2010 FIFA World Cup Predictions: As France Falters, So Do Our Predictors

The Half Volley World Cup Predictions Challenge is pitting four different forecasters against each other in a bid to see who is the best at predicting the results of the 2010 World Cup.

An expert, bookies, the public, and a computer game are all casting their eye over the group stage, with the results logged on Half Volley.

For more on the challenge, and the leaderboard, go to our main World Cup Predictions Challenge page .

This World Cup, predicting isn’t getting any easier.

With pre-tournament favourites Spain rolling over to the Swiss, many hopes were pinned on the French managing to convert a pretty poor first performance into a match-winning one against Mexico.

What wasn’t accounted for was the extent of this France side’s ill feeling towards Raymond Domenech.

With so many good players in the team, the limpness of the display in Mexico came as quite a surprise to the viewing masses and our predictors.

Not one of our competitors saw a victory for Mexico in what proved to be yet another difficult day in the Predictions Challenge. Out of the 12 predictions, nine were completely wrong.

In fact, the only match that saw any points returns was Argentina’s demolition job on South Korea, a game which might go some way to lowering the bookies’ odds on Maradona’s side as tournament winners.

Here’s the results and leaderboard from Day 7 of the tournament:

Next up we have England vs. Algeria, Germany vs. Serbia and Slovenia vs. USA. Will any prediction-smashing shocks happen tomorrow? For Robert Green, we can only hope not.

For the full results list and latest leaderboard, check our the main Half Volley World Cup Predictions page.