Greece recorded their first ever victory at the World Cup finals with a 2-1 win over 10-man Nigeria in Bloemfontein. More
90+4' FULL-TIME! Greece record their first ever victory at the World CUp finals with a 2-1 win over 10-man Nigeria in Bloemfontein that gives them a chance of escaping Group B.
89' Karagounis goes down in instalments after a trip by Obasi and the Nigeria sub is booked.
88' Samaras booked for a high tackle on Odiah.
79' The sub is subbed. Rabiu Afolabi on for the injured Echiejile.
76' Enyeama pushes out another Karagounis fizzer and it's a corner.
75' And at the other end Yakubu flashes an effort narrowly past the post.
74' Karagounis is not too far away from a third as his fizzing 25-yard effort whistles wide.
71' GOAL GREECE! Enyeama at fault as he fails to hold Tziolis' bending, skidding drive and Torosidis has the simple task of tapping home the rebound.
67' Corner pulled back to Salpingidis whose chip is met by Kyrgiakos and plucked out of the air superbly by Enyeama. That was destined for the top corner before the diving one-handed save.
60' Alexandros Tziolis was booked for a foul in the build-up.
59' Nigeria counter with pace and have men over. Yakubu's effort is repelled by a one-handed saved from Tzorvas but Obasi must tap the follow-up into the open net only to fail to hit the target. Miss of the tournament.
58' Terrible headed clearance from Yobo goes straight to Gekas but he spurns a glorious chance as Enyeama once more is off his line, makes himself big and blocks a close-range effort.
56' Uwa Echiejile replaces Taiwo.
55' Kyrgiakos wins another set-piece header but no real power and a comfortable save for the stooping Enyeama.
46' Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi replaces Odemwingie at the start of the second-half.
45+2' Half-time! Game on now. Remember a Greece defeat and they will be the first team to be eliminated.
44' GOAL GREECE!! There it is. Katsouranis lays off to Salpingidis whose shot is deflected off the heel of Lukman and nestles in the top corner with the stranded Enyeama left with no chance.
42' Haruna clears off the line from Samaras! The long-haired striker fails to make decent contact with his volley from six yards and hacked to safety.
40' Great save by Enyeama to deny Greece that historic goal. The keeper off his line swiftly to smother Dimitris Salpingidis' close-range effort and Shittu gets to the rebound ahead of Gekas. A great ball around the corner in the build-up from Katsouranis.
36' Rehhagel is looking to capitalise on their numerical advantage and a striker Georgios Samaras replaces a central defender Papastathopoulos.
33' RED CARD! Total ill discipline from Sani Kaita who kicks out at the thigh of Torosidis and has to go.
17' And from the resulting free-kick…GOAL!! Nigeria lead as Uche's free-kick goes over the head of Kostas Katsouranis and Odemwingie and nestles in the back of the net. It was a cross but keeper Tzorvas was rooted to his line.
16' The first yellow of the match as Socratis Papastathopoulos tugs back Peter Odemwingie.
1' And we are underway for a match being played before a half-empty stadium.
