Sunday, July 11, 2010

2010 World Cup final--Netherlands/Spain

The closing ceremonies were quite impressive.

Starting to watch the game. It's 25 minutes into the game; both teams are evenly matched. Lots of fouls and free kicks. Not exciting play so far.

Disappointed so far.

Half time and no goal. Not even any clear runs towards the goal. Let me re-state that. There were runs towards the goal, but all of them dissipated.

Second half is good so far. Plenty of attacks and counter attacks. Considerable number of 1-1 encounters.

69th minute. What a miss! Anyway Spain gets a corner. But they can't convert it...

Free kick (near the goal) for Spain. 73rd minute. What a useless attempt by Spain. No conversion...

Looks more and more like this will go to the penalty phase.

Spain is more and more on the attack, but they can't beat the Dutch defense.

80th minute. Attacks from Spain quite intense now.

If either team scores now, that's it. They win the championship. 10 minutes to go.

82nd minute. Holy smokes! The Dutch almost got their goal. Fantastic save by the Spanish goalie.

84th minute. Netherlands attacking now. No goal though.

1 minute to go. Will there be a goal? Will this go into extra time?

90 minutes over. Game continuing on added time because of stoppages.

Looks like there's going to be 30 more minutes...Yes there is going to be play in extra time.



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