It is also worth noting that while only three of the 10 European teams to have played so far have won, only two have lost.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, not one South American team has managed a win so far.<\/p>\n
Brazil – the most successful team at World Cups with five titles – were held by Morocco, while inaugural winners Uruguay drew with Saudi Arabia. Paraguay, meanwhile, were beaten 4-1 by tournament co-hosts the USA. Argentina and Colombia are still to play.<\/p>\n
Asia’s representatives remain unbeaten and African nations have taken points from several higher-ranked opponents, underlining how difficult this World Cup has become for the traditional powers.<\/p>\n
“I’m disappointed [with Brazil],” former Uruguay international Gus Poyet said on BBC One.<\/p>\n
“I was surprised how bad technically they were. I don’t know if it was the pitch, maybe the pitch didn’t help but they were missing passes, simple passes that you would expect the Brazilian players to do well.”<\/p>\n
Fortunately for all those who have made slow starts at this World Cup, nothing is over after the first game. <\/p>\n
With two more group games to come, they have plenty of time to improve and secure their place in the knockouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is also worth noting that while only three of the 10 European teams to have played so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-707739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}