아르헨티나는 16일(이하 한국시간) 겔젠키르헨 FIFA 월드컵경기장에서 열린 C조 2차전에서 골폭풍을 일으키며 지역예선에서 철벽 수비를 자랑하던  세르비아 -몬테네그로를 6-0으로 일축했다. 

막시 로드리게스와 리오넬 메시는 2골, 에스테반 캄비아소와 에르난 크레스포, 카를로스 테베스가 1골씩을 터뜨려 승리의 주역이 됐다. 

이날 스코어는 이번 대회 한경기 최다골이자 가장 많은 점수차 승리였다. 

11일 코트디부아르를 2-1로 누른데 이어 세르비아마저 꺾은 아르헨티나는 2연승으로 승점 6을 챙기며 16강 진출을 사실상 확정했다. 

자로 잰듯한 패스, 찬스를 놓치지 않는 골결정력을 보여준 아르헨티나 앞에 `죽음의 조'라는 징크스는 아무런 의미가 없었다. 

아르헨티나가 네덜란드에 패한 뒤 배수의 진을 친 세르비아의 수비를 뚫는데는  6분이면 충분했다. 

아르헨티나는 전반 6분 하비에르 사비올라가 페널티지역 오른쪽으로 돌파해  들어간 뒤 로드리게스에게 볼을 연결해 줬고 로드리게스는 지체없이 세르비아의  골망을 흔들었다. 

두번째 골은 선수들이 연습 때 볼 뺏기 게임을 연상시켰다. 

전반 31분 세르비아 선수들을 앞에 두고 3-4차례의 정교한  패스가  연결되면서 수비벽은 완전히 허물어졌고 페널티지역내 오른쪽에서 볼을 받은  크레스포가  뒷발로 밀어준 것을 캄비아소가 왼발로 가볍게 차넣어 스코어는 2-0. 

10분 뒤에는 사비올라가 상대 진영 오른쪽에서 볼을 빼앗아 로드리게스에게  연결하면서 세번째 골이 터졌다. 

세르비아는 전반 10분 네나드 조르제비치가 날린 슛이 전부였을 정도로 제대로 공격 한번 하지 못했다. 

세르비아는 후반 들어 마테야 케즈만과 사보 밀로셰비치를 최전방에 세워  역습을 노렸다. 

하지만 후반 20분 케즈만이 하비에르 마스체라노에게 태클을 걸다가 퇴장  당하면서 더 이상 공격의 실마리를 찾지 못했다. 

승리를 확신한 아르헨티나는 볼을 돌리며 시간을 끌다 세르비아 팬들의 야유를 받기도 했지만 후반 30분 로드리게스를 빼고 그동안 부상 때문에 출전하지 않았던  리오넬 메시를 투입하는 팬 서비스를 했다. 

디에고 마라도나의 후계자라는 칭호를 얻은 메시는 후반 34분 왼쪽 측면을 돌파한 뒤 크레스포의 골을 어시스트하며 첫 출전한 월드컵에서 공격 포인트를 기록, 관중석에 지켜보던 마라도나를 환하게 웃게 만들었다. 

5분 뒤에는 카를로스 테베스가 1골을 보탰고 후반 43분 메시가 한골을 더 보태 승리를 완성했다. (연합뉴스) 
 
Argentina 6 : 0 Serbia-Montenegro 

[ARG] 18. RODRIGUEZ Maxi (6')5. CAMBIASSO Esteban (31')18. RODRIGUEZ Maxi (41')9. CRESPO Hernan (78')11. TEVEZ Carlos (84')19. MESSI Lionel (88') 

GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) - Two-time champion Argentina is starting to sense something special. 

Jubilant cries of "Ole, Ole" and "AR-gen-tina, AR-gen-tina" were deafening Friday in FC Schalke's closed-roof stadium, where Argentina routed Serbia-Montenegro 6-0 - the most lopsided game so far in the World Cup. 

"This was an incredible performance," said midfielder Maxi Rodriguez, who scored two first-half goals. Substitute Esteban Cambiasso added another in the first half, with Hernan Crespo and youngsters Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi finishing it off late in the game when Serbia was a man short. 

Argentina, which opened the World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast, reached the round of 16 with the victory and the Netherlands' 2-1 win against the Ivorians. The Argentines play the Dutch on Wednesday for first place in the Group C. 

The loss eliminated the Serbs. 

Diego Maradona brought Argentina its last World Cup title in 1986. Now Argentina's chief cheerleader, Maradona was on his feet Friday, swirling the sky-blue and white Argentine jersey above his head and chiming in as one chant was screamed over and over: 

"We're going to leave as champions, just like in '86." 

