DAY 7 - WEDNESDAY JUNE 17th
Wednesday's hats go off to Andrew Nyanchoka whose 16 point haul is 4 more than anyone else, a massive change of fortunes for Andrew who hit his first spot-on and three correct margins. Andrew climbs from 101st to 39th. Lexie Christiansen also hits her first correct score for England v Croatia, and then second for Uzbekistan v Colombia for a day total of 12. Still a long way down in 84th, form like that will see Lexie scale the table pretty fast. Third best is 10 points, among them Neil Mullen who became the first to record a sixth correct score - only four others have as many as five. Neil looking very strong with a 3-point lead over Roisin Guargena, and a further 4 point gap to John Guargena in 3rd.
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UZBEKISTAN 1 COLOMBIA 3
13 got this one spot-on with a further 36 getting the two goal margin, predicting 0-2. All of our top six (as they are now) got the 3 points. Mike Collyer slips to 7th, Mike Fischer is the highest placed to take the 5 points and is up to 8th.
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GHANA 1 PANAMA 0
The injury time curse strikes again. 94 minutes in, Steven Jewell was about to go top with his prediction of 0-0. Instead, Steven slips to 8th and, with Neil Mullen on the 1-0, 10 points off top spot. Cruel. Neil is the first to notch a sixth correct score and is back to 3 points ahead of Roisin Guargena. There is then another 4 point gap to John Guargena, who's back on the up in 3rd, finally hitting his fourth spot-on after taking the very first three of the competition.
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ENGLAND 4 CROATIA 2
Two predicted this one spot-on for 7 points, with 2 bonus points awarded for only two guessing the correct score. Both Lexie Christiansen and Colin Jorgensen record their first correct scores of the competition. 18 teams take 3 points, 54 score 2 points. 2 points each for our top two, with Ryan Keenan and Steven Jewell moving a point closer. 10 is the best for the day so far, from Andrew Nyanchoka who picks 3 points to add to 7 from Portugal 1 Congo DR 1. That's taken Andrew from 101st to 47th. Two more games still to come though 'today'.
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PORTUGAL 1 CONGO DR 1
With apologies to any Portuguese out there, what a beautiful result. Not many of us in the points for the first game of the day with 122 on the Portugal win.
Four managers predicted the 1-1, five in total the draw, while a fair few randoms came in. Ten managers take 7 points, six take 3 points. Alison Giovannetti was one to predict the 1-1. If you read my preview while the match was on, I did Alison an injustice, reporting she would climb from 21st to 9th. But I'd not taken into account the 2 bonus points... 1 for only four predicting the score, 1 for only five predicting any kind of draw. Alison in fact goes 3rd! David Metzger hits the top 10 with a 23 place climb, with both Mark Wilhelms' teams just behind. Barbara Willingham's random 3-pointer lifts her off bottom spot, leaving my own Shockers there.
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