Belgium Qualifies For The First Time For World Cup Since 2002; Thanks to Lukaku's Last Moves, van Persie Also Had A Monumental Play

Belgium executes an impressive play to qualify their World Cup as they beat Croatia with a score of 2-1. It will be the country's first participation since year 2002.

It only took Lukaku fifteen minutes to deliver a ball from Steven Defour to go past Dejan Lovren of Southhampton and Vedran Corluka.

Then after twenty-five minutes he executed his second goal. Romelu lukaku passed over the ball to Lovren as he squaabbled during half round against Stipe Pletikosa of Croatia, walked passed him then delivered the ball to the net.

Despite efforts from Niko Kranjcar to score a goal Croatia's efforts were futile. Belgium is un-stoppable and you could feel ecstatic tension from the fans emanating in the
Maksimir stadium.

Holland had a new all-time leading goal scorer in Robin van Persie during a win over hungary with a score 8-1.

Patrick Kluivert's record for his second took almost 8 minutes short of an hour after his tally from 80 appearances and got 41 goals.

van Persie rushed to the bench to be greeted by Kluivert to celebrate their victory.

Italy's fate is sealed to join the finals, but their match with Denmark will determine if the latter would advance.

Germany have booted ireland out earlier with a 3-0 score at Cologne. It took a couple of chances for the Celtics to score as Clark made a goal.

Spain is now three points ahead of France in the Group 1, they to thank a 2-1 win against Belarus. It's during this game that Minchu from Swansea debut and determine the fate of Manchester's Alavaro Negredo would make them win.

Martin Skrtel made an error of scoring past his own team's goalkeeper, it turned out to be the only goal with a score of 1-0 in favor of Greece over Slovakia in Group H.

Ecuador now captained by Antonio Valencia took a 1-0 win against country host Brazil. However the fate of Copa America lies against a play off.

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