Spain lifts World Cup
Spain world the FIFA 2010 World Cup after beating the Netherlands 1-nil in the final played at the Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Spain who were playing in their maiden World Cup final, made it third time unlucky for the Netherlands who had lost in the final twice before.
Like the previous matches in the knockout stages, Spain won by scoring just one goal but this time the goal was scored in extra time after the match finished goalless after ninety minutes.
Spain's goal was 145th of the tournament and Spain conceded just two in the whole tournament.
The Netherlands had gone into the final unbeaten and they found it hard to score against that last conceded a goal in the group stages.
Today I will just show the table that includes all the matches played and see how it looks now that the tournament is finished.
| Team | Played | Won | Draw | Lost | For | Against | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| Spain | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| Germany | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 15 |
| Argentina | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
| Uruguay | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| Brazil | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| Ghana | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Paraguay | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Chile | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| USA | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| England | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| Ivory Coast | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Slovenia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mexico | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 4 |
| Korea | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 4 |
| Slovakia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 4 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 4 |
| Australia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 4 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Serbia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 3 |
| Greece | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 3 |
| Italy | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 1 |
| Algeria | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| France | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| Honduras | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| Cameroon | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 0 |
| Korea DPR | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | -11 | 0 |
So this being a goal difference based table, Netherlands finishes top on number of goals scored but it would have been different if I consider head to head.
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