South Africa World Cup Preview of Games - Thursday 24 June

Thursday sees the third set of final games beingstages. I predict that Cameroon will win against the
placed in Group E and F. There will be no midday kickDutch 2-1 and Denmark and Japan will have a 1-1
off to watch at lunchtime. In Group E the 2 games atscore draw. This will mean that the Netherlands and
19:30 are Cameroon versus Netherlands and DenmarkCameroon will qualify to the next stage.
versus Japan. In Group F the games will be played atIn the Group F games we see Italy as favourites to
15:00. We will see Paraguay face New Zealand andqualify to the next stages. The second place could well
Slovakia will play Italy.be open to all the other 3 teams and if Italy play a
Group E should see the Netherlands topping the groupweakened team by resting a few of their star names
quite comfortably. They should get the point requiredSlovakia could well shock the odds and win. However I
to qualify for the next stages. However I can seestill think Italy will be strong enough even with their
Cameroon getting a draw in this game.second string players. I predict a easy 2-0 win for the
Denmark and Japan should both be in a position toItalians. In the other game, it may be well the case that
qualify in second place, but when Cameroon arethe winner of this game between Paraguay and New
playing against the Netherlands anything could happen.Zealand could get second place. I predict a 2-1 win to
If they win against the Dutch then they should haveParaguay and hence seeing Italy and Paraguay qualify
enough points in the bag to qualify to the knock outfor the latte stages of the world cup.