Monday, June 30, 2008

Germany vs Spain

Who said you can't learn anything from watching football? My World Geography knowledge was bolstered ever since I started watching football since young. Did you know that Spain's national anthem has no lyrics? At first I thought that the Spanish players were not patriotic folks but realised that there were no lyrics to be found when they zoomed in on the Spanish fans and some were humming along to the anthem because of the lack of lyrics.
Even game so far with the closest effort being Metzelder almost scoring an own goal but Lehmann keeps it out. Torres's header hits the base of the post. Ballack has an effort blocked by a defender's body. Goal! It had to be Torres... what the hell is Lehmann doing rushing out? He's no spring chicken... he should have stayed in goal. Ballack has an eye injury with blood streaming out.
Half-time and the score remains 1-0 in Spain's favour. Mark Richmond is in the studio with StarHub trying to make up for their cock-up.
Joachim Low makes a tactical change and brings on Kevin Kuranyi. Germany starts to control proceedings before Aragones replaces Fabreagas with Xabi Alonso. Its like a chess game now.
Game over. Spain are the champions of Europe. The Germans huffed and puffed but failed to force Casillas into a save.

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