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Three teams are eliminated on Day 7, with Spain, Australia and Cameroon dusting down their passports with one game still to play. Who will be next ?
 
Whilst 24 people had predicted a win for the Netherlands, no one predicted the 3-2 score over Australia in the first match of Day 7 in Porto Alegre. However 10 entrants had gone for either 3-0 or 3-1 which was enough to pick up two points each. Everyone else picked up one point with the exception of Pete Foster who went for 1-1.
   
Chile’s 2-0 win to send defending champions Spain home after just two games certainly upset the odds and with 23 out of 25 having predicted a win for Spain, the match became the lowest aggregate points scoring  in the World Cup Prediction Competition to date.

Derek Wilshaw’s Wilmslow Wanderers were the only team to pick up a point with his prediction of a 3-2 win for Spain

Croatia’s 4-0 stroll in the park following Song’s sending off for Cameroon meant that no one made a correct prediction in any of today’s games.

In a low scoring day the best performers were The Flaggers and GC XI who both picked up 4 points. Only one person failed to pick up a point, and as a consequence Pete Foster returns back to the bottom of the table having reached the dizzy heights of 20th yesterday.

At the top end of the table, over night leaders Gilmore and Sarah Rowley have now been joined by son of (S)alty’s Rio De Timperley on 26 points. Am I in for some earache ? All three also have the same amount of correct score predictions (3).

The latest table reads as follows:

Gilmore   26
Sarah Rowley   26
Rio De Timperley   26
Groucho's Gooners   25
The Hand of God   24
Potters Mould   24
The Flaggers   24
Mauritian Flyer   23
Good Guessers   22
GC XI   22
Pukka Is Best   21
Phil Jones   21
Shortdean United   21
One Over The Eight   21
Barkley's Brave Harts   21
Foz   20
I'll Beat George   20
Timperley Toon   18
Wilmslow Wanderers   18
All Roads To Rio - BR - 116   18
Hardly Athletic   18
They Think It's All Over   17
We're On The First Plane Home   17
Super Doopers   17
Pete Foster   16

It’s a case of ‘England Expects’ on Day 8, with England taking on the other beaten team from the first round of matches, Uruguay in Sao Paulo at 8.00 pm.

8 people have gone for a draw ( 7 predictions for 1-1), 10 people have predicted an England victory, with a 2-1 score the most popular with 6. That leaves 7 entrants expecting a Uruguay win with 5 predicting a 2-1 win for Louis Suarez & Co.
     
The early kick off sees Columbia v Ivory Coast in Brasilia.  The most favoured result is a 1-1 draw with 10 predictions. Second favourite outcome is either a 1-0 win for Columbia or a 2-1 win for the Ivory Coast with 5 predictions each.

Japan v Greece is the final match of the day at 11.00pm, with 10 predictions for a Japanese win, and a similar number going for a draw.
 
The most ambitious prediction has got to be a 6-0 victory for Greece.

Hmmm ?  Should I make a similar offer of a bottle of champagne again should that prediction come up or should I keep it to celebrate an England victory over Uruguay ? ?