Sure, Serbia was undermanned - key defender Nemanja Vidic was out with a knee injury - and the team was short-handed the last 25 minutes after Mateja Kezman was sent off. And there was open feuding on the club. Still, this is a team that gave up only one goal in 10 World Cup qualifiers and finished ahead of Spain in its group. 

"It's shocking," Serbia-Montenegro coach Ilija Petkovic said of the loss, the worst for the Balkan nation since the former Yugoslavia fell 6-1 to Uruguay in the semifinals of the first World Cup in 1930. 

Argentina didn't just score goals Friday, it created several masterpieces. 

"When everyone does it together, it's like that," Tevez said. 

Tevez, only 22 and a coming star with the 18-year-old Messi, praised the teamwork - the deft passes and perfectly timed shots. With only four players back from the 2002 team - humiliated in a first-round ouster - this side is young and a pure product of coach Jose Pekerman. 

Seventeen of the 23-man team played for Pekerman when he coached Argentina to three World Youth championships: 1995, '97 and 2001. 

Pekerman, a 56-year-old who looks and talks like a college professor, seemed intentionally low-key. 

"We can't take this game as the final measure," he said. 

Argentina got a perfect start with Rodriguez scoring in the sixth minute. He finished off his shot at the end of perfect passes down the left side from captain Juan Pablo Sorin and Javier Saviola. 

Argentina made it 2-0 in the 31st, a classic goal by Cambiasso, who entered in the 17th minute for injured Luis Gonzalez. Argentina held possession with a string of two dozen passes. At the finish, Saviola found Cambiasso, who passed to Hernan Crespo, who back-heeled the ball for Cambiasso's left-footed finish. 

"It couldn't have gone any better," Cambiasso said. "The moment I came in, one of the first balls I touch is a goal. 

"We're really working well as a group," he added. "This team is solid and we are very confident. We know we haven't achieved anything yet. We have to stay relaxed on the path we want to take, because it's a long road and it's hardly just begun." 

Rodriguez's second involved more grit than guile. 

Saviola stole the ball in the right corner, then took a shot breaking for the net. Serb keeper Dragoslav Jevric made a sprawling save. The ball rebounded off the goalpost to his right, with Rodriguez slipping the shot home in the 41st. 

To celebrate, he did a flying somersault. 

With Serbia down to 10 men after Kezman was sent off in the 65th for a harsh tackle on Javier Mascherano, Crespo broke through in the 78th off a pass from Messi. It was the 18-year-old Messi's first action of the tournament and he punctuated it with the final goal in the 88th. 

Tevez scored in the 84th, curling the ball into a wide open net as the Serb defense remained leaky. 

On a clear, sunny day, the game was played under a closed roof at FC Schalke's stadium - a move to give TV a shadow-free field. 
 

네덜란드가 아프리카대륙의 거센 저항을  뿌리치고 2006 독일월드컵 본선 16강 티켓을 거머쥐었다. 

네덜란드는 17일(이하 한국시간) 슈투트가르트의 고트리브 다임러 슈타디온에서 열린 C조 2차전에서 로빈 판 페르시와 뤼트 판 니스텔로이의 연속골에 힘입어  코트디부아르를 2-1로 제압했다. 

이로써 승점 6을 확보한 네덜란드는 아르헨티나(승점 6)와 함께 `죽음의  조'에서 살아남아 16강전을 준비하게 됐다. 

네덜란드는 22일 아르헨티나와 조 1,2위를 다투는 조별리그 마지막 경기를 남겨 놓았다. 같은조의 코트디부아르와 세르비아-몬테네그로는 각각 2패를 기록하며  2라운드 진출에 실패했다. 

네덜란드는 경기 초반 좌우 측면 돌파에 이은 중앙 크로스로 코트디부아르 수비진을 흔들었고 코트디부아르는 오프사이드 트랩을 쓰며 네덜란드의 예봉을 봉쇄했다. 

팽팽하던 균형은 경기 시작 20분이 지나면서 깨졌다. 

전반 23분 네덜란드의 페르시는 중앙 돌파를 하다 아크 바로  앞에서  프리킥을 얻었고 자신이 직접 왼발로 차 코트디부아르의 골망을 흔들었다. 

페르시의 발을 떠난 볼은 골키퍼 장자크 티지에의 머리 위로  날아갔고  엄청난 스피드에 골키퍼는 손을 쓰지 못했다. 

세르비아-몬테네그로전 결승골의 주인공 아르연 로번은 4분 뒤 킬패스로 니스텔로이의 골을 도왔다. 

필립 코퀴의 패스를 받은 로번은 코트디부아르 수비진의 일자수비를 뚫는  패스를 했고 골문 앞으로 달려들어간 니스텔로이가 지체없이 오른발로 차넣었다. 

