A final requires just 2 teams
A semifinal requires 4 teams (the 2 wining trams make it to the final)
A quarter final must deliver 4 teams to compete in the semi final and thus there need to be 8 teams competing - no more, no less.
This is true for ALL "finals" of two team sports, no matter how large the competition.
There are 4 teams left in the semi finals. That would make for 2 matches. The winners would play a 1 match final.
Three, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United.
Semi-Finals.
32 in the group stage of 8 groups with 2 going through to the last 16 knockout followed by the quarter finals, semi-finals and final.
Italy France Germany Portugal
We are currently on the semi-finals not finals. The teams playing are: Uruguay X Netherlands (July 6); and Germany X Spain (July 7)
Barcelona have been recently getting beat in the semi finals of the champions league because over the years teams have mastered there technique.
How I heard,in 2010 world cup ,there will be 32 teams,in 8 groups of 4.It means 4 quarter finals games,2 semi-finals and 1 final.
The Netherlands have been in the semi-finals twice, once in 1974, and the other time in 1978.
Ghana has never been in the FIFA World Cup semi-finals.
Germany and the US are still in, but Mexico is out
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