Predictions are needed for the Semis please before Tuesday:

Tue Jul 6	19:30	Cape Town	URUGUAY			HOLLAND
Wed Jul 7	19:30	Durban	GERMANY			SPAIN

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The final 2 group games today saw the Argies get stuffed - Glad I got to watch Maradonna getting some form of payback for 24 years ago - Not that I'm still bitter or anything! :-) plus Spain got a terrible 1:0 victory. No-one got the German result correct and only 3 got the Spain game spot on. This means that Ben has a 7 point lead over Julie and Myself (although Julie is in second on the games predicted correctly rule). Sarah is not too far back and, in my opinion, anyone down to about 13th could still realistically get some prize money.

1st	Ben1 Group D	59
2nd	JulieH Group E	52
3rd	Rangey Group E	52
4th	Sarah Group E	50
5th	Richard Group H	48
6th	Robin Group C	48
7th	Matt Group D	48
8th	Dale Group G	46
9th	Thomas Group G	46
10th	JackG Group G	45
11th	Marc Group C	44
12th	Ben1 Group E	44
13th	Pat Group D	44
14th	Steph Group E	43
15th	Ann Marie Group C	42
16th	Linda Group B	42
17th	Russ Group A	41
18th	Bob Group H	40
19th	JackB Group C	40
20th	Ryan Group G	40
21st	MatthewG Group C	39
22nd	JackB Group G	38
23rd	JackB Group D	38
24th	Sarah Group H	37
25th	Sarah Group F	36
26th	Pat Group F	34
27th	Ryan Group F	34
28th	Jag2 Group A	33
29th	Dale Group A	32
30th	Ed Group B	32
31st	Oliver Group B	32

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The Ghana game saw people lose out with their last minute penalty miss and leaves the table as follows with only 6 more games to go in the tournament

After the Brazil game, 3 of us got the score correct, Ben, Myself and Dale. This means that Ben extends his lead at the top but Dale and I boost our chances - Dale has jumped up from 14th to 6th

I now need your predictions for the Quarter Finals please (before the kick off on Friday and Saturday.

The matches are :

After the 0:0 bore draw this afternoon, not a lot changed with Dale being the only one getting the score correct.

The Spain Portugal match was more interesting and now the table looks like this :

Whoops! I put yesterdays Holland game in as 2:0 instead of 2:1 (despite knowing it was 2:1 as well). So, it actually changed the table to what I published. It should have looked like this :

Myself and 6 others were happy with the 94th minute penalty for Slovakia - It meant we got maximum points - But 7 others must have been cursing as they had gone for 2:0 - For Robin it would have meant a return to the top - Sorry to rub it in Rob! :-)

After the Brazil game  Robin is back on top of the pack and the full table is below.

Well after the last game, Ben takes a 1 point lead over Robin but it's still anyones competition to win.

Well what a letdown that was from England - But not if you are Ben, as he has now gone top of the table - Maybe the positions will change again after the Argentina match later as Robin and Julie are only 1 point behind with 9th still less than a top score of going top.

I now need another prediction from you for the quarter finals :

Well, it's tight in the table now - After the 2:1 victory to Uruguay, 8 people got the result correct and I moved to the top of the table on 26 points.

24th Place has 20 points so 1 correct prediction at the minute could mean anyone going top.

After the USA Ghana match, 5 people correctly predicted a 2:1 victory to the Africans and Robin goes back to the top of the table with a 2 point gap over Julie and Ben

Here is the table

These are the 8 games that now need predicting please before they kick off. Its the score at the end of 120 minutes (if extra time is played). You can ignore penalty shootouts.

Here are my scores for the knockout stages (so you know I'm not cheating!) :-)

Group H sees 3 people qualifying - Sarah (with her 3rd team to qualify, Richard and Bob.  Full table below

Group G sees Ryan, Thomas, Dale, JackG and JackB all qualifying - Amy and David lose out at the last minute in this group - Full table below

Of the qualifiers so far, here is how the table will stand at the start of the knockout stages.

REMEMBER - IF YOUR NAME IS IN THE TABLE BELOW SEND ME YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR THE KNOCKOUT ROUNDS ASAP PLEASE.

If you have qualified more than once, please make it clear to me which of your teams the predictions are for, otherwise I will assume they are the same for all your entries.

I have made a mess of some of the scores - I've just noticed that some scores were for wrong groups - Having now sorted it, everyone who had already qualified for the knockout round has still done so BUT, you may have a different amount of points - This applies to groups C, D, E and F  

PLUS, JackB is an extra qualifier from Group D.

So, now I've got the spreadsheet working again, group F was the first set of matches today. RYAN, PAT and SARAH all qualify for the 2nd round although this was a low scoring group so PAT and SARAH will start rom the bottom of the playoff stage.

Group E was higher scoring with Rangey, JulieH, Steph, Sarah and Ben1 all qualifying