World Cup Review

Day 16
Saturday, June 24

And now the whole World cup get very surriues as the comption goes from the group sagtes to the Knock-Out round or as they like call it Round Two, and ruleds are diffence than in the group stages, that mean after ninrty mintues if the score is still tied the they will played two fifthteen mintues half (this year there is no Golden Goal in OT) and if there still tied after that it will decied by Pentaly Kick best of five who have more after five win, if not it will be suddend death Pentaly Kick to see who move on to the World Cup.

all match review will be from the official FIFA World Cup Site at yahoo.com or at this address fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/ for more Info

Round of 16
Match one of eight
Germany(3 wins in Group Play, Goupe A winners) vs
Sweden (a win and 2 draws in group play,Group B runner-up)

Germany advanced to the FIFA World Cup™ quarter-finals after two early goals from Lukas Podolski secured a comfortable 2-0 victory over Sweden on Saturday, 24 June 2006.

Jurgen Klinsmann's team never looked back once Podolski had fired them in into a fourth-minute lead and, after the same player doubled their advantage eight minutes later, only the excellence of Sweden goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson prevented Germany winning by a considerably wider margin.

Sweden lost defender Teddy Lucic to a second yellow card after 35 minutes and their faint hopes of a comeback all but evaporated when Henrik Larsson blazed a penalty over the crossbar eight minutes into the second half.

Helped by a lightning start, the hosts produced a magnificent display of attacking football to brush past a disappointing Sweden team. Germany looked the more impressive side even when all 22 players were still on the field, but once Lucic departed there was no way back for the Swedes, for whom Larsson's penalty miss merely rubbed salt in the wounds.

Germany can now look forward to a quarter-final tie in Berlin next Friday against the winners of the Argentina-Mexico match, which takes place later this evening in Leipzig.

Group of 16
Match two of eight
Argentina (3 wins in group play, Group B Winners) vs
Mexico (a win, a loss and a draw in group play, Group D runner-up)

Argentina needed extra time and a wonder strike from Maxi Rodriguez to give them a 2-1 victory over Mexico and a place in the quarter-finals of Germany 2006 in Leipzig on Saturday, 24 June 2006.

After a fast and furious start, Mexico took the lead with just five minutes on the clock. Pavel Pardo's free-kick from the right was flicked on by Jared Borgetti and Rafael Marquez swept the ball home at the far post.

It took just four minutes for the Albiceleste to draw level. Juan Riquelme’s corner from the right was touched in by Hernan Crespo and despite a series of chances for both sides, 1-1 was how it stayed for the remaining 80 minutes of normal time.

In the 98th minute, Juan Sorin’s fine cross-field pass was chested down by Rodriguez and the Atletico Madrid man fired home a left-footed volley to book his side a date with Germany in Berlin’s Olympiastadion on 30 June.

It took a world-class goal to separate these two in an otherwise evenly balanced game. The win sets up a mouth-watering clash between the South Americans and Germany in Berlin on Friday.

Quart-Final No.1
June 30 at 11:00 AM
Germany v Argentina

Tomorrow Games
The Round of 16 Countiues

11 AM England vs Ecuador
3 PM Portugal vs Netherlands