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Brazil 3, Chile 0
Brazil Starting Lineup:
Goalkeeper: Cesar
Juan, Lucio, Bastos, Maicon, Ramires, Silva, Fabiano, Kaka, Robinho, Alves
Chile Starting Lineup:
Goalkeeper: Bravo
Fuentes, Contreras, Jara, Vidal, Carmona, Beausejour, Isla, Suazo, Gonzalez, Sanchez
Monday night’s second-round matchup at the World Cup was not as anticipated as the Spain-Portugal blockbuster which is coming up on Tuesday, but there was still a considerable buzz enveloping this tilt. Chile had won a lot of admirers for a positive manifestation of football aggression, a colorful approach to the sport that, in some …

Argentina 3, Mexico 1
Argentina: Tevez 26, Higuain 33, Tevvez 52
Mexico: Javier Hernandez 71
Argentina Starting Line-up: (4-1-2-3)
22-Sergio Romero;
15-Nicolas Otamendi, 2-Martin Demichelis, 4-Nicolas Burdisso, 6-Gabriel Heinze;
14-Javier Mascherano;
20-Maxi Rodriguez, 7-Angel Di Maria;
10-Lionel Messi, 9-Gonzalo Higuain, 9-Gonzalo Higuain.
Mexico: (4-3-3)
1-Oscar Perez;
16-Efrain Juarez, 2-Francisco Rodriguez, 4-Rafael Marquez, 3-Carlos Salcido;
5-Ricardo Osorio, 18-Andres Guardado, 6-Gerardo Torrado;
21-Adolfo Bautista, 17-Giovani Dos Santos, 14-Javier Hernandez.
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Italy)
Venue: Soccer City Stadium (Johannesburg)
Argentina – who no one knew what to expect of after a poor qualifying campaign – finished atop Group …

Uruguay 2, South Korea 1 – Uruguay advances to quarter-finals
Uruguay: Suarez 8, 80
South Korea: Lee CY 68.
Uruguay starting line-up (4-3-3
1-Fernando Muslera;
2-Diego Lugano, 3-Diego Godin, 4-Jorge Fucile, 16-Maximiliano Pereira;
15-Diego Perez, 17-Egidio Arevalo, 11-Alvaro Pereira;
7-Edinson Cavani, 9-Luis Suarez, 10-Diego Forlan.
South Korea starting line-up (4-2-3-1)
18-Jung Sung-ryong;
22-Cha Du-ri, 12-Lee Young-pyo, 4-Cho Yong-hyung, 14-Lee Jung-soo;
8-Kim Jung-woo, 16-Ki Sung-yong;
13-Kim Jae-sung, 7-Park Ji-sung, 17-Lee Chung-yong;
10-Park Chu-young.
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany).
Uruguay sealed their spot among the sweet sixteen after completing an impressive first round. Despite a drab 0-0 …

Ghana 2, USA 1 (Added Extra Time)
USA (4-4-2): Howard; Cherundolo, DeMerit, Bocanegra (c), Bornstein; Donovan, Bradley, Clark, Dempsey; Altidore, Findley.

Ghana (4-3-3): Kingson; Inkoom, Pantsil, John Mensah (c), Jonathan Mensah; Sarpei, Annan, Asamoah; Ayew, Boateng, Gyan.

Referee: Victor Kassai (Hungary).

As the World Cup got underway a few weeks ago, few would have predicted that this, the second of the round of 16 matches, would see USA face off against Ghana. England had been expected to easily top Group C, while Ghana hadn’t …

Uruguay 2, South Korea 1 – Uruguay advances to quarter-finals
Uruguay: Suarez 8, 80
South Korea: Lee CY 68.
Uruguay starting line-up (4-3-3)
1-Fernando Muslera;
2-Diego Lugano, 3-Diego Godin, 4-Jorge Fucile, 16-Maximiliano Pereira;
15-Diego Perez, 17-Egidio Arevalo, 11-Alvaro Pereira;
7-Edinson Cavani, 9-Luis Suarez, 10-Diego Forlan.
South Korea starting line-up (4-2-3-1)
18-Jung Sung-ryong;
22-Cha Du-ri, 12-Lee Young-pyo, 4-Cho Yong-hyung, 14-Lee Jung-soo;
8-Kim Jung-woo, 16-Ki Sung-yong;
13-Kim Jae-sung, 7-Park Ji-sung, 17-Lee Chung-yong;
10-Park Chu-young.
Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany).
Uruguay sealed their spot among the sweet sixteen after completing an impressive first round. Despite a drab 0-0 …

