Day Eight

Day Eight of the tournament and in Group C, DENMARK had won their first game against Peru but then had to face AUSTRALIA for their second game. The Denmark scored first in the 7^th minute of the first half with a fantastic goal by Eriksen but Australia came back with a penalty through the new technology VAR (hand ball) in the 38^th minute and scored by Jedinak, 1-1 at half-time. In an entertaining game, both teams needed the win to stay in the tournament but the game ended 1-1. It was the fourth drawn game of the World Cup. In the Other game FRANCE had beaten Australia in their first game and then took on Peru in their second. Again the big question is on the performance of the French team. Once again they had very few attacks on their opponents defence but I must say that Peru did put up a good fight in this game. France won by just one goal which came in the 34^th minutes scored by the youngest player in the French team Mbappé.  France have managed to win both games now, but It makes you wonder that If they do go through to the next round, and another three points makes them look favourite to do so, What will they play like when they meet a much stronger team. In the group table France are top with six point s and Denmark are second with four. Australia are third with that single point.

In Group D, ARGENTINA faced Croatia in their second game after they drew 1-1 against Iceland in their first game. But they found this game even tougher than the Iceland game. Argentina lost 3-0 to Croatia with all the goals coming in the second half. Croatia are top with six points with Iceland in second place with one. Argentina are also on one point and need to win their last game against Nigeria to go onto the next round.