41. Czech Republic<\/p>\n
Group A. Lost 2-1 to South Korea.<\/p>\n
Slow and ponderous. Squandered a lead. This is not the Czech Republic that stole hearts in Euro 96.<\/p>\n
42 Uzbekistan<\/p>\n
Group K. Lost 3-1 to Colombia<\/p>\n
No lack of guts and enjoyed their first-ever World Cup goal. But struggled to cope with Colombia’s dynamism.<\/p>\n
43. South Africa<\/p>\n
Group A. Lost 2-0 to Mexico.<\/p>\n
Could not have been more generous to their opening day hosts. Offered little in attack. Gave the ball away for fun. And finished with nine men.<\/p>\n
44. Qatar<\/p>\n
Group B. Drew 1-1 with Switzerland.<\/p>\n
A fortunate draw. They were battered by a Switzerland side who should have been out of sight.<\/p>\n
45. Paraguay<\/p>\n
Group D. Lost 4-1 to USA.<\/p>\n
Hammered by the United States and it could have been even worse. Defensive style is awful to watch.<\/p>\n
46. Tunisia<\/p>\n
Group F. Lost 5-1 to Sweden.<\/p>\n
History makers – as they sacked their manager after their opening game. That’s how bad Tunisia were.<\/p>\n
47. Panama<\/p>\n
Group L. Lost 1-0 to Ghana.<\/p>\n
Involved in one of the worst games of the World Cup so far. Were playing for a draw when they were struck by Ghana’s 95th-minute winner.<\/p>\n
48. Curacao<\/p>\n
Group E. Lost 7-1 to Germany.<\/p>\n
A 7-1 drubbing on their World Cup debut but their equaliser against Germany will at least be a moment they will never forget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"41. Czech Republic Group A. Lost 2-1 to South Korea. Slow and ponderous. Squandered a lead. This is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-710910","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\/710910","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=710910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}