At half past one p.m. local time on the 14th in South Africa, the match in Group E began, and the first appearance was the Dutch team, who faced the challenge of the Danes at the Football City Stadium in Johannesburg.

The first half was uneventful, with both sides missing a couple of chances before ending 0-0. No one expected that the second half had just begun, and the panic occurred, and the dull situation was broken!

In the thirty-fourth second of the second half, Van Persie crossed from the left, and Danish midfielder S-Paulsen nodded the ball away, but the ball hit teammate Ager and deflected into his own door!

It was the first own goal of the tournament and the Dutchman took the lead with a lucky goal, and the Danes stepped up their attack from behind.

However, under Van Marwijk's transformation, this Dutch team is no longer the Dutch team that pursues flashy attacks, they pay great attention to defense.

The Danes' attacks were futile, and five minutes from the end of the game, the Dutchman played a concise and quick counter-attack, the main contributor to Inter's Champions League victory this season, Sneijder made a direct pass in front of the penalty area, and Elia flew forward to form a single knife!

Elia, who came on as a substitute, fired a low shot from 12 yards out as the ball went past Danish goalkeeper Sorensen, and just as the Dutch fans were ready to cheer and celebrate, "Pong! ......", the football hit the post and bounced back into the penalty area!

Kuyt didn't disappoint the Dutch fans as he fired into the net from close range!

Two to zero!

The Dutchmen won their first game without bloodshed, laying a solid foundation for qualifying from the group.

At 4 p.m., the other match in Group E was played with Asian powerhouse Japan taking the stage against the African Lions Cameroon.

Cameroon's golden era is long over, as the two teams met in the 2001 Confederations Cup, with Japan winning 2-0 and remaining unbeaten in the next two warm-up matches, with one win and one draw.

Both sides appeared cautious after the opening. It wasn't until the fifteenth minute that Cameroon had their first shot on goal, when Webb passed the ball but Matip's long-range shot was blocked.

The two teams played a clear game, with Japan starting to control the game with passing and receiving the ball, but the attacking threat was limited, while Cameroon simply attacked with long balls.

In the 39th minute of the first half, the situation on the field changed abruptly, Daisuke Matsui crossed from the right, and Keisuke Honda, midfielder of the Russian Premier League CSKA team, scored from close range on the left side of the small penalty area!

1 to 0!

Japan leads!

With the score behind, Cameroon continued to threaten Japan with long passes. In the 39th minute of the second half, Cameroon ushered in the best chance to score, Mbia shot from 30 meters away, and the football roared like a cannonball to the dead corner!

In the horrified eyes of Japanese fans, "Pong! ......" with a loud bang, and the football hits the beam!

After half a ring, the Japanese fans let out cheers in a cold sweat, and their team dodged the most dangerous arrow!

The Japanese were lucky to get the win with a 1-0 win over Cameroon.

Half past eight that night. Group F kicks off with defending champions Italians taking on South American powerhouse Paraguay.

Italy did not perform well in the warm-up matches, except for the loss to England. It lost to Mexico by a score of 1-2. The race was played in the rain and the outside temperature was only eight degrees!

It's hard to imagine.

Once again, the Italians showed their slow heat, with Chiellini fouling Valdés behind his back in the 39th minute of the first half. Torres' left-footed free-kick from the right crossed diagonally into the box, Cannavaro couldn't jump enough to get off and Alcaraz was seven yards out in front of De Rossi. Shake your head into the bottom right corner!

1 to 0!

With the score behind, the Italians seemed to have just woken up from the icy rain and launched a tidal wave of attacks towards Uruguay. In the eighteenth minute of the second half, Iaquinta passed to Pepe on the left, and the football was blocked by the Paraguayan defender.

Pepe took a corner kick from the left, goalkeeper Villar came out but didn't hit the ball, De Rossi pushed a left-footed half-volley from four meters from the goal, and the ball rolled into the empty goal!

The score becomes 1 to 1!

The two sides returned to the same running line, and for the rest of the time, neither side was able to change the score and had to draw with a score of 1-1.

At half past one in the afternoon of the 15th, another match in Group F began, with New Zealand facing Slovakia. It was the first time the two teams met in history, with Slovakia making their World Cup debut.

New Zealand's only previous finalist was in 1982, losing all three of their group games, failing to score a point in the group stage of last year's Confederations Cup, and winning just three of their 28 meetings with European teams!

The first half of the game was equally dull, with neither side achieving anything, but after the start of the second half, both sides gradually got better. In the fifth minute, Slovakia launched a quick counterattack, Shestak and Weiss Jr. crossed from the right after continuous cooperation, the football crossed over Reid's head, Vitek hit the ball seven meters in front of the goal, and the football flew into the bottom left corner of the goal!

1 to 0!

New Zealand, who were trailing by the scoreline, came out of the nest and provided Slovakia with a quick counter-attack, and in the 24th minute of the second half, Vitek almost sealed the win when his push was saved by New Zealand goalkeeper Paston.

After that, New Zealand goalkeeper Paston Gao resisted and broke up Slovakia's counter-attacks again and again, and when everyone thought New Zealand would suffer another defeat, a miracle happened.

In the third minute of stoppage time, after Smaltz turned to protect the ball on the left side, he took the ball with his right foot, and Reid smashed the header into the bottom right corner of the goal from seven meters in front of the goal!

One-to-one!

The New Zealander equalised in the last minute!

With that goal, the New Zealanders picked up their first point of the World Cup, a historic breakthrough, while Slovakia missed out on a late chance to top the group.

Half an hour after the end of the match, the Group G match, known as the Group of Death, began. First up were African elephants from Côte d'Ivoire and Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal, who played at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.

Cristiano Ronaldo was very active in the early stages of the game, and in the seventh minute, he used his breakthrough to win a direct free-kick from 30 yards from goal.

Real Madrid's top man took it personally, but his free-kick was blocked by the wall, and four minutes later, Cristiano Ronaldo made a comeback.

Meireles made a direct pass on the right side, Ronaldo took the ball in the middle and turned to buckle Yaya Toure, and volleyed with his right foot 30 meters in front of the goal, and the football bombarded the right side of the goal like a cannonball!

In an instant, the football flew over the ten fingers of the Ivorian goalkeeper Barry, and the Portuguese fans stood up excitedly, ready to cheer and celebrate!

"Pong! ……”

With a bang, the ball hits the post and pops off the bottom line!

The bang shattered the hopes of Portuguese fans.

At this time, there was a light rain in the air, and the players on both sides fought in the rain, the rain became heavier and heavier, the temperature became lower and lower, and both sides paid more and more attention to defense.

An unusually dull game was presented to fans around the world, with the two sides drawing 0-0 and shaking hands. The draw left both sides unhappy, meaning they couldn't afford to slip up against Brazil in order to progress from the group. (To be continued.) )