Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
How true is that now? I can't find the stats anywhere. It seems like we've had a string of 3-5 goal games.
This is a stat attack... This is a stat attack... This is a stat attack!

I’ve already been criticized for making this remark but I’m not alone: a lot of people can see that there is something wrong with the ball. This seamless ball dips too quickly, swerves too readily, and balloons to easily for players to control the ball, and thus to score goals, and the proof is in the scoring my friends. There have been 25 games so far in the group stages and only 46 goals. That’s a goal scoring rate of 1.84 goals per game, or well off the the previous low of 2.21 was in 1990. To put it another way, teams are scoring 16% fewer goals than ever before.
When the score rate is 16% lower than the lowest modern WC, (and most boring WC ever) there is something wrong. Whether it is the ball, the teams, the altitude, whatever it is, something is not right.


Predictions:

Portugal 0 - 0 North Korea
Chile 2 - 0 Swiss
Spain 5 - 0 Honduras