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Match Highlights – Napoli vs Barcelona
One moment of concentration loss from Claudio Bravo allowed Blerim Dzemaili to score a late goal from far away to give Napoli a 1-0 win over Barcelona in their preseason friendly clash, although Barca, still playing without some of their best players, were the better side throughout most of the match.
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Match Highlights – Manchester United vs Liverpool
Always a lot more than just a friendly, Manchester United and Liverpool played for the title in the preseason International Champions Cup tournament with the Red Devils getting another confidence booster after a 3-1 win, including coming back from an early Steven Gerrard goal through Wayne Rooney, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard.
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Match Highlights – Germany vs Argentina
For a fourth time and first in 24 years, Germany are the World Champions after beating Argentina 1-0 in the final, thanks to a Mario Gotze goal in the 113rd minute, deep into extra time, capping off the 2014 World Cup by beating the two football giants of South American football.
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Match Highlights – Netherlands vs Argentina
A terrible 0-0 draw without any real chances, but Argentina go through to the World Cup final, beating the Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty shootout, with Lionel Messi scoring his kick, while Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder were denied by a fantastic Sergio Romero.
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Match Highlights – Brazil vs Germany
History was made on the pitch at Belo Horizonte. Not just Miroslav Klose becoming the all-time leading scorer of the World Cup, but Germany beating Brazil 7-1 in the semifinal, with more goals from Andre Schurrle (double), Toni Kroos (double), Thomas Muller and Sami Khedira, while Oscar scoring late couldn’t hide the humiliation of the […]
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Match Highlights – Brazil vs Colombia
A fantastic match, the best of the day, as Brazil beat Colombia with their two centre backs, David Luiz and Thiago Silva, scoring their goals in the 2-1 victory, while James Rodriguez scored to make things very interesting in the final minutes. It took Brazil only seven minutes to take the lead, as a Neymar […]
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Match Highlights – France vs Germany
One more European team going home, another one advances to the semifinals. Not a great match, but one early goal from Mats Hummels was enough to give Germany a 1-0 win over France, becoming the first team to make it out of the quarterfinals.
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Match Highlights – Germany vs Algeria
It was a lot more difficult than it should have been, but after extra time Germany managed to beat Algeria and keep their impressive quarterfinals qualification record with a 2-1 win, scoring their two goals in extra time after a goalless draw through the first 90 minutes, while the last African team in the tournament scored their goal in garbage time.
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Match Highlights – France vs Nigeria
Not a great match from France who were the most impressive team in this World Cup, but their superiority through the second half of the match, first coming with a Paul Pogba header after a Vincent Enyeama mistake and as Nigeria sent more players forward, a counter attack with a cross that bounced off of Joseph Yobo finished the encounter with a 2-0 French win, moving on to the quarterfinals.
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Match Highlights – Costa Rica vs Greece
For the first time in their history, Costa Rica are in the quarterfinals of a World Cup. They need a penalty shootout to get ir done, as Theofanis Gekas misses the fourth one for Greece followed by Michael Umana hitting the clincher, as the first 120 minutes ended in a 1-1 draw: Costa Rica led thanks to a Bryan Ruiz goal, Greece equalized in the 91st minute through Sokratis Papastathopoulos.