Top 10 biggest World Cup shocks of all time

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Sports Mole looks back at the 10 most shocking results in World Cup history, including the Miracle of Bern from 1954 and the Mineiraco in 2014The beauty of the World Cup is that no result is ever certain; with so many differing footballing cultures coming together, nobody can ever quite expect or prepare perfectly for what lies ahead. Here, Sports Mole dives back through the years to pick out the 10 biggest World Cup upsets of all time. Spain 1-5 Netherlands (Group stage, Brazil 2014)© ReutersAt a World Cup which provided a seemingly endless list of shock outcomes, eliminations and scorelines, this ranks high amongst them all, as it kickstarted a tragically-poor World Cup for previous winners Spain. Gaetjens would be the man who scored the only goal of the match in what was arguably the biggest World Cup shock ever at that point in history, and England were eliminated. With that, the most famous and most shocking World Cup scoreline ever was written, and it is very unlikely that it will ever be topped.
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