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Modiba’s shot from 15 yards after some penalty box bagatelle is blocked behind for a corner which inexplicably, and with a hint of cowardice, they take short. What a waste.
But they secure a point and keep the group alive and a third-place qualification open though both sides are riddled with flaws.
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Chance for South Africa. Makgopa in the inside-left channel uses his strength to hold off Zeleny and his skill tor tap the ball through to shoot but he then barely tests the keeper by dinking it straight at him.
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Sulc drives down the left and centres. Schick is static in the middle before a late lunge at the cross but Mbokazi slide in first and Provod drags his follow-up shot miles wide.
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Mokoena tracks Soucek’s run and makes a crucial sliding tackle just before the West Ham forward could pull the trigger on a shot from 18 yards.
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Zeleny heads Coufal’s cross into a wall of South Africa defenders in their box and Soucek is caught offside when trying to retrieve the ball.
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Czech Republic corner on the right headed away firmly.
Seven minutes of stoppage time to come.
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Mofokeng lashes a shot from just outside the box that the keeper fumbles and then gathers at the second attempt.
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Having said that the penalty should not have stood, Czech Republic have shot themselves in the foot by missing so many chances and fannying about for most of this half.
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South Africa’s caution has been rewarded after all. Patience does seem to be a virtue after all.
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Czech Republic 1 South Africa 1 (Mokoena, pen) Smacks it into the bottom left, after sending the keeper the wrong way. Now there’s a turn-up. Have to say the penalty was a travesty.
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Appollis miscontrols in the box when a pass finds a gap between Hranac and Krejci.
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The problem with some teams in third going through to the knockout rounds is that it breeds caution. South Africa are not prepared to risk anything to get a point or even three, keeping their powder dry for the third match. Not sure they have enough powder even to blow the b----- doors off.
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Krejci is booked for a heavy foul. The free-kick is 35 yards out on the right but South Africa still don’t commit enough men forward, keeping four behind the ball and then take it short. The ball bursts when they finally deign to shoot.
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The water/commercial break kills the tempo at the restart. But then Appollis seizes the initiative, darts down the left, beating Holes and then driving a low cross towards the six-yard box. South Africa get a touch on it to steer it goalwards from the near post but there are too many Czech defenders around the area to clip it past them.
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The ref halts the game for the hydration break in an air-conditioned stadium. The crowd boos this pointless ritual, a Fifa sponsor cash-grab dressed up as a welfare issue.
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More changes precede a Czech throw on the right parallel with the 18-yard line. Coufal catapults it in and Krejci leaps to win the header but doesn’t connect crisply.
Magkopa → Rayners
Soucek → Sadilek
Provod → Hlozek.
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Hlozek lands on Mudau’s knee with some force, planting his studs into South Africa’s right-back. But it was accidental and the ref deems a free-kick sufficient sanction.
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Appollis is a livewire and pops up on the right to inject some urgency and drill the ball into the area to Mudau whose attempt to free his feet to shoot is scuppered by the attentions of Zeleny.
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Zeleny with a wonderful reverse pass down the inside-left to Sulc who squares to Sadilek to shoot from 15 yards. Okon throws his body in the way and keeps the lead down to just one goal.
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Mofokeng seems to jab Cerv in the solar plexus as he ran past but the referee is content to let him apologise and the two players to shake hands.
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Maseko is penalised for a push on Krejci who had eased himself in front of the winger who was in full flight. The Czech captain went down like a bag of hammers but there was a foul.
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Two changes for the Czech Republic:
Sulc → Darida
Zeleny → Sojka
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Mokoena lances out his right leg facing his own goal and hooks a cross away from Schick as he was shaping to volley from eight yards. That was terrific.
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Twice South Africa push to the byline on the right but the crosses aren’t good enough.
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Free header for Schick from the corner, his second of the match, and he makes almost as much of a mess of it as the one in the first minute. Another glaring miss.
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Czech Republic are in down the left with Sadilek drifting down the left before quickening the pace to pass into the box for Darida. It’s on for a first-time shot but Darida takes a too heavy touch and invites a tackle that lets South Africa off the hook. Cerv pounces on the loose ball from the clearance and floats a shot from 25 yards that Williams tips over.
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One change for South Africa. Mofokeng → Adams. They have to retake the kick-off having jumped the gun or, more prosaically, the whistle.
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Frustrating game for South Africa so far. Czech Republic are dominating with the high press and South Africa are living on the scraps to create the odd chance rather than flooding in behind to force them back.
Benni McCarthy says South Africa were not expecting these tactics and have not adapted. There’s no rotation and the full-backs are far too deep.
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Maseko goes on a run up the right touchline, the ball barely under control, but then he cuts infield, Mbatha creating space with a clever run to draw a defender. He zips a pass over to Modiba on the left and the full-back whips over a cross that Kovar dives to swipe away. But that leaves the keeper on the floor and the ball heading back to Maseko but his defenders bail him out by throwing themselves into the way of the shot and scrambling it away.
