Day Twelve

Our teams are playing their third and final game in the first round of the World Cup 2018. In Day Twelve of the tournament we are going to find out who is in and who is out.

In Group A, RUSSIA had to play their final game against second place URUGUAY. Russia had done well in their first two games in this round but they finally played against a much better team than their last two games. Uruguay have also won their two opening games and they also won their third 3-0. Uruguay have taken their goals total to 5 goals while Russia picked up their first blank score sheet.In the other game, EGYPT played Saudi Arabia in their last game with them only picking up one goal against Russia in their 3-1 defeat. Although Egypt scored first the Saudi’s came back with a late goal in the first half and their last one in added time.

In Group A, Uruguay have won all of their games and get maximum points with 9. In second place is Russia with 6 points. Saudi Arabia finished in third place with 3 points while Egypt finished last with no points.

In Group B, PORTUGAL played third place Iran and drew their last game 1-1 with a late VAR penalty in added time. Portugal are now on a total of 5 goals. In the other game, SPAIN had to play Morocco. After they drew with Portugal and then beat Iran in their second game, playing the bottom of the group Morocco it should have been a walk over but the tables were turned. Although Spain drew 2-2 with them, Morocco went a goal up twice and they could have had more and might of even won this game. Spain although they passed the ball around very well, they lacked the finishing power. Spain are now on a total of 6 goals and like Portugal they are both in round two.

Group B have finished as Spain top with 5 points with Portugal in second place also with 5 points. In third placed finished Iran with 4 points, while Morocco came last with a single point.

We now know that we will have four of our eighteen nations in the last sixteen round two, knock out stage. We also now know that Egypt are our first nation out of the tournament.

After twelve days of play, our teams are starting to play their third game of the tournament, another one of our nations have picked up a blank score sheet. We stand at a total of 7 goals for the third set of games and a total of 67 goals over the tournament to date.  England, Belgium and Russia all have a total of 8 goals each after just two games played.