On Wednesday, the final preparations for the upcoming championship were held by some of the World Championship participants. In total, five friendly matches were supposed to take place, but two of them were postponed, and whether they will be played on Thursday is unclear. In the remaining three matches, the favorites secured victories. It was close that the Liechtenstein footballers would provide a surprise, as they managed to keep a tie with Australia until the 75th minute, but later conceded two goals and lost 1-3. Luxembourg took the lead in the 8th minute when an Australian defender, Lucas Neill, directed the ball into his own net while defending a penalty kick. However, the Luxembourgers only rejoiced for 11 minutes - after receiving a great pass from Stano Lazaridė, Mile Sterjovski equalized the score with a great shot. Later in most of the match, Luxembourg had to defend, and the Australians turned the result in their favor only in the second half of the second half when Josh Kennedy, who was playing in the second part of the game, scored, and John Aloisi secured the victory. In other very tough matches, Spain managed to snatch victory over Croatia right at the end of the match. Croatians took the lead, scoring an own goal at the beginning of the game by Pablo Ibanezas. The equalizer in the second half was scored by Mario Pernia, who was called up to replace the injured Asier Del Horno a few days ago, and Fernando Torres secured the victory. In the third and probably most intense match, France defeated China 3-1. However, the joy of victory was overshadowed for the team by the injury Djibril Cisse received in the 10th minute - the forward broke his leg and will no longer play in this championship. Yet another match between Luxembourg and Ukraine will take place on Thursday. Statistics Tunisia - Iraq Postponed Saudi Arabia - Bosnia and Herzegovina Postponed Liechtenstein 1 - 3 Australia 8' [1 - 0] L.Neill (own goal) 20' [1 - 1] M.Sterjovski 75' [1 - 2] J.Kennedy 83' [1 - 3] J.Aloisi Croatia 1 - 2 Spain 14' [1 - 0] P.Ibanez (own goal) 62' [1 - 1] M.Pernia 90' [1 - 2] F.Torres France 3 - 1 China 30' [1 - 0] D.Trezeguet 69' [1 - 1] F.Zhiyi 90' [2 - 1] T.Henry 90' [3 - 1] Yun (own goal)
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