Today's results are live from The Closed Top Moria Stadium, nicknamed, Ring of Fire. All matches are 3:00pm DST (Dwarwen Standard Time)
Old Forest 2-0 Rohan
It looks like The Master had something to cheer about at the end of the tournament. His team managed to make their sending off a bit more bearable by beating Rohan 2-0. Both goals were scored by The Master and Rohan were unable to make a comeback against this determined team. Master scored the first one of an easy shot where he was alone with the keeper and the next one came in the 90th minute where Rohan ceded a penalty. The crowd could be heard chanting, "Miss! Miss! Miss!" but Master kept his cool and knocked in his second goal. After the match he recieved a standing ovation but this win was as meaningless as it was a loss for Rohan.
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Shire 1-0 Vinyamar
It seemed that Pippin had started taking all the hype to his head. He missed an awful lot of chances in this match but in the end a talk-through by Gandalf was enough to get him back on track. Pippin scored the winner for the Shire in the 57th minute and after that they took it easy, knowing they had already qualified. The Hobbits had a huge party under the Party Tree after the match to celebrate Shire's unbeaten run so far.
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Barrow-Downs 4-1 Valimar
The Barrow-Downs finally decided to kick into top gear and burn down the other team. They won a massive victory over Valimar and have surely scilenced all their critics. It was Saucepanman who opened scoring with a well placed header and this was followed up moments later by a low powered strike from Sleepy Ranger that took Barrow-Downs to 2-0. After that a Phantom corner was deflected in by Saucepanman to lift up Barrow-Downs to 3-0 and an 81st minute penalty, and red card for Yavanna, ended with another one in the back of the net, this time by Sleepy. The Barrow-Downs team was cheered on through the whole match by the Forum members and Valimar scored their only goal in the 47th minute when Barrow-Wight was busy working up the crowd and telling off a kid for littering. He said something along the lines of, "Stop spamming noob."
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Nargothrond 3-1 Erebor
Erebor opened scoring when Thorin sunk a powerful volley into the net. They led the game for the entire first half with both teams playing dangerously well. It was in the 55th minute that Turin charged through the entire Erebor defense and blasted one past Smaug to equalize. The two teams then battled in this deadlocked till injury time where Turin found himself in scoring distance again. He did what hes best at and scored again to break the deadlock. He scored again off a corner, which he headed in to complete his hat-trick and win Nargothrond the match. The crowd could not be restrained and they rushed onto the field to celebrate with the team.
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Dale 0-1
Numenor
The returning Tar-Enclime sunk in an early goal to win the match for Numenor. Dale were never in the competition and Numenor have just booked their spot in the Quarter-Finals. It will be interesting to see which team will qualify with them.
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Goblin-Town 0-3
Isengard
Ugluk spat out goals as Isengard crushed Goblin-Town, however its too late to actually mean anything for them. Ugluk scored a hat-trick and secured the win in the first half. In the second half Goblin-Town went nuts and kicked the ball all over, eventually Boromir88 got fed up and red carded Goblin-Town's forward. Not even a single Isengard supporter came to watch this match and the stadium was packed with orcs and wargs that were in favor of the losing side.
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Lothlorien 1-0 Alqualondë
Lorien did the unexpected and won this match thanks to a goal by Haldir. The determined young mid-fielder managed to score of a low kept and well powered shot to win Lorien the match in the closing moments. Despite their win the only way Lorien can qualify is if Crickhollow lose their match by 3 goals. There is a rather strong possibility of that but we shall see how it goes tomorrow.
Hope you enjoyed today. Tomorrow will be the last of the Group Stages and I'd like everyone who has been following the World Cup to leave a message on what they thought of the Group Stages, the teams, the results and the players or anything else you'd like. I'd really appreciate it if people left their thoughts. Also, Phantom, I was wondering if you'd like to give us a summary of what you think will happen in the Knockout stages. Of course after tomorrows matches unless you're certain you know who will qualify. 