These are the last 16 matches:
June 24 17:00 Germany vs. Sweden
June 24 21:00 Argentina vs. Mexico
June 25 17:00 England vs. Ecuador
June 25 21:00 Portugal vs. Holland
June 26 17:00 Italy vs. Australia
June 26 21:00 Switzerland vs. Ukraine
June 27 17:00 Brazil vs. Ghana
June 27 21:00 Spain vs. France
Two matches will keep everyone watching: Spain vs. France and Portugal vs Holland. Of course, matches like Germany vs. Sweden and Switzerland vs. Ukraine might be […]

From what I have seen, Simunic has two yellow cards and he is still playing. Am I wrong? (now Graham Poll gives him another yellow card and red card for SImunic…)

Simic goes out with red card for Croatia and Ronaldo scores for 4-1 against Japan.

Kewell brings Australia back in the last 16: 2-2

38′: Australia levels on 1 from penalty shot. Craig Moore the scorer, Australia is back into the game.

Ivica Olic will play for his team in the all-or-nothing game in the last round of the group stages against Australia.

“With regard to Olic, he is now 100 per cent fit.
“He is better suited to how we will play against the Australians than Klasnic,” said 49-year-old Kranjcar.
Kranjcar, who has seen the forward line-up of Klasnic, […]

Important matches should be carefully refereed. Let’s hope no major mistakes will occur.

Match 41
CZECH REPUBLIC-ITALY
22.06.2006
HAMBURG
Referee: ARCHUNDIA Benito (MEX)
Assistant Referee 1: RAMIREZ Jose (MEX)
Assistant Referee 2: VERGARA Hector (CAN)
Fourth Official: RUIZ Oscar (COL)
Fifth Official: NAVIA Jose (COL)
Match 42
GHANA-USA
22.06.2006
NUREMBERG
Referee: MERK Markus (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: SCHRAER Christian (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: SALVER Jan-Hendrik (GER)
Fourth Official: KAMIKAWA Toru (JPN)
Fifth Official: […]

Missing a penalty shot, the Croatians might feel like they missed a chance, but the game was a close call all the way.

Budweiser Man of the Match: Hidetoshi NAKATA (JPN):
I am sorry for the Japanese fans that we didn’t win the game. Nil-nil wasn’t a good scoreline for us. In the first half, I thought […]

Japan and Croatia finished equals and neither of the coaches is too happy with the result.

ZICO (JPN)
It was a very equal game. We didn’t lose, so we are still in the tournament. I think we played very well. It was very difficult to play at this time because of the heat and we have done […]

Reactions from players are as expected: some happy, some not.

KAKA (BRA), Budweiser Man of the Match
I’m pleased, of course, but we’ve got more in our locker. For a first performance, it was good enough. The scoreline shows that it wasn’t an easy game, but then there aren’t any easy games at this tournament. Maybe it […]