Chile v Spain/ Honduras v Switzerland

[Steel Icarus]

spains world cup this one is not - yoda told me - but they look hungry tonight - they ought to be hungry cos they might be going home in a crap minibus (or so the song goes)

Is that similar to the song about the cosmic ambience?

 

[goldenecitrone]

Class. Beautiful stuff from Spain.

 

[agricola]

I would go gay for Villa if he keeps this up.

 

[belboid]

bloody stupid goalie. well taken tho

 

[goldenecitrone]

I really want Spain to win, then all four countries I've lived in will be in the last 16. Slovakia and Germany are already through.

 

[Dr. Furface]

How fucking cool was that?!

He really is the boy.

 

[Steel Icarus]

That 30 million Barca paid for him is looking like a bargain, relatively speaking.

 

[goldenecitrone]

This is a bit like watching England trying to hold onto a one goal lead.

Apart from the fact Spain can keep scoring goals.

 

[agricola]

Thats fucking ace. Chile down to 10 men as well.

 

[George350r]

2-Nil

and Chile is down to 10..

Awesome

 

[agricola]

Thats a very harsh red card.

 

[Madusa]

rofl ''Ponce''

 

[belboid]

beautiful fucking goal. and the chileans are fucking themselves completely

 

[AKA pseudonym]

looks like spain going through ?
will be some comeback....

 

[Dr. Furface]

Good to have Iniesta back eh?

 

[AKA pseudonym]

Thats a very harsh red card.

second yellow...

 

[goldenecitrone]

Spain can turn it on now. Can they beat Portugal's 7-0?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Thats a very harsh red card.

It did seem to be - will be interesting to see the replay

 

[agricola]

second yellow...

even so, he didnt deliberately trip Torres - though wasnt it him who lunged at Iniesta a while back?

 

[AKA pseudonym]

even so, he didnt deliberately trip Torres - though wasnt it him who lunged at Iniesta a while back?

looking at the replays i would say non-deliberate but he has been playing 'full on', as you mention, so the ref is giving no benefit of doubt i think...

 

[agricola]

This half does make you wonder whether del Bosque has deliberately planned this against Chile - switching from their normal possession football to the counter-attacking play we have seen so far tonight.

With Villa, Torres, Xavi and Iniesta it certainly works as a Plan B, they have been outstanding.

 

[belboid]

Chile'l be bloody lucky to finish with eight men at this rate, fookin eejits

 

[butchersapron]

Still, at least Somerset tonked Sussex.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Bugger. Chile and that Mexican ref were never going to be a good mix. I hate it when men are sent off first half. Ruins the game.

 

[belboid]

it's entirely Chile's fault tho

 

[George350r]

For those wondering the Honduras-Switzerland game is 0-0

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Vamos, Honduras.

 

[agricola]

it's entirely Chile's fault tho

yep, they should be down to nine men.

 

[Diamond]

Well that's buggered that up.

Until Villa got that lucky yet well taken goal, Chile were tearing strips of Spain.

I really hope the Chilean style is the future.

There's a lot going for it in terms of pace and dynamism and in a way it's only going to become more likely as players get even fitter and faster but I somehow doubt it.

You'd never get English players to play in that manner anyway.

 

[ericjarvis]

Bugger. Chile and that Mexican ref were never going to be a good mix. I hate it when men are sent off first half. Ruins the game.

Trouble is that a lot of people have a script in their head before the game starts, and they interpret everything they see in terms of it rather than for what it is. Which doesn't matter when it's the fans, not so much when it's commentators and pundits, but really fucks it up when it's the ref. That wasn't even a foul by Estrada, just Torres running across the front of him, and I know for certain that if it had been Pujol on Alexis Sanchez it wouldn't have been given as a free kick.