World Cup 2010: The best of day seven in pictures

Thierry Henry - crooked goal-getter and scourge of the Irish - is among the shivering substitutes at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane as France face Mexico in a chilly Group A fixture. It must be Karma
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On the field, Florent Malouda is brought to ground by Hector Moreno on the edge of the box
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Giovani dos Santos fends off Patrice Evra Photograph: Christof Koepsel/guardian.co.uk

Here's the French midfielder Franck Ribéry - a Champions League loser with Bayern Munich - gawping at something
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And here he is scampering about on the floor
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Just after the hour mark, Javier Hernández breaks from an onside position and skips past the goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to score the opening goal of the match for Mexico
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Up go the sombreros and off runs Hernández
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France have been dreadful this evening; dreadful this tournament, in fact. And Eric Abidal's lunge on Pablo Barrera has worsened matters as Mexico now have a penalty. The substitute (and El Tri legend) Cuauhtémoc Blanco smashes it home after a marathon run-up
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Dos Santos leaps onto Blanco as the Mexicans go wild. And now let's have a quick look at Henry's face ...
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Sacre Dieu! The game ends 2-0 and France are on the cusp of a group stage exit for the second time in three World Cups. Even a win against South Africa won't necessarily suffice. If Mexico and Uruguay play out a draw (and well they might) France will be heading home
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In the afternoon kick-off, the Greeks were in bellicose mood before their match with Nigeria
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Nigeria's Kalu Uchi gives the Africans the lead with an inswinging free-kick which drifts through the penalty box unaffected but bamboozles the keeper
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Greece's Sokratis Papastathopoulos gets a face full of the green stuff. Top marks for the shoulder freeze, Papa'
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Sani Kaita drops to his knees after earning the most condign red card of the tournament ... If you rake your studs down an opponents leg, then, to be fair, your chances of staying on the field are rather slim
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Dimitrios Salpingidis has a pop at goal. Given Greece's track record (they've never scored a World Cup goal) it shouldn't cause too much of a problem. Sure enough the shot is heading wide, before taking an almighty deflection and spooning into the net!
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And 19 minutes from time, Vassilis Torosidis scores another for Greece to give them a 2-1 lead. And so it finishes.
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In the 12.30 kick-off ... a pensive Diego Maradona looks lost in his thoughts ahead of Argentina's second match against South Korea. His side need a more convincing result than they had against Nigeria on Saturday if they are to live up to the hype and hope of their fans
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Carlos Tevez surges forward for the Argentines, who take a fortuitous lead in the 16th minute when Park Chu-Young accidentally turns a free-kick into his own goal
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In an scene reminiscent of Steve Powell's iconic picture of Maradona playing against Belgium in 1982, Lionel Messi - the diminutive World Player of the Year, has six players around him but still manages to get a shot away, though it just drifts wide of the South Korean goal. Messi's fellow striker Gonzalo Higuain has a bit less attention from the Koreans and therefore a bit more luck in front of goal - he scores Argentina's second in the 32nd minute
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Korea pull a goal back seconds before half-time and produce a spirited response to Argentina's numerous attacks in the second half. But Higuain settles the Argentine nerves when he gets his second goal in the 77th minute. It's an easy tap in after Sergio Aguero's rasping shot comes back off the post following a sweet one-two with Messi
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The South Korean's aren't taking any chances when Messi has the ball. Here he is marshalled by Young-Pyo Lee, Beom Seok Oh and Ji-Sung Park. Nonetheless, he still manages to clip a ball into the danger area to Agüero ... Higuain ultimately nods home Aguero's cross to make it 4-1 and complete his hat-trick. He is the first representative of the Albiceleste to notch a hat-trick in the World Cup finals since Gabriel Batistuta's against Jamaica in 1998
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