By The Associated Press
At Kaiserslautern, Germany
Australia 0 3 —; 3
Japan 1 0 —; 1
First half—;1, Japan, Nakamura 1, 26th minute.
Second half—;2, Australia, Cahill 1, 84th. 3, Australia, Cahill 2, 89th. 4, Australia, Aloisi 3, 90th, injury time.
Shots—;Australia 20, Japan 6.
Shots On Goal—;Australia 12, Japan 2.
Yellow Cards—;Australia, Grella, 33rd; Moore, 58th; Cahill, 68th; Aloisi, 78th. Japan, Miyamoto, 31st; Takahara, 40th; Moniwa, 68th.
Offsides—;Australia 5, Japan 3.
Fouls—;Australia 22, Japan 11.
Referee—;Essam Abd El-Fatah, Egypt. Linesman—;Dramane Dante, Mali; Mamadou Ndoye, Senegal.
A—;46,000.
Lineups
Australia: Mark Schwarzer; Scott Chipperfield, Jason Culina, Lucas Neill, Craig Moore (Joshua Kennedy, 61st); Luke Wilkshire (John Aloisi, 75th), Harry Kewell, Vince Grella, Brett Emerton; Mark Viduka, Marco Bresciano (Tim Cahill, 53rd).
Japan: Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi; Yuji Nakazawa, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Keisuke Tsuboi (Teruyuki Moniwa, 56th; Masashi Oguro, 90th, injury time); Alex, Shunsuke Nakamura, Hidetoshi Nakata, Yuichi Komano; Atsushi Yanagisawa (Shinji Ono, 79th), Takashi Fukunishi, Naohiro Takahara.
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At Gelsenkirchen, Germany
United States 0 0 —; 0
Czech Republic 2 1 —; 3
First half—;1, Czech Republic, Koller 1, 5th minute. 2, Czech Republic, Rosicky 1, 36th.
Second half—;3, Czech Republic, Rosicky 2, 76th.
Shots—;United States 6, Czech Republic 10.
Shots On Goal—;United States 1, Czech Republic 5.
Yellow Cards—;United States, Onyewu, 5th; Reyna, 60th. Czech Republic, Rozehnal, 16th; Lokvenc, 59th; Rosicky, 81st; Grygera, 88th.
Offsides—;United States 0, Czech Republic 9.
Fouls—;United States 15, Czech Republic 19.
Referee—;Carlos Amarilla, Paraguay. Linesmen—;Amelio Andino, Paraguay; Manuel Bernal, Paraguay.
A—;52,000.
Lineups
United States: Kasey Keller; Eddie Lewis, Oguchi Onyewu, Eddie Pope, Steve Cherundolo (Eddie Johnson, 46th); Pablo Mastroeni (John O’Brien, 46th), Bobby Convey, Claudio Reyna, DaMarcus Beasley; Landon Donovan, Brian McBride (Josh Wolff, 77th).
Czech Republic: Peter Cech; Zdenek Grygera, David Rozehnal, Tomas Ujfalusi, Marek Jankulovski; Karel Poborsky (Jan Polak, 82nd), Tomas Rosicky (Jiri Stajner, 86th), Tomas Galasek, Jaroslav Plasil, Pavel Nedved; Jan Koller (Vratislav Lokvenc, 45th).
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At Hanover, Germany
Italy 1 1 —; 2
Ghana 0 0 —; 0
First half—;1, Italy, Pirlo 1, 40th minute.
Second half—;2, Italy, Iaquinta 1, 83rd.
Shots—;Italy 18, Ghana 14.
Shots On Goal—;Italy 13, Ghana 4.
Yellow Cards—;Italy, De Rossi, 10th, Camoranesi, 62nd; Iaquinta, 88th. Ghana, Muntari, 41st; Gyan, 65th.
Offsides—;Italy 3, Ghana 3.
Fouls—;Italy 8, Ghana 22.
Referee—;Carlos Simon, Brazil. Linesmen—;Aristeu Tavares, Brazil; Ednilson Corona, Brazil.
A—;43,000.
Lineups
Italy: Gianluigi Buffon, Cristian Zaccardo, Alessandro Nesta, Fabio Cannavaro, Fabio Grosso, Simone Perrotta, Andrea Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Francesco Totti (Mauro Camoranesi, 56th), Alberto Gilardino (Vincenzo Iaquinta, 64th), Luca Toni (Alessandro Del Piero, 82nd).
Ghana: Richard Kingston, John Painstil, Samuel Kuffour, John Mensah, Addoquaye Pappoe (Illiasu Shilla, 46th), Eric Addo, Stephen Appiah, Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, Asamoah Gyan (Alex Tachie-Mensah, 89th), Matthew Amoah (Razak Pimpong, 68th).
