Group C Appreciation Post

No matter how ridiculously, horrendously boring the game was, a win's a win.

Last game for all of Group C teams:
Croatia 0-1 Espana (Navas)
Italy 2 (Cassano, Balotelli) -0 Republic of Ireland

 

 (naturally, you'd want to have the short players up front....so why is Sergio Busquets in the front row as well? He's like, a giant on scrawny limbs. I'm pretty sure Sergio Ramos is the shortest guy in the back row...)

(goal scorer of the night: Mr Wicked eyes Jesus Navas.)

(Navas came on a substitute for Torres and he managed to make the game exciting for all of 4 minutes when he finally scored at 88 minutes. Still a fairly boring game and that goal was also rather...not all that amazing)

(tiny Spanish players hug ftw! La Roja is, after all, the second shortest team in the entire tourney (Italy's the shortest whereas Croatia's the tallest team)

(tiny players in a massive group hug with really tall Spanish players. Can you tell where's Navas, Iniesta and Jordi Alba? I can...)

 (and the best: San Iker)

  

(Buffon's awfully cheerful there) 

(Mario Balotelli finally scores something) 

Also, so, if you haven't noticed by now, UEFA's decided to have both games be played at the same time. So instead of having a two channel thingy displayed on my TV (don't have that function), I've been switching back and forth between the two games every 5 minutes...but due to the fact that today's games were such ...snooze-worthy, I've kinda just, watched 10 minutes of both...and then 10 minutes of tumblr browsing, twitter creeping, blah blah, and kinda, half-hardheartedly watched both games. I spent more of my energy on the Spanish game though, since I'd rather cheer for them than the Italians. sorry

Also, well played to both the Croatian and the Irish teams. Croatia played a fantastic game today, constantly defending the Spanish team, and intercepting a lot of their tiki-taka's. Ireland did very well in the overall tournament. It was just soddy luck that they found themselves in Group C. Like I've mentioned before, Shay Given is a good keeper. 

(this post is brought to you by Piqué's twitter picture with his best friend Cesc Fabregas, from forever...like, literally forever. And look, Xavi's in the backkk) 

Group D tomorrow!  

Rooney will finally be making his long-awaited appearance on the pitch after being forced to sit on the side for the first two matches.

Sweden vs. France

Ukraine vs. England 

[Sources: tumblr (if you're gonna save any of these pictures, you'll know) and Piqué's twitter]