The last Semi-final spot goes to South Korea in the Asian Cup while domestic action was heavy today.

South Korea were able to edge out Iran 1-0 in their Quarter-finals match of the Asian Cup in Qatar to book their place in the Semi-finals against Japan, I believe.  Yoon Bit-Garam  was the South Korean side's hero as he scored in extra time to stop the game from going to penalties. The South Koreans were able to keep a very good pace to the game, something which off-set their Iranian opponents. Many of the South Korean players had chances including Park Ji-Sung, Ki Sung-Yueng, and Cha Du-Ri but when it counted, Yoon Bit-Garam converted his. Iran's big chance was actually when Mohammad Reza Khalatbari's free-kick was almost headed into South Korea's net by Ji Dong-Won. Luckily for the Koreans, keeper Jung Sung-Ryong got it away. Into the domestic action now where, in Scotland, the scorelines were very close all around. Celtic defeated Aberdeen 1-0 thanks to a strike from Anthony Stokes in the 27th while Rangers lost at Hearts by the same scoreline compliments of Ryan Stevenson in the 77th minute. Moving away from the Old Firm in Scotland, Inverness could only draw at home against Hamilton as Dani Sanchez opened the scoring for Inverness in the 18th while Mickael Antoine-Curier equalised in the first minute of stoppage time in the first half to make it 1-1. The game ended that way; just as St. Johnstone and St. Mirren finished 0-0. Finally, Motherwell scored twice as they beat Hibernian 2-0 with Jamie Murphy and Steve Saunders scoring the two goals within five minutes. South of the border in England now, where Arsenal took Wigan apart 3-0 with a hat-trick from Robin van Persie scoring the Gunners' only goals. No matter, a win is a win! The same can be said of Aston Villa who edged Manchester City 1-0 thanks to a strike from Darren Bent quite early in the match. Sunderland went to Blackpool and won 2-1 thanks to two goals from Kieran Richardson in the first half before Charlie Adam brought Blackpool back one from the penalty spot. Everton and West Ham ended up tying 2-2 as Jonathan Spector scored the only goal of the first half, for West Ham, before Diniyar Bilyaletdinov equalised for Everton. West Ham were then put back into the lead thanks to an effort by Frederic Piquionne who was then sent off in the next minute. Marouane Fellani then tied the game up again after he struck in the first minute of stoppage time in the second half to finish the match 2-2. Fulham defeated Stoke 2-0 thanks to two strikes from Clint Dempsey in either half including one from the penalty spot. Manchester United then faced Birmingham, and dominated. A hat-trick from Berbatov was just the beginning as Nani and Giggs also scored as United trounced the lower table side. Liverpool did some of their own beating up, giving it to Wolves 3-0. Fernando Torres and Raul Meireles were the scorers and Kenny Dalglish finally gets things somewhat underway. Last but not least, Newcastle drew with Tottenham, even scoring first! Fabricio Coloccini was the man for Newcastle while Aaron Lennon equalised at the death to make it 1-1. Crossing the Channel into France, Lens defeated Caen today, 2-0, thanks to Adil Hermach and Toifilou Maoulida. Over in Germany, Kaiserslautern were spanked by Bayern 5-1 as Mario Gomez scored three, Arjen Robben opened the scoring, and Thomas Muller closed it. Jan Moravek gave the Red Devils a little credibility when he scored but Kaiserslautern were never going to win in Bavaria. Dortmund were actually held to a draw against Stuttgart as Pavel Pogrebnyak equalised Mario Gotze's goal with only a few more minutes left. Freiburg and Nurnberg drew 1-1 when Johannes Flum and Julian Schieber scored for their respective sides. Raul was Schalke's man as he beat Hannover for them. His goal was the only one that separated the two sides when the final whistle blew. Koln defeated Bremen 3-0 with two goals coming from Lukas Podolski and another from Adam Matuschyk. Finally, Wolfsburg beat Mainz 1-0 as Simon Kjaer scored the game's only goal. I'll complete this update later.