14:05 Teams - Greece: 12-Alexandros Tzorvas; 11-Loukas Vyntra, 16-Sotiris Kyrgiakos, 15-Vassilis Torosidis, 6-Alexandros Tziolis, 8-Avraam Papadopoulos, 19-Socratis Papastathopoulos, 10-Giorgos Karagounis, 21-Kostas Katsouranis; 14-Dimitris Salpingidis, 17-Fanis Gekas. /// Nigeria: 1-Vincent Enyeama; 17-Chidi Odiah, 6-Danny Shittu, 2-Joseph Yobo, 3-Taye Taiwo, 12-Kalu Uche, 20-Dickson Etuhu, 15-Haruna Lukman, 14-Sani Kaita, 8-Yakubu Aiyegbeni, 11-Peter Odemwingie.
76' Enyeama pushes out another Karagounis fizzer and it's a corner.
75' And at the other end Yakubu flashes an effort narrowly past the post.
74' Karagounis is not too far away from a third as his fizzing 25-yard effort whistles wide.
71' GOAL GREECE! Enyeama at fault as he fails to hold Tziolis' bending, skidding drive and Torosidis has the simple task of tapping home the rebound.
67' Corner pulled back to Salpingidis whose chip is met by Kyrgiakos and plucked out of the air superbly by Enyeama. That was destined for the top corner before the diving one-handed save.
59' Nigeria counter with pace and have men over. Yakubu's effort is repelled by a one-handed saved from Tzorvas but Obasi must tap the follow-up into the open net only to fail to hit the target. Miss of the tournament.
58' Terrible headed clearance from Yobo goes straight to Gekas but he spurns a glorious chance as Enyeama once more is off his line, makes himself big and blocks a close-range effort.
55' Kyrgiakos wins another set-piece header but no real power and a comfortable save for the stooping Enyeama.
44' GOAL GREECE!! There it is. Katsouranis lays off to Salpingidis whose shot is deflected off the heel of Lukman and nestles in the top corner with the stranded Enyeama left with no chance.
42' Haruna clears off the line from Samaras! The long-haired striker fails to make decent contact with his volley from six yards and hacked to safety.
40' Great save by Enyeama to deny Greece that historic goal. The keeper off his line swiftly to smother Dimitris Salpingidis' close-range effort and Shittu gets to the rebound ahead of Gekas. A great ball around the corner in the build-up from Katsouranis.
33' RED CARD! Total ill discipline from Sani Kaita who kicks out at the thigh of Torosidis and has to go.
17' And from the resulting free-kick…GOAL!! Nigeria lead as Uche's free-kick goes over the head of Kostas Katsouranis and Odemwingie and nestles in the back of the net. It was a cross but keeper Tzorvas was rooted to his line.
14:05 Teams - Greece: 12-Alexandros Tzorvas; 11-Loukas Vyntra, 16-Sotiris Kyrgiakos, 15-Vassilis Torosidis, 6-Alexandros Tziolis, 8-Avraam Papadopoulos, 19-Socratis Papastathopoulos, 10-Giorgos Karagounis, 21-Kostas Katsouranis; 14-Dimitris Salpingidis, 17-Fanis Gekas. /// Nigeria: 1-Vincent Enyeama; 17-Chidi Odiah, 6-Danny Shittu, 2-Joseph Yobo, 3-Taye Taiwo, 12-Kalu Uche, 20-Dickson Etuhu, 15-Haruna Lukman, 14-Sani Kaita, 8-Yakubu Aiyegbeni, 11-Peter Odemwingie.
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Yakubu,Yobo are in mediocre team in England!Shittu was in bench much of the season.
The team reflects the Nation:big mouth,corrupt society,fraud,religious zealots and so on!
I have heard that each Nigerina player will get $30k each by beating Korea.What a rubbish.

