Day 3: WOW what a day and its only day 3!!

First head to head match between Father and Son led to Zakir taking this one. He was pretty good about it and not rubbing it in my face :) Mexico did have a lot of chances with some disallowed goals. Cameroon looked pretty good and surprised me a bit for having a few good chances against a pretty good team, they could surprise the other teams in this group!

WHOA!! what a goal by RVP!! This will definitely be the goal of the tournament and a massive upset win from Netherlands taking out Spain with authority. This was definitely payback from last world cup it seemed! This team has definitely shown up to go far! With Spain losing this one this could be setting up a Round 16 match up between Brazil and Spain! One of them is leaving very soon and you definitely dont want it to be the hosts!!!! Moreover RVP plays for UNITED!! and Netherlands coach will be coming to UNITED! super excited about that season for sure!

My apologies to all my australian friends, I mean friend, Chloe! It was very insensitive of me to say Chile should have this easily... I should have said Chile should have this easily and followed with sorry Chloe! :) I must say that Australia did show they can play with the big boys. I do have Australia coming out as runner-up from this group if that is of any consolation. All the best to the Socceroos!

Lots of games today!
> Colombia should have a good battle with the Greeks with a very close game with Colombia taking this one (Zakir says Colombia takes this)
> Uruguay should take this from Costa Rica, they have Forlan but no Suarez.. I think that will affect scoring for Uruguay but they should take this one. (Zakir says Costa Rica)
> And one of the longest running rivalries between Italy and England should be a match to watch but this has a tie written all over it. The way Italy plays its probably to come out with a tie. However with Buffon in net is he too old for this gig? (Zakir says Italy)
> Ivory Coast and Japan should be an interesting matchup of speed and skill. Ivory Coast should win by a small margin but I wouldnt be surprised if Japan surprises The Elephants! (Zakir says Japan)