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Cerv blocks Mokoena in the centre-circle to concede a free-kick. South Africa try to take it quickly but from the wrong place which ruins their plot.
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Mokoena cuts his right foot across a shot from 30 yards and slices the ball wildly.
Four minutes to come.
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South Africa work hard to earn a corner on the right and then chuck it aay by taking it short and allowing themselves to be pushed right back to halfway.
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The lively Appollis makes progress down the left with a sprint, a one-two and a centre until the offside flag brings the game to a halt.
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Czech Republic free-kick 30 yards out after a foul by Mbatha which earns him a booking and lecture. Hlozek takes and whacks the ball into orbit. Terrible waste.
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South Africa break at speed for once. Maseko races through the heart of midfield and keeps going, cutting a 40-yard path before fizzing a pass in to Rayners, who has his back to goal. The centre-forward spins a pass out to Mudau on the overlap down the right but the full-back’s cut-back is rushed and strikes a defender as he was looking for Maseko.
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Hlozek is having a decent game with his elusiveness and touch.
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In the absence of pace to beat the Czech Republic one to one, South Africa are knocking it long.
Mokoena is deservedly given a yellow card for a very late challenge on Cerv, sliding in to clips his shins. That’s him suspended for the next game and given how they’ve been playing, probably the end of his World Cup.
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Mbokazi chases down a Darida pass for Schick and wins the ball back for South Africa, passing to Appollis who is fouled.
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Czech Republic’s movement in possession hasn’t been as incisive as it was in the opening 10 minutes.
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South Africa pour forward after the hydration situation and Appollis plays a lovely reverse pass to send Rayners free down the inside-left. He tries to square it across the 18-yard line to Mbatha but scuffs it and Krejci clears.
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Modiba strides down the left wing to cross on the run, seeking Rayners but Hranac got there first.
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Hlozek is flattened by a shove from Okon in the small of the back. Clear free-kick.
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The BBC’s wide shot shows us that the Czech Republic are marking man to man when out of possession. South Africa need to work their markers more to drag them out of position and find a pass through the lines.
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South Africa are growing into the game and Modiba’s quick pass from left-back opens up the Czech defence on their right, allowing Maseka to whip over a cross for Rayners that seems to take a deflection off Holes but the referee awards a goal-kick.
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The corner is poor but South Africa improvise another shooting opportunity from distance. That seems to be part of the plan though the execution is yet to match the idea.
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That’s better. Appollis’s quick feet knock the ball forward to allow him to have a shot from 25 yards that takes a deflection and hoops around the post. That will be a corner and hopefully a sign of things to come.
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South Africa are rocking here. There’s so much space down the wings and they are snapping into the press in midfield. They need to weather this storm somehow and string some passes together.
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Czech Republic 1 South Africa 0 (Sadilek) A minute earlier Sadilek’s free-kick from the left to the right reaches Coufal and his volley is deflected behind for a corner from which South Africa clear to halfway. Czech Republic take the throw long down the right wing to Hlozek who beats Modiba and then rakes a low pass back to the left of the D where Sojka could have had a shot but instead he plays the perfect pass to let Sadilek run into the box and dink his finish past Williams. They have the lead they deserve.
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It’s all Czech Republic so far with Hlozek again making a penetrating run down the left and his cross is turned behind by Mudau. They are set-piece dependent but make a mess of the delivery from the corner.
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The cross was put on his head. He looked up and then made a total hash of the connection. The BBC’s Stephen Warnock says the lights in the top tier and the roof are dazzling but even so.
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Czech Republic kick off, attacking from left to right. They are in red and navy while South Africa are in yellow and green. The Czech kick-off is a rare example of something old-fashioned and orthodox, a pass to the side rather than a pass back and then a hood. They work it over to the left and carve out a very good chance in the first minute when Hlozek hangs over a deep cross and Schick misses a sitter at the far post, blinded, he claims, by the lights.
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Teboho Mokoena was in tears. It is one of the world’s great anthems.
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Toni Penso becomes the first American woman to referee a men’s World Cup match today. Stéphanie Frappert was the pioneer when she took charge of Germany vs Costa Rica in Qatar four years ago.
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Czech Republic Kovar; Hranac, Holes, Krejci; Coufal, Sadilek, Sojka, Darida, Cerv; Hlozek, Schick.
Substitutes Stanek, Hornicek, Zima, Chaloupek, Kuchta, Chytil, Sulc, Provod, Chory, Zeleny, Doudera, Soucek, Sochurek, Stravinsky.
South Africa Williams; Mudau, Okon, Mbokazi, Modiba; Appollis, Mokoena, Mbatha, Adams, Maseko; Rayners.
Substitutes Chaine, Goss, Matuludi, Ndamane, Moremi, Foster, Mofokeng, Makgopa, Kabini, Sibisi, Makhanya, Sebelebele, Cross.
Referee Tori Penso (USA)
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