Russia enters quarters | Shocks Sweden!

Russia turned the night to Swedish people into nightmares as they defeated the northern European team 2-0 to enter the quarter finals!.

But they have too little to celebrate as they will now face the most dominant team of the tournament so far -The dutch in the quarters.



Hiddink, a Dutchman who took over Russia after leading Australia to the second round of the World Cup two years ago, maintained his perfect record of advancing through the group stage at major tournaments. He also guided the Netherlands in 1998 and South Korea in 2002, both nations making the semifinals of those World Cups.

“This is a tremendous victory,” Hiddink said.

“It’s a special game because I know the (Dutch) players, I know the coach (Marco van Basten) and more people within the squad I worked with,” he added. “But we play the style that they like to play. It has to be an interesting clash.”

Spain perfect Three

Spain defeated greece to go to the next round with a perfect win record in the group stages. Greece however avoided the shame of not becoming a defending champion to have not scored a goal.

“We wanted to say goodbye in an orderly way, and we did that,” Greece’s German coach Otto Rehhagel said. “I don’t blame anyone individually. All the players followed my instructions.”

Spain’s win was its ninth straight, stretching its unbeaten run to 19 games, and both De la Red and Guiza got their first international goals.