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Germany 2 - Sweden 0: Germany scored early and then proceeded to wipe the pitch with the Swedes, who had to play a man down in the second half. To compound their misery, Larsson brutally overshot a penalty kick early in the second half, which completely demoralized his team.

Argentina 2 - Mexico 1: Mexico came out strong and scored early, but almost immediately knocked in an own goal to tie the game up. The rest of the half was very even. In the second half, Argentina dominated more but failed to get decent scoring chances due to an excellent Mexican defense. Late in the second half, the Mexican defense started flagging, and the Argentinians scored the winning goal with a minute to go in injury time, except it was called back on a very bad offsides call. In overtime, Rodríguez scored a gorgeous goal, the mirror image of Joe Cole's goal against Sweden. Mexico tried their hardest, but just couldn't get it done. Argentina gets to face Germany.