I hope you all had a splendid weekend. You didn’t eat too much, drink too much, and did not pile up tickets for traffic offenses. I had a great weekend myself and my girlfriend.
Ok, so it was the penultimate match for our respective teams across the globe. In Europe, it was fairly straightforward, and the big teams did what they had to do to either book their place or stay in contention for at least a play-off place. My darling Portugal won against Hungary to keep their hopes alive, while Denmark confirmed their place in South Africa. Germany also reserved a place for themselves at the Mundial come 2010.
One team though surprised me at least. Slovakia, seating atop their group only needed a point to book their place, but to my amusement, the lost by 2-0 to Slovenia at home. They do still to the group, and qualification goes down to the wire.
In Africa, Ivory Coast belatedly confirmed their place with 1-1 draw away to Malawi with Didier Drogba coming to their rescue. Ghana lost their 100% record as the Black Stars lose by the odd goal to Benin, not that they will lose sleep over that. Egypt also kept their hopes alive by beating Zambia 1-0 in Lusaka.
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igeria, yes, Nigeria also kept alive their very slim hope of snicking behind Tunisia with a last gasp goal from Victor Obinna Nsofor undoing hard fighting Mozambique who in my mind were better organized than the Nigerians.
Reflecting after the match, my thought went back to a moment in the first half when a short from inside the 18 yard area cannoned off the crossbar. Had that ball go into the net, ???
Well, in the end, they just managed to squeeze the win from the Southern Africans. But for how long will Nigeria continue to manage to win football matches as it has now become our custom.
Going down memory lane, well lets keep that for another day. You wouldn’t want me to run out of gist, would you?
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