World Cup 2010 South Africa

Here we come:

Hungary 0-1 Portugal
Goal: Pepe 9

Portugal revived their flagging hopes of reaching the play-offs with a priceless win in Budapest. The Germany 2006 semi-finalists wasted little time in imposing themselves. Taking advantage of the space created by Cristiano Ronaldo's clever run, Pepe had all the time he needed to head Deco's well-flighted free-kick into the back of the net. That allowed the Portuguese to hit the desperate Hungarians on the counter at will, with the sprightly Ronaldo causing problems throughout for the hosts. Portugal now face the task of having to win their two remaining games, at home to Hungary and Malta, while also hoping for Sweden to drop points.

Faroe Islands 2-1 Lithuania
Goals: Suni Olsen 15, Arnbjorn Hansen 34 (Faroe Islands); Tomas Danilevicius 23 (Lithuania)

This was Faroe Islands first win in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match for eight years and only their 17th overall in 126 official matches. The islanders last tasted victory on 1 September 2001 when they beat Luxembourg 1-0. Since then they have lost 17 times and drawn only twice.

Armenia 2-1 Belgium
Goals: Hovhannes Goharyan 23, Sargis Hovsepyan 52 (Armenia); Daniel van Buyten 88 (Belgium)

Armenia recorded their first qualifying win with an impressive performance against a Belgium side still reeling from last weekend's 5-0 rout at the hands of Spain.

Football:Norway - Macedonia 2-1

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Norway's men won their last qualifier for the World Cup 2010 at home against Macedonia 2-1, and ended as number 2 in their group, but with just the slimmest of hopes for a ticket to South Africa. (Photo: Jon Arne Riise)

In the first half the Norwegian team put on one of their best performances for a long time in front of the home crowd, and Thorstein Helstad gave Norway the lead after only two minutes.

John Arne Riise increased the lead to 2-0 in the 25th minute on a perfect free-kick, his third such performance in a row in an international match for Norway.

However, in the second half Norway seemed to lose som of their exuberance, and after several Macedonian raids into Norwegian territory Bohan Grncarov finally succeeded and scored 10 minutes before the end.

However, Norway rode off the storm and could walk off with the end result 2-1.

source: (NRK/Aftenposten)