Live Ticker: Trinidad and Tobago 0 : 0 Sweden

Teams are warming up
Here's a look at the starting lineups in the day's second Group B match:

Trinidad & Tobago:

1-Shaka Hislop; 8-Cyd Gray, 3-Avery John, 6-Dennis Lawrence, 5-Brent Sancho; 12-Collin Samuel, 7-Christopher Birchall, 18-Densill Theobald, 11-Carlos Edwards; 14-Stern John, 19-Dwight Yorke (c)

Coach: Leo Beenhakker

Sweden:

23-Rami Shaaban; 7-Niclas Alexandersson, 3-Olof Mellberg (c), 4-Teddy Lucic, 5-Erik Edman; 21-Christian Wilhelmsson, 6-Tobias Linderoth, 8-Anders Svensson, 9-Fredrik Ljungberg; 11-Henrik Larsson, 10-Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Coach: Lars Lagerback

Referee: Shamsul Maidin (Singapore)

The crowd roars and the players take the field in Dortmund.

The stands are a sea of Swedish yellow and Trinidad and Tobago's red and black as the national anthems begin.

1. min.
There's the whistle and we're off
Trinidad & Tobago win the toss and Sweden start with the ball.

2. min.
Larsson wins first corner
Sweden's Lucic takes the first corner of the game.

3. min.
Chance for Sweden turns to counter
Trinidad & Tobago turn a horrible goalie mistake into a drive forward, but can't get much past the half circle before running out of players to pass to.

4. min.
Bodies litter the field
Players from both teams fall to the pitch outside the T&T penalty area. Sweden get a dangerous free kick.

5. min.
Kick goes wide
Larsson fires his shot past the wall and just wide of the goal. He shot so hard, had the ball gone in, it may have ripped the net.

6. min.
Shaaban has an easier time
The Swede keeper has an easier time with his first save, gently parrying the ball to the ground.

8. min.
Trinidad & Tobago are moving as fast through the midfield as possible with quick touch passes, but the Swedish defense isn't letting them get too close to goal.

10. min.
Ibrahimovic lays the ball back but Ljungberg doesn't expect it coming and can't turn that pass into a shot.

12. min.
Two styles
Whether they have ball or not, Sweden are a vision of cool, controlled soccer, while Trinidad & Tobago appear to be hectic both on and off the ball.

14. min.
Back to the corner
Sweden line up another corner kick with all the T&T players in the penalty area.

15. min.
John gets yellow for mauling Wilhelmsson


17. min.
Hislop doesn't take any chances
Instead of risking a ball loss, the T&T goalie send the ball well into the stands to give his defenders time to mark up.

20. min.
T&T make a drive
A mistake on the Swedish right wing lets John move through the defense before Edman can neutralize the situation.

21. min.
Svensson fouls
Knowing that he didn't have a chance at getting the ball Svensson commits a professional foul against Samuel.

23. min.
If Larsson were just a tiny bit taller
Ibrahimovic waits for Larsson to crash into the middle, but his pass is just beyond the tip of the Swede's toes in one of Sweden's best chances of the match so far.

25. min.
Is a change of colors due?
The way the Swedish players have been falling (and pushed) to the ground, they may want to make grass stain green part of their national colors.

26. min.
Larsson sends his thanks to Ljungberg for a cross in front of goal that he wasn't able to redirect.

28. min.
Sweden take a pounding
T&T are playing a physical match here in Dortmund. About half the time a Swede gets the ball he finishes the play on the ground -- unusually after a fair tackle.

29. min.
Big (missed) chance for Sweden
Alexandersson, with room in front of the goal, turns and shoots while being pulled off balance and sends his shot over goal in a fair battle for the ball.

31. min.
Celebration for first T&T shot
Edwards fires T&T's first shot on goal -- making Shaaban dive to save his team from giving up the first goal.

35. min.
Ibrahimovic send the ball to Larsson in one of Sweden few combinations.

38. min.
Disaster averted
Lawrence slides in the ball's path to keep a certain goal from finding the back of the net.

40. min.
Two heels, one shot
After two back of the heel passes Hislop makes a diving save to block Wilhelmsson's rocket.

41. min.
Mellberg gets a few inches above Avery John to head the ball toward goal, but not high enough to get any real power behind it.

42. min.
Ibrahimovic turns and fires within the blink of an eye, and Hislop is barely up to punching it away from danger.

44. min.
The practical game
It's not the beautiful game of Pele, but Trinidad & Tobago are hanging in against Sweden, even managing to get off the occasional shot.

45+1. min.
Two Minutes of extra time for T&T-Sweden


45+1. min.
Samuel continues to work the right wing and crosses to Stern John, whose header flies wide of goal.

45+2. min.
Half time whistle blows in Dortmund


Gritty defending have kept Trinidad & Tobago in the game against a more skilled Swedish team, and some of the Sweden fans who before the game were talking about by how many goals they would win are now hoping a lapse in the T&T defense will give them the three points they expected before the match.

Back in 10
Stay with DW-WORLD.DE for all the action from the second 45 minutes of the Group B match between Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden.

