Switzerland vs Ecuador - 5PM (ITV/RTE)

mike65

Hiztfeld doesn't help - stolid but nothing more. Trouble is its served them really well so there'll be no chance of a change.

Hilarious! 2-1 with the last kick of the game.

LightningBlue

Shaqiri needs to get out of Bayern and get first team football. He's been very rusty.

Great goal Seferovic. Wonderful cross.

BMJD

cracker of a goal to end it

Dozen Wicked Words

Wow what a finish to the game.

Adamocovic

Not a great game but that finish was brilliant, from going so close to winning to losing in the space of 60 seconds

Paul Tergat

Even the poorest game of this tournament has a big ending to it. Great WC so far

munster87

Ha just after I said it...Behrami makes a goal saving tackle and starts a move that ends in a goal for Switzerland!

breffni bogballer

well well well ecuador blew it big time

GreNoLi

3 goal average being maintained.

Nuri Sahin

Woop!

Dempsey

What a sucker punch!

Looper007

Adamocovic wrote: »

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.

They won a easy group and beaten spain and Brazil in friendlies, so I think the fact they haven't lost either.

They just scored but I'm not impressed at all with the Swiss.

bnt

Good call from the ref there, keeping play going, and ... blam!

Kylo Ren

This World Cup is great.

Amirani

Ouch for Ecuador.

Jelle1880

What an ending!

I take back what I said about dull
Also put a tenner on Switzerland after they conceded.

Brilliant tackle, but he really should have shot.

Lightbulb Sun

Ecuador could easily have won it themselves there. Good refereeing to let the Swiss have the advantage.

Umadbrah?

wow wasn't expecting that

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Still no draws! And another come back from 1-0 down

tyrion1234

Gotta give props to the ref there. Brilliant advantage given

eagle eye

Super sub does it at the death for the Swiss. They deserved it too imo. Von Bergen was hugely impressive. Shaqiri and Inler have to improve on their performances in that game and you'd expect them to. Djourou had an excellent game too.

Agree that the referee was excellent, not just there with the advantage but all the way through apart from the missed foul where Ecuador scored.

Kat97

Was not expecting that at all!

keith16

Lightbulb Sun wrote: »

Ecuador could easily have won it themselves there. Good refereeing to let the Swiss have the advantage.

Just came on to say that. Brilliant advantage, I'd say the majority of refs would have blown in that situation.

Cracking build-up and finish.

murpho999

Dramatic ending to a poor game.

Turtyturd

Well done ref. That kind of finish is what I love about the World Cup.

Looper007

poorest game so far by a good distance.

fearrua

Great goal, really good work by Behrami from the tackle to the pass.

pickarooney

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.

Ach rubbish. Quito to Brasilia is like Dublin to Cairo. For a group match. Against Switzerland. In the most boring city in Brazil. On an average income of €4,000.

Real shame on them...

CurryFlavoured

Looper007 wrote: »

poorest game so far by a good distance.

That pretty much sums up how entertaining the tournament has been so far. Still a decent game IMO.

blueser

Schoolboy defending there by the CB, allowing his man to get in front of him at the near post. Combine that with the lack of a challenge for the equalizing goal, and the Ecuadorians will be gutted. That sort of thing must drive a manager mental. If you get done by a world class strike, fair enough. There's not a lot you can do about it. But both Swiss goals were gifts really.

bnt

On the replay, I'm wondering whether the striker was marginally offside before he scored that last goal. Considering that the Swiss had a goal disallowed by an incorrect offside call, I don't have a problem with that. :cool:

Looper007

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

That pretty much sums up how entertaining the tournament has been so far. Still a decent game IMO.

true, three goals and a last minute goal, far better then a drab 0-0.

Great start so far and pisses over the South Africa World cup

bnt

According to the UTV team, the goal rate so far is over double what it was in South Africa. 31 goals after 9 matches this year, vs. 15 goals four years ago.

CurryFlavoured

Chiles just said there have been 31 goals so far, in South Africa 2010 there had only been 15 at this stage. This WC has already provided more entertainment than WC 2010 and Euro 2012 combined (Irish fan sucking Croatian boobs aside).

GreNoLi

UTV's coverage is the televisual equivalent of shifting uncomfortably in your chair.

murpho999

pickarooney wrote: »

Ach rubbish. Quito to Brasilia is like Dublin to Cairo. For a group match. Against Switzerland. In the most boring city in Brazil. On an average income of €4,000. 4

Real shame on them...

It's not rubbish.

This is the World Cup ffs

Fair enough it's far away but 16 million people in Ecuador and an awful lot of them earn more than €4k a year.

Turtyturd

bnt wrote: »

According to the UTV team, the goal rate so far is over double what it was in South Africa. 31 goals after 9 matches this year, vs. 15 goals four years ago.

Mourinho is probably sitting at home bah humbugging every goal.

mike65

Its far too open. The first round of games are supposed to be cagey, the 2nd game is where its all happens and then tight 3rd match day as the teams with the most points attempt a shut-out.

miralize

Turtyturd wrote: »

Mourinho is probably sitting at home bah humbugging every goal.

I'm no Mourinho fan, but that made exactly 0 sense.

Paz-CCFC

Watching this match yesterday, it looked like a very small attendance for a World Cup, with seemingly loads of empty seats. But, officially by FIFA, it was the biggest attendance so far in the World Cup. 68,300 out 69,300. That would be the equivalent of about a hundred empty seats spread out around Turner's Cross or Tallaght, which would hardly be noticeable. The empty seats were certainly noticeable at this one.