Chile vs Switzerland (Group H - Monday - 3:00pm)

Peyton Manning

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It's very much the relentless attacking fluidity of Marcelo Bielsa's Chile vs the stern defensive metal of Ottmar Hitzfeld's Switzerland, who will look to catch their opponents on the counter attack.

This could be the most interesting tactical battle of the World Cup so far. We all saw what Chile are capable of last week, and with the prolific Humberto Suazo returning up front, don't expect Chile to so wasteful in front of goal this time round should the chances fall his way. However, Switzerland have now gone 5 World Cup finals' games without conceding a goal, so if anybody can withstand the Chilean attack, it will be the Swiss.

Can't wait for this game, should be a cracker.

gingelion

I too am very much looking forward to this game.

Degag

Looking forward to seeing Alexis Sanchez again. Cracking little player!

Peyton Manning

Suazo starts



I imagine Chile will line up the same as last week should Switzerland keep 2 up top:

.................Bravo

Isla.....Ponce.....Medel....Jara

......Carmona.......Vidal

..............Fernandez
Sanchez...............Beausejour
................Suazo

If Switzerland only play one up top, expect Gary Medel to move up into a defensive midfield role just behind Carmona and Vidal. Should be a good game.

Fowler87

I can finally watch one of my favourite football nations play on my day off:) CMON CHILE!!

Headshot

Sanchez was linked with utd again today, keep an eye on him

come on Chile

Frisbee

Good start for Suazo

Peyton Manning

Suazo booked after 2 minutes.

Surprised he got away with it for so long! He'll prob get sent off for removing his shirt if he scores.

curry-muff

Cant wait to see Chile up against a proper solid defence, this should give us an idea of what theyre really like

Sanchez was really impressive in the first game, hope he can keep it up today

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Come on Chile!

Peyton Manning

It's the famous 3-3-1-3

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Headshot wrote: »

Sanchez was linked with utd again today, keep an eye on him

come on Chile

He did well there to win the free.

Peyton Manning

Can't believe Carmona kept that down, hell of a shot.

redout

Hehe.........."he's barrel chested" - BBC comm

G'wan Paquirrín - score us a hat-trick.

Vokes

Archimedes wrote: »

It's the famous 3-3-1-3

Awesome. I love Bielsa's special brand of suicide football

Peyton Manning

Vokes wrote: »

Awesome. I love Bielsa's special brand of suicide football

It's slightly different to what they usually play - Vidal and Isla are a lot wider than I've usually seen them (probably due to how well they did as wingbacks in the back 4 against Honduras). Lining up something like this:

......................Bravo

.......Medel.......Ponce.......Jara.......

....................Carmona

.....Isla............................Vidal

...................Fernandez
Sanchez..........................Beausejour
......................Suazo

Fowler87

Another gob****e ref :rolleyes: Where do they get these fools from...

Peyton Manning

This ref is some tool

IvySlayer

Don't blame the refs, blame FIFA and FAs for giving them badges, and then FIFA telling them that they're going to ref a World Cup match.

Can we clone Collina?

steelcityblues

Mark Bright just said 'rolling over' while describing a chance for the Swiss. :pac:

Peyton Manning

Behrami sent off

Peyton Manning

Ah shameful stuff from Vidal. This upsets me

Auvers

where the fcuk is this tit of a ref from?

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Oh. My. God.

Liam O

Thank god I put Chile (-1) for this game, Come on Chile!

That_Guy

Harsh sending off.

titan18

I'm actually getting pissed off with all this cheating.

Cypher_sounds

Another shocking decision I LOL'd

ctrl-alt-delete

Personally i wouldn't have sent him off,

But Behrami was silly in what he done considering the reffing at these games, and in particular the ref in this game.

Fowler87

Liam O wrote: »

Thank god I put Chile (-1) for this game, Come on Chile!

Me too bud got 4/1 Hopefully they push on now

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Liam O wrote: »

Thank god I put Chile (-1) for this game, Come on Chile!

Sames.:D

Terrible from Vidal though. I'm embarrassed for him.

Fizman

I'm getting pissed off with the amateur fcuking organisation that is FIFA. A quick video review of that and 5 seconds later we can get on with the game 11 v 11. The dinosaurs running the sport are making a shambles of it in terms of a spectacle.

murpho999

What a terrible sending off. Two dives by Chilean players and they get a guy sent off.

What will FIFA do about it....absolutely nothing!

tvnutz

another game ruined by play acting cheating players and card happy refs who can't show some common sense and restraint. A yellow would have been enough.

IvySlayer

Lol, OK, this referee is plainly an idiot.

Degag

Fizman wrote: »

I'm getting pissed off with the amateur fcuking organisation that is FIFA. A quick video review of that and 5 seconds later we can get on with the game 11 v 11. The dinosaurs running the sport are making a shambles of it in terms of a spectacle.

No, it should still be 11 vs. 10 - with the cheater being sent off.

_Bella_

Yellow would have been fine for that...

Cant decide this match or Wimbledon!

Cypher_sounds

murpho999 wrote: »

What a terrible sending off. Two dives by Chilean players and they get a guy sent off.

What will FIFA do about it....absolutely nothing!

Exactly like is this a proper sporting organisation or just a complete joke, i mean if GAA are amateurs and they can review some situations to give bans then what does that mean FIFA are, all you can do is laugh at the joke that is FIFA

Fizman

Degag wrote: »

No, it should still be 11 vs. 10 - with the cheater being sent off.

Well yes that too......but I'd be happy with a replay and 11v11 as a start.

patmac

They should bring in video refs for these decisions.........

Degag

_Bella_ wrote: »

Yellow would have been fine for that...

Cant decide this match or Wimbledon!

Wimbledon's on?! Seriously had no idea it had started.

Edit:// Jaysus, Federer could be on his way home!

_Bella_

Degag wrote: »

Wimbledon's on?! Seriously had no idea it had started.

Edit:// Jaysus, Federer could be on his way home!

I know I cant believe it... he better win this game!

dfx-

Not a whole lot of decisions I'd disagree with from the ref. Terribly scrappy niggly game..

murpho999

_Bella_ wrote: »

I know I cant believe it... he better win this game!

Looks like Fed wants to get off early to see 2nd half of the Swiss match.

~Rebel~

****in' refs in this tournement...Klose, Behrami, Kaka et al all missing their next games for no reason..

redout

Chile have no excuse here - the player advantage they need to score.

A draw could be a potentially disastrous result.

IvySlayer

Offside. Flag came quite late

redout

Epic LoL at yer man

jayteecork

They were all interfering with the goalie's sight anyway.

Correct decision.

Althought it would be a disaster for football if Chile don't beat the Swiss.

_Bella_

I want Switzerland to make it to 67 mins without conceeding... then Chile can score. This match has pretty boring though. At least Wimbledon is exciting!

Mr. Guappa

jayteecork wrote: »

They were all interfering with the goalie's sight anyway.

Correct decision.

Althought it would be a disaster for football if Chile don't beat the Swiss.

Switzerland have kept 5 clean sheets in a row at the World Cup, they got eliminated from the last tournament without conceding a goal, they won't be easy to break down. I hope they hang on anyway