This was the first day for games in Group E and the first time I heard the phrase “group of life”. How insulting is that? I can understand “group of death”. You’re saying that these teams are all so good that only two can make it out and it’s a shame to not see all of these teams in the knockout stage. When you call a group “the group of life”? Why not just say “the weak group full of teams that are just lucky to be here”?<\/p>\n
Ecuador vs. Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n The only person I knew on the field was Velencia from Manchester United but the guy who scored was another Velencia. So, I was lost.<\/p>\n And who plays for Switzerland? I honestly don’t know. Maybe guys from the Bundesliga? But good for Switzerland to keep the trend of teams coming back from one nil down to win 2-1.<\/p>\n France vs. Honduras<\/strong><\/p>\n When they called this group the group of life, I guess they didn’t take into account France. France looked unstoppable during their first game. Granted they were gifted a red card from Wilson Palacios (Wilson, I’ll always love you for your time at Spurs under Harry Redknapp) but they still looked strong. Karim Benzema was robbed of a hat trick, I think. His shot hit the post and bounced off the keeper into the back of the net but his intention was to score, right? That counts!<\/p>\n We’ll see how France does once they’re out of the group of life.<\/p>\n Argentina vs. Bosnia-Herzigovina<\/strong><\/p>\n Oh yeah, Argentina! Remember those two-time World Cup champions featuring arguably the best soccer player in the world? I honestly didn’t. The scoring opened with an own goal but Lionel Messi provided a reminder of why he’s the best. The second Argentina goal was a thing of beauty.\u00a0Vedad Ibisevic’s late goal through the legs of Sergio Romero proved to be too little to late. Argentina is, well, Argentina.<\/p>\n 9 Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n Enner Velencia – No, not that Velencia, the other one. Nice header of a free kick crossed into the box.<\/p>\n Admir Mehmedi – Header off the corner to equalize.<\/span><\/p>\n Haris\u00a0Seferovic – This one must have hurt badly. Goals at the death are hard to take but it was a great run and a great finish.<\/p>\n Karim Benzema – Converted a penalty kick.<\/p>\n Noel Valladares (But really it was Karim Benzema) – Shot from Benzema bounced off the post and off the keeper for an own goal.<\/p>\n Karim Benzema – Strong shot to finish off the Hondurans.<\/p>\n Sead Kolasinac – Own goal. Not much else to say about it.<\/p>\n Lionel Messi – I’m just amazed at the way this guys moves. If a cartoonist drew him, he’d have that Tazmanian devil blur for legs. This goal was great but it was just his opener.<\/p>\n Vedad Ibisevic – A late goal through the legs of the keeper, keeping it respectable for Bosnia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was the first day for games in Group E and the first time I heard the phrase “group of life”. How insulting is that? I can understand “group of death”. You’re saying that these teams are all so good that only two can make it out and it’s a shame to not see all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertopentinho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}