First, a quick look back at what happened over the last few days:
My favourite moment of this tournament so far was seeing the new Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez score his goal against the PATHETIC French team. Seriously, these French players are awful, and it is disgraceful to see them in South Africa when they spend most of their time bitching and moaning instead of playing the game. It makes it a lot worse when you think of what the Irish team could had achieved had they got there.......... if only.
Maradona's crazy antics continued as he brought his Argentinean "son's" towards touching distance of the last 16. He is comical, they should have a "Maradona cam" at their games. you'd probably find more people watching him than the game.
Greece beat 10-man Nigeria 2-1..........i really hope the Greeks don't get through. Horrible to watch when it's 11 on 11, they got lucky due to a moment of Nigerian madness.
Serbia worked hard to beat Germany (who finished the game with ten players after Klose received his marching orders) But what's with all these crazy handball's by Serbia?? Germany still looked good even with ten men.
USA put together a solid second half performance to claim a vital draw against Slovenia, and in truth, they probably should have won it in the end.
England didn't turn up at all when they played Algeria on friday night. An absolute shambles. The highlight of the game was Wayne Rooney berating the fickle English supporters.
Why haven't the Dutch impressed me yet? They're winning games without getting out of 1st gear. They need a stern test soon or will find themselves struggling later on against quality opposition.
Ghana couldn't take advantage against 10-man Australia who battled bravely after seeing Harry Kewell dismissed early on for handling on the line. Ghana may struggle against Germany in their final game which could leave the door open for Serbia to advance to the last 16.
Denmark and Cameroon played one of the tournaments best games last night. In an entertaining contest, the former European Champions came out on top with a 2-1 victory, some entertaining gaffes and skills made this a great game for the neutral. Dennis Rommedahl's winner was the Highlight of the game.
Today we seen Paraguay defeating Slovakia, Italy stunned by the All-Whites and Brazil run out comfortable 3-1 winners over the Ivory Coast.
Didn't actually catch the Paraguay-Slovakia game, but from the highlights i watched it seemed the highlight was a well worked opening goal from the South Americans.
A 1-1 draw. Italy are far worse than i thought. They seem to have no creativity, and now that Buffon is injured i would fear the worse for them. New Zealand's goal was unquestionably offside, but i don't think anybody will begrudge them their hard earned point.
Brazil's win against Ivory Coast was confirmed very early in the second half when Fabiano scored his second goal of the game. Elano added a third before he was stretcherd off.
Drogba scored a consolation for the African's. What amazed me was that Sven Goran Eriksson didn't start Gervinho, who in my eyes would have been better suited than a less than 100% Drogba. Kaka recieved a crazy red-card (second yellow) in the closing minutes after he supposedly elbowed Keita. I didn't see much in it, had a "Rivaldo" feel about it.
Tomorrow we see the last 3 second round games, and here are my predictions:
Portugal 3-0 North Korea
Following tonight's result between Brazil and Ivory Coast im thinking Portugal will go all out attack in an attempt to get the 3 points.
Chile 2-0 Switzerland
I have a feeling Switzerland will be tired after giving a heroic performance against Spain.
Hoping to see more magic from Alexis Sanchez.
Spain 4-0 Honduras
Spain will wipe away the shock of their opening defeat and will looked to wipe the floor with a poor Honduras side.
David Villa would be a good bet on grabbing a brace.
My predictions are getting better! i've got 2 correct scores in the past 2 days. Things are looking up!
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