Riyadh: As the World Cup enters its final stages, the world’s biggest sporting event has lived up to the motto, “in football, anything can happen.” The Qatar tournament’s underdogs have challenged the status quo by recording wins against some of the highest-ranked teams in the competition.
The predictions of fans and pundits have been thrown out of the window according to former England and Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand.
He told Arab News that it had been the best World Cup he could remember due to the number of shock results. “It’s because of the games, the different types of outcomes, the underdogs are winning.
For instance, you think about Saudi Arabia beating Argentina, Tunisia beating France, you look at these games, Japan beating Germany. “And Morocco, beating Spain, Morocco beating Portugal — these results are crazy, and these are teams that no one expected to be able to do this,” Ferdinand said.