We're half way there!

So, I have been neglecting my blogging duty in part because I spend so much time following the World Cup, I have no time to write about it. But with the knock-out stages about to begin, I figured I'd wrap up my thoughts on the group stages. For the most part I wasn't surprised. The South Americans are dominating. They are attacking teams, which I am all for, because lets face it, defensive teams give soccer its reputation for being boring. So far, these defensive teams have been punished, Italy in particular. We all knew when their team was picked, that they had no creativity up top, simply not the players they used to have, and they suffered because of this. I did expect them to make it through, but they didn't and I haven't seen an Italian flag since. The refs started off well, but have made some horrific mistakes, punishing the US probably the most and Chile certainly didn't deserve to have a player sent off against Spain. There have been good, games and bad, amazing goals and ones that I still can't believe went in.

Anyways, I think that is all I have time for now; Uruguay and S. Korea are about to start. For today's games, I think it will be 2-1 Uruguay and 1-0 US.