BRAZIL are the
winners from Group A and started off the tournament with a 3-1 win against
Croatia. They then drew 0-0 with Mexico
and then won their last game in the first round 4-1 against Cameroon. CHILE are
the runners up in Group B winning their opening game 3-1 against Australia and
then knocked out Spain from the games winning 2-0. Their last game they lost
2-0 to Holland.
This was
always going to be a great match between these two and both sides did not let
us down. Right from kick-off it was fast and furious but it was Brazil that
scored the first goal. Chile played very good football at times and they never
gave up. Brazil had their moments but at times they seemed to slow down and
that what’s cost them the game as Chile scored from a bad clearance near their
goal. So after 90 minutes the score remained 1-1. We then went into extra time,
which counts in Golden Goals. But still both teams were unable to break the
deadlock and so into penalties. These do not count for
us.
Brazil
went first and scored but Chile missed their’s, both teams missed the next one
and for their third penalty both scored. 2-1 to Brazil. The fourth one Brazil
missed and Chile scored, with the last and final penalty Brazil scored and
Chile missed by hitting the post with the shot just outside the Brazilian’s
goal keeper reach. Brazil are our first team to go through to the Quarter-finals
3-2 on penalties. Brazil take their goals tally to 8 goals while Chile go out
with 6 goals.
In the
other game of the day, COLOMBIA took
on URUGUAY.
COLOMBIA finished
top of Group C by winning all of their three games in the first round. They
first beat Greece 3-0 and then beat the Ivory Coast 2-1. In their final game
they won 4-1 against Japan. URUGUAY were
runners up from Group D and after losing their open game 3-1 to Costa Rica,
they then won their last two games. 2-1 against England and 1-0 against Italy.
Colombia won this game 2-0 and are on a total of 11 goals which now makes them
top scorer’s for Golden Goals. Uruguay are our ninth nation to go out and they
ended with a total of 4 goals.
So the
first Quarter-final game is confirmed as BRAZIL against COLOMBIA to
be played on 4th July.
So At the end
of day seventeen at the World Cup, our goals total now stands at 96 goals.
Best four
teams to date are COLOMBIA (11) HOLLAND
(10) FRANCE (8) GERMANY (7) Total of 36 goals.
The Second round games still to play are
HOLLAND
v MEXICO, Coast Rica
v Greece to be played on 29th June
FRANCE
v NIGERIA, GERMANY v Algeria
to be played on 30th June
ARGENTINA
v Switzerland, BELGIUM v USA will be played on 1st
July
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