Spain-Switzerland scoreless at the half

I'm sure glad I choose not to do a live blog of Spain-Switzerland, the last two teams to play in the 2010 World Cup.

Pique and Villa both had chances but neither of them could find the back of the net. Pique's shot was saved by Benaglio in the 24th minute and Villa had a slight breakaway but he tried to chip it across for a teammate rather than shoot it, bad choice.

This looks like the Brazil-North Korea match from yesterday, one team is much more talented so the other plays ultra-defensively. It makes for some really boring soccer and it's no coincidence that this is the ninth time out of the first 16 games that there has been no goals in the first half.

It didn't help Switzerland that defender Philippe Senderos was taken out with an injury in the first half.

These games need more goals, hopefully these strictly defensive teams get bounced so we can have more attacking soccer going forward. Enough of this crap.