Given another opportunity, Wondolowski tucked a well-placed shot inside the right post.

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Anderson saw his well-placed curling shot from wide on the right tipped away for a corner after Fletcher's perfect pass.

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Stapleton tracked his candidate and, with a well-placed rifle shot behind its shoulder, dropped it from just over a hundred meters away.

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Matt Reynold's poked in the opener from close range and a rocket shot from Konstantin Kalmikov was too strong for the Giants netminder Stevie Lyle but before the first interval Colin Shields reduced the arrears with a well-placed slap shot.

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With the Americans committed to attack, Algeria began to threaten on the break and Karim Ziani flashed a low shot wide when well-placed inside the box.

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The visitors had the game's first opening when Bobby Zamora found space on the left and, ignoring well-placed team-mates to his right, curled a shot well wide of the post.

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The closest either of Wolfsburg's main strike duo came to scoring was very late on but Schwarzer was equal to Dzeko's volley from a corner and then Hangeland was well-placed to clear off the line when Grafite followed up a shot from his partner that had hit the post.

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Plymouth replied with Jamie Mackie shooting wide when well-placed but still Wolves pressed forward and Keogh could not quite reach a cross-shot from Kightly.

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Loitering just outside the penalty area, the Inter Milan star lashed a powerful right-foot shot towards goal that keeper Eiji Kawashima could only deflect into the net when he was well placed to make an effective save.

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