Leaving with this appeal …
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If you’re going to be awake over the next few hours, please come back for more commentary and reports from Australia and New Zealand. In any case, thanks for following along with this fascinating if somewhat one-sided game. See you next time.
Reminder of the stakes here: If the rest of this group goes to form, with Germany winning its next two games and Morocco losing both, the winner here advances as the second-place team in the group.
I’m not even sure Germany beats Colombia all that easily. This was a master class in pushing the ball into the final third, winning all the midfield battles and disrupting anything South Korea attempted.
On the bright side for South Korea, Peter Oh says, “At least Korea is certain to earn the Phair Play award.”
We can’t end with that, can we? Let’s see what else we have …
Ah, here we go … John Cartmell starts our conversation on crop rotation. “For us, it’s alternating beans and corn. (Soybeans and feed corn, to be precise.) Go Hoosiers! Plenty of soccer in Indiana.”
OK, we’ll pick up from there when I’m next on duty, which I believe is during the USA-Netherlands grudge match. Unless the Netherlands can raise their level a good bit from their opening game, we’ll have plenty of time to talk about crop rotation.
