Llorente late show spares Spanish blushes

29 May 2010 22:19

Substitute Fernando Llorente rescued Spain with an injury-time winner as they defeated Saudi Arabia 3-2 in their World Cup warm-up match at Innsbruck.

Osama Hawsawi gave Saudi Arabia a shock lead and although David Villa and Xabi Alonso scored to turn things around, Mohammed Al-Sahlawi's 74th-minute goal appeared to have denied the European champions.

However, Athletic Bilbao striker Llorente netted a minute into time added on to save the blushes of Vicente Del Bosque and his team - tipped by many to challenge strongly for glory in South Africa.

Germany put in a convincing performance in their match against Hungary, winning 3-0 in Budapest.

Lukas Podolski put Joachim Low's men ahead with a penalty in the fourth minute and only a string of saves from Gabor Kiraly prevented them from leading by a greater margin at the break.

Goals from Mario Gomez and Cacau in the second half gave the result a more realistic feel as a dominant Germany came away with a morale-boosting win.

The United States came from behind to claim victory over Turkey in their final match before heading to South Africa.

Arda Turan opened the scoring after 27 minutes for the visitors in front of more than 55,000 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. But Jozy Altidore netted just before the hour mark to level things up and Clint Dempsey struck the winner 15 minutes from time.

Shane Smeltz scored the only goal of the game as New Zealand recorded a surprise 1-0 victory over Serbia in Klagenfurt.

Cameroon played out a 1-1 draw with Slovakia at the same venue, with Eyong Enoh cancelling out Kamil Kopunek's fifth-minute opener for the European side.

Source: PA