The Latest: Russia On Pace For Lowest-scoring World Cup

MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Friday at the World Cup (all times local): 1:30 p.m. This World Cup is right on pace to be the lowest scoring ever despite no goalless games so far. Just 51 goals have been scored in 23 games going into Friday's play, at a rate of 2.217 per game. The rate was 2.212 at the 1990 World Cup in Italy — a tournament seen as a low point for exciting games. In 1990, the 24-nation format rewarded cautious play in the group stage by sending some third-place teams into the Round of 16. The most prolific World Cup in terms of scoring was 5.38 per game in 1954 hosted by Switzerland. In the 32-team tournament era, the record goals tally was 171 — a rate of 2.67 per game — in 1998 in France and four years ago in Brazil. The all-time average goals per game since 1930 was 2.85 before the tournament kicked off play in Russia. ___ 1:20 p.m. PSV Eindhoven says coach Phillip Cocu is moving to Fenerbahce and will be replaced by Australia's assistant coach Mark van Bommel. The Dutch club announced Cocu's departure Friday and said Van Bommel, who is Bert van Marwijk's assistant at the World Cup, has a three-year contract to replace him. Van Bommel, a tough tackling midfielder, played at PSV for six seasons before moving overseas to play at Barcelona, Bayern Munich and AC Milan. Before the World Cup, the 41-year-old Van Bommel had been coaching PSV's youth players as the club groomed him to succeed Cocu.Read more on NewsOK.com

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