Day Fifteen

Here are the final results of the last games in the first round of the World Cup 2018. In Day fifteen of the tournament in Group G, top of the group ENGLAND had to play second place BELGIUM in their third and final game of Round One and changed eight of the team from the last game against Panama. It seemed that both teams wanted to win this group but the game went to Belgium after they scored the only goal in their 1-0 win by Januzaj in the 51^st minute. Belgium have won all of their three games and they are now our top scorers with 9 goals. England remain on 8 goals with two wins. Panama took the lead against Tunisia in the first half but with two goals in the second half, Tunisia won 2-1. The group has finished as Belgium top with max 9 points with England second with 6 points both join the last sixteen. Tunisia are third with 3 points and Panama go home with no points.

In Group H, it was all to play for as any one of these teams could of gone through to Round Two. POLAND had to play Japan in their third game but they had lost their first two opening games. Japan had won one and drawn the other. But the game went to Poland 1-0 with the goal being scored in the 59^th minute, but they go out of the tournament. Poland finished on a total of 2 goals. In the other game, SENEGAL lost 1-0 to COLUMBIA with the goal coming in the 74^th minute. Senegal go home with 4 goals while Columbia are on 5 goals and they will be one of the last sixteen. The Group finished as Columbia top with 6 points with Japan in second place with 4 points. Although Senegal also finished on 4 points, Japan go through as they had less yellow cards. Poland finished last with 3 points.

We now know that we will have 12 of our eighteen nations in the last sixteen round two, knock out stage. We also now know that Australia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Germany, Poland and Senegal are out of the tournament for us.

 The Second round games are as follows with the last sixteen

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      

Our teams scored a total of 16 goals in the third set of games and a total of 76 goals over the tournament to date.  This is the lowest score that we have since we started the World Cup Italia in 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.

Belgium are our best team with a total of 9 goals and have scored in all three games in the first round.