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Costa Rica’s surprise 1-0 win over Italy not only wiped out any chance of England making the knockout stages, but decimated the scoring in the TASC World Cup Prediction Competition.

With 22 punters predicting an Italian win and 3 going for a 1-1 draw, only 5 teams managed to pick up a single point in the first match of the day.

The Switzerland v France encounter in Salvador provided the 10th game to date where no correct score was predicted. Despite 18 people predicting a French win and 6 the draw, only one team (One Over The Eight), picked up two points.
       
Ecuador’s bruising encounter with Honduras saw them come from a goal down to triumph 2-1. Whilst 9 of our entrants predicted a win for Ecuador only one, George Heslop’s Souper Doopers’ picked up an all correct 3 points.

It was a poor scoring day all round with Timperley Toon finishing pointless on the day. The top points scorers were the Souper Doopers and Sarah Rowley who each picked up 4 points. As a result Sarah extends her lead at the top of the table to 4 points from Potters Mould and Rio De Timperley.

1   Sarah Rowley   36
2   Potters Mould   32
3   Rio De Timperley   32
4   Groucho's Gooners   31
5   Gilmore   31
6   Shortdean United   31
7   The Flaggers   30
8   Good Guessers   29
9   The Hand of God   29
10   Mauritian Flyer   29
11   GC XI   27
12   Barkley's Brave Harts   27
13   Pukka Is Best   26
14   Phil Jones   25
15   One Over The Eight   24
16   Foz   24
17   Super Doopers   24
18   Hardly Athletic   23
19   I'll Beat George   23
20   Wilmslow Wanderers   22
21   Timperley Toon   20
22   They Think It's All Over   20
23   Pete Foster   20
24   We're On The First Plane Home   20
25   All Roads To Rio - BR - 116   19

Saturday Preview:

After Iran’s no score draw in their opening match against Nigeria, it’s almost unanimously predicted that they will fail to score in their match against Argentina. Only 2 punters expect Iran to score, and 24 out of our 25 entries predict a win for Argentina. We have 7 predictions for 3-0 and 4-0 each and 5 have gone for 5-0. Oh ! and Pete Foster has gone for 1-1 (again !)

The second match between Germany and Ghana is almost another racing certainty in the eyes of our experts with 22 people expecting a German victory. Most expected winning margin is 2-0 with 10 predictions. 3 people have gone for a draw including Pete Foster.

A draw is the favoured outcome of the final match between Nigeria and Bosnia Herzegovina with 11 predictions (7 for 1-1 and 4 for 2-2) At least 6 others agree with Pete Foster on this one !