Final Recap Days 23-31

Missed a bunch of days here, but I'll do my best to recap...

Day 23
GER-ARG. Germany dominated this one. On the one hand, their scorelines benefited from being ahead and having desperate opponents late in the game. On the other hand, no one else did it. In fact only these teams won games by more than two goals: Germany (vs. Australia, vs. England, vs. Argentina), Uruguay (vs. South Africa), Argentina (vs. South Korea), Portugal (vs. North Korea), Cote d'Ivoire (vs. North Korea) and Brazil (vs. Chile). And only Germany and Brazil did it in the knockout round. Needless to say, Germany was the most exciting team to watch this tournament. They are also going to be stacked for 2012 and 2014.

PAR-ESP. The second in a string of elimination 1-nil victories for the Spanish. The Paraguayians were formidable and scrappy and proved to be tough.

Day 24
No games. I went to casino.

Day 25
No games. Not sure what I did.

Day 26
NED-URU. The Dutch were probably the second most exciting team to watch in the tournament, until they started murdering people in the final. Forlan makes things in real life because as exciting are they are in Jeremy's mind.

Day 27
GER-ESP. Sad end to the Germans run. I did not find this game superbly exciting. Jeremy did. Ask him.

Day 28
No games. Struggled with the fact that this thing was almost over.

Day 29
No games. Struggled more.

Day 30
GER-URU. One of the most open games of the tournament. Impressive the German B squad beat a tough Uruguayian team which may be remaned Forlania from hence forth. I have decided that we should buy tickets to this game in 2014. Ok? Ok.

Day 31
NED-ESP. The final. Incredible that it's come to an end. The game in itself was not particularly artistic or even that exciting, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. I will say this. Spain deserved to win. If not for that individual game, they were certainly the best team over the past two years. And while, arguably, the Dutch were the second best, the Spanish deserved their first World Cup title with this squad. The Dutch deserved their win in the 70s and didn't get it.

Pool winner: Josh and Jeremy. Really I'm too upset to comment about that though.