good.

    11 Games - Paulo 8, Paul 6, Lee 5, (Lawro 6)

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  11. England leaving it late, but 3 points will do nicely.
    Seems that V.A.R is not available to England?

    14 Games - Paulo 12, Paul 9, Lee 7, (Lawro 8)

    2nd Part has sneaked up on me and starts tomorrow, posted above.

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