Day 3 of the World Cup

Group C

Slovenia vs Algeria
Result: 1-0 (Koren 78')

I'm going to be honest here, I watched this game in spurts as it was on at 7 am. From what I did see, Slovenia looks like a pretty solid team, and Algeria looks like a team in shambles. Yet another gift from the Algerian goalie in Group C gave Slovenia the win, after letting the ball go in after it hit him in the chest. The US face a must win this friday.

Thoughts on Group C:
I'm actually not going to put my predicted finish up here, because I don't want to jinx my two teams!!

Ghana vs Serbia
Result: 1-0 (Gyan 83' penalty kick)

This game picked up quite a bit of quality from the Slovenia-Algeria game earlier. I was impressed with Ghana and thought they did deserve the win, however it was unfortunate that they could not take it in the field of play and had to rely on a late handball to win. It's a great result for all of Africa though, as they are the first African team to ever win on African soil in a World Cup. Not to say that Serbia played poorly, I actually thought they were really an impressive team too. They missed one golden opportunity to ice the game in the 80th minute playing with ten men, when the ball came across the 6 yard box right to a forward. However, he blasted it right at the keeper who did well to control it.


Germany vs Australia
Result: 4-0 (Podolski 7', Klose 25', Mueller 66', Cacau 69')

I was at work for the latter half of the game, but I didn't need to see much. Germany pwns, and Australia uber sucks lol. I think Germany had something like 90 percent completion rate of their passes which is illy. Honestly I wish Germany had drew with Australia because I hope them all the worst for this World Cup, but it wasn't to be. Australia is in a heap of trouble too because Tim Cahil, the Evertonian, was issued a red card so he's banned from the next match.

Thoughts on Group D
--This is probably the strongest overall group we've seen in the World Cup thusfar. Germany are favorites to win it after turning in the most impressive performance of the tournament, yet Ghana and Serbia both turned out to have solid defenses and enough firepower to make things interesting.

Predicted Finish :
1) Germany -- 7 points
2) Ghana -- 7 points
3) Serbia -- 3 points
4) Australia -- 0 points