Day 3 in numbers

After a spectacular day of the FIFA Confederations Cup action, who witnessed the accident was reported Mangaung / Bloemfontein and has revived hopes of Rustenburg, FIFA.com Research Castrol and look more closely at the numbers of results.

Teams
Their qualifications can be fully anticipated, Spain, and, nevertheless, made history today to reach the semifinals of the Senior Cup. In the end, to finish fourth in the FIFA World Cup Brazil ™ 1950, the Red is not able to move in the last eight in any of his 11 attempts. In fact, the last time we played in the last World Cup tournament as the champion of Europe - England 1966 - which were eliminated in the first round. In his 14 straight win passage, Vicente Del Bosque also said that the parties share the record for victories, and can take sole possession, beating Brazil, Australia and France on the back of South Africa on Saturday.

However, the hosts have proved today that are not pushovers. In the scoreline may not have been so expressive, but his insight more demoralized New Zealand was as firmly as Spain hostage. All white, in fact, managed to double the effort to combat the red, as they did tonight (four of eight), while the New Zealand keeper Glen Moss opens at ten in the evening, compared with nine in against Torres and Co

Players
Following his refusal to allow the party to victory with regret that the goal-line block against Iraq, Bernard Parker said a ransom of impressive style. A natural choice as the Budweiser Man of the match in South Africa No17 ignores his critics with a useful activity in which both Bafana Bafana took aim and hit the target, all five of their efforts on goal. Crvena Zvezda onwards brackets also leaves a bit lower, on average, each of the two goals of his seven hits in 15 games so far.

Parker was not the only brilliant hero of the day, however. Clinically, he had sent a header past Villa, Fernando Hierro as the second top scorer in the history of Spain and left the confidence of all time, Raúl impressive record of 44. Villa goals as witnesses on the back Joan Capdevila left to continue their excellent start to the FIFA Confederations Cup, with the help only the third in two games.

Action
Only one goal separated the Spanish and the Iraq of today, but from the perspective of the distribution and retention of the ball, but much more the gap. After losing two of five passes against South Africa, hard-working Iraqis were left again to see envy as Xavi and Xabi Alonso showed them how it should be done in the Free State stadium. Alonso, Budweiser decent man of the match, played an incredible 106 passes during the game, 82 percent of the killing team. Compare this with the start of the Iraqi player, Ali Hussein Rehema, who took the ball 50 times and boasted far less impressive success rate of 66 percent.

Did you know?
At least 32 different national leagues in South Africa 2009. Italian clubs accounted for the largest number of players (24), three or four more than in English and Spanish were, respectively.