Welcome to Ben Franks' World Cup Watch that follows all the latest News, Statistics, Updates and Scores of the 2010 South Africa Fifa World Cup. I'll be posting scores, match reports and stats on the final minute of every game so you can check up right here to keep updated.
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Match Reports, Statistics and Scores
Match Report:
A fairly dissapointing and uneventful game from France as Uraguay drew with them tonight. Throughout the entire match, Uraguay's defense remained strong and despite being a player short for the last ten minutes of the game, they still put France through their paces. Infact, in the 92nd minute, Thierry Henry had a golden oppurtunity to score a free kick, but failed to work his magic due to an excellent piece of defending from Uraguay's Captain. Also, this match saw a lot of yellow cards, which doesn't surprise me it being the French playing they have a general dissaproval for the rules, but we saw most of the cards given to Uraguay, which suggests a foul play alround.
Stats:
Total Shots on goal: France: 12 , Uraguay: 6
Fouls Committed: France: 20 , Uraguay: 13
Posession: France: 57% , Uraguay: 43%
Each team received 3 yellow cards, however, Uraguay received a Red in the 79th minute.
WCW's Man Of The Match: Uraguay: Lugana (Captain)
- South Africa - 1 : 1 - Mexico
Match Report:
The first half saw the teams frankly trying to control their game rather than pursuing for goals, with Mexico's goalkeeper experiencing slippery hands and South Africa's strikers missing most of the headers and failed to keep the ball on the pitch. There was an ITV fiasco about the "Threat of Franco", a Mexican striker who came close to scoring twice. By the 30th Minute ball posession looked like this:
S. Africa 39% Mexico 61%
Though there was excitement during the 37th minute when Mexico scored a goal, but it was unfortunately dismissed as "offside".
The second half saw the real action as South Africa's TSHABALALA scored at 53m50s, just over 8 minutes into the second half. Khune, S. A.'s goal keeper was showing off his lightening quick reactions and it seemed, despite Mexico using all their substitutions, that no striker could get the ball past him. That was until a moment of poor concentration from the South African defenders saw Mexico's MARQUEZ score an extremely impressive goal to make it 1-1. (78m06s)
It looked like the score was going to stay that way but in the 90th minute, South Africa almost scored with a shot denied by the post. The match ended at 1-1.
Stats:
- Each team received two yellow cards.
- Ball Possesion: S Africa: 42% , Mexico 58%
- Total Shots On Goal: S Africa: 9 , Mexico: 12
- Fouls Committed: S Africa: 16 , Mexico: 13
Want to know when the Group Matchs are? Well the full UK broadcasting timetable of the Group match games can be found here: (Teams playing, Times Playing, What channel it's on)
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/blog/BenFranks/world_cup_watch_group_match_timetable._b-43397.html 
