man, some major stars are having a hard time finding the back of the net in this first week.


i'm sure somebody will blame the vuvuzelas

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:37 AM. Reason : ]

6/16/2010 11:35:57 AM

LOL ^^

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:36 AM. Reason : dd]

6/16/2010 11:36:03 AM

is the swiss counter attack that good, or is the spanish defense of the counter that bad?

6/16/2010 11:39:35 AM

Spain better tighten their shit up or it will be 2-0 soon

6/16/2010 11:39:51 AM

^^
Think USA 2-0. The counter D was bad then.

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM. Reason : ff]

6/16/2010 11:40:02 AM

Spain looks like 95% of the teams who are playing in this World Cup - like they dont want to be there or dont want to put any kind of effort into their games. I think the only exceptions to that are Chile and South Africa

boring World Cup so far

although today has been a little bit better than the previous few days

6/16/2010 11:41:07 AM

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"is the swiss counter attack that good, or is the spanish defense of the counter that bad?"

i think spain is just pushing everyone up looking for that equalizer, leaving them susceptible in the back. i've seen pique and ramos in the attacking front pretty much since they went down 1-0

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:44 AM. Reason : ]

6/16/2010 11:41:18 AM

lol

6/16/2010 11:41:37 AM

well spain better get their act together or chile will destroy them

6/16/2010 11:43:18 AM

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"although today has been a little bit better than the previous few days"

today owns all the other days... two open and entertaining games so far. And I think RSA-URU will be the same way

6/16/2010 11:43:19 AM

I hope they get knocked out of the group stage... i hate watching them flop

6/16/2010 11:44:12 AM

HORRIBLE first touch. c'mon torres, you're better than that

6/16/2010 11:44:53 AM

cool, kim

6/16/2010 11:45:05 AM

5 min stoppage

6/16/2010 11:47:38 AM

5 minutes?

6/16/2010 11:48:17 AM

ref must be spanish

6/16/2010 11:48:50 AM

The Egg Man!

6/16/2010 11:49:00 AM

BEHRAMI BRAHHHHHH



ref went to the school of SAF stoppage time

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:50 AM. Reason : ]

6/16/2010 11:49:49 AM

last chance for spain on this penalty

6/16/2010 11:51:18 AM

Way to go, Dundee 2.

6/16/2010 11:51:19 AM

pretty weak card.

6/16/2010 11:51:53 AM

SHIT JUST GOT REAL

6/16/2010 11:53:03 AM

cue "spain cracks under pressure and i told you so" talk from lalas

6/16/2010 11:53:18 AM

danm, I picked Spain to win it all in my World Cup bracket. they still can, but they sure looked like garbage against the 24th ranked team today

6/16/2010 11:53:19 AM

that game was weak as fuck.

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[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:53 AM. Reason : worse than the US England game...]

6/16/2010 11:53:22 AM

^i thought that game was exciting. spain looked like the better team, they just couldn't score, and one mistake killed them

wow. anyone know the shots taken stats? i really only remember the swiss getting two shots on goal

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:54 AM. Reason : ]

6/16/2010 11:53:41 AM

could set up a Brazil-Spain 2nd round game

6/16/2010 11:53:52 AM

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"cue "spain cracks under pressure and i told you so" talk from lalas"

It's gonna be so great.

6/16/2010 11:53:52 AM

That was the game of the cup.

6/16/2010 11:53:53 AM

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"Switzerland just caught the biggest nut"

6/16/2010 11:54:57 AM

Quote :

"Switzerland just caught the biggest nut."

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:55 AM. Reason : f]

6/16/2010 11:55:03 AM

The negative tactics, teams attempting to just kill the game from the beginning, etc. have got to stop. Every team has now played, and I can't remember more than 2 or 3 games in which one team didn't just put 11 men behind the ball.

6/16/2010 11:55:04 AM

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"Switzerland just caught the biggest nut"

Oh I bet they did lol

6/16/2010 11:55:20 AM

I think the Chile-Honduras game was the best of the cup

this was 2nd place behind that game, imo. Hopefully the South Africa game will also live up to expectations. Today has been the best day so far

6/16/2010 11:55:26 AM

spain just can't win in south africa

6/16/2010 11:55:31 AM

Alexi never fails.

6/16/2010 11:55:41 AM

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"That was the game of the cup."

haha you've said that after half a dozen matches

6/16/2010 11:55:50 AM

Idk i hate seeing games where one team dominates possession has tons of great shots and keeps hitting the post. Its like the announcers said most teams sit back and play D because they are afraid of losing possession on offense and getting raped by torres (even though he wasn't in until the end of the game...)


Like i would be totally okay with this game if switzerland had missed the goal but made the second shot that went off the post


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6/16/2010 11:55:51 AM

freaking intense

chile can't feel any worse, considering they won their match

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM. Reason : d]

6/16/2010 11:57:08 AM

torres doesn't strike me as a man who rapes. quite the opposite, if anything.

6/16/2010 11:57:47 AM

Swiss have to feel pretty good. They have a soft game left with Honduras and already have three.

The Chile-Spain game looks to be a play-in game...

6/16/2010 11:58:21 AM

^huh? i think chile should be able to handle switzerland, which would put them in. maybe i'm just mis-understanding you. are you thinking that spain will have to beat chile to get in regardless of whether or not chile advances?

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 12:02 PM. Reason : ]

6/16/2010 11:59:19 AM

^I have to disagree about Chile handling Switzerland, but then I had the swiss advancing instead of Chile in our espn pool. But now that Switzerland will be even more satisfied with a draw, it's going to be really tough for Chile to get 3 points. Then they get Spain.

6/16/2010 12:05:44 PM

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"Switzerland just caught the biggest nut"

6/16/2010 12:11:35 PM

yeah. maybe i'm not giving the swiss defense enough credit. but i saw a lot of creativity from the chilean's on offense today (although they did play the weakest team of the group). so i still like their chances. we'll see, it should be an exciting group to watch from here on out.

6/16/2010 12:13:29 PM

all the ties and close games (aside from Germany) should mean the last game matters for pretty much everybody

should be some really close groups

6/16/2010 12:14:45 PM

Hey another idiot commentator weighs in with stupid opinions on why they hate soccer:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5288738

most notably:

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"6. The yellow cards. I love the way the refs come running up to the player as though he has just taken out a chainsaw and sawed somebody's hand off. The ref looks very stern and upset. And then all the ref does is snap his little yellow piece of paper out of his shirt pocket and stick it in the offender's face, as though the little yellow card has some kind of superpower. As if to say, "Ha! you are powerless against my little yellow piece of paper, which shows your less-than-average marks from third grade!" I'd love to see that in the middle of an NBA fight. Can you imagine seeing some ref come running up to Rasheed Wallace after laying out Carmelo Anthony with a roundhouse right and sticking that yellow card right in his face? He'd soon be digesting it through his ear hole."

6/16/2010 12:20:28 PM

No one takes Rick Reilly seriously

6/16/2010 12:24:00 PM

spain-brazil in the round of 16?

6/16/2010 12:25:02 PM

^^^ that's awful.

[Edited on June 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM. Reason : .]

6/16/2010 12:25:05 PM