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16 mins: NIGERIA SCORE!!! A terrible error from the Greek goalkeeper and frankly a bizarre goal, as the scorer Uchecurled in a free-kick from 45 yards, looking to find one of his strikers, and Tzorvas just dived into the other side, when, if he 'd be standing, he kept. It was extraordinary. Terrible in Greece. The real - and I 'm afriad gay - error from the keeper.

14 mins:Nice ball left channel Etuhu, which runs after Yakubu, but he just can 't get there. And now Papadopoulos was booked for a retreat to the lively Odemwingie. Nice pressure from Nigeria.

11 mins:

8 mins: An extremely slow and cagey start here as both teams gird themselves for the inevitable explosion of goals. Gekas is ridiculously isolated in attack when Greece defend. There are simply no white shirts anywhere near him. Constantino objects: "In response to your early comment about preferring an African team to go through... I would like nothing more than to see another African team through to the next round, but 2004 cursed us forever with expectations. So when we fail badly today I will in despair. The only thing worse than a glimmer of hope is the misery of knowing we can do better." Is that a lyric from a Smiths song?

5 mins: First attempt at a genuine attack from both sides: a pair of overhit crosses from Nigeria's left hand side and Greece's right. Both nowhere near the sole man skulking anywhere near in the box. Oh dear. None of that please. We need a a winner today. Mohammed Syed muses: "Whats the point of Greece even turning up. They're going to get hammered. As they're a bit skint they should have sold the slot to Turkey or Russia." Greece will of course be looking to silence these taunts with a feats of joyful attacking football.

3 mins: Nigeria have their first little spell but it peters out as Yakubu puts in a slightly surprising early "reducer" on Karagounis ands it's a free kick. And Ben Davis notes: "Darren Anderton has scored more world cup goals than Greece. Just a thought." Darren Anderton has probably also got more cash in the bank than Greece.

1 min: Greece kick us off and they're straight into a spell of meandering keep-ball in their own half. It already looks more like a back five than a flying wing-backs situation, but early days here.

3.01pm: Nath Jones is pshawing: "Nikos the Greek fan's "3-4-3 with overlapping wing-backs" conjures up thoughts of some brilliant 1-6-3 formation which will set the World Cup alight, similar to the unbeatable 1-4-5 formation on Championship Manager '93. I'm guessing Greece will actually play a 5-4-1 in practice, though, yep?"

2.59pm: Gekas looks to be playing as a lone striker in this formation, at the head of a 4-1-4-1. Nigeria are in a more attacking 4-4-1-1, with Odemwingie lurking in the hole.

2.57pm: And... Obafemi Martins is wearing gloves. In the sunshine. Although to be fair it was quite chilly last night in Blomefontein.

2.55pm: The teams are out. Nigeria in groovy green zip-up V-necks. Some vague mumbling from the Greeks during their anthem. They look - how to put this nicely? - quite a grizzled lot.

2.52pm:Of course, you can email me your thoughts on barney.ronay @ guardian.co.uk , or if you like communicate with me via Twitter if that's your bag. Greece. I feel slightly weary reminding you, have yet to score at the World Cup finals. Any World Cup finals. So let's hope a slice of history.

2.51pm: Of course, Nigeria have hardly set the tournament alight, the wondrous Enyeama apart. But this is a must-win game against a team notably bereft of Messi-level attacking geniuses. Perhaps the only thing the Nigeria defence have to fear today is the implicit fate-tempting warning in the right side of their own defence, which is made up of Odiah and Shittu. Let's hope there will be none of that today. Greece, of course, have to win or they're pretty much certain to be out of here. Two desperate teams who have to win. What could possibly go wrong?

2.47pm:

2.45pm: Hello and welcome to coverage of in intriguing mid-group clash. No offence to Greece, and with apologies to the retro oeuvre of John Travolta. But today the word is, not Greece, but Nigeria. It is almost impossible to be neutral with this one. What the World Cup needs is another African win, and another African team with a chance of making the last 16.

The teams are in:

Greece: 12-Alexandros Tzorvas; 11-Loukas Vyntra, 16-Sotiris Kyrgiakos, 15-Vassilis Torosidis, 6-Alexandros Tziolis, 8-Avraam Papadopoulos, 19-Socratis Papastathopoulos, 10-Giorgos Karagounis, 21-Kostas Katsouranis; 14-Dimitris Salpingidis, 17-Fanis Gekas.

Nigeria: 1-Vincent Enyeama; 17-Chidi Odiah, 6-Danny Shittu, 2-Joseph Yobo, 3-Taye Taiwo, 12-Kalu Uche, 20-Dickson Etuhu, 15-Haruna Lukman, 14-Sani Kaita, 8-Yakubu Aiyegbeni, 11-Peter Odemwingie.

Referee: Oscar Ruiz (Colombia)

Barney will be here from 2:46 pm. However, why would not acquainted with Sachin Nakrani 'match against Nigeria in Greece:

The overriding belief within the Greece squad is that it is now or never. Following a lacklustre 2-0 defeat by South Korea in their opening match of the tournament on Saturday, Otto Rehhagel's men recognise that another failure to deliver against Nigeria in Bloemfontein today will as good as end their World Cup campaign.

Both sides head into the match on zero points but Nigeria can take heart from the spirit and flashes of creativity they showed in their 1-0 defeat by the Group B heavyweights Argentina in their opening game. Greece, however, require a sizeable improvement on the display they put in against Korea, when Lee Jung-soo and Park Ji-sung were able to score against the Euro 2004 winners with relative ease.

"In the first match we didn't do what we could. Why, I don't know," said the midfielder Sotiris Ninis . "Tomorrow is our last chance. There will be no other chance to catch up with losses. Either we will win or that will be the end and we will have to return home disappointed."

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