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World Cup finals tournaments as opposed to the actual final match.

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Republic of Ireland is one of the 8 anyway

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Correct.

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[quote=“Sidney, post: 849080, member: 183”]1. Name the 8 countries that have an average goal concession record of under 1 per match in all-time World Cup finals history.

  1. Which country has the lowest average goals conceded per matches played ratio in all-time World Cup finals history?[/quote]
    Ok so. These are total guesses.
  2. Italy, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, France and Portugal

Didn’t New Zealand not concede a goal or something like that at the last world cup and I don’t remember them in any other world cups so I’ll go with them for q2

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[quote=“the man himself, post: 849095, member: 1766”]Ok so. These are total guesses.

  1. Italy, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Argentina, France and Portugal

Didn’t New Zealand not concede a goal or something like that at the last world cup and I don’t remember them in any other world cups so I’ll go with them for q2[/quote]
Italy, Brazil and Portugal are correct.

That’s 4 of the 8, with Ireland.

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Norway

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Wales?

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Spain.

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East Germany

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Fuckin’ Angola

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Wales and East Germany are correct.

I had overlooked Angola so that is nine countries overall. :eek:

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Croatia, Israel, Honduras

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Croatia is correct.

So far we have:
Italy
Brazil
Ireland
Wales
Portugal
East Germany
Croatia
Angola

Just one left to get, and also the answer to Q2 (which is also one of the above mentioned counties).

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Switzerland

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No

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England
Angola have the best ratio

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[quote=“Blake, post: 849171, member: 1755”]England
Angola have the best ratio[/quote]
Correct.

Brazil Played 97 Goals Against 88
Italy P 79 GA 71
England P 56 GA 52
Portugal P23 GA 22
Croatia P13 GA 11
Ireland P13 GA 10
East Germany P 6 GA 5
Wales P 5 GA 4
Angola P3 GA 2 (0.666 goals conceded per game)

Ireland had the best ratio until Angola played in 2006.

Brazil’s defensive record is far better than Germany’s who have conceded 117 goals in 99 matches yet Brazil traditionally were seen as weak defensively while Germany were seen as strong defensively.

Germany/West Germany have conceded a lot in a lot several high scoring knockout matches against top teams - they conceded at least three in the 1954, 1966, 1982 and 1986 finals, the 1970 and 1982 semi-finals, and the 1998 quarter-final.

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Player who has made the most substitute appearances in EPL history?

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Defoe?

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Negatory.