Warm-up friendlies

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Most of the World Cup teams are in action this week playing warm-up games ahead of the finals. This is what's happened so far:

23rd May:
AUSTRIA 1-4 CROATIA

SOUTH KOREA 1-1 SENEGAL

UNITED STATES 0-1 MOROCCO

24th May:
ECUADOR 1-1 COLOMBIA

NORWAY 2-2 PARAGUAY

25th May:
AUSTRALIA 1-0 GREECE

SWEDEN 0-0 FINLAND

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25th May:
England v Belarus ('B' International)

26th May:
Czech Republic v Saudi Arabia (in Austria)
South Korea v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Turkey v Ghana (in Germany)
USA v Venezuela

27th May:
Denmark v Paraguay
France v Mexico
Germany v Luxembourg
Holland v Cameroon
Portugal v Cape Verde Islands
Serbia & Montenegro v Uruguay
Spain v Russia
Switzerland v Ivory Coast
Wales v Trinidad & Tobago (in Austria)

28th May:
Croatia v Iran
Macedonia v Ecuador (in Spain)
Ukraine v Costa Rica
USA v Latvia

29th May:
Jamaica v Ghana (in England)

30th May:
Argentina v Angola (in Italy)
Czech Republic v Costa Rica
England v Hungary
Germany v Japan
Poland v Colombia
Tunisia v Belarus

31st May:
France v Denmark
Iran v Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ivory Coast v Chile (in France)
Romania v Saudi Arabia (in Germany)
Slovenia v Trinidad & Tobago
Switzerland v Italy
Turkey v Saudi Arabia (in Germany - not sure how that's going to work)

1st June:
Holland v Mexico
Norway v South Korea

2nd June:
Croatia v Poland (in Germany)
Germany v Colombia
Italy v Ukraine (in Switzerland)
Liechtenstein v Togo
Sweden v Chile
Turkey v Angola (in Holland)
Tunisia v Libya or Uruguay

3rd June:
Czech Republic v Trinidad & Tobago
England v Jamaica
Georgia v Paraguay
Luxembourg v Portugal (in France)
Spain v Egypt
Switzerland v China

4th June:
Brazil v New Zealand (in Switzerland)
Ghana v South Korea (in Scotland)
Malta v Japan (in Germany)
Holland v Australia
Slovenia v Ivory Coast (in France)

5th June:
Ukraine v Libya (in Switzerland)

7th June:
France v China
Liechtenstein v Australia (in Germany)
Spain v Croatia (in Switzerland)
Tunisia v Iraq (in Germany)

8th June:
Luxembourg v Ukraine

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Saudis playing twice on the same day? how rare...

And at USA losing to Morocco...

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Friday's results:

CZECH REPUBLIC 2-0 SAUDI ARABIA

SOUTH KOREA 2-0 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

TURKEY 1-1 GHANA

UNITED STATES 2-0 VENEZUELA

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Wales beat Trinidad+Tobago... Germany thrashed Luxembourg 7-0...

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Weekend results...

Saturday:
DENMARK 1-1 PARAGUAY

FRANCE 1-0 MEXICO

GERMANY 7-0 LUXEMBOURG

HOLLAND 1-0 CAMEROON

PORTUGAL 4-1 CAPE VERDE ISLANDS

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO 1-1 URUGUAY

SPAIN 0-0 RUSSIA

SWITZERLAND 1-1 IVORY COAST

WALES 2-1 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Don't have all of yesterday's results but I know the USA beat Latvia 1-0, Ukraine beat Costa Rica and Ecuador lost to Macedonia.

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One result from yesterday:

JAMAICA 1-4 GHANA

England should put 6 past them on Saturday. They won't, of course...

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I think if the midfield plays well we can get a good 3 or 4, at least. Why have Australia organised a game against Liechtenstein? Morale-booster?

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fragolata said:

Why have Australia organised a game against Liechtenstein? Morale-booster?

I would guess so. Just like Germany's game against Luxembourg last weekend. (I would say Liechtenstein are slightly stronger than Luxembourg)

Last night's results:

ARGENTINA 2-0 ANGOLA

CZECH REPUBLIC 1-0 COSTA RICA

ENGLAND 3-1 HUNGARY

GERMANY 2-2 JAPAN

IVORY COAST 1-1 CHILE

POLAND 1-2 COLOMBIA

TUNISIA 3-0 BELARUS

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The Germans were trying out a new formation against Japan, and came back from 2-0 with 20 minutes to go... Ivory Coast haven't been doing too well in friendlies.

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fragolata said:

The Germans were trying out a new formation against Japan, and came back from 2-0 with 20 minutes to go...

Don't know why they bothered. They only have 2 good players.