I must say Eagle's did not put effort right from the beginning because they believe without any doubt, we are going to win Greece, but the reverse is the case and that is a lesson for the team to learn that no team should be down-look. Brazil looked down on Nigeria in Olympic and as result lost the cup to Nigeria.
On the other hand, its quite unfortunate for Nigerian that we were badly represented by Kaita (the cat among the pigeon). The best punishment for him is life ban from the national team (if there is discipline in NFA anyway).
And as for the coach, i will blame him for poor intelligence. You are quite right that the coach will not play the ball but the decision-making belong to him. If only he could bring in Kanu, even without scoring any goal for the eagle's, i'm sure he will instigate fear into Greece defence and two player will have to tackle him and thus fill the loop hole created by Kaita.
Nevertheless, Kanu, you are big enough to work with your coach, give him a little suggestion, he might listen to you or you just go to South Africa to watch World Cup? or Are you afraid? or You are not Fit?
Finally, Our God is a miracle God and nothing go beyond His power and control, therefore, pray for them and hope for the best.

I must say Eagle's did not put effort right from the beginning because they believe without any doubt, we are going to win Greece, but the reverse is the case and that is a lesson for the team to learn that no team should be down-look. Brazil looked down on Nigeria in Olympic and as result lost the cup to Nigeria.
On the other hand, its quite unfortunate for Nigerian that we were badly represented by Kaita (the cat among the pigeon). The best punishment for him is life ban from the national team (if there is discipline in NFA anyway).
And as for the coach, i will blame him for poor intelligence. You are quite right that the coach will not play the ball but the decision-making belong to him. If only he could bring in Kanu, even without scoring any goal for the eagle's, i'm sure he will instigate fear into Greece defence and two player will have to tackle him and thus fill the loop hole created by Kaita.
Nevertheless, Kanu, you are big enough to work with your coach, give him a little suggestion, he might listen to you or you just go to South Africa to watch World Cup? or Are you afraid? or You are not Fit?
Finally, Our God is a miracle God and nothing go beyond His power and control, therefore, pray for them and hope for the best.

Very slow team (Super Chikens), reduce the pace of the game, cant complete a pass. The team needs to start all over again, with all these present players sacked. They've done their part we need younger, hungrier boys. As for Kaita, only him can explain why he did such a stupid thing. I think he owes the whole country an apology.

It is well.

If you ever played ball yourself you will know how those boys felt after dey lost. Let give them a break........France lost......Spain lost.......Nobody crucified them......France could not even score a goal.....................I still support the Super Eagles........Come Rain Come Sunshine..........
What happened to GREEN GREEN of England...............
Nigerians...Y not just keep quite when all u do is to throw blames.
I am sure the poor Kaita is not happy with himself................
Lets pray for our nation and support our team at all times.......
Either you lose a game or win Enjoy the game... get excited and shake hands at the end.
Its sports we are all talking about like this not War

Thank God this happened in the second match and not the last match. The result was pathetic but might be a blessing in disguise. Nigeria from history does better when they are written off. When you believe they will deliver they break your heart, even losing to lesser oppositions. But when you write them off they surprise you. We have never qualified when we needed only a draw. But when we need a win that is when we deliver. For a team that qualified on the last day by a miracle, anything can happen.

Nigeria is really in need of genuine professional players. the last set we had was the 1994 squad and since then what we have later are mercineries. players who after nothing but money. they are mediocre players. our coaches have not learnt any lesson at all. until these players are flushed our completely we will not win anything. as for kaita, the footballer turn karate fighter, the NFA should ban him for at least two years for embarrassing the country. we definitely need deliverance in this country called Nigeria.

when a set of players that qualifed Nigeria in 2002 were dropped just like that,and another group of players where were taken to that world cup to reap from where they did not sow,that was the genesis of our flop,since then the super eagles has been going down.

FELT GUTTED AND DISAPPIONTED, ALL THESE ARE STORIES; I CAN NEVER BELIVE THAT THE GREEKS CAN TRASH US. WE NEED TO REFLECT ON OUR PERFORMANCE AND WORK ON IMPROVEMENT.

Enyeama has been our only bright light in this tournament. Our strikers have let us down very badly. Poor passing in the attack & very few shots on goal. I can not understand why Martins does not start. He is our best striker. Kaita's performance was embarrasing. He should know that any off the ball contact is an automatic red card.
I am also disappointed that our coach did not respond better to the events around him. We have only a very slim chance now. Beat S Korea with 3 or more goals & hope that Argentina thrash Greece.

