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Paraguay made the quarter-finals in the last World Cup when they lost to Spain. Albeit, they bored their way to the last 8. Colombia have made some improvement in recent years and could stand a chance of emulating them next summer.

It shouldn't have been, but then had the Oceanic winners been given automatic qualification rather than having to play off, then they wouldn't have made that manoeuvre in the first place.

The main motivation behind Australia moving federations was they stood a better chance of qualifying for the World Cup. In Asian qualifying, there are 4 automatic qualifiers, whereas the Oceanic winners were (and I think still do) have to play a play-off against the 5th best team in South...

Japan have a weakness at defending set-pieces as well which Daniele De Rossi has just exploited. 2-1 Japan with 5 minutes of the 1st half left.

Japan are a decent team. They were a bit overawed by the occasion in their first match against Brazil, but they keep possession as well as some of the more marquee teams and Endo, Kagawa and Honda have been good players for some time now and a few of their players featured in the team that did...