Tournament of Upsets So Far at LinesMaker

Tournament of Upsets So Far

The group stages have not even ended in the FIFA World Cup 2010, and already we have seen two big teams going down to rel­a­tive min­nows. After Spain’s defeat to Switzer­land, it was the1998 World cup champion’s France’s turn to face the music. France who had drawn their first match against Uruguay came back with a vengeance against a very impres­sive Mex­ico side, but could not make it last for long. Soon the Mex­i­cans set­tled down and laid siege at Lloris’s goal, they finally breached the French defense when Man­ches­ter United bound striker Javier Her­nan­dez drib­bled past the goalie and scored with a calm fin­ish in the 64^th min.

Ray­mond Domenech did not help France’s predica­ment by mak­ing some con­tro­ver­sial deci­sions, replac­ing Anelka with inex­pe­ri­enced Gignac and not bring­ing on the French tal­is­man Thierry Henry. The sit­u­a­tion wors­ened when Abidal in the box brought down Mex­i­can sub­sti­tute Bar­rera. Vet­eran striker and cult hero Cuauhte­moc Blanco then sealed the vic­tory for the Mex­i­can with a 79th-minute penalty.

France who has odds of 25/1 to win the World Cup is on its way out of the tour­na­ment after their defeat to Mex­ico, who has odds of 33/1. Mex­ico has either to win or draw in its next match to progress to the round of 16.

In other matches of the day, Argentina took on South Korea and demol­ished them 4–1. Higuain scored a hat-trick and became the lead­ing scorer of this year’s tour­na­ment. Greece went up against Nige­ria and beat them 2–1, after Nige­ria had a man sent off. Argentina really looks strong while attack­ing and have odds of 9/2 to win the tournament.

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• Group Stages Com­ing to an End
• Big Teams Back on Track
• Spain Claims World Cup
• Demand for Tech­nol­ogy at World Cup
• Do-or-Die Time for Teams in World Cup

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