Nigeria is not a serious country. We have failed on several fronts and why not on football. If another coach who contested for Lagerbach's job accused NFF of asking for bribe, then the recruited coach should defend himself that he did not compromise. Some Nigerians celebrated her loss to Argentina and I wish they celebrate this one too. The basic problem in Nigeria is that they smile when they should be crying. We should all pray for Nigeria. When I was attacked by armed robbers two days ago, with police men few metres away, I concluded we are not moving forward becos I was attacked at the bad portion of the PH-Enugu express. Our roads are death traps, people die due to accidents or they are killed by other armed miscreants.

Kaita sani should be poisoned.How could he single handedely ruin Nigerians chances.The game changed when he got that RED CARD.Why are the northeners such spoilers.they spoil politics,economy,least educated and civilised and most importantly football.all u haters shuld leave the referee n coach alone.its dat stupid kano malu boy.

i was highly disappointed with the in experience players that call themself professionals. inexperience, indiscipline, inconsistence, not focus, lacking team spirit, and above all they can not deliver. world cup is not for pple like this players. beside i dont know how a coach that lack concept will be able to make a corrective decision. Nigeria should go back to the drawing board and see if mathematics can work for them.

Attention all YOU Nigerians. A new word has been added to the English dictionary: KAITA - A man who single-handedly hindered the hope of his country for reasons best known to him. "Kaita" can be used in place of words like jeopardize, hinder, sabotage, disrupt, antagonist, fool etc. Examples are: "Don't Kaita what we have been building for 11 years in one day", "Don't be a Kaita" e.t.c

Nigerian team lack discipline, morals, pace and purpose. A team that cannot score from an open play apart forom set piece for 180mins cannot be decribed as a good team. Nigeria need to overhaul the super eagles team and start from the scratch....

I AM A NIGERIAN, LETS FORGET EVERYTHING AND OFFER THE COACH A NEW CONTRACT. SACK HIM AND OUR PROBLEMS CONTINUES.

BELIEVING ON WHAT THEY DONT KNOW,...TAKE NOTE OF THIS ,THAT GOD WILL HELP U GUYS TO WIN IS SPIRITUAL , BUT YOUR HOUSE RENT AND YOUR CHILDREN SCHOOL FEES IS PHYSICAL; ENTRING THE FOOTBALL PICTH TOUCHING THE FIELD ,CIRCLRING THE GOALKEEPER ,GOD KNOWS UR PRAYER ...U GUYS THOUGHT THAT WILL BRING THE GOAL OR THE WINNING...THE PHYSICAL THING IS FOR U GUYS TO TOUCH THE BALL WITH UR LEGS ACUTERATELY AND SENSIBLY WITHOUT LOOKING AT THEM AS WHITE OR U LOOKING AT URSELVES FROM THE BLACK CONTINENT , BESIDE THE BOTH SIDE ARE ELEVEN ELEVEN, TALKING OF STRENGHT U HAVE MORE MORE, WHY CANT YOU GUYS JUST SERVE UR COUNTRY WITH TALENT U HAVE AND MAKE URSELVES HEROS WITHOUT PLACING FIRST, WITHOUT MUCH WORDS THIS HOW MOST OF U GUYS PLAY IN UR VARIOS TEAMS...NOW TELL ME ARE U GUYS GOING PROUNDLY TO TEAM?.... THE COACH HAS NO PROBLEM , HE IS NOT TO PLAY IN THE FIELD.......ITS PITY U GUYS DONT THINK OF 2MORRO.....WITH THIS NONSENCE HOW CAN NIGERIA MOVE FORWORD IN FOOTBALL AND HOW CAN AFRICA CREATE CHANCE FOR 5 SITS......... CHARLES WILLIAMS---VALENCIA SPAIN

walking on the pitch and u think u can win the game even the team that were running for 90mins lost atlast,stupid eagles pls get another name for the team.they can even move talkless of flying.

LUKMAN HARUNNA claim to be the youngest player in the team,i can bet u thats totaly lie, he does'nt even play like 19year old he playad like 35years old i think he's older than KANU to be honest ,think of another thing to do boy before is too late for u.@#$% hole
