News World Cup 2010 Group B

Group B
Nigeria 2 South Korea 2: Yakubu will have nightmares
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 22:13
First things first; congratulations South Korea. You deserve to be in the last sixteen and you've done well. You might struggle against Uruguay, but you might also surprise a few - I hope you surprise us.
But South Korea drawing with Nigeria isn't the news - we predicted that result yesterday, so we are not surprised. The real news is Yakubu missing a sitter.

Greece 0 Argentina 2: Argentina win group and look good
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 21:30
I will hold my hands up; I knew Argentina would win the group right from the beginning, but I didn't think they would look so good doing it. Argentina are now my favourites to win this World Cup - they just have so much quality and they look so very very good.
But, they were always going to win tonight and they did. They also win the group, which means that they will be playing Mexico in the last sixteen knock-out match and that will be interesting, because Mexico try to play like Argentina and Argentina are proving to be the masters.

Greece 2 Nigeria 1: Luck and stupidity all in one game
Thursday, 17 June 2010 17:45
Well, that surprised me. Not the result, but a professional football player, in the finals of the World Cup, kicking out at another player and not expecting to get sent off. Up until that point, Nigeria were doing great and were winning, a game that would have been fantastic if they did win.
We had predicted a win for Nigeria and in the 16th minute they went one-nil up and looked on track for the three points but then, a moment of madness.

Argentina 4 South Korea 1: Did we just see the champions
Thursday, 17 June 2010 14:29
Five goals so far today. Three last night. Not a bad start to the second round of games is it? To top it all off, we even got a hat-trick today and Messi was better than he was against Nigeria in their first game. How much better can he get?
Take nothing away from South Korea - I don't think anyone would have beaten Argentina today and I think Argentina really could win the World Cup this year - they are playing some fantastic football and they have Messi - who is as creative as you get.

Greece v Nigeria, World Cup Group B, Match 19
Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:22
Greece were awful against South Korea last week. In fact, Greece were given a footballing lesson by South Korea and if they beat Nigeria today it will be scrappy or lucky and probably both.
But then when you look at how they got to the World Cup - it makes sense. They finished second in UEFA Group Two and they only got to the World Cup after beating Ukraine over two legs 1-0 in the play-off.

Maradona wants more protection for Messi and Tevez
Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:46
Mad Maradona is calling on World Cup referees to not be so afraid of blowing the whistle on players. He is basically asking for more protection for flair players at the World Cup, including Lionel Messi.
Now, we are not former footballing superstars here, we're all quite good at five-a-side, but we think the referees in this World Cup are excellent. They are not blowing for players falling over easily and they seem to have remembered that football is a contact sport.

Argentina v South Korea, World Cup Group B, Match 18
Thursday, 17 June 2010 08:24
If one of these sides win today, that side can be pretty confident that they will be playing in the last 16 of the 2010 World Cup and if there isn't a winner in the match between Greece and Nigeria later - they will be confirmed as the first team to qualify for the last sixteen.
We don't think that will happen and we will have to wait for a cracking match between Nigeria and South Korea - because one of those will win today and one is going to lose.

Argentina beat Nigeria 1-0 thanks to early Heinze goal
Saturday, 12 June 2010 16:49
Next up is England versus the United States but this was another good game, but maybe it wasn't as easy as Argentina thought it was going to be. Nigeria were no Greece.
We saw a little bit of the Messi magic we were all hoping for and if he continues the way he started this game he will shine at some stage during this tournament and if he gets better, Argentina really could do well.

South Korea give the Greeks a footballing lesson
Saturday, 12 June 2010 14:09
It was a good game of football but Greece really didn't do enough while South Korea looked quite good and could have had more than two. I'm not sure they will have enough in the latter stages of the tournament, but they play the game the right way and they are full of energy.
The goals came from Lee Jung-soo in the 7th minutes and ark Ji-sung in the 52nd and while Greece did try towards the end, if you could get a bet on them not winning a game in this World Cup after that performance, you should put your house payments on it.