Saturday, June 12, 2010

And so the whistle blows.......

I wished I had bought a ticket to South Africa and watch all the matches live. But watching in HD is as good as it gets.

N e way, the latest result as of 2am M'sian time:

South Africa 1 - 1 Mexico

Siphiwe Tshabalala 55' 79' Rafael Marquez

To be honest I didn't felt like watching them play but I've managed to urge myself not to miss it. However, I only managed to catch the 2nd half.

IMHO, in the 2nd half Mexico looks lacklusture; their tempo is slow (maybe that's how they usually play) compared to the faster and more fluid South African. Mexico's passing is not accurate/got easily cut-off by S.A. Mexico's defenders are easily outpaced by the S.A forwards and their keeper reminds me of Fabian Barthez:~ bald and eccentric. C. Blanco (the first name is quite difficult to spell) who replaced Carlos Vela looks tired and uncapable of high tempoed football game, but he does have accurate delivery into the box. Mexico controlled the possession, but unable to capitalise with it until that error from S.A's defender that allowed 3 Mexico player to be onside.

Credit to the S.A team though, they defended well (until that fateful error that resulted into the Mexican goal), keep a straight line and really hustled the Mexican player. They pushed the Mexicans on the counter-attack and show some really fluid attacking movements thanks to Steven Pienaar. Their goal is an unstopable drive to the top left corner of Perez's goal. But Mphela's lack of calmness cost them dearly as they missed a golden opportunity to score the winning goal about 5' from time.

Link

Courtesy of premierleague.com

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