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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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World Cup Daily: David Villa strikes to send Spain past Portugal

So, the quarter-finals line-up is complete after Spain and Paraguay got through tricky games against Portugal and Japan, and on your brand-spanking new World Cup Daily podcast, James Richardson, Barry Glendenning and Gregg Roughley are joined by Sid Lowe from Madrid to look back on the best of the action.

Sean Ingle had the misfortune to be in Pretoria for the Japan-Paraguay game. He tells us about that, whilst back in the studio, we pause to look back on some of the highlights from the action on and off the pitch in South Africa.

We're taking a Fifa-sanctioned rest day tomorrow, so we'll see you on Thursday with a preview of the first of the quarter-finals: Uruguay-Ghana and Holland-Brazil.

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