South American Teams Excels!!!

Chile register their first victory after 1962m when they defeated Honduras 1-0. Brazil started their campaign with a 2-1 over North Korea and Uruguay defeated South Africa 3-0 to register their first win in this tournament. The biggest upset of the tournament so far is 0-1 defeat of Spain against Switzerland. This a great shouck for European Champion who never lost to Switzerland.

Draws

Reid scored for New Zealand in the 93rd min to draw the match against Slovakia. All the matches in this group ended in draws. Ivory Coast drew 0-0 with Portugal.

Italy Escapes

World Champion Italy started the campaign with a draw. At half time they were 1-0 down and got a lucky equilizr due to the mistake made by the keeper. Though it was Italy who ended the match stronger but they have improve vastly to win the championship.

Asian Delight

After Australia went down 0-4 against Germany, Japan followed South Korea to keep the flag of Asia high. They played like a boxing sand pack to absorb all the attacks of Cameroon and win 1-0. Earlier Holland defeated Denmark 2-0 to open their account with a win.

German run riot

Germany was too good for Australia and defeated them by 4-0. Klose scored his 11th goal in the World Cup. Ger,amy amd Ghana most likely to qualify from this group.

Ghana Delights

Ghana registered a 1-0 win over 10 men Serbia. Ghana is best African team played so far. They will go to 2nd round with Germany. Serbia was playing better with 10 men only to be undone by the handball. A Gyan scored for the resultant penalty. We hope to see better football from Serbia in the next two matches.

Nightmare for Goalkeepers

After Green another nightmare for goalkeeper.Chaouchi missed an innocent shot from Koren. Algeria I think do not have any chance to go further. Slovenia may give US and England some fight but that may not be enough. I can see US and England moving from here.

Faulty Green

England got a huge start when Gerrard scored in the 4th minute itself. But USA came back strongly and got couple of chances. They could scored the equalizer due to a school boy mistake from Green. I am not sure how England will greet him. Now England and USA both will fight for the top slot otherwise they are going to meet Germany in the 2nd round itself.

Argentina wins

Argentina defeated Nigeria 1-0 in their first. This is their third consecutive win over Nigeria in World cup. They started the match in a very wirlwind fashion and got trhe goal in the 6th minute, Nigeria dod comeback in the second and got couple of chances to score. Argentina have to tighten their defence if they want to win the World Cup for the third time.

Lively Korea

Korea played well but still long way to qualify. They have do very well against Nigeria if they wants to advance to 2nd round. Greece still fail to win a single match. They are still searching their first goal.

Dull Match

The match between France and Uruguay was very dull. It ended in a 0-0 draw. Both the teams do have firepower to do something. After 1st round of matches I think South Africa has a good chance to move ahead.

First Match

So near yet so far. South africa alomost did it but failed to hold the lead. The match ended 1-1 with Mexico. I expected more skill from Mexico but South Africa impressed me more. Let wait for the next match which I expect to end in draw as well.