Well. 24 hours from now and we will be just hours to come from the very exciting world cup opening ceremony and the opening match between South Africa and Mexico. Yesterday there Spain and Portugal have completed their warm-up games as well with victory. Spain demolished Poland 6-0 at home through goals from Villa, Silva, Alonso, Fabregas, Torres and Pedro. Pretty impressive, isn’t it? Portugal also claims a 3-0 victory over Mozambique through brace from Almeida and a goal from Danny. While Chile has also recorded a 2-0 win over New Zealand in the last warm-up game for all 32 team just now with goals from Fierro and Paradess. A surprising result would be Ivory Coast without Drogba was held to a 1-1 draw with the Swiss second division club Lausanne. Gervinho’s goal spared the blushes for his wasteful team.
Injury list doesn’t extend today though the big story of the day would be Spanish Iniesta suffered a minor injury in the friendly and could be unavailable for the opening game for Spain. Elsewhere, Australian Tim Cahill failed to complete a full training, but should still make it for the first match. Mexican Rafael Marques has returned to training and this is definitely a boost to the Mexico contingent. New Zealand’s vice captain, Tim Brown has also returned to the squad. USA duo Altidore and Onyewu also fit to play England. However Greece defender Vangelis Moras has been ruled out for the opener against Korea Republic.
Coming-up: Match prediction and analysis (Match day 1)
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