Top Fifteen After First Round Games

Here are the top fifteen players after the first round games have been played.

                GAME    GAME                                               GOALS

             THREE    TWO          NAME                          TOTAL

                         1                -             T. JENKINS                            28              

                   2            -             B. SAWYER                           24

                   3            6            P. REEVE                               23

                   4            3            E. SAWYER                           23

                   5            14          JAMIE WOOD                        23

                   6            7            C. BAMBRIDGE                    22

                   7            4            P. DAVEY                              22

                   8            5            A. FANE                                 22

                   9            13          D. SOMERVILLE                   22

                   10          8            G. DOWSETT                         21

                   11          -             D. GOODSON                        21

                   12          15          D. HARRINGTON                  20

                   13          16          M. LIDDLE                             20

                   14          10          STALKY                                 20

                   15          12          T. GUY                                   19

So who are the best teams that we have in the 2018 World Cup after the first round group games have been played. I can tell you that they are.

BELGIUM (9) ENGLAND (8) RUSSIA (8) SPAIN (6) total of 31 goals.

All but eight of our teams have scored in the first round, third games and they have collected a total of 16 goals. This is the lowest score that we have since we started the World Cup in Italia 1990. In that tournament we picked up a total of 19 goals from the fifteen nations that we had in our very first World Cup. The eight teams that have not scored in their third game are AUSTRALIA, DENMARK, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, MEXICO, RUSSIA and SENEGAL.

In the last Golden Goals World Cup we reached a total of 92 goals from the first round, In Russia our teams have scored a total of 16 goals in the third set of games and a total of 76 goals over the tournament to date. 

ENGLAND holds the current record for the highest score with that 6-1 win over Panama in Group G in their second game of the group stage.

COSTA RICA from Group E and GERMANY from Group F are our worst team as they have failed to score in two of their three opening games.

Top Goal Scorers in Russia 2018 are Harry Kane of England with 5 goals. Lukaku of Belgium and Ronaldo of Portugal come next with 4 goals each. All are still in the tournament.

We had four players that picked up the most amount of goals in the last of the first round games. They were Mike Harrington, Tony King, Nolan Taylor and Jamie Wood. They all picked up a total of 7 goals from their combinations.  

Harrington, Brazil 2, Germany 0, Spain 2, Uruguay 3

King, Brazil 2, France 0, Spain 2, Uruguay 3

Taylor, Argentina 2, Brazil 2, Columbia 1, Spain 2

Wood, Argentina 2, Belgium 1, Brazil 2, Spain 2

Tony Jenkins has remained at the top after all of the games in the first round have been played. His Teams are Belgium, Brazil, Russia and Spain. All are still in play.

We have 12 of our 18 nations that have made it through to the Second Round. Most of us still have all four teams in play while some are down to just two.

The Second round games are as follows

URUGUAY v PORTUGAL, FRANCE v ARGENTINA to be played on 30^th June

BELGIUM v JAPAN, BRAZIL v MEXICO to be played on 2^nd July

Croatia v DENMARK, SPAIN v RUSSIA to be played on 1^st July 

COLUMBIA v ENGLAND, Sweden v Switzerland will be played on 3^rd July