China humiliates France in 1-0 Friendly win a week before World Cup kick off

I know it's a week late.

I know it's only a 1-0 loss, and

I know it is just a friendly....

BUT

France should have blew China away in this match.

This is obviously not a good result for France.

Because of this result, I decided to look back at my Group A predictions and see if I should change any of the results.

My conclusion: France will not move to the round of 16. I admit that this is a little harsh but I was thinking that this would happen when I did my predictions the first time. The scores will be close though.

Only two of my predicted scores have changed (check out my original predictions at the link above):

France 1-1 Mexico (originally I had France beating Mexico 2-1): Mexico is definitely a tougher opponent than China so after a loss to China, I don't think France will beat Mexico. Both teams will play well but I think it will end in 1-1 draw.

France 0-1 South Africa (originally I had 2-1 for France): Now this is probably where the fans of France will start to hate me, but I don't care because it has already been proven that France in overrated. France's performance against China and South Africa's fairly impressive friendly warm ups leading up to the big event make me think that France's days are numbered. That's right, I think Bafana Bafana will not only win this one, but with this impressive victory over one of the best teams in the world, they will make it out of the group and France will be eliminated earlier than expected.

Updated standings:

1. Uruguay 1-0-2 5 pts 3-2 +1
2. South Africa 1-1-1 4 pts 2-2 0
3. Mexico 0-0-3 3 pts 4-4 0
4. France 0-1-2 2 pts 1-2 -1

With that said, I will continue with my predictions. Sorry for not posting earlier. I had some other stuff to do that was more important (yes more important than soccer/football!). Next, I am going to review the Group B predictions that I already did and then based on the now completed World Cup friendly warm ups, I will do some more fairer predictions.

I will try to do this before 9:30 tomorrow morning (New York time)-- the time coverage begins for the World Cup on ESPN and the time I have to have my bracket completed for the ESPN contest.