Germany, Ecuador Into Last Sixteen Germany and Ecuador Are the First Cristian Mora's Midriff from 25 Yards
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The Island, Friday 16th June, 2006 Germany, Ecuador into last sixteen Germany and Ecuador are the first Cristian Mora's midriff from 25 yards. teams through to the Round of 16 at the At the other end, Porras reacted bril- FIFA World Cup™ following the South liantly as Valencia's cross deflected goal- American team’s 3-0 defeat of Costa Rica wards off Marin. in Hamburg. Costa Rica opened Ecuador up for the Goals from Carlos Tenorio, Agustin first time but Douglas Sequeira's free Delgado and Ivan Kaviedes took Ecuador header was disappointing after Leonardo onto six points in Group A, the same as Gonzalez's cross picked him out at the far Germany after their 1-0 victory over post. Poland on Wednesday night. Ecuador Costa Rica needed a sharper cutting lead the section with a goal difference of edge to stay alive in the competition but 5-0 with the host nation on 5-2. The teams former Premiership striker Paolo meet in their final group fixture in Wanchope was a disappointment. Berlin on 20 June. Los Ticos were facing a mountain to Carlos Tenorio gave Ecuador an climb when another former Premiership eighth-minute lead with a powerful head- striker, Delgado, doubled Ecuador's lead. er from Luis Valencia's cross. Kaviedes flicked the ball inside where The advantage was doubled when Delgado, once of Southampton, chested Agustin Delgado lashed home from a it down to lash a ferocious shot inside tight angle shortly after half-time. Porras's near post. Ecuador finished with a flourish Ecuador keeper Mora was at last when Ivan Kaviedes capped a flowing called into action, palming away a sting- move by volleying home from six yards. ing effort from Solis. Knowing defeat would end their hopes Costa Rica were denied a goal which of reaching the second round, Costa Rica might sparked a late rally when Alvaro could not have made a worse start as they Saborio curled a shot against the bar. fell behind after just eight minutes. Ecuador scored a third when former Delgado's shot was charged down, but Crystal Palace striker Kaviedes rounded the rebound fell kindly, allowing him to off a flowing move by volleying home feed Valencia whose whipped cross was Edison Mendez's cross. powerfully headed home by Carlos For a team that took 35 years to win an Tenorio. international outside their high-altitude Segundo Castillo then tested Costa capital Quito, Ecuador showed they will Rica keeper Jose Porras from a free-kick be no pushovers. which earned Luis Marin a yellow card With a superior goal difference, a for his foul on Carlos Tenorio. draw in their final game against hosts Much of the football was pretty but Germany will see Ecuador top their with no real purpose as Ecuador formed group. around the imposing central pairing of With Poland and Costa Rica having Ivan Hurtado and Geovanny Espinoza lost both their games they are heading and allowed Costa Rica to pass the ball out of the FIFA World Cup. Their clash in square in front of them. Hanover on Tuesday will precede their It took Costa Rica 39 minutes to departure home. muster their first on-target shot, with - See World View page VII for more Mauricio Solis firing straight into World Cup news GERMANY, Hamburg: Ecuadorian goalkeeper Cristian Mora (foreground) stops a shoot during the 2006 World Cup Group A football match between Ecuador and Costa Rica, in Hamburg, Germany, yesterday. Ecuador won 3-0. Match results Today (SL time) Holcim FA Cup soccer semis Weightlifters selected Spain 4-0 Ukraine (2:0) Argentina vs Serbia 6:30 Jayasuriya hat-trick helps Ratnam, for South Asian Games Tunisia 2-2 Saudi Arabia(1:0) Netherlands vs Ivory Coast 9:30 Negombo Youth sink Navy Sri Lanka weightlifting team for the Germany 1-0 Poland (0:0) Mexico vs Angola 12:30 forthcoming South Asian Games was by Champika Fernando from a brilliant pass from Chathura selected at Reid Avenue yesterday. A hat-trick of goals by national cap Madunranga. It was soon followed by While Ransilu Jayathilaka was the Kasun Jayasuriya saw once celebrated his third in the 73rd minute. top ranked lifter, Chintana Widanage, Saunders SC succumb to a 3-nil defeat at Saunders who fought back desperate- who is currently in Australia, was the hands of mighty Ratnam SC in the ly to score was reduced to nine when ranked number two according to the Maharoof confident of second semi-final of Holcim FA Cup two of their players