The signing of Stefano Okaka is a big boost for Fulham after losing Striker Bobby Zamora for up to eight weeks through injury. Zamora dislocated his shoulder in Fulham’s Premier League clash against Stoke and Okaka is expected to provide cover in his absence.

The Italy under-20 international Okaka rejected offers from Bari and Chievo to sign for Fulham and Roma’s sporting director Daniele Prade said, “He is 20 and the Premier League is the right tournament for him to prove his characteristics and potential.(Roy) Hodgson has already stated his full confidence in the player, the only thing missing is Stefano’s signature.”

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Two of the Togo players were shot and hurt while the teams coach driver was killed. Hull City have players Daniel Cousin and Seyi Olofinjana out there and there are more than 30 other Premier League stars like Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Man City’s Adebayor at the tournament.

Phil Brown told The Sun: “I have two players on duty and I want them home.”

“Darren Ferguson did a fantastic job at Peterborough so he’s obviously in the frame,” said Shaw a week ago.

“We would be foolish not to consider him but there are several quality candidates out there.”

Fernando Torres, who had given Liverpool an early lead against Chelsea in the midweek Champions League match, produced another goal of the highest quality as Liverpool went ahead in the fifth minute.

Torres latched on to a long ball from stand in Liverpool skipper Jamie Carragher, and produced an incredible goal that reminded us why he is one of the best strikers in the Premier League currently.

Dirk Kuyt headed straight at Paul Robinson, and Torres shot over with his left foot as Liverpool missed two chances to go ahead. However the Reds did go ahead when Torres cleverly headed in Xabi Alonso’s free kick.

Blackburn hardly produced an attacking threat of any note, and were very poor. They made a mistake by giving Daniel Agger all the time in the world to shoot, and the Danish defender fired home from 35 yards to make it 3-0 in the 83rd minute.

There was still time for a fourth however. Jamie Carragher’s ball into the box was headed by substitute Lucas into the path of David Ngog, who headed in one of the simplest goals he would ever get.

With Manchester United beating Sunderland later, status quo remains though. ( Where on earth is Macheda getting all this luck from eh?)

Hesselink joined Gordon Strachan’s side in 2006 from PSV Eindhoven for £3.4m, and is out of contract at the end of this season.

Hesselink ended a recent goal scoring drought by finding the back of the net against both Hamilton Academical and Falkirk, and Celtic boss Strachan has said that he would like to have the Dutchman in his side next season.

Christian Gentner gave Wolfsburg the lead before half time, only to see it cancelled the very next minute by Luca Toni. Things were fine till the hour mark, and then Wolfsburg fired four goals in the next fifteen minutes as Bayern were torn apart. Dzeko scored twice, in the 63rd and 65th minutes, and his striking partner Grafite also got into the act with a brace. Grafite’s second goal was exceptionally good- he was the only Wolfsburg player amongst a sea of Bayern ones, and yet managed to score.

Some serious soul searching for Bayern to do ahead of their midweek Champions League clash against mighty Barcelona.

Despite battering the Fulham goal time and again, Liverpool failed to find the back of the net till substitute Benayoun hit the back of the net in what will go down as a season defining moment. Fulham, who stunned Manchester United in their last game, seemed to have done enough to come away with a point, but Liverpool produced another of those late goals that seem to have become a regularity with the club.

Manchester City were poor as they went down 2-0 to Arsenal, while Chelsea ensured that Alan Shearer did not have a happy start to his Magpies managerial career as they ran out 2-0 winners at St.James Park. Middlesbrough’s relegation woes continued as they were flattened 4-1 by Bolton Wanderers, with boss Gareth Southgate tearing his hair out in despair on the sidelines as his side defended like amateurs.

Stoke beat West Brom 2-0 as they picked up three valuable points, and West Ham’s good run of form continued as they beat Sunderland by the same number of goals.

With Cole out, Hammers boss Gianfranco Zola now has to do without both him and Dean Ashton. Midfielders Valon Behrami and Jack Collison are also on the long term injury list.

David Di Michele and Diego Tristan are the only front line strikers left at Upton Park currently. The loan window has also been shut, which means Zola cannot bring in somebody on a temporary basis.

Morocco 1-2 Gabon (Mounir El Hamdaoui / Pierre Aubameyang, Roguy Meye)
Togo 1-0 Cameroon ( Emmanuel Adebayor)

Two shocks in there, especially the latter. You don’t see the Indomitable Lions lose often in Africa. Togo and Gabon must be sailing on cloud nine.

Group 2:-

Kenya 1-2 Tunisia (Dennis Oliech / Ammar El Jamal ,Issam Jemaa )
Mozambique 0-0 Nigeria

Tunisia lead Group 2 after their win over Kenya in Nairobi, while little Mozambique held giants Nigeria to a draw in Maputo.

Group 3:-

Rwanda 0-0 Algeria
Egypt 1-1 Zambia ( Zaki/Kasonde)

The only Group where both matches ended in draws.

Group 4:-

Ghana 1-0 Benin ( Nagoe)
Sudan 1-1 Mali ( El Tahir/ Frederic Kanoute)

An early goal from Prince Nagoe was enough for Ghana to beat Benin in Kumasi. Mali and Sudan played out a 1-1 draw in Omdurman.

Group 5:-

Ivory Coast 5-0 Malawi ( Romaric, Drogba*2, Kone, Kalou)
Burkina Faso 4-2 Guinea ( Kere, A.Traore, Dagano*2/ Feindouno, Zayatte)

Ivory Coast showed their strength as they thrashed Malawi 5-0 in Abidjan, with skipper Didier Drogba scoring a brace. The win was marred by a wall collapse in the stadium that left nineteen men dead and many more injured.

Burkina Faso were not expected to win against Guinea- a great result for them in there.

Diego Maradona’s Argentina crushed Venezuela 4-0, with Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, Maxi Rodriguez and Kun Aguero all getting on the scoresheet.

However arch rivals Brazil could only draw against Ecuador. Christian Noboa equalised for Ecuador a minute from time after Julio Baptista had given Brazil a 72nd minute lead.

Group leaders Paraguay were beaten 2-0 by Uruguay in Montevideo. The two Diego’s- Forlan and the lesser known Lugano, scored for Uruguay. The result keeps Uruguay within striking distance of an automatic qualification spot.

Chile’s impressive performances continued when they beat Peru 3-1 in Lima. An early Alexis Sanchez strike, along with a penalty from former Colo Colo star Humberto Suazo saw Chile go 2-0 ahead. Johan Fano pulled one back for Peru only for Matias Fernandez to restore Chile’s two goal advantage in the 70th minute.

Colombia kept their hopes of qualification alive, but in the process also dealt a blow to Bolivia’s hopes of playing in South Africa. The Colombians won 2-0, with Macnelly Torres and Walson Renteria scoring.

Final South American Qualifying results

Argentina 4-0 Venezuela
Ecuador 1-1 Brazil
Uruguay 2-0 Paraguay
Peru 1-3 Chile
Colombia 2-0 Bolivia