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World Cup South Africa 2010

Who will win?

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So..
Word for choke in spanish: choque.. and i'm really chocado! I never ever would though that Spain would lose to Switzerland.. well, that's good, probably now they'll end up in the first place of the group, then they'll find Portugal in the next round. (If Portugal keeps in the world cup, which I highly doubt.)
South Africa lost too, it's kinda sad. They deserve to be at least in the 16th better teams and they'll not even pass the group stage. Also, if local people don't have a team to support, the terrorism may increase, which is alarming..
 
It's disappointing that South Africa lost. But football is football. I honestly expected that Spain would not do well. Well,maybe they were good they just couldn't finish it off. I also couldn't stop rofling at the switz goal. It was just hilarious. The scrapiest goal I have ever seen. But a good goal,nonetheless.
 
Spain is probably going to finish second in their group now. Which means.....They'll end up playing Brazil (assuming Brazil finishes first in its group, which is likely to happen next round. Get ready for some excitement guys, these coming matches are going to be stormy:

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Chile is a very tough team to beat. They played excellently in their qualifying matches.

Next match: Spain vs. Uruguay
I see Spain beating Uraguay which will make the Switzerland-Chile game the decider on whether or not Spain even makes it out of the group.


Following match (Let's call it "The Decider". The outcome of this match creates three scenarios I will discuss for the fate of Spain): Chile vs. Switzerland
Lets just say Chile ties Switzerland (note: The Swiss wern't scored against the whole last world cup, they lost on penalties):
The standings after the Chile-Swiss and Spain-Hond matches would look like this:

Code: 
Chile [COLOR="Magenta"]4[/COLOR] points
Switz [COLOR="Magenta"]4[/COLOR] points
Spain [COLOR="Magenta"]3[/COLOR] points
Hond  0 points

Then you have two more key matches:
Switzerland v Honduras
Spain v Chile


Assume the Swiss beat Honduras, which I can almost guarantee will happen because Switz defense>>>>>Honduras offense. The Swiss would now have 7 points and would be sitting at the top of their group.

After Swiss-Hond match:

Code: 
Switz [COLOR="Magenta"]7[/COLOR] points
Chile [COLOR="Magenta"]4[/COLOR] points
Spain [COLOR="Magenta"]3[/COLOR] points
Hond  0 points


In the Spain-Chile match, which is going to be tough as hell because Chile matches pretty well against Spain, Spain NEEDS A WIN TO ADVANCE. If Spain and Chile even tie, then Spain will not even be able to make it out of their group.

Code: 
If Spain ties with Chile instead of beating them:

Switz [COLOR="Magenta"]7[/COLOR] points
Chile [COLOR="Magenta"]5[/COLOR] points
Spain [COLOR="Magenta"]4[/COLOR] points
Hond  0 points

Code: 
If they end up actually beating Chile, which plays a very aggressive 
style of football compared to Spain's defense, passing, and possession 
holding style of football, they do would finish second in the group.

If Spain beats Chile:
Switz [COLOR="Magenta"]7[/COLOR] points
Spain [COLOR="Magenta"]6[/COLOR] points
Chile [COLOR="Magenta"]4[/COLOR] points
Hond  0 points

And if Spain wins, the "lucky prize" they will get is Brazil. As you can see that lost to Switzerland today was VERY costly for Spain. I love Switzerland today. They upset the team I hate the most.

A round 16 match-up between the #1 and #2 in the world will definitely be a must watch game. Once again, that would be an incredible finals match, and it will probably happen next round. I would favor Brazil but never count out Spain.[/COLOR]

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This scenario of not advancing is of course based on Should Chile tie with Switzerland in the match I called "The Decider". If Chile can actually take care of the Swiss defense, and beat the Swiss, Spain could advance if they can win two matches.

So yes, If Chile beats Switzerland in that early deciding match:
Spain could still come out on top if they can garner two wins. They would have to beat both Honduras (Easy) and Chile (Not easy).

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If on the other hand if The Swiss beat Chile instead of tying with them. They've pretty much secured the group. I'm pretty sure they'd at least need a draw or better against Honduras. The absolute best Spain would be able to get is second in the group.

So, in this third scenario, the Swiss have already beaten Chile in that early match. Fine.

The standings would look like this:
Code: 
Swiss Pwning Chile Scenario

Switz [COLOR="Magenta"]6[/COLOR] points
Chile [COLOR="Magenta"]3[/COLOR] points
Spain [COLOR="Magenta"]3[/COLOR] points
Hond  0 points

So both Chile and Spain have already taken care of Honduras in the above standings.
Let's also assume that Switzerland ends up taking care of Honduras like Chile and Spain before them. They'd be at the very top of the group with 9 points.

This leaves one match as the decider on the second place finisher in this scenario.
Spain vs. Chile

Whichever team wins that match will advance. If they tie, it will be settled by goal differential. :eek: Spain is already down -1 in GD to start this thing.
 
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Spain's loss is going to hinder them quite a bit. But I think they'll go through ;o
Sad to see SA lose.
 
The only scenario that has Spain easily going to the second round would be two wins, a tie between Switzerland and Chile and an upset by Honduras over Switzerland. Yes, all three.

That scenario, though possible is very unlikely for those three things to happen.

Any other scenario than the one above, as I see it and there's a good chance they might not make it or if they do it'll be quite hard. Spain advancing through another scenario is possible, but they won't breeze through it. No way, José...

So let's factor it out for the easy advancement, two wins, a tie between Switz and Chile, and a Hondu-Swiss upset.

So Spain beats Chile and Honduras.
Switzerland beat Spain and ties with Chile, upset by Honduras.
Chile beats Honduras and ties with Switzerland.
Honduras upsets Switzerland, but doesn't win any more matches.
Code: 
Spain 6
Switz 4
Chile 4
Hondu 3

So in this VERY unlikely scenario, Spain cruises to the top, and its now Switzerland and Chile that have to use goal differential to figure out which of the two will advance.


EDIT: Even though Chile is a better team than Switzerland, the Swiss will go into this match knowing that they probably only need a draw to reach 4 points (equal with Chile), with their last match being Honduras (certain 3 pts, at least 1 pt) and Chile's last match being Spain (0 points or 1 point). So the Swiss will stack the defence as much as possible and probably rely on Frei to play and grab them something. So even if they don't score, they at least prevent Chile from scoring, which of course even 0-0 is a draw.

Anyway, this last group is going to be very exciting. So many possibilities.
 
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Possible...
But don't the top two teams qualify? In that case, it's not unlikely.
Argentina vs. S.Korea just started. I want to see SK win :/
 
...and with that, Argentina score ;_;
Not such a tremendous goal with a lot of effort. But a goal.
 
S. Korea did a first good game against Greece, but I never expected them to beat Argentina, so the actual score is perfectly normal for me..
 
Didn't see the Argentina-S. Korea match, but I read Higuain scored a hattrick and Argentina won 4-1. Was it the best match of the WC till now?
 
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