World Cup 2010 – Group H highlights
Chile 1-0 Switzerland highlights
Venue Port Elizabeth
21 June 2010
kick off:15:00 CET
Very impressed with Chile in the first half but all credit to Switzerland in the second half, they set their stall out and did it very well. In the end, one great move from Chile won it. It was possibly a fair result but the sending off was key, although Chile were almost undone by it because the Swiss just defended. The referee was out of his depth, he almost lost control. About 10 players were booked, good players will now miss the next game for nothing.
Chile: Claudio Bravo, Waldo Ponce, Mauricio Isla, Carlos Carmona, Alexis Sanchez, Arturo Vidal, Humberto Suazo, Matias Fernandez, Jean Beausejour, Gary Medel, Gonzalo Jara.
Switzerland: Diego Benaglio; Stephan Lichtsteiner, Stephane Grichting, Steve Von Bergen, Reto Ziegler; Valon Behrami, Gokhan Inler, Benjamin Huggel, Gelson Fernandes; Alexander Frei, Blaise Nkufo.
| Goal scorers: 75′ [1 : 0] Mark Gonzalez |
Cards: 2′ Humberto Suazo 18′ Blaise N’Kufo 22′ Carlos Carmona 25′ Waldo Ponce 31′ Valon Behrami red 48′ Tranquillo Barnetta 60′ Gokhan Inler 60′ Matias Fernandez 61′ Gary Medel 90′ Jorge Valdiva |
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74 mins GOAL Chile 1-0 Switzerland
It had to happen… Estaban Paredes breaks the offside trap and races into the Swiss box, only to be confronted by the onrushing Diego Benaglio. However, the second-half sub skips around the keeper before sending over a superb cross for Mark Gonzalez, who heads into the net from four yards with a defender in desperate chase to clear the ball. The former Liverpool winger, born and raised in South Africa, rushes to the thousands of fans who have gone bananas. A deserved goal considering how they have dominated most of this game.
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