World Cup 2018: Group F Last Games Review

With the last fixtures in each group being played this week. The World Cup games are getting a bit more exciting. All the trash teams like Costa Rica (no offence) who have unnecessarily taken up 90 minutes of our time are being swept aside and the teams we expected to progress are advancing to the round of 16. Let’s review the last games in group F.

Group F

I have learnt never to bet my money on a team that:

A. Won the previous World Cup and

B. won the Confederations Cup the year before.

In the past 20 years, these teams have proven time and again that they don’t win the following World Cup and not only that but that play shit too.

The current world champions Germany were favourites for many people (mainly because they weren’t brave enough to pick anyone else or too lazy to predict any other team.)

Mexico are always a lock for the second round. Mexico have reached the last 16 in each of the last eight World Cup tournaments they have taken part in.

Sweden without Zlatan Ibrahimovic is like the Beatles without Paul McCartney but they have been good but surely not good enough to progress in a group with the world champions and the perennial last 16’ers, right?

And then they was South Korea… Uhm.. Yeah, South Korea…

Mexico 0-3 Sweden

Mexico needed a draw to progress and Sweden required 3 points to have a chance to join them. Other than a Carlos Vela shot early on in the game the Swede’s, as the scoreline suggests, were by far the better team in this game.

Mexico were out of sorts and look overawed by the power of the Swedes.

While this was taking place, on the other side of the country this was happening…

South Korea 2-0 Germany

This is how this game went…

Germany creates a billion chances – Germany misses a billion chances.

South Korea creates 2 chances in the last 2 minutes – South Korea scores two chances in the last two minutes.

Conclusion: Germany knocked out of the World Cup group stage.

As far a statistics go, this Germany side is the worst to ever play in the World Cup. Joachim Löw has to shoulder some of the blame, his decision to leave out players like Leroy Sane, calling up Mario Gomez, and his insistence to play Manuel Neuer who clearly didn’t look 100% had a negative effect on the team.

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