Sports betting online will have France and Portugal as part of the 2010 World Cup after both qualified on Wednesday. France played to a 1-1 draw with Ireland as sportsbetting results had it and that was good enough to get them in since they won the first leg 1-0. Portugal beat Bosnia 1-0 in the second leg and advanced 2-0 on aggregate.
Sportsbetting online would have seemed a bit different had Portugal and France not qualified for the 2010 World Cup. Portugal will be making their third straight World Cup appearance. Raul Meireles scored the only goal in their sports betting online win over Ireland.
France got a very controversial extra-time goal from William Gallas to gain a 1-1 draw against Ireland. France advances 2-1 on aggregate but probably shouldn’t have won at all as the referee did not call Thierry Henry for a handball on the tying score.
Algeria also qualified for the 2010 World Cup with a 1-0 sports betting online win over Egypt in sports betting online. A goal by defender Antar Yahya gave Algeria the win in the playoff match. This sportsbetting match was needed since the two teams finished their group matches even on points and had also scored and given up the same number of goals. Algeria will be making their first World Cup appearance since 1986. Egypt dominated the sports betting online match for much of the time but couldn’t get a goal. It was a huge disappointment for an Egypt team that could have done some damage in the World Cup. Algeria is the fifth African nation to qualify for the World Cup as sports betting online indicated, along with Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana. South Africa gets in automatically as the host nation.
Greece will also be going to the World Cup after they defeated Ukraine 1-0 in sports betting online to qualify while Slovenia upset Russia to advance. Slovenia lost the first leg 2-1 to Russia but got a late goal in that match that proved to be the difference because Slovenia won 1-0 on Wednesday in sports betting online, which meant they advanced due to scoring more away goals. Sports betting showed that it is only the second time Slovenia has reached the World Cup. Greece is advancing to the World Cup for only the second time.
The last of the World Cup qualifying berths was set to be decided as Uruguay and Costa Rica were playing in sports betting online action. Uruguay won the first leg 1-0 in sports betting so they only needed a draw to advance.