Hassan Yebda received the first booking in the Algeria v USA fixture and because he'd already received a yellow card earlier in the tournament, he cannot be in Algeria's next game (provided that the game is taking place within the World Cup). Now remember that if you get booked in any two of your team's first five matches, you can't play in your team's next match if that match is taking place within the current World Cup.
However, Yebda wasn't the only thing going down in the game: the deafening vuvuzelas were in on the action and several goal attempts by the USA were disallowed because the scorer was offside. In the second half, Jozy Altidore, Anther Yahia, Medhi Lacen, and Damarcus Beasley also got booked. Anther Yahia subsequently got red-carded in injury time. The score was 1-0 to USA.
Meanwhile, England were taking on Slovenia in the 38th soccer match I've seen in two weeks. England scored the only goal of the match at the hands of Jermain Defoe. Four players were yellow-carded.
Later, Ghana and Germany started their match with a foul-less 17 minutes. However, there was no misconduct until Andre Ayew was booked in the 40th minute. Thomas Muller was also cautioned a few minutes later. The only goal came from Mesot Oezil who scored for Germany in the 62nd minute.
While Oezil was bringing Germany to victory against Ghana, Australia and Serbia took to the field. The card train arrived faster this time: after 17 minutes of play, Aleksandar Lukovic became the first to receive a yellow card, and four more players were booked in the second half. Tim Cahill, back from a suspension for a straight red card in the match against Germany, scored minutes after Oezil scored his goal and Brett Holman scored a few minutes later. Marko Pantelic scored for Serbia a few minutes after that but it wasn't enough as Australia won 2-1.
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