Golden Goals Winners From Russia 2018

With the most famous football saying “They think it’s all over….It is Now” we come to a close on the 21^st World Cup tournament from Russia and start to think about what if?

We started off this World Cup with our fourth best number of entries in our eighth World Cup Golden Goals 2018 and we have ended up with a total of fifteen winners.

Congratulations to PHIL REEVE on winning our eighth World Cup with his winning combination of Belgium (16) Brazil (8) France (14) Spain (7). It was France who gave him the cash in the final as Tony Jenkins who had been top for most of the tournament, failed to have any teams in the final. His teams were Belgium, Brazil, Russia and Spain.

This is Phil’s second win as he also won the World Cup in our first World Cup Italia 1990 with 38 goals. As Phil’s name goes in to the record book once again, he has now finished in fourth and eighth place in our World Cup Champions League. 

     

                      SEMI                                                      GOALS     PRIZE

            FINAL   FINALS     NAME                                  TOTAL    MONEY

                   1            2            P. REEVE                               45          £45.00

                   2            3            D. HARRINGTON                  44          £35.00

                   3            1            T. JENKINS                            42          £30.00

                   4            -             A. FANE                                 41          £26.00

                   5            8            T. GUY                                   40          £22.00

                   6            10          STALKY                                 39          £19.00

                   7            11          C. BOOM                                38          £15.00

                   8            12          S. KEMP                                 38          £15.00

                   9            5            B. SAWYER                           37          £11.50

                   10          6            JAMIE WOOD                        37          £11.50

                   11          7            P. DAVEY                              36          £  9.00

                   12          13          T. KING                                  36          £  9.00

                   13          9            E. SAWYER                           36          £  9.00

                   14          15          B. BURROUGHS                    35          £  6.50

                   15          16          S. SEYEDI                              35          £  6.50

So who are the best four nations in the 2018 World Cup.

BELGIUM (16) FRANCE (14) ENGLAND (12) RUSSIA (11) Total of 53 goals.

We had five nations that picked up just two goals each and went out after the first round. They were Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Germany and Poland.

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

Top Goal Scorers in Russia 2018 are Harry Kane of England with 6 goals who wins the Golden Boot. In second place all with 4 goals are Denis Cheryshev, Russia, Antoine Griezmann, France, Romelu Lukaku, Belgium, Kylian Mbappe, France and Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal, .

The fastest goal was scored by Mathias Jørgensen of Denmark against Croatia in Round two or last sixteen. He hit the back of the net in just 58 seconds.

So how did your teams do in the Golden Goals World Cup 2018? Below are all of our eighteen nations with the number of votes in RED followed by the nations and number of goals in each of the six stages of the World Cup.

FIRST ROUND

(36) GERMANY 2, (4) EGYPT 2, (2) POLAND 2, (1) AUSTRALIA 2, (1) SENEGAL 4,

(1) COSTA RICA 2

SECOND ROUND

(24) SPAIN 7, (24) ARGENTINA 6, (5) PORTUGAL 6, (5) COLUMBIA 6, (1) DENMARK 3

(1) MEXICO 3

QUARTER-FINALS

(29) BRAZIL 8, (7) URUGUAY 7, (4) RUSSIA 11

SEMI-FINALS

None of our teams went out at this stage.

3^rd and 4^th PLAY-OFF

3^rd (17) BELGIUM 16

4^th (8) ENGLAND 12

RUNNERS-UP

Croatia who we did not have

CHAMPIONS

(22) FRANCE 14

Our goals total finishes at a grand total of 113 goals for the tournament which is our fourth highest score. Our top score is from the French World Cup 1998 with a total of 138 goals.

Well that’s the end to our eighth World Cup Golden Goals. The next World Cup will be held in Qatar in 2022. Let’s hope that we will be there again with another World Cup under our belts.