were sent off due to points he gained in the last trials. Emil tournament worked off at the foul play in the latter part of the game. Nishantha was placed third in the rank- World Cup success Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Meanwhile, in the first semi-final, ings. Earlier in the first semi-final, Navy suffered the biggest disappoint- Ahead of their one-day series against The top eight lifters who will repre- Negombo Youth came from behind to ment after leading 3-1 in the first ses- England at Lord's on Saturday, Farveez sent Sri Lanka in eight weight cate- sink Navy by 5 goals to 4 to enter the sion to go down fighting 5-4. Maharoof, the Sri Lanka allrounder, gories were identified yesterday and two final which will be worked off on June Negombo Youth skipper Duddley believes his team will be a serious threat reserve lifters will join them. 24 (Saturday) at the same venue. Stainwall and G.P.C Karunaratne scored in the 2007 World Cup, despite a recent The top eight lifters: Jayasuriya started his goal scoring two goals apiece while E.B Channa hit slip in their one-day form. M.G. Emil Nishantha (56 kgs), spree as early as in the 3rd minute of the fifth goal for the winners. Ten years after their famous World more established performers like Chinthana Vidanage (62kgs), K. Peiris the game and gave his side a 1-nil advan- Prasad Lakshitha scored two goals Cup triumph, Sri Lanka have fallen to Muttiah Muralitharan, Mahela (69kgs), P. Dayan (77 kgs), P.M. tage at lemon. for sailors while K. Athukorale and sixth in the one-day rankings; Tom Jayawardene and Chaminda Vaas, Jayathilaka (85 kgs), P.S. Wijeratne (94 After the restart Jayasuriya was Dhammika Ratnayake contributed a Moody, the Sri Lanka coach, has with mixed success. kgs), Ransilu Jayathilaka (105 kgs), M.M. quiet for a while but he got himself into goal apiece. attempted to blend young talent with "We are all aware that we are in Irshad (Over 105 kgs) action in the 63rd minute as he scored Anura Silva refereed. this rebuilding phase and we have to -(RF) be patient," Maharoof admitted. "But there is a lot of young talent in our squad and we know we are working towards the World Cup. With the expe- rience we can pick up between now Lara helps Windies cling on to a draw and then there is every reason to Brian Lara scored his second pitched one up for the drive and Scoreboard 62 believe we will be a threat in that Test century against India, his got it to deviate just enough to tournament." second slowest innings ever for a take the outside edge of India first innings 588 Sri Lanka's dogged, fighting per- score of 50 or more, and though it Ramnaresh Sarwan’s bat. West Indies first innings 215 formance to win the final Test against was not typically brilliant and Sarwan, who faced 10 nervous West Indies second innings England - drawing the series 1-1 - has free-flowing, it was an innings balls including two close lbw CH Gayle c Dhoni b Pathan 2 given them an understandable boost that typified his character and shouts, made just 1, completing a D Ganga b Kumble 26 in confidence, however. showed just how good a batsman forgettable match where he BC Lara lbw b Sehwag 120 "That draw in the first Test made he is under any circumstance. He picked up a first-ball duck in the RR Sarwan c Dhoni b Patel 1 the people at home very happy. We gave up the big drive for failsafe first innings. S Chanderpaul c Pathan b Kumble 54 were not expected to do anything defence, blunted rather than At 52 for 3 West Indies were in DJ Bravo c Yuvraj Singh b Kumble 47 against a side that won the Ashes bludgeoned the bowling into sub- deep trouble, when Lara was D Ramdin not out 19 IDR Bradshaw lbw b Patel 1 and it gave us confidence," he said. mission and ensured that West Indies pulled joined by Shivnarine Chanderpaul. JE Taylor not out 0 off a rousing draw as the tail hung on at the About an hour into the second session "We say in Sri Lanka that we have Extras (lb 4, nb 15, pen 5) 24 a lion's heart and that is the way death. They finished on 293 for 7, and gar- India finally separated Lara and Total (7 wickets; 119 overs) 294 this side plays. It likes a fight and nered a result that they can well be proud of. Chanderpaul. The two had added 129 and Did not bat: PT Collins, CD Collymore never gives up. [sic]" If Lara was the epitome of control, were together for almost three hours, see- Fall of wickets:1-2, 2-51, 3-52, 4-181, 5-252, Before the first one-dayer on some of his less illustrious colleagues ing off 43.4 overs.