Sweden v Switzerland, 15:00 BST, BBC.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on for both of our boys. :bow:

[Özim]

Sweden have done pretty well to be honest, very hard to beat and have dumped out Holland, Italy and Germany no mean feat.

[Marc Overmars]

Bit of a 50/50 game this one.

Neither side have much firepower but they've both made themselves hard to beat.

[SMatthews]

Holland and Italy were pretty shite in qualifying tbf.

[Özim]

Italy weren't bad, they were in Frances' group though I think.

You still have to beat them and Sweden beat them over two legs. They were unlucky against Germany as well I think and topped their group in the end.

[Cripps]

Switzerland the new France for Arsenal fans. Let's support our boys :bow:

[Letters]

Federer :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

:gp:

Fed. :bow:

[Goonermerree]

I don't really like Fed, but I respect him as a great tennis player. They hype is on, England of course, but no thread yet.:sulk:

We adopted a nut job dog 9 months ago, so we're trying him out camping tonight, tonight! I don't know if I can even watch the match. Stupid leash -reactive nut job. I have my phone, if it works.

[SMatthews]

Don’t worry about tonight, get yourself ready for the quarter final on the weekend, because England will be in it. A tenner at 14/1 for 2-0? Definitely worth a punt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jenas, Scott and Neville in the studio.

Lineker asking who out of the two England want in the QF's.

He's a big reason for me not caring if England fail.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sweden: Olsen, Lustig, Lindelof, Granqvist, Augustinsson, Claesson, Svensson, Ekdal, Forsberg, Berg, Toivonen.

Switzerland: Sommer, Lang, Djourou, Akanji, Rodriguez, Behrami, Xhaka, Shaqiri, Dzemaili, Zuber, Drmic.

They'll do it for Lichtsteiner. :bow:

Djourou and his mango body butter. :lol:

[Letters]

I don't really like Fed.
That's a banning :threaten:

:fury:

[Cripps]

Jenas, Scott and Neville in the studio.

Lineker asking who out of the two England want in the QF's.

He's a big reason for me not caring if England fail.

It won't count anyway :sulk:

[Letters]

It won't count anyway :sulk:

Rubbish.

It will prove that Kane is the GOAT, dragging a mediocre England side to victory against the world's best like Panama, Tunisia and Belgium.


Admittedly I've only picked out the crap sides there.

:coffee:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shaqiri shoots miles wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka clearing. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh Berg, keep it down mate! :haha:

[SMatthews]

I think that might sum up this game in the long run.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Great block from Akanji!

Ekdal volley goes over afterwards.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good save from Sommer!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rodriguez's freekick. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Awful miss from Dzemaili.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Forsberg freekick, loops behind defletcted.

[SMatthews]

Yep, the finishing has been atrocious so far.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a miss from Ekdal! :haha:

Lawro just said onion bag. :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Berg trying to take Djourou's shorts off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shaqiri's low cross goes past everybody.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT. :lol:

Least suprising scoreline of the tournament.

[Letters]

Yesterday I managed to get home without knowing the score, set the Sky box and watched the 2nd half delayed.
Worked quite well. Might try and do the same today :ninja:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Toivonen is another one to send it sky high. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Do something with it Shaqiri!

[Marc Overmars]

Nothing worse than watching 2 teams without quality forwards go at it.

[Master Splinter]

Switzerland missing the energy/bastardry of Lichtsteiner.

Rodriguez hasn't put in one competent cross.

[Özim]

Xhaka :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh dear. :haha:

Behrami booked, will miss the next match.

[Marc Overmars]

Right I’m turning this off and finishing up on some work safe in the knowledge I’ll miss nothing.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sweden 1-0 Switzerland, Forsberg pubs it in!

[SMatthews]

Sweden fluke one!

[Master Splinter]

FORSBERG!!!

MO :haha:.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Right I’m turning this off and finishing up on some work safe in the knowledge I’ll miss nothing.

