22. Honduras 21. Ecuador Five teams out of Germany, USA, Ghana, Portugal, Algeria, Russia & South Korea will get eliminated and thus complete the list of teams ousted in the 1st round.
Im sure the Honduras game ended a bit before the Ecuador's one. I ranked them that way since Honduras was the worse of the two teams. And yeah, it's 4. Mistake on my part.
The Honduran game ended before the Ecuador game. So you're right. For 2 more minutes Ecuador could dream of scoring two goals and making it through.
Similarly. Cote d'Ivoire had more extra time in the first half, starting a bit later and I believe the ref blew the whistle earlier.
With group G's result, 2 more teams are now added to the tally : 20. Ghana 19. Portugal Obviously, both were facing each other and thus eliminated at the same time. Went with Ghana 1st since they ranked last in their group. 2 out of Algeria, Russia or South Korea will be added.
I'm not sure what you're saying there, sorry, it's probably just me being thick. The BBC give second-half stoppage time as 3:46 in Greece v Ivory Coast http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25285284 and 3:11 in Japan v Colombia http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25455848 Assuming that the kick-offs were synchronised (?) that would suggest that Japan were out first. But I haven't managed to find a commentary / real-time log where anyone states that "the other game has finished" or "is still being played", it was probably too close for that. The matchday thread here doesn't help either. So, Japan out first or not? Last night I watched the Russia game live, and hastily turned over when it finished and South Korea were still playing.
So I think we've got: 32. Spain 32. Australia 30. Cameroon 29. England 28. Bosnia & Herzegovina 27. Croatia 26. Italy 25. Japan 24. Ivory Coast 23. Iran 22. Honduras 21. Ecuador 20. Ghana 20. Portugal 18. Russia 17. South Korea
15. Uruguay game played in broad daylight, and the vampire has been sent away to a dark place in Montevideo
14. Mexico Netherlands with the comeback win 2-1 in the last 10 minutes capped with a Huntelaar penalty in added time to go through.