German midfielder Torsten Frings has been suspended for the World Cup semi-final against Italy on Tuesday, a FIFA spokesman said.

FIFA launched an investigation after television executives from Italy said they had found evidence that Frings threw a punch at Argentina forward Julio Ricardo Cruz in the fracas that followed Germany's quarter-final shoot-out win last Friday.

England fans hoped they would beat Portugal and Brazil fans expected to beat France but both sets of supporters are disappointed tonight.

England never really created chances, much like their previous games but managed to survive to penalties. Brazil were taught how to play Brazilian football by the French. The football tonight was nice to watch.

Brazil, who will from today be known as the team who don't know how to lose, not so comfortably brushed aside a Ghana in the early game today three nil.

Brazil will play France who beat one of my early tournament favourites, Spain three one, on Saturday

It wasn't the best game of the World Cup but neither team can be faulted for effort. Both teams hit the wood-work and both teams went close but it came down to penalties and one team was always going to be unlucky.

Both teams missed the first and Switzerland went on to miss them all. Ukraine went through to the quarter finals 3-0 after taking four penalties.

If you're an Australian you're going to be feeling gutted at the moment so we'll keep this short and sweet. Italy are through to the quarter finals thanks to another poor referring decision.

Italy were reduced to 10 men after 50 minutes and will consider themselves lucky to have won but they did put the work in.