Stray Wasp
Registered User
Some interesting statistics after the round of 16. All the top teams in the round of 16 by this metric advanced to the quarter finals.
Sweden has the best defence in the tourny, well known fact, but I keep telling you that Sweden is more dangerous than they look, they are also the third best getting past the opponents defence.
Now so far.
France beat Uruguay and Belgium beat Brazil, also predicted by this metric. Which makes this 10 for 10 so far in the playoffs.
Following this trend, Russia beats Croatia and Sweden takes care of England.
Food for thought.
Thanks for this, it is indeed interesting to compare against what has happened in reality. Surprising to see Iran so high up. Funny to see Germany so low down, but it's of a piece with the eye test.