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There are truly some shocking results in the 2012 FIFA world cup as of late and I am here to recap some of them since I haven't covered the games lately. Belgium played a pretty decent game against Algeria yesterday as they were the latest team to comeback from a goal down to win 2 to 1. It almost seemed as if Algeria were going to shock the latest golden generation considering countries that have announced they had a golden generation have failed at the world cup. Marouane Fellaini's entrance into the second half made quite the impact as the midfielder found the back of the net in the 70TH minute after entering the second half five minutes earlier. Dries Mertens who entered in the 46TH minute would score the go ahead goal in the 80TH minute to put Belgium ahead of Algeria. The other teams in the group South Korea and Russia battled to an uneventful 1-1 draw. In fact, South Korea's Lee Keunho should have never had a goal if Russia's Igor Akinfeev had been paying attention. Alexander Kerzhakov would equalize in the 74TH minute and both teams walked out with 1 point. The strongest team in the group in my opinion is Belgium, but you never know going into the second games. There is only one thing that can be said about the Brazil-Mexico game and it's that for a zero all game, it was one of the most exciting. To me, Guillermo Ochoa of Mexico stole the show and he deserved the man of the match without a shadow of a doubt. He stopped everything Neymar, Thiago Silva, Dani Alves, etc threw at him.
Today, there were some shocking incidents that nobody saw coming, not even me. I picked Spain to finish at the top of their group and Spain has officially been eliminated after Chile defeated them 2 to 0. Spain has conceded seven goals in the tournament which is unheard of for the defending champs. It begs the question of when was it officially over for Spain. They had one incredible run that culminated in winning Euro 2008, World Cup 2010, and Euro 2012, but now the world has nothing to fear now that they are gone. Chile has been playing with the passion of a champion and it leaves me wondering just how far can this team go in the tournament. Alexis Sanchez is on his way to being on my all World Cup 2014 team if he continues to play the way he is. Cameroon has officially had the breakdown that Portugal had in their first game of the cup. It's a sad sight to see especially a team that was happy to be in the world cup, but Alex Song officially flushed their dreams down the toilet the minute he punched Mario Mandžukić in the back. Mario Mandžukić made quite the impact considering he missed the first game as he scored two of the four goals that Croatia slaughtered Cameroon with.
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