Group G: Ivory Coast 3, North Korea 0
Ivory Coast: Yaya Toure 14, Romaric 20, Kalou 82.
Korea DPR starting line-up: (5-3-1-1)
1-Ri Myong-guk;
2-Cha Jong-hyok, 13-Pak Chol-jin, 3-Ri Jun-il, 8-Ji Yun-nam, 5-Ri Kwang-chon; 11-Mun In-guk, 17-An Yong-hak, 4-Pak Nam-chol;
10-Hong Yong-jo;
9-Jong Tae-se.
Ivory Coast starting line-up: (4-3-3)
1-Boubacar Barry;
21-Emmanuel Eboue, 4-Kolo Toure, 5-Didier Zokora, 3-Arthur Boka;
13-Ndri Romaric, 19-Yaya Toure, 9-Cheik Tiote;
10-Gervinho, 11-Didier Drogba, 18-Abdelkader Keita.
Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain).
This group was labeled by many as the group of death but it didn’t exactly live to its billing …

Group H: Spain 2, Chile 1
Spain: Villa 24, Iniesta 37
Chile: Millar 47
Chile Starting line-up: (3-3-1-3)
1-Claudio Bravo;
17-Gary Medel, 3-Waldo Ponce, 18-Gonzalo Jara;
4-Mauricio Isla, 3-Marco Estrada, 8-Arturo Vidal;
10-Jorge Valdivia;
7-Alexis Sanchez, 15-Jean Beausejour, 11-Mark Gonzalez.
Spain starting line-up: (4-1-2-3)
1-Iker Casillas;
15-Sergio Ramos, 3-Gerard Pique, 5-Carles Puyol, 11-Joan Capdevila;
16-Sergio Busquets;
4-Xabi Alonso, 6-Xavi;
8-Andres Iniesta, 9-Fernando Torres, 7-David Villa.
Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico)
Venue: Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria.
This was, as the Spanish sports daily Marca declared, the moment of truth. This wasn’t what the script was meant to …

Group H: Switzerland 0, Honduras 0 – Both teams eliminated from second round contention
Switzerland Lineup
Goalkeeper: Benaglio
Grichting, Bergen, Ziegler, Lichtsteiner, Inler, Huggel (Shaqiri, 77) Fernandes (Yakin, 46), Barnetta, N’Kufo (Frei, 69), Derdiyok
Honduras Lineup
Goalkeeper: Valladares
Bernardez, Chavez, Figueroa, Sabillon, Thomas, Palacios, Nunez (Martinez, 66), Alvarez, Suazo (Turcios, 86), Palacios (Welcome, 78)
In the final opening-round match of the World Cup – alongside Chile-Spain – the Swiss knew as they stepped between the painted white lines that they’d have to score goals and win by at least two …

Group F: Slovakia 3, Italy 2
Italy:

Federico Marchetti, Gianluca Zambrotta, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Domenico Criscito, Daniele De Rossi,

Riccardo Montolivo, Gennaro Gattuso, Simone Pepe, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Antonio Di Natale.

Slovakia:

Jan Mucha, Peter Pekarik, Martin Skrtel, Radoslav Zabavnik, Jan Durica, Miroslav Stoch,

Juraj Kucka, Zdeno Strba, Marek Hamsik, Robert Vittek, Erik Jendrisek.
Referee: Howard Webb (England)
This match was not expected to be of any particularly large significance when the draw took place months ago in South Africa. However, due to a calamitous campaign by the …

Group E: Netherlands 2, Cameroon 1

Cameroon (4-4-2): Hamidou; Geremi, M’bia, N’Koulou, Assou-Ekotto; Makoun, Chedjou, N’Guemo, Bong; Eto’o, Choupo-Moting.

Netherlands (4-2-3-1): Stekelenburg; Boulahrouz, Heitinga, Mathijsen, Van Bronckhorst; Van Bommel, De Jong; Kuyt, Van der Vaart, Sneijder; van Persie.

Referee: Pablo Pozo (Chile)
This match saw two of the favoured sides in this group face off. The Oranje have been overall very impressive in their matches so far, with Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Wesley Sneijder and Robin van Persie having played exceptionally well …