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

Peyton Manning

This ref is an absolute tool. Worse than Germany Serbia, worse than Brazil Ivory Coast. Ridiculous.

IvySlayer

Chlie player booked??

_Bella_

^^ yes oh heres another coming...

Frisbee

I hope Argentina and Uruguay meet each other in the next round and this ref gets the game.

I'd put money on it being abandoned.

Cypher_sounds

Haha the irony of yer man waving his finger for Chile, hilarious

SuprSi

One of the worst refereeing performances I've seen on the international stage in years. What a complete tool.

redout

Hehe.........

How many players out of the next game ?

This ref is a no-nonsense nutjob.

Headshot

horrible stuff by the swiss there

_Bella_

8 yellow cards.... 1 red

El Horseboxo

Why was Fernandez booked? Didn't see anything in the replay.

titan18

Archimedes wrote: »

This ref is an absolute tool. Worse than Germany Serbia, worse than Brazil Ivory Coast. Ridiculous.

It's really bad for the tournament too.The amount of tweets I'm seeing from US people and others who are saying how bad the refereeing is and the players are.This is probably the only time a lot of people would watch football, and it's doing a really bad job of marketing it.

_Bella_

4 minutes till the new record!

Peyton Manning

Was always gonna be Fernandez after he got that booking.

MR NINE

_Bella_ wrote: »

4 minutes till the new record!

Whats the record? longest without concedin a goal in the world cup?

Peyton Manning

....and they've done it!

Well done Switzerland. A great achievement.

_Bella_

NEW RECORD

_Bella_

MR NINE wrote: »

Whats the record? longest without concedin a goal in the world cup?

Yes 500 and something minutes they have gone

MR NINE

Who was the Swiss coach in 06?

IvySlayer

Now they have the record, watch them attack like Barcelona now

MR NINE

Thats impressive. Especially considering it includes games against France (when they were still good), Spain and a very potent Chilean attack. Who was their coach in 06?

_Bella_

"Has he been kicked in the left buttocks area?"

IvySlayer

MR NINE wrote: »

Thats impressive. Especially considering it includes games against France (when they were still good), Spain and a very potent Chilean attack. Who was their coach in 06?

Kobi Kuhn.

murpho999

MR NINE wrote: »

Thats impressive. Especially considering it includes games against France (when they were still good), Spain and a very potent Chilean attack. Who was their coach in 06?

Might be impressive, but I have always hated watching the Swiss......always a boring team!

Degag

Archimedes wrote: »

Was always gonna be Fernandez after he got that booking.

He was booked in the first game so he'd miss the next game anyway.

patmac

_Bella_ wrote: »

NEW RECORD

Congratulations Switzerland up there with Greece as one of the most negative teams in the World.

Peyton Manning

GET IN!!!!!!

_Bella_

Finally a goal! But might have been offside

murpho999

1-0 Chile....delighted!

Headshot

go wan

Frisbee

About fecking time.

Shades of offside about it.

IvySlayer

Commentators could at least pretend to be interested.

Fowler87

GET IN!! That a boy speedie... take that ye negative Swiss cnuts (10 men or no 10 men)

Degag

_Bella_ wrote: »

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 wrote: »

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

_Bella_ wrote: »

4 minutes till the new record!

MR NINE wrote: »

Whats the record? longest without concedin a goal in the world cup?

Archimedes wrote: »

....and they've done it!

Well done Switzerland. A great achievement.

_Bella_ wrote: »

NEW RECORD

_Bella_ wrote: »

Yes 500 and something minutes they have gone

IvySlayer wrote: »

Now they have the record, watch them attack like Barcelona now

MR NINE wrote: »

Thats impressive. Especially considering it includes games against France (when they were still good), Spain and a very potent Chilean attack. Who was their coach in 06?

Lol!!!!!!!!!1

Yes, i know they still beat the record... but it was bound to happen!

Bob the Seducer

And the South American teams record looks set to continue...

Peyton Manning

Degag wrote: »

Lol!!!!!!!!!1

Explain?

DB10

Not the be all and all end for Switzerland. They are basically through anyway if they defeat Honduras.

Chile still have it all to do against Spain.

patmac

It's funny but it's not as crucial as it seems a 2-0 win for Spain tonight would mean a 1 goal win over Chile in the final group game and a 2 goal win for the Swiss would mean Chile would be out, so they should be going for a second at least to improve their goal difference.

_Bella_

Hmm Chile will have to try and get another goal because if they lose by one and Switzerland beat the Honduras by two they are through. This though does give Spain a good chance to top the group if they put in some dominating displays and win tonight by 3

Guy:Incognito

Theres an awful lot of really crap refs at the WC.

Are they on commision for cards and free kicks or what?

Degag

_Bella_ wrote: »

Hmm Chile will have to try and get another goal because if they lose by one and Switzerland beat the Honduras by two they are through

Who says they are going to lose to Spain? A draw would see them through.

Peyton Manning

FFS

redout

DB10 wrote: »

Not the be all and all end for Switzerland. They are basically through anyway if they defeat Honduras.

Chile still have it all to do against Spain.

How ?

I thought goal difference was looked at first if teams are tied on points ?

What if Spain beat Honduras and Chile and all three finish on 6pts ?

Positive its goal difference first and foremost.

Frisbee

That's an atrocious attempt at a finish.

murpho999

Degag wrote: »

Who says they are going to lose to Spain? A draw would see them through.

If Spain do beat Honuras and Chile, and the Swiss roll over Honduras then there will be three teams on 6 points and one will go out.

Will be very interesting!

Peyton Manning

Its Goal Difference, Goals For and then Head to Head.

_Bella_

Degag wrote: »

Who says they are going to lose to Spain? A draw would see them through.

Spain will need a win to go through so I think they will go all out... but of course a win is not guranteed

murpho999

redout wrote: »

How ?

I thought goal difference was looked at first if teams are tied on points ?

What if Spain beat Honduras and Chile and all three finish on 6pts ?

Positive its goal difference first and foremost.

Here is how it's decided (shamelessly taken from Wikipedia..so it must be true!)

Tie-breaking criteria For the World Cup tournament, FIFA uses the following criteria to rank teams in the Group Stage.

1. greatest number of points in all group matches;
2. goal difference in all group matches;
3. greatest number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. greatest number of points in matches between tied teams;
5. goal difference in matches between tied teams;
6. greatest number of goals scored in matches between tied teams;
7. drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee.

MR NINE

Degag wrote: »

Lol!!!!!!!!!1

Yes, i know they still beat the record... but it was bound to happen!

I dont get it. Is it coz I asked what the record was when someone had already previously posted it?

redout

Still a very realistic possibility of Spain topping this group.

CorkMan

Hopefully its goals scored.

If spain beat honduaras (presumably) 3-4 nil like Portugal North Korea today, and beat Chile they might finish top.