Costa rica is blessed with a coach like jorge luis pinto. They may be the only team surviving from group D. They're leading with 6 points and italy and uruguay second it by 3 points while sadly england wallows with 0 points. While it may be easy to predict their victory their only chance depends on their 21 year old young striker joel campbell who happens to be injured.

Costa Rica Fans wearing egg shaped costume.

Costa rica is currently standing at 34th number in FIFA's world ranking list. They appear 4 times over these yeas in the world cup and their best finish has been till round two back in 1990. Their leading world cup scorers are paylo wan chope and ronald gomez with their star goal keeper keylor navas.

Buffon replaces sirigin. Italy's barzagly is back after recovery from his ankle injury and would be partnered with chiellini. Costa rica seems confident none the less manager pinto's face says it all, "we are confident of being able to repeat our performance."

Teams arrive for their lineup and sing their enchanting anthems with their flags clinged to her chests. Baloelli has all the eyes on him, the pressure is unsurmountable. The cheeriest nation on earth aka cosa rica's national anthem echos the stadium, its upbeat tone brings a smile on chatty costa ricans who seem chilled before their kick off.

Italy wins the toss and the match kicks off. 3 mins into the match and diaz runs to make a shot and he is chased by cabdera while Gonzalez cuts his way and cleans the danger. So now diaz can't even pass the ball? Costa rica plays with the ball for a while finally landing on marchision on Duarte but he walks without getting a yellow card. Bognes goes for a head shot to make a goal and lands it off the bar. Its just not Italy's day.

Costa roans are playing nicely keeping the ball in their possession. It isnt going well for italy and england. Their goals are continuously being dodged by the underdogs who are in their full form.

For 43 minutes the score remains 0-0 with pass and block and wide shots from italy. Till 44 when bryan ruiz rushes to make a goal , chiellini is left shocked. 45+2 min into he match and italy gets a free kick after costa rica's well deserved goal. They deliver poorly, justice rewarded.

Half time and costa ricans celebrate their first goal against italy.

Half time ends, the rest half continues and motta is replaced by cassano. The team looks charged up already. 55 min and prandelli decides another substitue. Cabdreva replaced insigne. No change in costa rican's spirit. Italian still a bit lazy. Cubero replaces tejada. Balotelli gts a yellow card as he tries to make a run but pushes the defender to he ground.

Giancarlo Gonzalez of Costa Rica celebrates with teammates after defeating Italy

And urena of costa rica replaces campbell. Diaz makes a run for the goal he blocks two crosses from italy. Can he make it? No he didn't. Costa rican's want change. They substitute ruiz by brenes. 90mins already and costa ricans look comfortable. They've already won. They get two additional minutes and they pass by easily making costa rica winner of the match.

Cristian Gamboa of Costa Rica (front) celebrates with Michael Barrantes after defeating Italy

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