world cup day 14

group F action produced the biggest shock as slovakia put the defending world cup champs out of it by beating italy 3-2. with paraguay tying new zealand 0-0, the final standing there has paraguay with 5 pts, slovakia with 4, new zealand with 3 and italy with 2. paraguay and slovakia are moving on and will face the top two of group E. so we will have new world cup champs. at 12:30 it is group E action with denmark playing japan and cameroon playing the netherlands.

update: japan beat denmark 3-1 while the netherlands beat cameroon 2-1. netherlands win the group with 9 pts, japan with 6, denmark with 3 and cameroon with 0. the netherlands will play slovakia on monday in the round of 16 and paraguay plays japan on tuesday. the rest of the round of 16 wil be determined tomorrow

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