Brazil made a nightmare start with the own goal but went on to win thanks to a dodgy keeper and a even dodgier referee, Fred's dive wasn't even a good dive but the Japanese official fell for it.
I don't think Cameroon have the big money to buy a ref but he seemed to hate the Mexicans disallowing 2 good goals in the first half and allowing 2 red card tackles from Cameroon to go unpunished while only booking a Mexican after the Cameroon player ran into him.
Luckily the Mexicans finally scored one he couldn't rule out.
The tournament took a real upturn with the Spain Holland game, things didn't look good when Sneijder missed a sitter and Diego Costa bought a penalty for Spain to give them the lead, but Van Persie's stunning header brought them back level, the rain started falling in the second half and Arjen Robben tore the Spanish apart. 5-1 didn't flatter Holland who should have scored even more.
Ramos is one of the world's great full backs but was out of his depth at centre back and Casillias looks a bit past it now and should step down. Torres came on and managed to miss a chance that was easier to score which will be familiar to Chelsea fans :)
Chile looked capable of running up a cricket score at the start but Australia came back well and were a bit unlucky to lose.
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