Today, Slovakia and Italy will face each other in 2010 FIFA World Cup. These teams are from group F and today’s game will decide that who will move to Round of 16 from group F. This match starts at 4:00PM local time at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg.
Defending World Cup champion Italy can advance to the round of 16 if they defeat Slovakia in this match. In the earlier group matches, Italy have drawn there two matches by 1-1 and 1-1 with Paraguay and New Zealand.
Slovakia is in the last place in Group F but they will have chances to move advance if they defeat Italy. Also, in the match up between Paraguay and New Zealand, New Zealand needs to be defeated. Slovakia began the world cup with a draw (1-1) with against New Zealand and the followed that up losing 0-2 against Paraguay. Italy was rated ‘Five’ for this mach. Italy fans will expect that the team would win this match and go to the round of 16.
Teams:-
Italy Square:- Gianluigi Buffon, Christian Maggio, Domenico Criscito, Giorgio Chiellini, Fabio Cannavaro (captain), Daniele De Rossi, Simone Pepe, Gennaro Gattuso, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Antonio Di Natale, Alberto Gilardino, Federico Marchetti, Salvatore Bocchetti, Morgan De Sanctis, Claudio Marchisio, Mauro Camoranesi, Angelo Palombo, Fabio Quagliarella, Gianluca Zambrotta, Giampaolo Pazzini, Andrea Pirlo, Riccardo Montolivo, Leonardo Bonucci.
Slovakia Square :- Ján Mucha, Peter Pekarík, Martin Škrtel, Marek Čech, Radoslav Zabavník, Zdeno Štrba, Vladimír Weiss, Ján Kozák, Stanislav Šesták, Marek Sapara, Róbert Vittek, Dušan Perniš, Filip Hološko, Martin Jakubko, Miroslav Stoch, Ján Ďurica, Marek Hamšík (c), Erik Jendrišek, Juraj Kucka, Kamil Kopúnek, Kornel Saláta, Martin Petráš, Dušan Kuciak.