It’s been a wild start to the World Cup and I'm here for it.
There have been a couple of massive upsets and a paar heavy pak slae dished out so far.
Argentina and Lionel Messi crashing to a 2-1 defeat against Saudi Arabia has got to be up there with the biggest shocks we've seen at any tournament.
According to Nielsen, Argentina’s loss to Saudi Arabia is the biggest upset in World Cup history 🤯
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And we're just getting started. Germany were also stunned by Japan by the same scoreline. It was crazy.
Both games followed a similar rhythm, with the big boys on top in the first half - scoring from a penalty and failing to put the game to bed with the chances that they had.
Then after the break, the comeback was on.
There’s a lesson in there somewhere for the former champion nations.
And it hasn’t ruined their chances of picking up what would be a third title for the South Americans and a fifth for the Germans.
Spain lifted the World Cup right here in Mzansi after losing their opening match and 1982, eventual winners Italy somehow won the title without winning a single group game.
So let’s not write off Messi and Thomas Muller when they still have a chance - they will do well to that to heart in their remaining group games if they want to survive.
One team in Qatar that has been grossly underestimated is Canada.
The pacy Maple Leafs gave Belgium a proper scare and with some decent finishing should really have buried the world’s No.2 side on Wednesday night.
But like he did for Real Madrid against Liverpool in this year’s Champions League final, Thibaut Courtois was a one-man wall, even saving Alphonso Davies’s penalty.
Let’s keep the upsets coming for the European and South Americans - it is the WORLD Cup after all.