The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has had a nightmare of a WWC going 0-5-1 and that tie was the biggest upset with D4-Japan tying D3-Argentina. But today, things have turned around. After losing a 1-0 lead in a loss to C2-Italy, C1-Australia rallied from a two-goal deficit to stun C3-Brazil,
3-2, giving the AFC its first win. It was just the second time a team has come back from 2-0 to win in the WWC. Marta scored in her record 5th straight WWC with her record-extending 16th WWC goal on a penalty (a soft foul) and Cristiane scored her 3rd of the tourney to put BRA up 2-0. AUS scored three straight times off long crosses into the box. The first was headed and then put in before halftime, the second was let through freezing the GK for the game-tying goal, and the third was headed in by BRA into their own net. The last was called offsides but upon VAR review, it was determined BRA's player had a controlled header on the cross was not impeded by AUS's offsides player (Monica) and therefore there was no offsides. So we've had an own goal in 3 of the last 4 matches. BRA made two subs at the half including taking out Marta and then used their 3rd sub to take out Cristiane in the 75' while down 3-2. Very odd.
B2-China had plenty of chances but could only put away one in a 1-nil win over B4-South Africa giving the AFC its second straight win. CHN's win put both A1-
France and B1-
Germany into the Round of 16. Remember, you won't get any points for correctly picking the Round of 16 teams until after that group has completed all six of its matches.
19 entries got both matches correct with
22 picking AUS and 38 picking CHN. This left
Fotografio il Migliore and
Pazzo Americano (both by Warner L) in a
tie for first with 15 points. Five went 0-2 which put
Soccerhorn into a tie for last with
All North America (9 pts).
Everyone had FRA and GER making the Round of 16.
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