*** Official FIFA World Cup 2014 Thread ***
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Holland has for all intents and purposes advanced to knockout - not just by beating Spain, but they're sitting on a +4 goal differential. That's going to be a huge advantage for them.
Spain, meanwhile, is in real trouble. Losing to Holland doesn't hurt them nearly as badly as them being -4 in goal differential. At this point they're probably going to have to sweep Chile and Australia to advance, and that's no sure thing because Chile is good enough to steal that game from them.
Spain, meanwhile, is in real trouble. Losing to Holland doesn't hurt them nearly as badly as them being -4 in goal differential. At this point they're probably going to have to sweep Chile and Australia to advance, and that's no sure thing because Chile is good enough to steal that game from them.
I think Netherlands just stopped by Spain's dressing room after the game and scored another goal...
I think it'll be Netherlands and Chile. Also, saw on the bottom ticker that that's the worst loss by a defending champion ever and first time since 1950 that Spain has given up more than 4 goals in a world cup game
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100617131039AAov1i3
I was also curious so I googled it. The first answer seems pretty legit.
Injury time, so that the whole 90 minutes is able to be actually played (sort of).
The clock on the scoreboard never stops during the game, but the ref on the field is keeping track. So at the end of the half/game you'll have a difference between what's on the scoreboard and the amount of time that the ref has left. As Linden Cy says it's called injury or stoppage time. One other thing you'll often see is the refs won't stop the game while a team is in their attacking third so they'll often wait till after that to end the game (or at least that's a rule I've heard before)
I couldn't watch the game live but from highlights it looks like they're lucky it wasn't -5.
I just watched the first half of the Spain-Netherlands match & I thought it was interesting how inexperienced the Dutch back line was. Their most experienced player is Ron Vlaar who has 25 caps. No other defender on that roster has more than 20 caps. Vlaar plays in England with Aston Villa and Verhaegh plays in Germany with Augsburg. Every other defender plays in the Eredivisie for either Ajax or Feyenoord and is no older than 24. For all of the hand wringing in the media about the inexperience of the USMNT backline, I just thought it fascinating that an international power seems fine with taking an even more inexperienced backline to the World Cup.
