23 June

I am far too tired to do a round-up of the past 2 days today.

But yesterday was generally a good day. My analysis about the games was right, and my bets were good.

June 23 Predictions

USA v Algeria 2:1
England v Slovenia 1:2

Australia v Serbia 2:1
Germany v Ghana 3:1

No clean sheets for all games. A first for me.

June 23 Bets

Slovenia/draw 2.75; Bet $5.00
Australia/draw 1.82; Bet $5.00
USA win 1.80; Bet $5.00
Germany win 1.38; Bet $5.00

Group C

Slovenia to win / draw the game. Top the group.
USA to win the game. 2nd position.

(anothing thing: Before the tournament I predicted France to come second, and England to come second; everyone predicted they both top their groups - so I was generally 'more correct' than everyone else)

Group D
Sentiments cloud my judgment. Think its difficult, but not impossible for Australia to qualify.
Preferred result Germany win 3:0; Australia win 2:0. and Australia go through.
And it's nice to have a little drama. So I'm hoping for the above scores tonight so do not expect me to give an unbiased judgment / prediction re this group.

And Re Group A and Group B
How close were South Africa and Nigeria from qualifying? See ? What did I tell you?
Had France not scored that 1 goal, South Africa scored another (3:0) ; and Uruguay actually score 2 against Mexico (2:0) - do you know that it's South Africa going through at second place?

And if the Argentina game was 2-0, and Nigeria ended up beating South Korea 2-1 or 3-2 or 1-0, Its Nigeria that come second in the group! with 3 points !

Its amazing how teams from Group B and Italy's group could potentially qualify with just 3 points, when Chile are at risk of not going through the first round after winning their first 2 games, keeping 2 clean sheets, and having 6 points (goal difference).
Analaysis of Other groups tomorrow.