New Zealand's All Whites scraped through to the OFC Nations Cup Final on June 8, a goalkeeping blunder handing them a far from deserved 1-0 win over New Caledonia at Port Moresby's Sir John Guise Stadium. 'Les Cagous' were by far the better team throughout proceedings, both playing into and with the wind. But they let themselves down in the attacking third, all too often firing past the posts when chances presented themselves. Georges Bearune went closest in the first half in this regard with a lovely angled thirty-yarder, while Cesar Zeoula was desperately close with a fifteen yard volley in the 66th minute, before Jean-Philippe Saiko's splendid solo run culminated in him shooting narrowly past the post two minutes later. Occasionally they did get shots on target. Stefan Marinovic kept out long-range efforts from Saiko and Roy Kayara in the first half, then blocked superbly with his legs to deny Jefferson Dahite in the 56th minute, before pulling off a fine reflex save to deny substitute Joseph Athale's close-range header fourteen minutes later. Marinovic's opposite number, the diminutive Jelen Ixoee, somehow kept out a gilt-edged Luka Prelevic effort from six yards just 85 seconds into the contest, then turned a Michael Boxall cross-shot to safety halfway through the first half, before saving at the feet of the rampaging Michael McGlinchey just shy of the hour mark. He also denied Chris Wood and Costa Barbarouses before the final whistle, but was guilty of an absolute howler in the 49th minute which decided the duel, fumbling Wood's long-range free-kick into the net to afford an awful All Whites performance a reward it didn't merit. Their opponents in Saturday's 6pm NZ time final will be host nation Papua New Guinea, who defeated the Solomon Islands 2-1 in the second semi-final. All Whites:     Marinovic; Tzimpoulos (booked, 69), Adams, Brotherton; Boxall, Prelevic (booked, 32) (Patterson, 46), Tuiloma (Barbarouses, 71), McGlinchey, Colvey (booked, 44); Fallon (Hudson-Wihongi, 89), Wood New Caledonia:     Jelen Ixoee; Judikael Ixoee (Athale, 61), L. Wakanumune, E. Bearune, G. Bearune; Zeoula, Kayara (Cexome, 90), J. Wakanumune, Dahite (Meindu, 86); Saiko, Kai Referee:     Kader Zitouni (Tahiti)