England and Belgium were disgrace as both set out to lose this match. Both played weak teams and didn't put much effort. But unfortunately for Belgium, their striker Januzaj, didn't seem to read the script and scored a brilliant goal to give Belgium the win. England will now be in the easier part of the knockout stages and face Colombia in the Second Round. Belgium will face Japan but will have to face much difficult teams like Brazil, France or Argentina next to reach the Final. But with this defeat to Belgium, England will now have to do something that not many teams have done in the World Cup. Only 4 teams have gone on to win the World Cup after losing a first round match : West Germany in 1954 and 1974, Argentina in 1978 and Spain in 2010. Let's see if England can make the football gods happy after deliberately losing to Belgium.
Tunisia beating Panama only confirms the fact Panama has been the worst team in this World Cup. Egypt and Panama are the only teams to have lost all their 3 matches in this World Cup. Amazingly, all the other teams have achieved at least 1 draw in this World Cup. Remember, this was only the third time Egypt have played in this World Cup and Panama were very fortunate to be playing in their first ever World Cup. Not sure if both Egypt and Panama will be in the next few World Cups.
With it expanding to 48 teams and the extra 16 places going mainly outside of Europe they probably will.