What does Lagerback have planned?
In just a few moments we'll see if Lars Lagerback has a new plan for the second half, or if T&T are able to pull off an even bigger upset than Ecuador's win against Poland yesterday.

46. min.
The second half is on


46. min.
Avery John is sent off
John slides with both legs into Wilhelmsson and gets his second yellow of the match for a foul he should have been sent off for.

47. min.
Wilhelmsson limps to the sideline for treatment while the free kick is lined up.

47. min.
Sweden gather around the ball


48. min.
Edman fires into the wall, and the ball is cleared away into the Swedish end.

50. min.
Triple team on Zlatan
Ibrahimovic tried to dribble into the Trinidad & Tobago penalty area, but is squeezed away from the ball by three defenders.

52. min.
Left with plenty of time and space, Sweden are taking their time about driving forward and waiting for the perfect opportunity to shoot.

53. min.
First sub of the game for T&T
Samuel makes room for Cornell Glen.

54. min.
Ljungberg tries to slot the ball in but his pass is too hard for Ibrahimovic to collect.

55. min.
It's all Sweden
A man up, Sweden should be able to find a hole in the Trinidad & Tobago defense and put their mark on the scoreboard.

57. min.
Wrestling on the wing
First Theobald trips Wilhelmsson, then grabs him by the chest and tosses the Swede to the ground before wondering why he's called for a foul.



59. min.
Sweden saved by the crossbar
Glen's shot ricochets off the bar after a quick counter by T&T.

60. min.
At the other end
Ibrahimovic gets a chance of his own at the other end, but reserve keeper Hislop stops the point-blank shot, and possibly earns himself a the No. 1 jersey.

62. min.
Svensson out for Marcus Allback


63. min.
Allback doesn't waste any time and lines himself up quickly in the striker position.

64. min.
Ibrahimovic controls the ball in the Trinidad & Tobago corner but is only able to win a throw in after a double-team effort.

65. min.
Ibrahimovic upset about being called on a clear foul against Sancho.

67. min.
Sweden goalie Shaaban gets a touch on the ball, taking the back pass from Mellberg and kicking it right back to the team captain.

67. min.
Whitley comes in for Theobald


68. min.
Linderoth takes a hard fall
Linderoth falls wrong after a header and needs to be carried off the field after wrenching his knee.

69. min.
Huge save from Hislop
T&T's goalie gets between Allback's shot and the goal keeping the score at 0-0 while Allback and Lawrence have a few words and (eventually) a handshake after the play.

72. min.
Mellberg gets between Yorke and a long ball from the defense that could have posed real problems for Sweden.

74. min.
Larsson send the ball to Ljungberg in the most recent of Sweden's pushes forward but the shot goes wide.

74. min.
Yellow for Yorke
Maybe trying to slow the game even more, Yorke stands on the ball, preventing a Sweden free kick and is booked for it.

76. min.
Hislop gets a warning
The ref jogs over to the T&T goalie to tell him not to take his pretty time with the goal kicks anymore.

77. min.
Allback shoots down the middle of the goal and right into Hislop's waiting arms.

78. min.
Pressure mounts
With 12 minutes left Sweden will need to score soon if they don't want to face the wrath of a nation.

79. min.
Double change for Sweden
Mattias Jonson and Kim Kallstrom are in for Wilhelmsson and Linderoth.

80. min.
Allback gets in point-blank with Hislop and kicks the ball right into the keeper who seems to be able to block everything that comes his way.

80. min.
T&T fans celebrate first corner
No one expected a tie going into the final 10 minutes of the game and the Trinidad & Tobago fans are making their approval loudly heard.

81. min.
Pass goes clear past goal
Allback isn't able to get a foot on a cross in front of the empty net in another of Sweden's missed goal chances.

83. min.
Sweden aren't able to make much of another corner and the following cross into the goal box which is cleared for another corner.

85. min.
Fast and furious
Sweden's opportunities in front of the Trinidad & Tobago goal are piling up, but no one in yellow is able to get the deciding foot on the ball.

86. min.
After playing the ball twice from his back, Larsson is slow getting up. But it's Lawrence's delayed trip to his feet that has Swedish fans upset for slowing play.

88. min.
Ibrahimovic sends a rocket of a shot just over the corner.

90. min.
Larsson gets yellow
A frustrated Larsson slides with both legs and the ref takes his name for the books.

90. min.
Three extra minutes in Dortmund


92. min.
Longest throw-in of the game goes to T&T as a method of wasting time. The crowd's whistles grow louder and T&T's players can nearly taste the draw.

90+3. min.
It's a tie between Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden


90+3. min.
Eruptions everywhere
Screams of joy have erupted from the throats of Trinidad & Tobago fans, while it's tears that flowing down the yellow and blue makeup of Sweden's fans.

In a match that tested the strength of Sweden's shin guards, the Trinidad & Tobago defense managed to get a hand, foot, head or chest between every shot Sweden took on goal with plenty of thanks going to backup goalie Shaka Hislop -- who likely earned a starting spot in T&T's next match.