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If it ended now..

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2 games have been played in each group of the 2010 World Cup, so I was wondering if the group stages was only 2 games – who would play who in the 1st knock out round

Well wonder no more!

If the groups ended now, this is what the knock out stage would look like:

Uruguay v South Korea
Slovenia v Germany
Ghana v USA
Argentina v Mexico
Holland v Italy
Brazil v Spain
Paraguay v Japan
Chile v Portugal

Yep, no France, no South Africa, no Ivory Coast and worst of all – No England!!!

Thankfully there’s still one game left

World Cup 2010 Day Seven Results

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World Cup 2010 Day Six Results

World CupThursday 17th June – Day 7

Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain scores a hat-trick as Argentina see off South Korea to all but book their place in the  2nd Round

Greece finally managed to score their first ever World Cup goal and then got in the swing of things and got a second as they come from behind against to win over Nigeria and they will still have hope of getting through the group stage

France have forgotten where the goal is and it looks like they may be heading home after Mexico make them suffer with a deserved 2-0 win. All it would need would be for Mexico and Uruguay to play out a draw and the French would be on the next plane home.. They’ll be celebrating the in streets of Dublin if that happens!

Oh and before I forget…. yet another red card!

Group B
Argentina 4 South Korea 1
Greece 2 Nigeria 1

Group A
France Mexico

Group AGroup B

World Cup 2010 Group B

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Continuing our look at teams for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, this week we look at Group B

Lionel Messi

Argentina

Ranked 8 by FIFA
Winners in 1978 and 1986
Manager: Diego ‘Hand of God’ Maradona
Key Player: Lionel Messi
World footballer of the year by some margin
Footballbits Group prediction –  winners

NigeriaNigeria
Ranked 22 FIFA
Best World cup – 2nd round 1994 and 1998
Manager: Shaibu Amodu
Key Player: Yakubu
The Everton striker has been out for a while, but is back and could be a threat
Footballbits Group prediction – 2nd

South KoreaSouth Korea
Ranked 52 by FIFA
4th in 2002
Manager: Huh Jung-Moo
Key Player: Park Ji Sung
Loads of energy and an idol of his home support
Footballbits Group prediction – 4th

Greece OttoR
Ranked 12 by FIFA
Best World Cup – 1st round in 1994
Manager: Otto Rehhagel
Key Player: Georgios Samaras
Celtic striker can be a powerful threat
Footballbits Group prediction – 3rd

Matches
June 12th Argentina v Nigeria
June 12th South Korea v Greece
June 17th Greece v Nigeria
June 17th Argentina v South Korea
June 22nd Nigeria v South Korea
June 22nd Greece v Argentina

How we think it will finish:
1st Argentina
2nd Nigeria
3rd Greece
4th South Korea

Next week we’ll have a look at the teams in Group C

Can England win the World Cup?

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Now the draw for the group stages of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and we know that England will face the USA, Algeria and Slovenia, it might well be a good time to have a look at the possible routes that England will take if they are going to win the World Cup.

If England win Group C, they will play the runners up in Group D, probably Ghana in the 1st round of the knockout stages..

If England progress, they will most likely play France in quarter final..

A win in the quarter final means England will probably face Brazil in the semi final…

Another win would mean a first World Cup final appearance for England since 1966, probably against either Argentina, Italy, Germany or Spain…

But should England only finish as Runners up in Group C, the job would perhaps be a bit harder…

Probably Germany in the 1st Knockout round…

Probably Argentina in the Quarter finals…

Probably Spain or Italy in the Semi finals…

And then probably Brazil in the final…

4 former World Cup winners to beat in order to lift the trophy!!

Doesnt sound too easy whichever way you look at it, but then if Capello’s men are to bring home the trophy, they need to be good enough to beat whatever team is put in front of them.

Can they do it?  Only time will tell


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