Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Quarter-final 4: Spain 1-0 Paraguay

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In readiness for a game in which both sides were bidding to go further than they had ever gone before Paraguay made a massive six changes, p...
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Quarter-final 3: Germany 4-0 Argentina

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Argentina came into this game having scored 10 goals in four matches against Germany's 9 but it was Germany who were quick out of the b...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

WORLD CUP FINAL Preview. Netherlands v Spain

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This is it. The biggest game in World Football bar none. 32 teams started the tournament and now there are only two left to fight it out to ...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

3rd/4th playoff: Uruguay Germany preview

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This is the match that nobody wants to play. It is essentially a meaningless game. Both sides have been knocked out of the tournament and ca...
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My take on the Suarez Incident

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1) What Suarez did was understandable. Many footballers would have done the same thing. Right at the death he prevented what would have bee...
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Quarter-final 2: Ghana 1-1 Uruguay, Uruguay win on penalties.

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This was a quality match between two well balanced teams. Uruguay produced the better openings during much of the first half, Ghana having ...

Quarter-final 1: Netherlands 2-1 Brazil

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The quarter-finals kicked off with a clash to relish, a repeat of the '98 semi-final (which was decided on penalties). And if ever ther...

Round of 16. Match 8: Spain 1-0 Portugal

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This match was a mouth watering prospect that didn't quite live up to the hype. That's not to say it wasn't a good game - it wa...
Friday, July 09, 2010

Round of 16. Match 7: Paraguay 0-0 Japan - Paraguay win on penalties

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This was a tightly fought match memorable for its intensity if not its action, which in truth produced very few chances or particularly not...

Round of 16. Match 6: Brazil 3-0 Chile

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Brazil faced an exciting Chile side but in the end won quite comfortably. Chile did threaten at times through - mainly through Beausejour a...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Preview of semi-final 2: Spain v Germany

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This is a repeat of the Euro 2008 final which Spain won 1-0. The Germans will no doubt be wanting revenge for this on an arguably bigger sta...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Preview of semi-final 1: Netherlands v Uruguay

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Uruguay holds the hopes of South America on their shoulders. That is if their South American neighbours are not like Scotland for example, w...
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Round of 16. Match 5: Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia

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As most people including myself had commented - this match would depend on whether the Slovakia who played Italy would turn up or whether it...
Monday, July 05, 2010

Round of 16. Match 4: Argentina 3-1 Mexico

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For me, this match was spoiled by one key wrong decision. On 26 minutes Argentina took the lead through Tevez who was clearly in an offside ...