South Africa reach semis
South Africa reached the semi-finals of the FIFA Confederations Cup despite losing the last match to Spain.
Spain had already qualified after the first two games but South Africa needed a draw or hope that New Zealand gets a draw or a win against the Asian Champions Iraq.
New Zealand got a goalless draw and their first point of the tournament and therefore helped Bafana Bafana avoid the embarrassment of leaving the tournament in the group stages.
South will now play the the team to finish top in Group B whilst Spain will the Group B runners up.
Its interesting to note that both Iraq and New Zealand finished the tournament without scoring a single goal.
Ten goals in total were scored in Group A and the European champions contributed eight to that tally with the other two coming from the hosts.
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