Another week and another set of results for our Home Nations heroes!
Wales has now fulfilled three fixtures and qualified for the Round of 16. Well done Bale & Co.
Their progress was though predicted by the dice. More about that next time when we consider the final group rankings.
For now it is enough to say that our random dice roles "knew" the welsh would beat Turkey, although not the exact scoreline. Which is more than can be said of us, as we were not so optimistic, predicting a draw at best.
The biggest game of the weekend for us was England v Scotland. Yes we know that there were many big games, not least Germany v Portugal, but from a soccermadboffins perspective it was the game at Wembley that was most anticipated.
Alex thought it would be an end-to-end thriller of guts and glory, with England eventually winning 3-2. Kevin was a little more conservative, believing that England would scrape past the Scots 1-0 (perhaps a Harry Kane penalty?). The dice called it at 0-2 to the Scots!
The reality was 0-0 but the game was far from boring. Some great passing moves and several chances on goal for both sides made it an edge-of-the-seat emotional rollercoaster. But one thing was apparent: If Harry Kane is marked out of the game or deprived of service, then there are no prolific strikers in either country at this level. Perhaps an indicator of the reliance on imported talent in the Premier League?
Finally, on Sunday afternoon Italy beat Wales by 1-0, although the welsh were down to ten men for a portion of the game, so it really wasn't a bad result, although a win would have been a nice Fathers Day gift for some!
How did we do with this one? Well Kevin was bang on with his prediction, whilst Alex got the outcome right, but not the exact score. The dice were wrong about everything.
Full details are provided in the table below which compares the actual results with our predictions.
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