Rosicky Czechs Out!

Rosicky joins the list of arsenal players who have had to face the disappointment of an early World Cup exit as the Czechs lost 2-0 to the Italians yesterday. Rosicky played his part well for a full 90 minutes but couldn’t do much for his team which played with 10 men after Jan Polok was red carded.

Even with 10 men the Czechs looked like scoring but in the end the Italians made their extra man count. The dismissal of the Czechs is highlighted more from the fact that the Czechs have a FIFA ranking of 2 just after Brazil who are No.1. The arsenal player is obviously sad heading home and his disappointment is clearly reflected in his words – Tomas Rosicky

I am very sad and very disappointed to be going home. The Italians were not that
good, they didn’t have too many chances. We still were in this game even through
we only had ten players for a long time. I don't want to think any more about
the World Cup right now, for me it's finished.

Materazzi and Inzaghi scored for the Italians to top Group E and will now play Australia who drew 2-2 with the Croats in an another fixture. And Ghana who after having won 2-1 in another group E fixture yesterday finished second to Italy in the group E to clash with Brazil in the knock-outs.

Gilberto Silva played a full 90 minutes in the 4-1 spanking of Japan by Brazil who finished their group F with maximum points.

Whats for today?

Courtesy of the fact that France has not won a game yet in this World Cup - in fact not any since their last World Cup triumph in 1998 – they now face a must win fixture against Togo, losing which will see them out of the tournament. Speaking of Togo we have another arsenal player there in Adebayor who is not worried to face France or the club skipper Henry and ready to swap his jersey with Henry after a Togo win. Joking, but here are Adebayors’ true words –

This match against France is very important for me, the team and the whole country. There's a lot of pressure on us, so we have to stay calm. I'm not worried. We have a good team and we can win.

We'll both play the way we can and we'll see what happens. I'll even try and swap shirts with him at the end of the game!

Another match where there is arsenal interest is the match between Spain and Saudi Arabia wherein we have our very own arsenal wonderkid Cesc Fabregas. After his brilliant and undisputed contribution in Spain’s win against Tunisia its time that the lad is given a start for Spain.

Also the Swiss take on the South Koreans today. Therein we have Senderos involved.
The Swiss will do with a draw but the Koreans need a win here. Also lot depends on this one for France who failing to beat Togo today will finish third and the Swiss and Koreans will go through.

Hoping that the Swiss beat the Koreans 5-0 and Senderos gets 3 out of them while France wins 5-2 with 3 for Henry and 2 for Adebayor!!