France and Uruguay in Quarter-Finals

In the first games of the last sixteen or Round Two of the World Cup, FRANCE winners of Group C with 22 votes played ARGENTINA, runner-up winners of Group D with 24 votes. The first half was all about France as they attacked the Argentina’s goals and even hit the crossbar just after 9 minutes of play. They then had a penalty in the 13^th minute and Griezmenn scored France first goal. Argentina had just one attacked and they scored through Di Maria just before half time in the 41^st minute. Half time the scored remained 1-1. In the second half the game was set at such a fast pace and Argentina went ahead with a fantastic goal from Mercado in the 48^th minute. France did not let up on the pressure and they equalised in the 57^th minute by Pavard. With end to end football, France scored two very quick goals from their youngest player Mboppé in the 64^th and 68^th minute making it 4-2 to France. Argentina fought back and scored their third goal in the 93^rd minute and in added on time from Agüero. Final score finished 4-3 to France. This must be the very best game of the World Cup to date. France is our first team to go into the quarter-finals and they are now on a total of 7 goals. Argentina go home with 6 goals which is their lowest score since the 2002 Korea and Japan where they finished with just 2 goals. Their highest score was in the 2006 German World Cup with 11 goals. In Brazil 2014 they finished on a total of 8 goals and lost in the final to Germany. They last won the World Cup in Mexico 1986.

In the other game of the day, URUGUAY winners of Group A with 7 votes had won all of their opening games played PORTUGAL runner-up winners of Group B with 5 votes. The game started off on even terms but Uruguay made the game more interesting after 7 minutes with a goal from Cavani and it remained 1-0 to Uruguay at half time. The second half was still evenly matched but Pepe of Portugal scored in the 55^th minute to make it 1-1. It was Uruguay’s first goal scored against them so far in the competition. Not long after the Portugal’s equaliser, Cavani scored his second of the game to put Uruguay in the lead. Ronaldo was getting a bit frustrated by this time as he did not have many shots at goal all night. Portugal laid Uruguay’s goal under siege but the shots went off target. The final score was 2-1 to Uruguay and the goals take their goals tally up to 7 goals. They will play France in the quarter-finals on 6^th July. Portugal are out and they finished on a total of 6 goals which is a lot better than 4 goals in Brazil 2014 where they finished third in their group and did not make the last sixteen. Their best score is 7 goals and they first finished on that in 2002 Korea and japan and then in the 2010 South Africa. Portugal have never won the World Cup.

Top goals corers of the 2018 World Cup to date

• Harry Kane, England, 5 goals
• Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal, 4 goals
• Romelu Lukaku, Belgium, 4 goals
• Cavani Uruguay 3 goals
• Denis Cheryshev, Russia, 3 goals
• Diego Costa, Spain, 3 goals
• Kylian Mbappe, France, 3 goals

Our four best nations in Golden Goals World Cup 2018 are 

BELGIUM (9) ENGLAND (8) RUSSIA(8) URUGUAY (7) Total of 32 goals