ITALIA ARE THROUGH!

Oh man, a traditional scrape through for Italia. Man, they give their fans heart failure!

Oh dear! How sad is this? :D :D

From the BBC:

Denmark could be without leading scorer Jon Dahl Tomasson for the clash against England on Saturday.

Reports from the Far East suggest Tomasson has been carrying a thigh injury for a while.

Tomasson, who has scored three goals in his side's three group games, missed Thursday's training session, as did Sunderland goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.

Former Denmark international Jan Molby said: "It's a massive blow for Denmark.

"All indications are that he will probably miss the game, He is the only player we can't do without.

Gee Donut - that makes you look like the favourites......

and we all now what happens to those don't we (Argentina, France, ...) ;)

Actually Tomasson scored four (4) goals in the group stage. And we still have Ebbe Sand in the attack - but it will still be a blow to us.

Seen from a danish perspektive, the loss of Sørensen in goal would be worse, as the replacements have no international expirience whatsoever.

[ 06-13-2002, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: Ar-Cunin ]

Another day is over and four more teams are ready for the next stage

Brazil, Turkey, Mexico and Italy

Final Standings groups C

Brazil..........11-3....9
Turkey........5-3.....4
Costa Rica...5-6.....4
China..........0-9.....0

and G

Mexico.......4-2.....7
Italy..........4-3.....4
Croatia.......2-3.....3
Ecuador......2-4.....3

Although Brazil won all three games I'm not all that impressed - they had the easiest group and had the victory against Turkey gifted to them. We'll see how the do in the knock-out stage.

And I won't count out Italy - they were robbed against Croatia (by a danish linesman :( ). I'm sure they be ready for their next match(es).

And now the discusion can begin - which was the World Cup's worst team - Saudi Arabia or China?

[ 06-13-2002, 10:57 AM: Message edited by: Ar-Cunin ]

D&H get decided tomorrow (here)...wait to see what happens.

Korea, USA, Poland, Portugal

Russia, Japan, Tunisia, Belguim

Go soccer! :D

What are the knock out pairs?
I know Senegal-Sweden,Denmark-England,Germany-Paraguay,Spain-Ireland.
What are the others?

Booo to Mexico for such an uneventful finish! That has to be a first in World-stage football. I've never seen such a terrible embarrassment to the game before. Passing the ball around for 4 minutes...terrible attitude..

and the italian players only watch at mexican players passing around the ball. how boring....

Latest scores, about midway thru' the 2nd half:

Japan leads Tunisia 1-0
Belgium & Russia tie 1-1