하지만 코트디부아르는 월드컵 본선에 진출할 만한 자격이 있는 팀이었다. 

전반 38분 네덜란드 진영 페널티지역 오른쪽으로 볼을 치고 가던 바카리 코네가 오른발로 대각선 골포스트를 향해 날린 슛이 깨끗이 골문으로 빨려 들어갔다. 

결코 쉽게 물러서지 않겠다는 의지를 보여준 골이었다. 

기세가 오른 코트디부아르는 후반들면서 중원을 장악하며 주도권을 잡기 시작했고 위기를 느낀 네덜란드는 니스텔로이를 빼고 미드필더 데니 란드자트를  넣는  등 승리를 지키기 위해 안간힘을 썼다. 

코트디부아르는 후반 32분 코너킥 크로스를 디디에 드로그바가 머리로 받아  넣었지만 수비수에 걸리는 등 좋은 기회를 여러차례 맞았지만 고대하던 동점골은 심판의 종료 휘슬이 울릴 때까지 나오지 않았다.  (연합뉴스) 
 
Netherlands 2 : 1 Cote d Ivoire 

[NED] 17. VAN PERSIE Robin (23')9. VAN NISTELROOIJ Ruud (27') 
[CIV] 14. KONE Bakary (38')

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Power and flair. Ruud van Nistelrooy and Robin van Persie used both to show why the Netherlands belongs in the second round of the World Cup. 

Van Nistelrooy and Van Persie scored a goal each in a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast, enough to make sure the Dutch advance along with Argentina from a tough Group C. 

Ivory Coast was eliminated despite a second classy match in its first World Cup, and got a brilliant goal from Bakary Kone. Ivorian star Didier Drogba was left to console his teammates at the end of the game, wondering why he was no match for Van Nistelrooy in the battle of two of the biggest power forwards in the game. 

Under intense pressure to perform after a lackluster opener, Van Nistelrooy came through with a trademark move, waiting on the edge of an offside position, taking a pass and slamming the ball home from 12 yards for the winner, proving again he is the master of the penalty area. 

"We are very happy he made a goal. He made a good impression. It gives us a lot of confidence for the next games," Dutch coach Marco van Basten said. 

And at the World Cup, the Dutch are proving to be the masters of the wings, too. 

After Arjen Robben thrilled the Dutch in the opener against Serbia-Montenegro, it was now up to Van Persie to excel. 

Van Persie set up his free kick goal with a searing run from the right into the center, where he was floored on the edge of the area by Kolo Toure in the 23rd minute. 

Already brimming with confidence, the Arsenal player lined up a drive that clattered into the upper right corner before goalkeeper Jean-Jacques Tizie could even get a hand up in time. 

To cap off a strong performance, he chested a ball off the line in a goalmouth scramble and kept chasing down balls until the final whistle to make the difference in a tight World Cup classic. 

The win also put two-time champion Argentina, which beat Serbia-Montenegro 6-0, into the next round. Ivory Coast and Serbia are eliminated. 

The Dutch players ran up to the tens of thousands of fans in the stands and celebrated like they had just won the world title. 

"You have to realize this is very young team. It is very important to reach the second round," Van Basten said after he emerged from a joyous orange scrum. 

After Van Persie's goal, the Dutch started playing at their best and finished off Ivory Coast with a six-pass move from defense four minutes later. Robben was twice involved, and in the end sent Van Nistelrooy through for the goal. 

It was vindication for Van Nistelrooy, who had come under pressure after a weak opening game. 

After a great opening half hour, the Dutch laid back and allowed Ivory Coast to come back. 

Kone used his pace to open the Dutch defense and score with a cross-angled drive well outside the reach of Netherlands goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar. 

"Against countries like Argentina and the Netherlands, nothing is easy," Ivory Coast coach Henri Michel said. "The only thing we lack is experience." 

Ten minutes before the end, the Dutch fans started singing "Hup Holland Hup," sensing the second round was theirs. 

"I am just relishing the atmosphere," Van Nistelrooy said. 

In a first half that delighted the sellout crowd of 52,000 at the Gottlieb-Daimler Stadium, both sides threatened. 

In an almost symbolic moment at the half-hour mark, Drogba delighted the fans with nifty ball juggling in the box, but when he tried to beat a defender with a fancy overhead move, a second defender, Johnny Heitinga, cleared the ball. 

In a battle between two of the world's greatest power forwards, it was Van Nistelrooy who came out on top. Drogba often lost possession, and on a 2-on-1 late in the first half, failed to find the open Arouna Kone. 

"They didn't leave a lot of space for us, but we had a few chances to score," Drogba said. "And that ball I had to pass to Arouna, I feel if I did it well maybe the result is not the same."