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52 mins Za Kalanga drops a clanger by shooting from about 50 yards with Manucho to his left and the ball flies over. Diascares is on for Zuela. And Adrian Cooper asks: "Do you think there's any chance that both teams will take to the pitch, only to lay out a blanket and some cushions in the centre-circle and continue their half-time oranges (and perhaps a sneaky half-time cigarette or two)? It would probably make for a more lively 45 minutes. Who knows what craziness could break out? Perhaps Nadir Belhadj will accidentally squirt juice into the eye of Hassan Yebda? " Actually they're going for bit a bit now.
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You say that now. Right, well this should be exciting. I'll be keeping you up to date with significant happenings in the other game in this group by the power of split-screen TV viewing and by the end of it we'll know who's going through to the next stage. The players are out for the anthems and Algeria's is very jolly and uplifting, not that you'd know it from the look of them. Which is frowning, sombre and very serious. Angola's anthem is even more depressing.
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Still, good composure from the keeper to grab it as his defence totally disappeared. 23 mins Carlos comes rushing from his goal to try and welly a long through pass into the crowd, then wimps out of it and allows Ghezzal to get a shot in. Fortunately it drifts weakly wide. That was an opportunity for some more keeper mayhem just about passed up. 26 mins And now a decent save from [] as Ze Kalanga has a dip from a free kick 30 yards out and the ball is tipped just over the bar as it dipped. The best effort on goal so far. And Madjdy says: "barney if scores stay the same angola and mali go through, with mali edging algeria by goal difference.
And then right back down the other end Bouazza gets to the left hand byeline and cuts the ball back across the six-yard box, lovely ball, but the onrushing Ghezzal is crowded out by Mabina when he looked like he had to score. Great play from Algeria. They really should do it more often. 50 mins Some pppor defending from Kali, letting a long pass bounce on the way through to Carlos, which Ghezzal almost gets a toe to. The Angola defence, it has to be said, is very shaky under pressure. And Zuela has gone off in a lot of pain after helping Mabina clear that Bouzza cross. Angola down to ten men here.
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Which do you think it will be? Stewart Green has a prediction: "Brian Oliver may find a zebra's head in his bed if Mali go out. I should never have listened to Football Weekly. I do say that every week though. COME ON THE PALANCAS NEGRAS! " The new one's just about to drop any moment now by the way. If Algeria win here it goes down to disciplinary records. Angola will go through at the moment barring any red cards. 46 mins Algeria kick us off again and we're back to neurotically cautious keep-ball interspersed with unforced errors and the odd foul. 47 mins Oh I say a lovely lofted pass by Djalma puts the rampaging left back Jamuana through on goal but Belhadj goes against type by putting in a last-ditch sliding tackle and clearing the ball.
Some proper pressure at last however, including a blocked shot from Ze Kalanga, who has a very nice Afro-Portuguese name. 20 mins Algeria simply haven't done anything yet. They look pretty woeful to be honest. No thrust or real idea how they want to attack. They do have a useful free-kick now on the left flank awarded rather softly by referee Damon, who's quite good in that new Nelson Mandela film 22 mins And what a save by Carlos! The free kick from Belhadj bounces all the way through to Bougherra and his attempt from three yards is horribly scuffed.
hence the w germany austria analogy does not apply... " The thing is, that's what I thought but it's not what the people on Eurosport are saying. Let's just dig a little deeper... 30 mins My sources here have confirmed that if this stays as a draw and Mail win then both these two go through, so there you are. Anschluss it is.
And Paul Fox observes: "Appears that the Algerian keeper was just hit by a mysterious "hand of God". How else do we explain him going down on that corner? " He was still holding his head when he made that save you know. 45+1 mins Half time and the end of a frankly quite poor half between two teams either unwilling or unable to fashion out any proper chances.
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