Brazil 2 - 0 Australia

Brazil never looked like world champions in the match. The Australians can be proud of themselves, they created chances of their own and were capable of winning the match and gave Brazil more anxious moments than Brazil would have liked. Credits to them for making Brazil work hard to win the match. The Brazilians looked better in the second half only because Australia were pushing for the equaliser and leaving space behind for the Brazilians to exploit.

Australia look a good bet to qualify for the second round, they won't have it easy against Croatia especially when Croatia themselves have a chance to advance, but the advantage is with Australia.

Brazil should be worried with their performance in the World Cup so far. I for one, am quite happy with Brazil's poor performance (by their standards) as I think it would be quite boring if Brazil were to win the World Cup again. It looks as if it's the end of the road for Ronaldo.