If World Cup history has shown us anything, it is defending champions seldom win back-to-back, and like so many others, Germany joins the long list of those hoping to achieve that dream only to watch as their dreams get washed away. After suffering defeat to South Korea today, Germany was eliminated from advancing to the […]

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo hardly ever misses a penalty kick but did just that as Iran and Portugal met for its Group B match. Ending in a draw, it was enough for Portugal to finish in second place and advance to the knockout stage. While Ronaldo’s missed shot cost Portugal a first place finish in Group […]

As the match between Russia and Uruguay got underway, anticipation was high for Russian fans hoping to see their national team defeat the favoured Uruguayans. However, their hopes were not to be as Uruguay defeated Russia in a 3-0 sweep. The focus seemed to be on bad boy Luis Suarez in post-game interviews, yet for […]

England’s defeat against Panama was one of the U.K’s biggest goal spreads in its World Cup history, and for Harry Kane, he was a big part of their success scoring a hat trick while helping England to its highest-scoring game since 1966. Yesterday’s win was welcome news for England considering they failed to win a […]

The defending World Champions have not had the start they hoped for in this year’s World Cup and were heading towards a draw against Sweden, that is until things began to go their way with a late match goal to give Germany a 2-1 win over Sweden. Germany was desperate as they went into stoppage […]

It took over 90 minutes of sweat and frustration of Brazil struggling to break through the Costa Rican teams defences, but Brazil managed to pull off the win and give Brazil a 2-0 victory over Costa Rica. The game went scoreless until stoppage time went into effect. It was then that Brazil’s Philippe Coutinho scored […]

France has a secret weapon at their disposal as part of their arsenal of talent, and now one is the youngest to score in France’s World Cup history. At the tender age of 19, Kylian Mbappe is the youngest to ever play for the National team in France. Playing in the biggest tournament of his […]

Japan was given not much of a chance to be victorious against Columbia, or even competitive in this year’s World Cup. However, Japan had a few surprises for the Columbians as they went on to defeat the favourites 2-1. It was the error of Carlos Sanchez that gave the Japanese National Football team the chance […]

Brazil is now the fourth team to join previous Champions winners who have struggled in their opening matches. After ending in a 1-1 draw, Brazil is at risk of not advancing to the next stage. For a team that hails from a passionate country, this is a not where they wanted to be. Brazil scored […]

The Germans ranked #1 in the world, seem to have joined a list of top teams that seem to be having a hard time advancing beyond the group stage. Mexico was successful in exposing the Germans defence and was successful in a narrow 1-0 win over the Germans, and in doing so, have placed the […]