Spain pick Pedro over Torres for final

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque left Fernando Torres out of his starting lineup for Sunday's World Cup final against Netherlands, replacing the misfiring striker with Pedro for a second straight match.
Torres, who returned from knee surgery shortly before the tournament in South Africa and has not scored in six appearances, lost his place to Pedro in the semi-final against Germany and came off the bench late in the second half.
Pedro will partner striker David Villa, joint top scorer at the finals on five goals with Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder, Uruguay striker Diego Forlan and Germany forward Thomas Mueller, in a twin-pronged attack.

Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk restored right back Gregory van der Wiel and holding midfielder Nigel de Jong to his starting lineup after the pair were suspended for the 3-2 semifinal victory over Uruguay.
They replace Khalid Boulahrouz and Demy de Zeeuw respectively, who drop to the bench.
Teams
Netherlands: 1-Maarten Stekelenburg; 2-Gregory van der Wiel, 3-John Heitinga, 4-Joris Mathijsen, 5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 7-Dirk Kuyt, 6-Mark van Bommel, 10-Wesley Sneijder, 8-Nigel de Jong, 11-Arjen Robben; 9-Robin van Persie.
Spain: 1-Iker Casillas; 15-Sergio Ramos, 3-Gerard Pique, 5-Carles Puyol, 11-Joan Capdevila; 14-Xabi Alonso, 8-Xavi, 6-Andres Iniesta, 16-Sergio Busquets; 18-Pedro, 7-David Villa.
Referee: Howard Webb (England)

Octopus Paul Allen predictions for the Fifa World Cup 2010 finals:Spain to win

PAUL THE Octopus or Paul Oktopus is a 2 year old octopus with a history of correctly predicting the results of major German international football matches, especially in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This total rate of 11 out of 12 games constitutes a significant deviation from what a flipping coin would suggest, using a Binomial test. Paul was born at the Sea Life Park in Weymouth, England but currently resides at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen,Germany.

Octopus Allen is sixth time right with the prediction as Germany lost against Spain in the second Semifinals of FIFA WORLD CUPFINAL 2010 by 1-0. Carles Puyol scored for Spain.Yet another prediction by Paul Octopus, now is the six on six prediction favoring Spain's win in the finals. As per Paul Octopus’s prediction, Spain cam into the finals of the World Cup football. After this forecast, German fans are looking with trapped heart.

Paul the Octopus correctly chose the winner in each of Germany’s six matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, including Germany’s loss to Serbia during the group phase, and a loss to Spain in semifinals.The Germany’s Paul Allen the Octopus baba has become an online observable, for his mysterious capability to pick winners of FIFA world cup 2010 in South Africa.

This World Cup, whatever forecasts were predicted by ‘Paul Octopus’, has proved right. Spain who are the favorites, displayed thier best performance 60 years back in 1950, when they reached the quarter-finals.

Now, Paul the Octopus is going to hog the limelight till Sunday’s epic World cup final clash. Till now he has only predicted in games involving Germany, so it is not clear whether his psychic powers are limited to games involving Germany or they also go beyond that.

Whatever said and done Paul, the Octopus is the biggest winner and star of this Fifa World Cup

PAUL THE OCTOPUS MAKES THE HEADLINES AGAIN

PAUL MAKES THE HEADLINES AGAIN BY PREDICTING THE WINNERS OF SEMI FINAL AS SPAIN...
NOW PAUL CAN BE TRUSTED FOR EVENT THE FINAL RESULTS.

SPAIN =1 GERMANY=0

SPAIN 1ST SEMI FINAL WINNERS

Octopus Paul picks Spain over Germany

Sea Life Aquarium's spokesman Daniel Fey said Tuesday that the famous mollusk from Oberhausen chose a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag, while ignoring the tank marked with the German colors — indicating a Spanish victory in Wednesday's semifinal.

But there could be hope for the Germans.

The only time the usually-prescient Paul erred in the past was in picking a Germany-Spain matchup in the 2008 European Championship, when he picked Germany and Spain prevailed.

Otherwise, Paul correctly predicting Germany's wins over Argentina and England, and also foretold the victories over Australia and Ghana and the country's loss to Serbia.

Once again Paul the octopus picks it right

Paul, a two-year-old octopus born in England now living in a German aquarium, has a 100-percent winning streak at the World Cup.

With the recent win of Germany once again the Paul has been accurate.

Time for Deigo to GOOOO.

Paul, the two year old octopus Predicts FIFA match results

Paul, the two year old octopus is getting famous day by day for his predictions over the FIFA World Cup’s matches. English born Octopus, known to be “psychic” due to the fact that he predicts World Cup’s matches perfectly, is a known icon these days and is in a German aquarium at this point of time.

Paul, right now, has a hundred percent record at the World Cup. He has a winning streak of four and he has predicted all the four matches, for Germany, perfectly. The eight legged octopus, who is a denizen of sea life in a town which is located in the West side of Oberhausen, has recently turned into a celebrity after his prediction of the pre quarter final match between England and Germany.

On Tuesday, Paul was again given a choice to pick a winner of the Quarter final match between Argentina and Germany. It works like this; there are two containers that are lowered towards Paul, one with a German flag and the other with the nation that is going to face the Germans, in this case, Argentina. The two containers have his food, clams, inside them and he opens the lid and feasts in one of them. Whichever container he chooses that country wins the match. It is also decided by the amount of time he spends to decide the winner. For example, in the match between England and Germany, Paul took no time and just went in the German container to eat his food; resulting in a thrashing 4-1 victory of the Germans over the English side. Therefore, the Germans were not troubled by the English at all and won easily.

On the other hand, Paul took a lot of time to decide which country to pick between Argentina and Germany. The sea life spokeswoman said that it took around forty five minutes for Paul to decide whether which container he should go and feast in. She said that this means that the match is going to be tough, and it might go into extra time or even Penalties but the Germans will triumph over the South American nation.

Paul doesn’t only sit in the German container. He chose Serbia over Germany when he was asked to predict about the match between them during the group stages. Serbia defeated Germany and shocked the world and the Germans themselves.

There is no trick about this, and there is no such thing as a “left side container” or a “right side container.” The flags keep switching sides and it’s not always Germany he chooses for the win. The food is the same; the amount is the same, according to Munzig, the spokeswoman of the German aquarium. When asked how Paul predicts all the matches, the reply she gave was: “That’s his little secret.”

We cannot be too sure of how this works, but this octopus has predicted all the German matches correctly. He did not go wrong in any of them, even when the Germans actually suffered a loss from the Serbians. Is this octopus for real? Well, no one can be too sure. All we know is that this match is going to be very exciting, as two of the greatest footballing nations are to collide in an action pact match in FIFA World Cup 2010, South Africa.

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