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Post by Panda on May 20, 2010 20:40:27 GMT 1
The warm-up season is underway with teams getting some match practice against varying standards of opposition. England have opted for two friendlies against teams who have also qualified. Argentina, on the other hand, have been going for confidence-boosters against inferior opposition. They beat Haiti 4-0 a couple of weeks ago and play Canada on Monday. You can't win the World Cup here but it's rare to see a team do well in the tournament after taking a beating in a warm-up match... Team-by-team warm up fixtures: ALGERIA 28/5 - Ireland (A) 5/6 - UAE (N) ARGENTINA 5/5 - Haiti (H) W 4-0 24/5 - Canada (H) W 5-0 AUSTRALIA 24/5 - New Zealand (H) W 2-1 1/6 - Denmark (N) 5/6 - USA (N) BRAZIL 2/6 - Zimbabwe (A) 7/6 - Tanzania (A) CAMEROON 25/5 - Georgia (N) D 0-0 29/5 - Slovakia (N) 1/6 - Portugal (A) 5/6 - Serbia (A) CHILE 5/5 - Trinidad & Tobago (H) W 2-0 16/5 - Mexico (A) L 0-1 26/5 - Zambia (H) W 3-0 30/5 - Israel (H) 30/5 - Northern Ireland (H) 4/6 - TBC (H) 9/6 - New Zealand (H) DENMARK 27/5 - Senegal (H) W 2-0 1/6 - Australia (N) 5/6 - South Africa (A) ENGLAND 24/5 - Mexico (H) W 3-1 30/5 - Japan (N) FRANCE 26/5 - Costa Rica (H) W 2-1 30/5 - Tunisia (A) 4/6 - China (N) GERMANY 13/5 - Malta (H) W 3-0 29/5 - Hungary (A) 3/6 - Bosnia-H (H) GHANA 1/6 - Holland (A) 5/6 - Latvia (N) GREECE 25/5 - North Korea (N) D 2-2 2/6 - Paraguay (N) HOLLAND 26/5 - Mexico (N) W 2-1 1/6 - Ghana (H) 5/6 - Hungary (H) HONDURAS 27/5 - Belarus (N) D 2-2 2/6 - Azerbaijan (N) 5/6 - Romania (N) ITALY 3/6 - Mexico (N) 5/6 - Switzerland (A) IVORY COAST 28/5 - Paraguay (N) 4/6 - Japan (N) JAPAN 24/5 - South Korea (H) L 0-2 30/5 - England (N) 4/6 - Ivory Coast (N) MEXICO 7/5 - Ecuador (N) D 0-0 10/5 - Senegal (N) W 1-0 13/5 - Angola (N) W 1-0 16/5 - Chile (H) W 1-0 24/5 - England (A) L 1-3 26/5 - Holland (N) L 1-2 30/5 - Gambia (N) 3/6 - Italy (N) NEW ZEALAND 24/5 - Australia (A) L 1-2 29/5 - Serbia (N) 4/6 - Slovenia (A) 9/6 - Chile (A) NIGERIA 25/5 - Saudi Arabia (N) D 0-0 30/5 - Colombia (N) 6/6 - North Korea (N) NORTH KOREA 15/5 - Paraguay (N) L 0-1 25/5 - Greece (N) D 2-2 29/5 - DR Congo (N) 6/6 - Nigeria (N) PARAGUAY 15/5 - North Korea (N) W 1-0 25/5 - Ireland (A) L 1-2 28/5 - Ivory Coast (N) 2/6 - Greece (N) PORTUGAL 24/5 - Cape Verde (H) D 0-0 1/6 - Cameroon (H) 8/6 - Mozambique (N) SERBIA 29/5 - New Zealand (N) 2/6 - Poland (N) 5/6 - Cameroon (H) SLOVAKIA 29/5 - Cameroon (N) 5/6 - Costa Rica (H) SLOVENIA 4/6 - New Zealand (H) SOUTH AFRICA 16/5 - Thailand (H) W 4-0 24/5 - Bulgaria (H) D 1-1 27/5 - Colombia (H) W 2-1 31/5 - Guatemala (H) 5/6 - Denmark (H) SOUTH KOREA 16/5 - Ecuador (H) W 2-0 24/5 - Japan (A) W 2-0 30/5 - Belarus (N) 3/6 - Spain (N) SPAIN 29/5 - Saudi Arabia (N) 3/6 - South Korea (N) 8/6 - Poland (H) SWITZERLAND 1/6 - Costa Rica (H) 5/6 - Italy (H) URUGUAY 26/5 - Israel (H) W 4-1 USA 25/5 - Czech Republic (H) L 2-4 29/5 - Turkey (H) 5/6 - Australia (N)
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Post by frag on May 21, 2010 12:55:03 GMT 1
You just wanted an excuse to use the world cup smilies...
