Boring day at the World Cup
Today’s first game was Portugal v. North Korea. The rain was pouring down in Cape Town today. It took Portugal nearly thirty minutes to break through the North Korean defense and score. It was 1-0 at the half, but Portugal completely crushed the North Koreans in the second half with goals in the 53rd, 56th, 60th, 81st, 87th and 89th minutes. Final score Portugal 7, North Korea 0. With the loss, North Korea has been eliminated from the World Cup.
Ronaldo’s goal was quite amusing and here it is to put a smile on your face.
Next up was Chile v. Switzerland. The referee is again going to be a deciding factor in the game a yellow cards came out. A ridiculous yellow for N’Kufo, and ridiculous red for Behrami. The ref showed 4 yellow and 1 red card in less than half an hour. The score remained 0-0 at the half.
The Swiss set a record of not allowing a goal in 550 minutes of World Cup play, but Mark Gonzalez scored for Chile in the 75th minute. That’s how it would end, with Chile winning the match 1-0.
While the game was good, it was marred by some dodgy refereeing and a dive by Jorge Valdivia, which resulted in him getting a yellow card. A totally legitimate yellow card for Valdivia. The ref also handed out a red card to Valon Behrami in the 31st minute , which was completely unjustified.
The last match of the day was Spain v. Honduras. David Villa scored in the 17th and 51st minutes for Spain. Spain wins 2-0. Not a very exciting match and I just wasn’t in to watching any of the matches today.
Today was also the last day of three matches per day and getting up at 5am to watch the matches. There are four matches per day for the rest of the week, but two are played at the same time. I’ll probably have them both going at the same time, but we’ll see. I’m starting to get tired of watching so much football at once.
