Thursday 24 June 2010

The Champions Are Out.

Reigning World Cup holders Italy have just been knocked out of the tournament following one of the dirtiest games so far. It had fouls, blatant time wasting and very nearly involved a fist fight but strangely no red cards. The fact that Quaglirella was allowed to stay on the pitch to score once and have a goal rightfully disallowed was still not enough to help Italy win and they went down 3-2 to Slovakia. The other game in group F between Paraguay and New Zealand ended 0-0 and that score tells you all you need to know about that match.

So the final standings in Group F are;

1.Paraguay 5pts
2.Slovakia 4pts
3. New Zealand 3pts
4. Italy 2pts

So Paraguay go through as group winners and Slovakia go through as runners up. They will play either the Netherlands or the winner of the Japan V Denmark match.

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