Here is an update on how the leaderboard looks following the conclusion of Group Stage Round 2. And as a reminder, if you haven’t yet submitted your Round 3 predictions then be sure to get them in by 8pm on Sunday when Group A fixtures kick off.

Round 2 proved tougher to call, with lower scores pretty much across the board compared to Round 1. Depressingly, one of the more predictable outcomes was England’s underwhelming draw with Denmark, with four people calling the 1-1 scoreline correctly. Six of you also called Belgium’s 2-0 win correctly.

The highest scorer for Round 2 was the only person who did manage to record a higher score than Round 1, aburton0123 with 11 points for the round.

In the random categories, there were points for those who backed goals deep into injury time, with aburton and Andy Proctor both predicting the 95th minute goals that in the end both Albania and Serbia scored. Nathan picked up 2 points for predicting 18 subs in Group E, and doubled up by correctly predicting the 57-43 possession split in the Spain v Italy game (along with Campo).

Austria’s Arnautovic was the oldest goalscorer at 35, leaving everyone empty handed, although Albania’s 34 year old Gjasula really went for it by scoring at both ends.

Leaderboard:

1= aburton0122, 21 points
1= Nathan, 21
2= Andy Proctor, 20
2= Campo, 20
2= El Diablo, 20
3= Beesley, 19
3= Helky, 19
4= coolcol, 18
4= Michael, 18
5 garyc, 17
6 GraHewitt, 14
7 Richard, 12
8 RichieGreen, 10

Time for an update on the leaderboard following the conclusion of the Last 16 ties.

Any big shocks that looked to be on the cards were averted in the end thanks to England’s last gasp turnaround and the penalty saving heroics of Portugal’s Diogo Costa. Holders Italy might argue that their elimination at this stage should qualify as a shock, but in reality Switzerland were deserved winners and will surely pose some problems for England in their Quarter Final.

In the predictions, Nathan extended his lead at the top of the standings by finishing as this round’s highest scorer with 13, largely thanks to picking up an excellent seven points in the random categories. Nathan correctly identified that there would be just one penalty shootout, two goals scored after the 90th minute, and that Georgia would finish with the fewest shots on target (impressively finishing with one goal despite having zero shots on target, thanks to Le Normand’s own goal). El Diablo was the closest challenger, finishing with 12 points for the round.

Three fixtures in particular proved tough to call with just one manager collecting any points from their predictions in each of them. Richard was the only manager to correctly call a Turkey win and got the 2-1 scoreline spot on. Likewise, Gary was the only one who saw England’s need for extra time coming, picking up two points for predicting the 1-1 scoreline after normal time. And Graham was the only one to pick up a point in the Switzerland v Italy game, correctly calling the Swiss win.

First goalscorers didn’t prove to be a rich stream of points for most, but there were points handed out for those who plumped for Havertz and Gakpo to net first in their respective games.

Leaderboard:

1. Nathan, 44 points
2. Garyc, 38
3. El Diablo, 36
4= aburton0122, 33
4= Campo, 33
5. Beesley, 31
6. GraHewitt, 28
7. Coolcol, 25
8. Richard, 24
9. Helky, 20

The Quarter Finals are done so it’s time for another leaderboard update.

As you’d expect with the tournament reaching the business end, it was a nervy round of games, with extra time needed in three of the games, and penalties in two of them.

Graham was the highest scorer this time round with 6, 4 of which came from calling the score lines correctly in both the Netherlands v Turkey and England v Switzerland games. Nathan was closest with 5, again with 4 picked up from the same two fixtures.

First goalscorers proved very hard to call this time around, with just one point picked up across all four fixtures - that one went to El Diablo for backing Embolo to open the scoring against England.

In the random categories, there were no in-game penalties so it was just the decisive shootout misses from Portugal’s Joao Felix and Switzerland’s Manuel Akanji - Graham picked up a point for his closest guess of one missed penalty there.

The fastest goal came much later than anyone predicted, being scored by Turkey in the 35th minute. Campo’s guess of the 12th minute picked up the one point for closest guess.

The total number of substitutes was definitely influenced by the extra subs afforded by the three games that went to Extra Time. There were 41 in total so Richard’s guess of 33 picked up the point for closest guess.

Beesley got two points for calling the age gap of 11 years between the youngest and oldest goalscorers absolutely correctly. Germany’s Wirtz being the youngest at 21, and the Netherlands’ De Vrij oldest at 32.

Colin also got two points for identifying Spain v Germany as the game with the most fouls, which it was by a distance in the with 39, compared to the next closest game where there were just 23.

Leaderboard:

1. Nathan, 49 points
2. Garyc, 41
3. El Diablo, 38
4= aburton0122, 36
4= Campo, 36
5= Beesley, 34
5= GraHewitt, 34
6. Coolcol, 27
7. Richard, 26