June 16th will be a great day at the World Cup. It is the one day that four matches are being played at different times. The highlight is the fascinating Argentina vs Iceland. I've written a lot about this already and will probably come back to it closer to the date. The other matches are: Peru-Denmark, France-Australia and Croatia-Nigeria.
June 16th 1982 was also quite a special World Cup day. Three matches were played, each with a unique story. England beat France 3-1, significant not only for England making a winning return to a World Cup after missing out on 1974 and 1978 but for Bryan Robson scoring the opening goal after 27 seconds, one of the fastest World Cup goals.
Spain, under immense pressure as the hosts could only draw 1-1 with Honduras in their opening match, the Spanish equalizer coming through a penalty in the second half.
The biggest result of the day was Algeria's 2-1 win against West Germany. This was Algeria's biggest ever result and looked to put them on track for a place in the second round. Even they came unstcuk against Austria they did beat Chile. It was the controversial "arranged" 1-0 German win over Austria that sent the Algerians out.
Saturday, June 16th, 2018. Matches start at 6am, Toronto time and will be played at three hour intervals. It'll be a good day to be "busy".
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