Well, I was one for two on my predictions today and almost zero for two. Brazil's loss to Croatia was hard to foresee based on how well Brazil had been playing. At one time I thought that Spain was the most likely team to win the tournament but once they lost I was convinced that Brazil would win. Shows how little I know about this.
One thing that I do know though is that the Argentina win over Netherlands today was brutal to watch. There were 18 yellow cards given out with 16 to players (including some on the bench) and 2 to coaches. Despite all of that the referee managed to miss two very obvious yellow cards where he swallowed his whistle on Messi's intentional hand ball and Paredes kicking the ball into the Dutch bench. I think that everyone was unhappy with the referee when the match was over, the Argentina team, the Dutch team and the fans that had watched the match that was totally out of control. Hopefully the two matches tomorrow (France/England and Portugal/Morocco) will be a return to the "Beautiful Game".
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