Switzerland vs Ecuador - 5PM (ITV/RTE)

murpho999

Washington Irving wrote: »

No, but sometimes the attack is so good there's nothing the defence can do, other times the defending is so poor it warrants comment. Crazy stuff.

I agree, but I just find with every goal (not the one we just saw) people post here about how bad the defending is and ignore how good the attack was.

McDermotX

murpho999 wrote: »

At least he's trying to bring some research into it.

Many co-commentators just say what you have seen yourself.

Also, Ray Houghton is master of saying what a player shouldn't have done.

Jesus...don't get me started on Houghton. Don't mind Kerr too much, as long as he keeps himself to himself, but he has a talent for stating the obvious, as well as having a voice for a library.
Worst thing a commentator can do is be a spoofologist, and Kerr falls into that category too much.....better to say nothing sometimes rather than just refer to random fellas as being 'a quality player'.

Lucas Castroman

murpho999 wrote: »

At least he's trying to bring some research into it.

Many co-commentators just say what you have seen yourself.

Also, Ray Houghton is master of saying what a player shouldn't have done.

Captain Hindsight!

munster87

Swiss getting on top a bit, tempted by 5/1 now

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

is the rte player stream laggy as balls for anyone else?

McDermotX

Lucas Castroman wrote: »

Captain Hindsight!

Professional Griefer

Nice free

DildoFaggins

Jelle1880 wrote: »

Clark Carlisle, what an idiot.

"I saw a lot of Jackson Martinez in the Europa League this year and Ecuador have that good a squad he can't even get into the starting line up"

He's Colombian.

Racist...oh wait

Washington Irving

Sloppy from Switzerland

Kirby

Washington Irving wrote: »

Sloppy from Switzerland

I'm sure Clarke Carlisle thinks Sloppy plays for Ecuador.....

Fescue

Quite disappointed with the Swiss so far. Expected a bit more from some of there well regarded players. Drmic especially.

eagle eye

I think the Swiss are very unlucky to be one down. There was clearly a foul on a defender who was held down as that ball came in for the goal. It should have been a free against Ecuador.

I think Dominguez looks very dodgy and I'm expecting to see somebody get on the end of one of his drops at some stage.

I'm watching this second half with a lot of interest to see if either teams tire. I've seen every game so far and its looking more like a South American or African winner for me due to the European teams tiring late in games.

LightningBlue

Mehmedi on for Switzerland. Stocker off.

murpho999

Shockingly poor attendance for this match.

Ecuador not too far to travel yet Irish fans fill every stadium from USA toJapan. Pity we're not there.

Lightbulb Sun

Equalizer.

mike65

Well that was quick.

Turtyturd

Get in.

Washington Irving

Hopefully they go for the win now.

GreNoLi

'He toorned away'!!

Love that guy.

Jelle1880

And again, that was coming. Switzerland much better after the Ecuador goal and deserved that equalizer. Go on and win it now.

Turtyturd

murpho999 wrote: »

Shockingly poor attendance for this match.

Ecuador not too far to travel yet Irish fans fill every stadium from USA toJapan. Pity we're not there.

Cue an 'Except the ones in their own country' response.

Washington Irving

murpho999 wrote: »

Shockingly poor attendance for this match.

Ecuador not too far to travel yet Irish fans fill every stadium from USA toJapan. Pity we're not there.

Except the ones in their own country.

Utopia Parkway

The Ecuador defender would want to have a word with himself. Pathetic challenge.

mike65

Irish football needs to be less white if the Swiss are an example of upping ones game with immigrants.

murpho999

Hard to believe that Switzerland are seeded for this tournament.

Shocking indictment of the Fifa rankings.

LightningBlue

Shaqiri slowing the game down too much.

Drmic offside.

Oat23

Bad decision there. Not offside.

breffni bogballer

least entertainig game so far

Neeson

LightningBlue wrote: »

Shaqiri slowing the game down too much.

Drmic offside.

He's too lumpy. A big lump.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

God this is poor

mike65

Ron Burgundy reference!

Oat23

Just noticed that my Swiss to win bet on paddy power never registered because of their sh*te servers. I'll be cheering for Ecuador now then.

LightningBlue

Shaqiri much more dangerous as the No 10. He was wasted on the right wing.

Oat23

Let Rodriguez hit this one. Big chance here.

Why does he not take freekicks for them? So dumb. He's not even involved in any of them.

kerash

Neeson wrote: »

Fair play to brian Kerr. He travelled over 1600km since 10pm last night to meet up with Jon Kenny in Brasilia to commentate on this match.

I've spent the last 80 mins wondering why Brian Kerr Keeps calling Peter Collins 'John'...

mike65

LightningBlue wrote: »

Shaqiri much more dangerous as the No 10. He was wasted on the right wing.

I've been disappointed that he spent so much time hugging the white line myself, with Liverpool heavily linked at the moment I doubt Rodgers will be thinking about him as a winger.

LightningBlue

Djourou lucky there.

Jelle1880

Some of the official's calls have been horrible so far, and the tournament is only 4 days old.

Witcher

Players worrying about a bit of that spray on their boots...ffs

Andersonisgod

How is Behrami starting in a game at the World Cup? I can't get over how entirely out of place he looks in central midfield.

munster87

Behrami is terrible

Looper007

munster87 wrote: »

Behrami is terrible

shows how far Italian football has fallen if he's playing for one of the top sides.

We knew we'd get a awful game between these two. This group won't have a lot of great football sadly. how the Swiss are seeded shows that the fifa rankings need sorting out.

bnt

kerash wrote: »

I've spent the last 80 mins wondering why Brian Kerr Keeps calling Peter Collins 'John'...

Maybe he's thirsty?

Idbatterim

These two teams are absolute muck without the yakin brothers and Frei, Switzerland not pooking like they are up to much....

LightningBlue

Andersonisgod wrote: »

How is Behrami starting in a game at the World Cup? I can't get over how entirely out of place he looks in central midfield.

This. Xhaka should have started alongside Inler with Shaqiri in front of them. Put Mehmedi and Stocker or Barnetta on the flanks.

Adamocovic

No disrespect to Switzerland they have some good players but I fail to see how they are ranked 6th in the world, did they play mediocre teams to bump up the stats? Surely Italy, Belgium, France, Holland etc are a better team. That's what I don't like about the rankings sometimes, depends on who you pick in your friendlies, more points beating a team ranked 20-50 than there is drawing with a team from top ten, it seems.

Jelle1880

First really dull game imo.

Adamocovic

What a finish end to end football!

Oat23

Wow!

Washington Irving

GOAL! 2-1 Switzerland