Raul Meireles scored to give Portugal a win and earn them a spot at South Africa 2010.

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Slovenia managed a shock victory over Guus Hiddink's Russia to reach the World Cup Finals.

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A Thierry Henry handball cost Ireland a chance of a glorious win in Paris and France sneak into South Africa 2010.

0-1 Keane

1-1 Gallas

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A solitary goal from Dimitris Salpigidis was enough to see Greece through to South Africa 2010.

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A stunning strike from Antar Yahia earned Algeria a place in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after a bad tempered encounter between the two north African nations.

Figthing erupts early on

Said goes close for Egypt

Yahia almost puts Algeria one up

Algeria go close again

Algerian keeper makes a great save

0-1 Yahia

Ghezzal goes close to making it two nil

Egypt almost equalize

Egypt thwarted again

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A stunning strike from Antar Yahia earned Algeria a place in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after a bad tempered encounter between the two north African nations.

Figthing erupts early on

Said goes close for Egypt

Yahia almost puts Algeria one up

Algeria go close again

Algerian keeper makes a great save

0-1 Yahia

Ghezzal goes close to making it two nil

Egypt almost equalize

Egypt thwarted again

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Almost time to rejoice!

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Mark Hughes could save David Bentley from his Tottenham nightmare with an £8m move in January.

A report in The Mirror today suggests that Hughes could be willing to bring the sometimes England winger to Manchester City in a deal which could see Martin Petrov move in the opposite direction.

So reportedly this is how the kerfuffle following the first leg of the Play-Off between France and Ireland broke out at the final whistle. Keith Andrews was about to slump to the floor in the knowledge that overturning a one goal deficit back in France is a tough thing to do. Along comes Lassana Diarra and rather than come over to offer him a handshake he reportedly said the following.

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Now we are very happy to hear that Carlo Cudicini is well on the mend after his horror bike accident. To help him recover and indeed so the rest of you can have a good gander, here is a former conquest of the Tottenham keeper and I think you'll all agree she is a very attractive woman, even when made to pose under a very large leaf (see below).

Now this will bring tears to your eyes. Watch as unintentionally the attacking player swings full force to make contact with the football only to find that the ball has in fact long gone and has been replaced by an entirely different set of objects. The pace and power with which the striker kicks the poor defender is such that the person doing the kicking is in agony also but not surely in the same league of discomfort as the recently created eunuch!

You have to wonder why nations insist on playing friendlies slap bang in the middle of the season. Now I could understand if there was an upcoming qualifier to test players and formations ahead of, but Holland have qualified for the World Cup, in fact they qualified five months ago, so why bother with a totally meaningless game now?

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Seriously if he keeps this up Arsene Wenger may well have to consider adapting Thomas Vermaelen into an out and out striker! He he scores the second in a friendly against Hungary.

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A goal from Diego Lugano gives Uruguay the edge with a crucial away goal in this World Cup play-off.

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A goal from Bruno Alves was enough to give Portugal an advantage going into Wednesday's second leg in Bosnia.

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Giovanni Trapattoni's Ireland side tried their hardest to come out of this first leg with something to show for their efforts but it was a hideously deflected shot from Nicolas Anelka that gave France the win at Croke Park.

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Greece were unable to break down a solid Ukraine side in this Play-Off first leg.

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A header from Aboutreika in the 97th minute secured Egypt a decider against Algeria in dramatic fashion.

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It may only have been a friendly but Croatia were not taking their foot of the pedal as they ran out 5-0 winners over Liechtenstein with Arsenal man Eduardo scoring a brace.

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A goal from Nilmar settled this friendly encounter in Dubai.

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0-1 Nilmar

Fabiano Missed Penalty

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Russia take a one goal lead into the second leg of this World Cup play-off with Everton midfielder Diniyar Bilyaletdinov scoring two crucial goals.

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2-0 Bilyaletdinov

2-1 Pecnik

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Cameroon made it through to the South Africa 2010 thanks to goals from Mallorca striker Pierre Webo and Inter Milan goal machine Samuel Eto'o.

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0-1 Webo

0-2 Eto'o

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Jubilation for the Super Eagles as they managed to overcome Kenya late on and watched as Tunisia slumped to a shocked defeat against Mozambique handing qualification to Nigeria.

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Tunisia's World Cup dreams were shattered by a late goal from Mozambique striker Dario.

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Hot prospect Danny Rose takes his chance expertly to hand England a win against Portugal.

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David Beckham helped LA Galaxy to the MLS Cup Final by assisting one goal whilst Landon Donovan put away a second from the penalty spot.

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This kid continues to show real promise and I am sure I am not alone in wishing that Rafa would bring him back to Anfield from his loan spell at AEK Athens. A few minutes after he scored this goal he was taken off with an injury, hopefully nothing serious. This goal put a rapidly improving Hungarian Under 21 side the lead against their Italian counterparts in this European Under Championship qualifier and reported Liverpool target Vladimir Koman got the second (Video also below)

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A solitary header from Plymouth Argyle striker Rory Fallon sealed qualification to South Africa 2010 against Bahrain in this World Cup play-off second leg.

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Algeria take on Egypt in what will be one hell of a bone shattering grudge match. The two countries do not get on and clearly the Egyptian support are keen on scaring their opposition into submission and hence throw large amounts of rocks at their team coach. Egypt have to beat the Group leaders by at least two goals to have any chance of making it to South Africa.

Man City went down to a solitary penalty against the United Arab Emirates in this friendly.

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Jozy Altidore is a hot prospect who could hold the key to the future success of the US National team's attacking prowess but it seems that livestock is not an area of expertise. Here is the video he posted on Twitter when he found the road ahead full of cute sheep. It should be noted that the Hull City man has previously been in trouble for using his Twitter account to apologise for arriving late to a Premier League game, hence his amusing reference to hopefully not being made to arrive late for training as a result of these pesky woolly animals.

Is it too late for a comeback? Probably not. This free-kick shows the former Real Madrid, Bordeaux and Juventus midfielder still knows how to wow the fans. This top notch strike occurred during a charity match.

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Barcelona eased past Cultural Leonesa in this Copa Del Rey second leg tie.

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1-0 Bojan

2-0 Bojan

3-0 Pedro

4-0 Messi

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