Wasn't looking forward to it as in past WCs but it has been thoroughly enjoyable on the whole to date.

You can count on one hand the poor games but I seem to remember one WC (was it Italia90 or USA94 l?) where the good games could be counted on one hand.

Pelanty shoot outs decided many games in the past and hopefully this one will be different with both teams going for it.

The Russians are making this game poor and I hope they go out, but you can't blame them for opting not to go toe to toe with Spain.