There were certainly surprises today in my opinion. Everyone. or virtually everyone ,expected Cameroon to come away with a win in their match against Japan-or at worst a draw-, and every one expected the reigning World Champions Italy to get all three points from their match against Paraguay, albeit with a slender win,say 1-nil. But those events did not occur. In the Italy vs Paraguay match in Capetown, Italy barely managed to get a point from the match when Daniele De Rossi managed to pull one back for his team in the second half. Paraguay earlier took the lead in the first half via a free kick that was headed in by Antolin Alcaraz in the 39th minute.
Cameroon, on their own part, failed to live up to their billing as Africa's great hope at the finals- alongside Cote D'Ivoire- in their match against Japan who have never won a world cup match outside their home.In Bloemfontein, the two teams kind of looked unequal, mismatched. The Japanese should a great degree of speed and agility, coupled with accurate passing and great defending. As for the Cameroonians, with their Makouns, Eto'os, Assou Ekottos and other big names, they just seemed absolutely uninterested and disorganised. Assou Ekottou of Tottenham Hot Spurs gave a pretty good account of himself though. By the way, can anyone tell me why one of the deadliest strikers in the world Samuel Eto'o was playing on the bloody right instead of straight down the middle? Fuck that coach!The ninjas of Japan truly deserved their 1-0 win,although it came via a defensive error. It was scored by the CSKA Moscow man, Keisuke Honda. Is he related to the makers of the automobiles? Who the fuck cares anyway?
The arena for the show down between The Netherlands and Denmark was the ultra beautiful Soccer City, Johannesburg. Straight up, the dutch side were not at their best against a thoroughly disappointing danish side. They should have played much better and gotten more goals even though they ended the game with a 2-0 result in their favour. The first goal came in seconds into the second half when Simon Poulson defending against a cross by Robbie Van Persie ,headed the ball against fellow dane Daniel Agger's back.The ball ended up in Sorensen's net. The second goal came in the 84th minute via a rebound by Dirk Kuyt after Sorensen parried a shot from Eljero Elia. One of the biggest flops of the game was Nicholas Bendtner. I wasn't surprised though. Never was a good striker that Nicky boy. Here are a few wicked scenes from the games. Enjoy!
The Shogun of the Blue Samurais being congratulated by his adoring teammates. Shogun Honda!
Very painful goal I swear. It is always painful when such a cheap goal is given away. Look at how the danish keeper Thomas Sorensen looks totally helpless. Painful indeed!
Dirk Kuyt is celebrating his absolutely cheap rebound that put the game way out of Denmark's way. Cheap motherfu&*er!
Now you can see the own goal from a better angle. Look how helpless the danes in the pic looks!
Alcaraz lands a stinging slap on the cheek of the Azurris by scoring the first goal of the game. Buffon can only watch the ball Arc sweetly into his net. I jump pass you, is the message from Alcaraz to Fabio Cannavarro and De Rossi.
Fabio Capello aint pleased one bit. E no dey happy wit im boys at all. E dey vex!
What a daft keeper! He totally mistimed the cross to give Italy the equaliser. This chance was nothing more than a gift.
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