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And I thought that while yesterday's USA/England match was terrible, it didn't prepare me for the other Group C matchup today between Algeria and Slovenia: one of the outright sloppiest international games I've ever seen.  Slovenia won 1-0 scoring in the 79th minute because the Algerian keeper got bored and fell asleep, along with the entire crowd.  Slovenia is now leading in Group C.  That sums up everything you need to know about that chunk of the bracket and the bottom line is not a one of those four teams deserves any points in the standings.

In Group D action, Ghana's Asamoah Gyan scored on a brilliant penalty shot in the 84th minute to ice the Serbs 1-0, giving an African nation its first win so far in this first African World Cup.  The Serbs were just outplayed as they blew their stack and Aleksandr Lukovic got red carded at 74, although it was a close match up until the last 30 when the Serbs started racking up the silly penalties.

But Germany has the match of the Cup so far and showed total domination of the Socceroos as they blitzkreiged the Aussies 4-0.  You can make all the German precision machine references you want to here, but they're all valid.  Four different German players scored,  and the match was essentially over after the second goal at minute 26.  To compound the Down Under Blunder, the ref nailed Aussie forward Tim Cahill with a totally craptastic and undeserved red card for a late tackle.  Everything that could have gone wrong for the Aussies went wrong and Zee Germans just dismantled them.  They will go far if they play like that all tourney, especially Thomas Muller.