Hi Everyone!!, we had today one of the worst days of the World Cup, Italy got a place in the quarter finals with a very questionable penalty against Australia, and Ukraine and Switzerland played a boring match which was decided in penalties, check more here:
ITALY VS AUSTRALIA
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Italy scored a penalty at the end of the game |
VENUE: Fritz-Walter-Stadion
RESULT: ITALY 1 – 0 AUSTRALIA
GOALS: Francesco Totti (ITA)
LINE-UP:
ITALY: Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Grosso, Fabio Cannavaro, Luca Toni (Andrea Barzagli 56’), Gennaro Gattuso, Alessandro Del Piero (Francesco Totti 75’), Alberto Gilardino (Vincenzo Iaquinta 46’), Gianluca Zambrotta, Simone Perrotta, Andrea Pirlo, Marco Materazzi
AUSTRALIA: Mark Schwarzer, Lucas Neill, Craig Moore, Tim Cahill, Jason Culina, Mark Viduka, Vince Grella, Scott Chipperfield, Mile Sterjovski (John Aloisi 81’), Luke Wilkshire, Marco Bresciano
Shots
[ITALY-5* AUSTRALIA-4]
Shots on goal
[ITALY-6* AUSTRALIA-4]
Offsides
[ITALY-2* AUSTRALIA-2]
Fouls
[ITALY-17* AUSTRALIA-26]
Yellow Cards: Fabio Grosso, Gennaro Gattuso, Gianluca Zambrotta (ITA); Vince Grella, Tim Cahill, Luke Wilkshire (AUS)
Red Cards: Marco Materazzi (ITA)
Ball Possession
[ITALY-41%* AUSTRALIA-59%]
PLAYER OF THE MATCH: Gianluigi Buffon (Italy)
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Man of the Match: Gianluigi Buffon |
SWITZERLAND VS UKRAINE
VENUE: Cologne
RESULT: SWITZERLAND 0 – 0 UKRAINE (SWITZ 0 – 3 UKRAINE AT PENALTIES)
GOALS: Artem Milevskiy, Serhiy Rebrov, Oleg Gusev (UKR)
LINE-UP:
SWITZERLAND: Pascal Zuberbuehler, Ludovic Magnin, Johann Vogel, Ricardo Cabanas, Raphael Wicky, Hakan Yakir (Marco Streller 64’), Johan Djourou (Stephane Grichting 34’), Tranquillo Barnetta, Alexander Frei (Mauro Lustrinelli 117’), Patrick Mueller, Philipp Degen
UKRAINE: Oleksandr Shovkovski, Andriy Nesmachnyi, Anatoliy Tymoschuk, Andriy Shevchenko, Oleg Shelayev, Oleg Gusev, Andriy Vorobey (Serhiy Rebrov 94’), Andriy Gusin, Andriy Voronin (Artem Milevskiy 111’), Vladyslav Vashchuk, Ruslan Rotan
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Switzerland missed three penalty shots and now they are returning home |
Shots
[SWITZ-6* UKRAINE-8]
Shots on goal
[SWITZ-6* UKRAINE-2]
Offsides
[SWITZ-0* UKRAINE-1]
Fouls
[SWITZ-24* UKRAINE-20]
Yellow Cards: Tranquillo Barnetta (SUI)
Red Cards: -
Ball Possession
[SWITZ-55%* UKRAINE-45%]
PLAYER OF THE MATCH: Oleksandr Shovkovski (Ukraine)
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Man of the Match: Oleksandr Shovkovski |
QUALIFIED TEAMS:
1.- GERMANY
2.- ARGENTINA
3.- ENGLAND
4.- PORTUGAL
5.- ITALY
6.- UKRAINE
7..-
8.-
ELIMINATED TEAMS:
1.- SWEDEN
2.- MEXICO
3.- ECUADOR
4.- NETHERLANDS
5.- AUSTRALIA
6.- SWITZERLAND
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8.-
SCOREBOARD:
1.- Miroslav Klose (Germany) [goals:4]
2.- Fernando Torres (Spain) [goals:3]
3.- Hernan Crespo (Argentina) [goals:3]
4.- Maxi Rodriguez (Argentina) [goals:3]
5.- Lukas Podolski (Germany) [Goals:3]
6.- Tim Cahill (Australia) [goals:2]
7.- Steven Gerard (England) [goals:2]
8.- Ronaldo (Brazil) [goals:2]
9.- Maniche (Portugal) [goals:2]
10.-Thierry Henry (France) [goals:2]
**--__NEXT ROUND MATCHES__--**
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2nd and 3rd Stage matches |
Well people, that’s what happened today, let’s see what we have for tomorrow:
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Tuesdays Games |
**--_BRAZIL VS GHANA_--*
HOUR: 17HRS
VENUE: Dortmund
REFEREE: Lubos Michel (SLO)
KEEP AN EYE ON: Adriano (BRA) and Matthew Amoah (GHA)
XUPOL PREDICTION: BRAZIL 3 – 0 GHANA
**--_SPAIN VS FRANCE_--**
HOUR: 21HRS
VENUE: Hanover
REFEREE: Roberto Rosetti (ITA)
KEEP AN EYE ON: Raul (SPA) and Zizou (FRA) this time, he’s playing, so, keep a close eye on this player, maybe you will see the last game of Zidane in his professional career
XUPOL PREDICTION: SPAIN 2 – 1 FRANCE
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Players to watch |
Well people, that’s all for today, see you tomorrow!!
ATTE: ALEX (Mr.X) VARELA (ÞH¥®€X¡@N=¤ÜÞØL__NØ ®€¢Ø®Ð ®) HAVE A NICE DAY!!! :)
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ALEX "XUPOL" VARELA |
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