He's going to have a hard time finding his way past the swiss and that will certianly make for an interesting game. My money's on a 0-0 draw there.

I dunno. Frei, Benaglio, Barnetta, Behrami, Inler and Lichtsteiner have the ability to play some top-notch football. Senderos, Grichting and Schwegler make up a side that has a fair few quality players. If anything they're quite underrated.

The Swiss are always so boring on paper that nobody takes an interest until they actually watch a game. They can play alright, they just never have any big names.

I don't think Honduras has the depth of either Chile or Switzerland. I don't know why everyone is discounting the Swiss so easily.

Chile done incredibly well in the Qualifying stages, with a predominitely young yeam most of the time as well.
They do have the potential to even finish first in this group I think, but second should be their's.

Spain first, Honduras second in this group

Vamos, vamos Chilenos
Esta tarde, temenos que ganar

Bielsa is hugely experienced so I don't necessarily see this as a issue. He also does have World cup experience, although unsuccessful, with Argentina in 2002.

chile all the way in this group \:d/ my friend's chilean so i've got no choice really :lol:

The thing with Bielsa is that he's coming up against many tactics that he won't have experienced before and probably won't have a steadfast way of countering them the way he's developed in south america.

Where Chile may have the advantage over the other teams and one I didn't probably touch on enough is the influence of Marcelo Bielsa, otherwise known as El loco. He is one of the best tacticians in South American football.

I can relate to your fondness for Chile, Neil. In my case, it was a girl from Argentina and a life-changing 6 months in South America way back in the 1980s. It's funny how these football affections come about, isn't it?

I Argentina and NZ as my equal second teams. and of course anyone who supports the Argies is supposed to hate Chile! But I will be very interested to see how Chile and Paraguay do at WC2010, after their impressive qualification efforts. Chile v. Spain should be worth watching.

Honduras is the easy beat of the group, but Chile have some quality players and Switzerland didn't concede a single goal last world cup, they're a defensively tight unit and we wouldn't be able to beat them.

we could also easily lose to all 4 of those teams.

Chile finished 2nd in the South American qualifing do you know how hard that is to do? Chile could beat every team in Asia with half a squad

This is got to be the easiest group in the World Cup. Granted, Spain are in there but Honduras,Chile,Switzerland. They are all teams you would expect Australia to beat (well maybe not so much Chile).

I wish Australia was in a group like this. We could have had a really good chance to make 2nd.


What do you think about the FourFourTwo blog Chi-Chi-Chi! Le-Le-Le!?
For Chile along with Honduras and Switzerland it must feel like they are all playing for second place behind Euro 2008 champions and favourites for this year's World Cup, Spain in Group H.
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