MO. :bow:

[Özim]

Sweden 1 Switzerland 0

Switzerland :haha:

Xhaka :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Xhaka booked. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shot from Rodriguez, straight out Oslen's throat.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Zuber off, Embolo on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Blocked on the line to deny Switzerland!

[Master Splinter]

Granqvist off the line!

What a man :bow:.

[Özim]

Without Shaquiri in the team Switzerland would be a nothing team, he makes them tick and is the only real threat for them, trying to create and score goals.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Shaqiri boots it out of play.

[Master Splinter]

Final ball missing every time for Switzerland.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Seferovic header saved.

[SMatthews]

Without Shaquiri in the team Switzerland would be a nothing team, he makes them tick and is the only real threat for them, trying to create and score goals.

He barely even does that. Shakira is mid-table at best. He'd be found out at Liverpool if he ends up there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pelanty to Sweden!

[SMatthews]

The final ball and finishing in this game is ridiculous.

Penalty!

[Özim]

Penalty Sweden! :haha:

Xhaka :haha:

Djourou :haha:

Rodriguez :haha:

Behrami :haha:

Switzerland :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lang sent off.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Changed to a freekick.

Lawro complaining about what he knows is to be correct. :haha:

[Özim]

No penalty foul outside the area in the end

[Master Splinter]

Lawro has reached new levels of embarrassment today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sweden 1-0 Switzerland, FT!

Xhaka. :(

Fed. :(

[Özim]

It's all over Sweden win it, all over for Xhaka and co :lol:

[Özim]

Xhaka at fault for the goal as well, powderpuff on the edge of the box, fell over like a deck of cards in a hurricane, can't believe we signed this guy up on a longer contract, disgraceful!

[Master Splinter]

Switzerland without their captain :rose:.

Granqvist leading Sweden to glory :bow:.

[Özim]

Xhaka getting slated on the BBC for his pathetic display, lack of discipline, falls over too easily, does nothing, just don't understand this guy, one of the worst midfielders around, has no role in any team, badly exposed for what he is again today, really wished we'd got rid rather than signed him up for longer.

[Marc Overmars]

Me. :bow:

[Master Splinter]

The only person not disgraceful in Phil Neville's world is the sexist, knuckle-dragging, violence-endorsing beacon of nobility staring back at him in the mirror.

[Özim]

He's not the only one who thinks Xhaka is disgraceful, actually don't think it was him that thought he was a disgrace. Fact is Xhaka is a sorry excuse for a midfielder, sadly it looks like we're stuck with him a guy with next to no talent who has no impact on a game other than the occasional lucky shot that goes in.

[Letters]

Yesterday I managed to get home without knowing the score, set the Sky box and watched the 2nd half delayed.
Worked quite well. Might try and do the same today :ninja:

Well. I did.

Me :pal:

The quality in this World Cup has been really low. England really could pub team their way to the final.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

My sweepstake :rose:


Oh well at least I did better than Maccy. :lol:

[SMatthews]

Well. I did.

Me :pal:

The quality in this World Cup has been really low. England really could pub team their way to the final.

Lot of drama, but quality of football quite bad.

Although, I'm sure it has been the same at most WC's.

[Letters]

Lot of drama, but quality of football quite bad.

Although, I'm sure it has been the same at most WC's.

Seem to remember enjoying the games more 4 years ago. There have been some good games - Saturday's 2 were particularly good and the 2nd half last night was very good.
Lot of duds though. Maybe every WC is a bit like that.

[Özim]

Think it's been a great World Cup personally, exciting games and shocks of course, if you want bad World Cups look no further than 2010 that was the most boring World Cup I've ever seen and the Vuvuzelas ruined the atmosphere of all the game to boot!

[Letters]

Think it's been a great World Cup personally, exciting games and shocks of course, if you want bad World Cups look no further than 2010 that was the most boring World Cup I've ever seen and the Vuvuzelas ruined the atmosphere of all the game to boot!

The shocks have been good, some games have been good but it's been patchy - Saturday's were brilliant, Sunday's were dull.
Overally there hasn't been that much quality.