World Cup Scores – Contains European and South America Results

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Qualification in the European stage has now been completed. For details of who made it in at the bitter end, see below.

SOUTH AMERICA

Peru beat Bolivia 1-0. Brazil and Venezuela have drawn 0-0. Argentina have beaten Uruguay 0-1 and have therefore qualified for the World Cup. Chile beat Ecuador by the same score. Venezuela are eliminated. Uruguay will be in a play-off against the fourth place side in the North American group, which will be Costa Rica after their 2-2 draw with the USA. Honduras clinched third place by beating fierce rivals El Salvador.

Paraguay surprisingly lost 0-2 at home to Colombia, and missed the chance to top the group.

Peru 1 : 0 Bolivia
Brazil 0 : 0 Venezuela
Chile 1 : 0 Ecuador
Uruguay 0 : 1 Argentina
Paraguay 0 : 2 Colombia

		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Brazil	18	9	7	2	33	11	34
2	Chile	18	10	3	5	32	22	33
3	Paraguay	18	10	3	5	24	16	33
4	Argentina	18	8	4	6	23	20	28
5	Uruguay	18	6	6	6	28	20	24
6	Ecuador	18	6	5	7	22	26	23
7	Colombia	18	6	5	7	14	18	23
8	Venezuela	18	6	4	8	23	29	22
9	Bolivia	18	4	3	11	22	36	15
10	Peru	18	3	4	11	11	34	13

EUROPE

All the matches in Europe have now finished.Ukraine confirmed their play-off place with a 0-6 away win at Andorra. This foiled any lingering hopes for Croatia who won 1-2 in Kazakhstan nevertheless.

Finland were minutes away from a shock victory in Munich against Germany after Jonatan Johansson had given them an 11th minute lead. Lukas Podolski equalised in the 89th minute to save the German blushes.

The crucial matches in Group 2 started at 11pm, and those in Group 1 45 minutes later. Portugal are play-off bound, with a 4-0 win over Malta. This would make Sweden’s result irrelevant. They beat Albania 4-1. The previously unbeaten Danes lost 0-1 at home to Hungary.

In Group 2, Greece did their bit by beating Luxembourg 2-1, but Switzerland drew 0-0 with Israel to retain first place and their place in the Finals.

In Group 3, Slovenia are 1-0 up in San Marino. This will secure them second place minimum, but even better if the Slovaks fail to win a tricky tie in Poland. But a 4th minute Seweryn Gancarczyk own goal has settled their nerves and given Slovakia a crucial lead against a demoralised Poland. The match finished 0-1 to Slovakia who win the group. Slovenia enter the play-offs.

Spain won 5-2 in Bosnia and England lead Belarus 3-0. Serbia lost 2-1 in Lithuania, their first defeat of the campaign, but have already clinched first place. France beat Austria 2-1.

Ireland drew 0-0 with Montenegro in Group 8 but Alberto Gilardino scored a hat trick in the space of just 12 minutes to rescue Italy from embarrassment. The Azzurri looked bound for an embarassing defeat to Cyprus. They were 0-2 ahead thanks too goals from Iannis Ojkkas and Chrysostomos Michail but Gilardino scored three times, to add to the late equaliser he scored against Ireland on Saturday.

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