subject: Gianni Truvianni's "South Africa 2010", Paraguay Beats Japan On Penalties To Make It To The Quarterfinals [print this page] Gianni Truvianni's "South Africa 2010", Paraguay Beats Japan On Penalties To Make It To The Quarterfinals
In a match which frankly speaking could not have been more boring than it was, Paraguay managed to defeat Japan on penalties to gain access in to the quarterfinals. This being for the first time in their history and thus becoming the 6th South American team to reach this stage of a world cup. I for my part would say that Paraguay slightly out played Japan though not by much and basically have themselves to blame for having to suffer the anxieties of penalties; after a match which they should have won in regulation time.
Regarding Japan, though they in all truth did not play badly at end lost given Komana missed his penalty kick which happened to be Japan's 3rd which for all intensive purposes lost it for them though Honda would score his country's last. Paraguay however was able to close it out when Cardoso's calm, almost soft shot went in for a goal to give his team the win and their first passage to the quarterfinals. This in fact being strange for a nation like Paraguay which in the past has not only won the South American championship three times but has a team like Olympia which has won the "Copa Libertadores" on three occasions.
As for the match, there is not much that can be said about it, apart from both teams not really creating many chances and the ones they did were squandered by bad finishing. Japan however can take some consolation at having gone past the first round for the first time in a tournament played outside of their own country while Paraguay will attempt to go where they have never been before. This being the semifinal of a world cup and all they need do is beat either Spain or Portugal which to me does not seem all that impossible; if they were able to defeat Brazil and Argentina in order to get to the world cup.
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