Paraguay’s shootout win over Germany on Monday supplied inspiration to the opposite third-place finishers {that a} spherical of 32 win might be theirs for the taking too.
Nevertheless, all six of the opposite seven third-place finishers to have performed within the days since Paraguay’s victory have failed to replicate the feat.
Tonight continued the the dry spell and whereas Senegal and DR Congo appeared good early towards Belgium and England, each went on to lose — whereas Algeria tonight didn’t actually give Switzerland a lot of a fright as soon as the Swiss hit the entrance.
Now there are solely two third-place finishers remaining within the discipline: Paraguay, who’ve already punched their ticket to the spherical of 16, and Ghana, who will play Colombia tomorrow for the possibility to meet Switzerland subsequent.
