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2018 FIFA World Cup: Predictions and Permutations for Group C and D

After a night of high drama, beautiful dreams being achieved by the Iran goalkeeper and VAR coming to the fore again, Russia, Uruguay, Spain and Portugal advanced to the last 16 of the World Cup. Russia will play Spain while Uruguay will face Portugal. Today, Tuesday, 26th June 25, 2018, Group C and D will have protagonists facing off to join them. The winners of Group C face the runners-up of Group D, while runners-up of Group C face the winners of Group D.

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Permutations and predictions of Group A and Group B of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup

After one and a half weeks of non- stop football, the FIFA World Cup enters its midway stage. All teams have played two group games, and some teams have already been knocked while others are preparing for the knockout stages. From today Monday 25th June 2018 to Thursday 28th, every day two groups will play their final two games in unison. The reason for this to avoid a situation such as the Sporting Disgrace of Gijon we highlighted in an earlier post, whereby two teams played out a mutually beneficial result because they knew the result of an earlier game.

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The VAR World Cup

The video-assisted referee (VAR), according to a Telegraph article, is meant to assist the referee to make decisions that may have skipped his attention during a match, or correct the wrong ones he makes. The Russia world cup is the first world cup ever to use VAR. There are only four things that the VAR can be brought in to use, goals, penalties, straight red cards and my personal favorite, mistaken identity. (Arsenal fans with long memories will remember a game against Chelsea where the referee, Andre Marriner, sent off Kieran Gibbs instead of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain)

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Morocco’s hopes in the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Morocco’s national team, commonly known as the Atlas Lions, is one of the giants of African football. They made their world cup bow in 1970 and will be making their fifth world cup appearance in 2018. Morocco is the team with the highest number of foreign-born players at the world cup, with a sizeable number of their contingent being born in the Netherlands and France.

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