WORLD CUP REPORT: Africa – Sat 23rd March including video highlights
South Africa 2 (Matlaba 34, Parker 70) Central African Republic 0 A goal in each half lifted the Bafana Bafana to a vital 2-0 win over Central African Republic as […]
Category Archives: WORLD CUP 2014
WORLD CUP REPORT: Oceania – Round Five including video highlights
New Zealand guaranteed their position at the top of the group for 2014 World Cup qualification, and in doing so booked their place for a play-off against the fourth-placed team […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group E
————- Norway 0 Albania 1 (Salihi 67) Albania moved to within a point of FIFA World Cup Group E leaders Switzerland, as a neat Hamdi Salihi strike earned them a […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Conmebol South American qualifying round-up
———- Colombia 5 (Torres 21, Valdes 50, Gutierrez 62, Falcao 87, Armero 90) Bolivia 0 Colombia continued their qualifying campaign strongly by defeating Bolivia 5-0 before 42,000 fans gathered in […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: CONCACAF Region round-up and video highlights
——— Honduras 2 (Costly 77, Bengtson 80) Mexico 2 (Hernandez 28, 54) Late goals from Carlo Costly and Jerry Bengtson saw Honduras rally for a stunning draw with Mexico. Costly’s […]
WORLD CUP REPORT – Europe – Group I including video highlights
————— Spain 1 (Sergio Ramos 49) Finland 1 (Pukki 79) Spain conceded a late goal Friday to draw 1-1 at home with Finland, conceding top spot to France in their […]
WORLD CUP REPORT – Europe – Group H including video highlights
Moldova 0 Montenegro 1 (Vucinic 78) Mirko Vucinic kept 10-man Montenegro’s 100 per cent away record in Group H intact with a narrow 1-0 win over Moldova. The visitors were […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group F including video highlights
Israel 3 (Hemed 24, Ben Basat 40, Gershon 70) Portugal 3 (Bruno Alves 2, Helder Postiga 72, Fabio Coentrao 90) Portugal secured a dramatic 3-3 draw with Israel in Tel […]
WORLD CUP REPORT – Europe – Group G
————— Bosnia-Herzegovina 3 (Dzeko 29, 53, Ibisevic 36) Greece 1 (Gekas 90) Edin Dzeko scored twice as Bosnia beat Greece 3-1 on Friday to move three points clear at the […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group D
———– Andorra 0 Turkey 2 (Inan 30, Yilmaz 45) Turkey breathed life into their faltering qualifying campaign but were made to work hard for a 2-0 victory away to Andorra. […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group C – including video highlights
————— Kazakhstan 0 Germany 3 (Schweinsteiger 20, Gotze 22, Muller 74) First-half goals from Bastian Schweinsteiger and Mario Gotze within a minute of each other gave the visitors the lead, […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group B
———– Bulgaria 6 (Tonev 6, 38, 68, Popov 47, Gargorov 55, Ivanov 78) Malta 0 Alexander Tonev’s hat-trick helped Bulgaria hit Malta for six on Friday to move within one […]
WORLD CUP REPORT: Europe – Group A – including video highlights
———– Croatia 2 (Mandzukic 23, Olic 37) Serbia 0 Igor Stimac’s Croatia earned a tough 2-0 win over Serbia to provisionally leapfrog Belgium to the top of Group A in […]
WORLD CUP: South American Qualifying preview
While Argentina storms towards a spot in next years’ finals in Brazil, the other teams fight for the remaining places. The surprise team Ecuador rests, and Colombia can extend their […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group I
The mouth-watering Spain-France clash happens on Tuesday night, prior to that they both have home games to contend with versus Finland and Georgia respectively. In all honesty on paper it […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group H
Montenegro sit pretty atop of Group H with Roy Hodgson’s England breathing down their necks. Hodgson’s preparation has not gone too well this week with the re-submission of Rio Ferdinand to […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group G
Liechtenstein v Latvia, Friday 18:30 LIECHTENSTEIN – Goalkeepers: Peter Jehle (Luzern), Cengiz Bicer (Mersin Idman Yurdu), Mario Tichy (USV Eschen-Mauren) Defenders: Lukas Eberle (FC Treisenburg), Olcay Gur (Chur 97), […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group F
In football as in life, history has a habit of repeating itself. Portugal and Russia, who locked horns during the qualifying phase for the 2006 World Cup, again find themselves […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group E
Switzerland is in pole position and look sure to stay there unless Cyprus can cause an upset. Slovenia and Iceland face each other but are in need of claiming three […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group D
It’s business as usual for the Dutch, with four wins our of four so far, a home match versus Estonia on Friday evening certainly suggests that it will be five […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group C
Surely Germany will defeat Kazakhstan on Friday night and stay top but Sweden and Ireland will be trying to grab the win to keep in touch. Giovanni Trappatoni’s Irish side […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group B
With group leaders Italy missing this round of fixtures, second placed Bulgaria and third placed Czech Republic can make up some ground to put the Italians under pressure. Group underachievers […]
WORLD CUP: European Qualifying preview and squads – Group A
After just four games it is already looking to be a two-horse race to top Group A. Belgium and Croatia head the table with ten points each with Serbia and […]
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING: Oceania Preview
The Oceania region’s 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign will end next week, with the final group stage games on 22 and 26 of March determining who will represent the Oceania […]
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