World Cup - Day 19 - Europeans find Favor but barely beat the 'Gerias

In the third day of the knock-out stage, France and Germany were both favored in their matches. How did the Europeans fare?

France (2) - Nigeria (0)

France beat Nigeria, but the match was closer than the final score implies. Les Bleus now head to the quarter-finals, where they'll face Germany.

Nigeria proved worthy, but I'm not sorry to see them exit the tourney. To my mind, they should have lost their match with Bosnia-Herzegovina and been bounced prior to the Round of 16.

Germany (2) - Algeria (1)

 After 90 minutes of regulation play, the Germans finally broke open the game early in the first overtime (the third OT game in six matches, and the first not to end in penalties).

They added an insurance goal as the second OT wound down.

Good thing, because they needed the insurance when Algeria scored in stoppage time.

The two European powers will face off in the quarter-finals. The winner will face the survivor of the Brazil-Columbia quarter-final.