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Group C was led by Slovenia and the United States.

Slovenia beat Algeria by a single goal in the first round, and if they win this one again, they will advance to the knockout round one round earlier.

At 4 p.m. on the 18th, the match between the two teams was contested at the Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg!

Slovenia took the lead in the thirteenth minute of the first half, when Radosavlevic passed the ball and Bielsa curled home with a left-footed curling shot from 25 points from goal, but Howard did not react!

1 to 0!

Slovenia expanded the score in the 42nd minute of the first half, Novakovic made a direct pass, and Ljubyankić scored with a single push from 12 meters away from the goal on the left rib of the penalty area!

Two to zero!

Slovenia has seen the dawn of early qualification!

However, in the second half, the situation changed, and the Americans did not give up.

In the third minute of the second half, the desperate United States launched an attack from the side, Cerundolo passed, Cesar intercepted the error, and Donovan burst into the right side of the penalty area with a small angle and shot hard!

Football hits the net!

Two to one!

The U.S. team narrowed the gap and American fans saw hope of an equalizer!

In the thirty-seventh minute of the second half, the United States team launched a long pass from the back to quickly counterattack, Cherundolo made a long pass, Altidore's header was ferried, and the unguarded Bradley stabbed ten meters from the goal!

Two to two!

The Americans equalized!

The U.S. team became more and more courageous, and the second half was 41 minutes, Donovan crossed a free kick from the right, and Edu pushed and scored!

Lore!

When the U.S. team was about to revel, the referee blew the whistle to signal that the U.S. player had fouled first, and the goal was invalidated.

In this way, the United States lost the lore and was buried by the referee with a super reversal!

In the end, the two teams drew 2-2, and after the game, Slovenia was criticized by the domestic media, but the United States received praise.

At 8.30pm, favourites England take on Algeria at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town.

The pre-match media generally expected them to win.

However, what people didn't expect was that England failed to break through the opponent's goal, and after 90 minutes of fierce battle, the two sides were 0-0 scored!

England has been fiercely criticized by the British media, and even Algeria cannot be taken, what else can England do?

The situation in Group C is complicated, with all four teams having a chance of qualifying, leaving the suspense of qualification in the final round of the group stage.

With Group C now in the spotlight, all eyes will be on Germany, can they continue their good form in the first round and continue to win and advance early?

Their opponent in this round is Serbia.

Serbia suffered a narrow defeat to Ghana in the first round, and it was a do-or-die battle for them, and if they lose again, they will be eliminated early.

At half past one p.m. on the 18th, the match between the two teams was contested at the Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Lisabeth.

Serbia were more proactive after the opening kick-off, attacking from the flanks and sending in a cross from Žikic with a header that Jovanovic headed wide of the goal!

A minute later, Nikic passed the ball and Kuzmanovic fired a long-range shot into the heart of Germany, and the ball went wide of the goal again!

Germany suffered a blow in the 37th minute, Klose knocked down Stankovic behind the midfield, and he accumulated two yellow cards and was sent off!

Serbia took the lead in the 38th minute when Krasic headed in a cross from the right and Žikic nodded the ball away.

Unguarded Jovanovic volleys from inside the small penalty area!

Football hits the net!

The score became 1-0!

Serbia leads!

In first-half stoppage time, the Germans came close to equalising from two corners when Stojkovic saved a tactical corner and the unguarded Khedira fired a powerful shot over the crossbar from 15 yards.

Germany missed another equaliser in the 15th minute of the second half, when Nemanja Vidic was booked for a handball foul on his unpressed cross!

Penalty kick!

The Germans had the best chance of equalising!

However, Podolski's penalty was accurately saved by Stojkovic!

Muller's follow-up shot from the right side of the penalty area was blocked by Subotic again!

It was the first time Germany had missed a penalty at the World Cup since 1982.

Serbia almost doubled their lead in the 67th minute when Krasic burst into the right side of the penalty area and Jovanovic fired a left-footed shot from 15 yards out, but the ball hit the left post and bounced off the bottom line.

In the end, Serbia maintained the one-goal advantage until the end of the game, and the German team, the favorites to win the championship, lost at the feet of Serbia!

This is another big upset since Spain lost by one goal at the feet of the Swiss team!

After the game, the German team was criticized by the German media, and Klose became the main target of media criticism, and if he was not sent off early, the German team would not be on the back.

However, the German media focused the main firepower on the referee on duty, and the headline of the German Bild newspaper was: Controversial Penalty Shocked the Whole World, Crazy Referee 17 La Liga Matches Zeng Liang 11 Red!

Alberto Udiano Marenco, the only referee from Spain in this World Cup, today Germany vs. Serbia is Marenco's first appearance in the World Cup.

At the age of 36, if he doesn't blow it, he will shock the entire football world!

In this event, which doesn't seem to be violent at all, he took out 9 yellows and 1 red in a row, setting a record for cards since the start of this Cup!

Germany's most attacking Klose was sent off in the first half, and former Ireland boss McCarthy angrily claimed that the game was ruined by him.

Marenco, who has been punished in La Liga for 10 years, is also a fierce player in the league, but when it comes to the World Cup, which requires too much attention to the art of control, he still pulls out cards so continuously. Although FIFA has verbally called for zero tolerance for serious fouls, the presence of those who enforce the law too harshly will undoubtedly spoil the fluidity and beauty of too many games.

In last season's La Liga, Marenco officiated 17 Serie A games, resulting in 11 red cards and 82 yellow cards, with a staggering 26 yellows and 3 reds in the last three league games!

In the 37th round of the league, Sevilla vs Barcelona, Marenco gave 11 yellows and 1 red, the most fierce penalty in the history of blowing penalties for which he has data.

And on November 29, 09, when Barcelona Real Madrid played a big game, Marenco showed 6 yellows and 2 reds, and successively expelled Busquets and Diarra, judging from the specific numbers alone, Marenco gave the card too ruthlessly, but in La Liga, where the referee generally shot "vicious" environment, his penalty was reasonable, so it is rare to hear that any team uses Marenco as a punching bag to give a bang.

But the fierce play of the Spanish league is not suitable for today's World Cup.

At least the players on both sides feel very unaccustomed, many players of the Cypriot team come from fierce leagues such as the Bundesliga and the Premier League, and the enforcement of referees in their league is obviously quite different from the law enforcement of La Liga, which is almost a big move.

In this kind of game, the difference in philosophy immediately made the first half completely dominated by Marenco's blows, which FIFA did not want to see anyway. It can be said that it was Marenko's decision that ruined the game.