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The second round of group
matches is now complete, with a new set of heroes and villains. This week's
awards are as follows:
Pichichis: The
same top three as in the first round, all of whom scored again, plus Pauleta
who scored a hat-trick against Poland. Seven players are on two, including
Spain's Hierro and Morientes, Brazil's Ronaldo and Rivaldo, Sweden's Larsson,
Japan's Inamoto and Belgium's Wilmots.
Klose (Germany) 4 Vieri
(Italy) 3 Tomasson (Denmark) 3 Pauleta (Portugal) 3
Zamoras: Although
four teams have not scored yet (Saudi Arabia, China, Poland and incredibly
France), surprisingly no team have a zero goals against record in their first
two games. Clean sheets in the second round of games for Alioum (Cameroon),
Barthez (France), Carini (Uruguay), Seaman (England), Arendse (South Africa),
Marcos (Brazil), Narazaki (Japan) and Baia (Portugal).
Villains:
Red cards for Diao (Senegal)
and Henry (France). No crowd trouble reported in either of the host countries
to date, but serious rioting in Moscow after Russia's defeat at the hands of
old enemy Japan.
White stick award:
England's Graham Poll has upset Italy by disallowing two goals in their
side's defeat against Croatia. The first was for a non-existent offside and the
second, in the last minute of the game, for a somewhat dubious foul. Russia
were also unhappy about a decision by Germany's Markus Merk not to give a
penalty to them in the first half of their game with Japan. Strangely non of
the teams who won have complained about referees performances.
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