I am lucky that we are able to watch the midday matches at work (In between work) as Spain dominated the whole game against the Ukraine. The Spanish are looking dangerous as the scored 2 goals within 17 minutes. There seems to be a load of yellow cards in this tournament, I know that the refs have been told to crack down on shirt pulling and I believe that players get a 5,000 Euro fine for each time they do it. Talking of cards Vashchuk got a straight red which was a tad harsh as I never thought that it earned a penalty. Given that there was some short pulling but Torres just seemed stay on his feet until he took the shot and fell over his own feet. Anyway a great penalty taken by Villa who is looking very impressive so far in this World Cup and after Torres scored in the 81st minute the game ended 4-0.
The second match I only caught the second half’s last two goals but the game sounded boring until the end from what people are telling me. I did see all the goals after the Germany match and I was impressed by a spectacular volley by Jazari.
Don’t get me wrong I would of loved Poland to win but they never looked strong at the front whatsoever and I would have been very surprised to see them score, whereas Germany always looked like scoring until the did so in the 91st minute with a great goal by Neuville.
This game has seen another Red Card and 6 yellows making it 12 Yellow and 2 Red of the day in three matches.
Roll on England against Trinidad & Tobago. I am not expecting a huge win like everyone else but I am hoping for a better match then against Paraguay. For those of you who do not know, Neville is out for 10 days after injuring his Calf in training. Looks like Carragher will take his place.
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