Huge Disappointments but Some Surprises

Okay, it's been a while.

The teams that made it to the Semifinals - Uruguay will play the Netherlands, and Germany will play Spain. Ultimately I am hoping for Netherlands, ultimately, and then Spain. However, Germany, I think, will be the one to beat, and if I were betting, I would say they will probably win the cup.

Argentina lost to Germany in probably the MOST disappointing game of the cup, 4-0. It was embarrassing. I didn't even feel bad for them - they just sucked hard core. Germany was able to out maneuver them completely. Messi was not even a threat, almost non-existent on the field. I was sad because I was impressed with him highly in the beginning.

Netherlands beat Brazil, which was awesome! They did it with style too. The goals by Schneider were incredibly awesome!! I feel bad that one of his goals was credited as an own goal. Yes that defender made a bad move and may have even touched it, but that shot was awesome and was going in regardless.

Ghana beat United States but then had a TERRIBLE loss to Uruguay. They scored a goal in seriously the very last second, and one of the Uruguayan players - Suarez, I believe, did the most cowardly thing ever and blocked the goal with his hand. So no goal. He was given a red card and Ghana was awarded a PK, which he missed. So they ended up going into PKs, which they lost 5-3. SO SAD. That was a tremendous upset.

Awesome game however was between Paraguay and Spain. At the last few moments of the game - Paraguay got a PK, which the keeper stopped amazingly. THEN the counter attack by Spain led to them getting a PK, which they scored but was called back because a Spaniard crossed the line before the kick was taken. So the kick was retaken, and it was blocked by the keeper and rebounded out, and then shot again, and the keeper blocked it again! DRAMA!! Spain did eventually get a goal in to win the game though.