And the anti-climaxes continue...
The third and final round of group stage matches appear to have reached their peak with Slovakia-Italy, and then quietly fizzled out.
That's certainly what happened here as Spain - looking better with every match - and Chile spent the last ten minutes enjoying, what appeared to be, an outdoor picnic rather than a football match; safe in the knowledge they were both going through.
Two Swiss goals in Bloemfontein would have spoilt their latin tea party but, as regular readers of this blog will testify, Switzerland have only scored five World Cup goals in 16 years, so the chances of them getting two in one night were pretty slim.
They kept another clean sheet though. Against Honduras.
I'm sure that was a comfort on the flight back to Geneva.
Spain are consistently scoring the best goals of the tournament, without quite scaling the heights of Tshbalala's opening salvo. However, the excitement caused by Senors Villa and Iniesta's finishes, I'm sportingly using as justification for flustering Clive Tyldesley. As the group stage wound down, Clive informed ITV viewers that Uruguay would, in fact, be playing NORTH Korea in the first knockout match of the 2010 World Cup.
Either Clive was confused or Kim Jong-il's influence stretches much further than we thought.
Somebody call FIFA...
THE STORY SO FAR
Match of the tournament: Slovakia 3-2 Italy
Player of the tournament: Keisuke Honda (Japan)
Goal of the tournament: Tshabalala (South Africa v Mexico)
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