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Pix by:worldcupzones.com Nigeria Sports Arena welcomes you to another edition of Past and Present in Brazil. We usually take a cursory look at the previous games and the upcoming ones in the Samba land. The 2014 World Cup have produced avalanche of goals of about 113 only in the group stages with few games to round off the pool stages and breeze into the Round of 16. World Cup host, Brazil and other seven countries are in the next round already. Unarguably, the 2014 World Cup is full of upset, two great teams, Italy and England were knocked out of the tournament to join the likes of Spain, Croatia and Cameroon,  although the English team were mathematically out before the last game in Group D. Ivory Coast were dispatched last night 2-1 by Greece in a fierce encounter, thus making  the second African team to leave the big event. Greece made it to the last 16 of the World Cup for the first time with a controversial win over Ivory Coast via a questionable spot kick converted...

Nigeria Sports Arena brings to you actions that went down on Monday in Brazil and x-ray the games that will be coming up Today. The last round of matches in the group stages began on Monday with four fixtures coming from Group A and B, 14 goals were added to the initial 90 goals, Neymar netted twice and emerges the top scorer of the ongoing tourney with four goals. Cameroon took on Brazil, and the Samba Boys ambushed the Indomitable Lions 4-1, thus, eliminating the African team and forge ahead to the Knockout stages, Croatia and Mexico engaged in an interesting game that ended 3-1 in favour of the Mexican, the likes of Modric, Olic, Rakitic and others couldn't help Croatia to get pass the group stage, Australia were knocked out 0-3 by the World Cup Champions, Spain who apparently did not make a major impact in Brazil, the Netherlands were once again on rampage against a determined Chilean side as they stopped their opponents with two unreplied goals. Neymar continue to live ...