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Post by Panda on May 24, 2010 21:31:07 GMT 1
Portugal held to a 0-0 draw by Cape Verde tonight...
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Post by Panda on May 24, 2010 21:48:04 GMT 1
South Africa 1-1 Bulgaria
South Africa now unbeaten in 10 games, though their only wins came against Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Jamaica and Thailand.
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Post by Panda on May 24, 2010 23:08:55 GMT 1
Argentina 5-0 Canada Another confidence booster for Argentina against CONCACAF's 10th-best team.
Australia 2-1 New Zealand Last minute winner for the Aussies after Boro's Chris Killen had put New Zealand ahead.
Japan 0-2 South Korea
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Post by Panda on May 28, 2010 9:56:58 GMT 1
Results from the last few days:
Tuesday: Cameroon 0-0 Georgia Greece 2-2 North Korea Ireland 2-1 Paraguay Nigeria 0-0 Saudi Arabia USA 2-4 Czech Republic
Wednesday: Chile 3-0 Zambia France 2-1 Costa Rica Holland 2-1 Mexico Uruguay 4-1 Israel
Thursday: Belarus 2-2 Honduras Denmark 2-0 Senegal South Africa 2-1 Colombia
Brazil have now announced two warm-up friendlies. They will play Zimbabwe on Wednesday and Tanzania five days later.
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Post by Panda on May 29, 2010 23:39:19 GMT 1
Friday: Ireland 3-0 Algeria
Saturday: Cameroon 1-1 Slovakia Hungary 0-3 Germany New Zealand 1-0 Serbia Spain 3-2 Saudi Arabia USA 2-1 Turkey
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Post by frag on Jun 9, 2010 23:38:57 GMT 1
Tuesday, 8 June 2010: Portugal 3-0 Mozambique Spain 6-0 Poland Monday, 7 June 2010: Tanzania 1-5 Brazil Sunday, 6 June 2010: Nigeria 3-1 North Korea Saturday, 5 June 2010: Algeria 1-0 United Arab Emirates Ghana 1-0 Latvia Netherlands 6-1 Hungary Romania 3-0 Honduras Serbia 4-3 Cameroon Slovakia 3-0 Costa Rica South Africa 1-0 Denmark Switzerland 1-1 Italy USA 3-1 Australia Friday, 4 June 2010 France 0-1 China PR Japan 0-2 Ivory Coast Slovenia 3-1 New Zealand Thursday, 3 June 2010 Germany 3-1 Bosnia-Hercegovina Italy 1-2 Mexico Spain 1-0 South Korea
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Post by Panda on Jun 9, 2010 23:58:57 GMT 1
Wednesday: Chile 2-0 New Zealand (played over 3 periods of 30 minutes)
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Post by Paddy on Jun 10, 2010 18:59:01 GMT 1
Any reason why MrH?
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Post by Panda on Jun 11, 2010 13:54:17 GMT 1
I'm not really sure why other than to take as little out of the players as possible. I think Japan's final game was played under the same system.
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