Paraguay vs New Zealand’s game resulted in a tied game, Tuesday. However the two suffered different fates in the World Cup 2010. Paraguay advances to the Round of 16 while New Zealand joins Italy for an early flight home. Paraguay is already a favorite leading into this match but fans hopes for a last flick of hope for New Zealand to enter the finals and possibly both could have advanced looking at how the scenario played out today. New Zealand settled for third place with 3 points with Paraguay leading the pack with 5 followed by Slovakia with 3 points.
Italy the defending World Cup Champions have been eliminated! Poor defending from Italy cost them a ticket to the knockout rounds. Paraguay and Slovakia advance... New Zealand and Italy are eliminated.
Jermaine Defoe scored for England in the 23rd minute to allow England to advance to the round of 16. England will now face Germany... A cannot miss game!
Argentina who were already on top of the group with two wins and a goal difference of +4, decided to rest seven of its starting 11 players from the previous match. Even with the sitdowns, the likes of lionel Messi, Diego Milito and Aguero up front and Bolatti, Rodriguez and Veron in the midfield, made Argentina the clear favourites to win and top the group with 9 points. Greece needed a draw at the least to have any hopes of going through to the next round, so they started of with a very defensive line-up playing 3 centre backs and 2 defensive midfielders. Argentina dominated from the word go and had most of the possession. The Greeks kept absorbing wave after wave of Argentina's attacks. The Greek goalie Tzorvas pulled out some spectacular saves and with almost nine Greek players defending at times, Argentina couldnt find their way through. Greece also had a few chances on the counter, but Samaras couldnt convert them into goals. Argentina kept their composure and finally Demichelis broke the deadlock with a close range volley. Messi came close on many occasion but was denied by the post once and the heroic efforts of Tzorvas. Martin Palermo scored the second Argentine goal and that goal sealed the deal for Argentina.
Brazil secured their place in the knockout rounds today with a match left to spare after defeating the Ivory Coast. However star player Kaka has been ruled out of Brazil's next game against Portugal. Fourtunetly they will not need the Real Madrid man because Brazil currently sits very comfortably on top of Group G with six points. Portugal and the Ivory coast each have one and North Korea have none. That means no matter what happens Brazil will finish first in Group G.
World Cup 2010 – Group C highlights Slovenia 2-2 USA highlights Venue Johannesburg, Ellis Park 18 June 2010 kick off:16:00 CET
FULL-TIME Slovenia 2-2 USA
Slovenia led 2-0, USA fought back to 2-2, but there was so much more besides. No-one expected a gem from this one, but that’s exactly what we got. Buzzing.
Slovenia v USA line-ups: Slovenia: 1-Samir Handanovic; 2-Miso Brecko, 4-Marko Suler, 5-Bostjan Cesar, 13-Bojan Jokic, 10-Valter Birsa, 8-Robert Koren, 18-Aleksandar Radosavljevic, 17-Andraz Kirm, 9-Zlatan Ljubijankic, 11-Milivoje Novakovic. United States: 1-Tim Howard; 6-Steve Cherundolo, 15-Jay DeMerit, 5-Oguchi Onyewu, 3-Carlos Bocanegra; 10-Landon Donovan, 4-Michael Bradley, 16-Jose Torres, 8-Clint Dempsey; 17-Jozy Altidore, 20-Robbie Findley. Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali). Goal scorers: 13′ [1 : 0] Valter Birsa 42′ [2 : 0] Zlatan Ljubijankic 48′ [2 - 1] L. Donovan 82′ [2 - 2] M. Bradley Cards: 36′ Bostjan Cesar 39′ Robbie Findley 69′ M. Suler 72′ A. Kirm 75′ B. Jokic
13 mins GOAL Slovenia 1-0 USA (Birsa) You want top-quality goals scored from outside the box? Then have some of this. Slovenia’s decent start becomes a stunning one as Valter Birsa collects the ball 25 yards out in space and curls a glorious left-foot shot into the left-hand corner of Tim Howard’s net. The Everton keeper didn’t even move. As it stands, Slovenia are in the last 16.
42 mins GOAL Slovenia 2-0 USA Football can be such a cruel game. Just as USA think they are getting back into it, Slovenia go up the other end and double their lead. Miso Brecko starts the move and Zlatan Ljubijankic finishes it by coolly slotting past Tim Howard after Milivoje Novakovic’s perfectly-timed pass.
48 mins GOAL Slovenia 2-1 USA Horrible defending, fabulous finish. A USA ball over the top down the right catches Bostjan Cesar out as he slips and suddenly Landon Donovan is moving through on goal. Cutting in from the right he looks for a pass but there isn’t one, so he lashes a shot from an angle into the roof of the Slovene net. Now we’ve got a game on.
82 mins GOAL Slovenia 2-2 USA Some USA fans are in tears because they are back in the World Cup. A ball is pumped into the Slovenia area from halfway on the right and Jozy Altidore gets up well inside the area to nod the ball down – the Slovene defence has gone missing and Michael Bradley has timed his run to perfection, on the slide poking high into the net. Great goal, great game, great World Cup.