Chile is one of the most exciting teams in one of the most exciting groups in the world cup. Spain had been demolished in the game before losing to Holland 5 to 1 and Chile's game against Australia had to live up to the hype. For Australia, the expectations are not high as the whole world has stated that the team will fail to garner a point in the group stage. In the first half of the game Australia were living up to what people were saying as their touches were too heavy and they seemed way too nervous against a team that just concedes as many goals as it scores. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, they gave up two goals in two minutes to Chile. In the 12Th Minute of the game, after a mele and failures to clear the ball out of the danger zone Alexis Sanchez will find the ball and he will score to give Chile the early 1 to 0 lead. Two minutes later, Sanchez will find Jorge Valdívia at the top of the box and he rifles a shot past the goalkeeper to give Chile the 2 to 0 lead.
In the 35TH Minute, Tim Cahill will cut the lead in half when he heads in the volley to give him the distinction of scoring a goal in three straight world cups. The second half was completely different story as Australia put the pressure on the Chilean defense, but they couldn't muster a goal. We would actually get to see the goal line technology put to use for the first time in this game as the ball manages not to cross the goal line after Matthew Ryan exited the net and Alex Wilkinson is there to make sure it doesn't cross the line. Chile would ultimately seal the win in the 92 Minute when second half substitute Jean Beausejour was able to knock in the rebound after Ryan made a unbelievable save just before. Australia may not be the team favorited to exit the group, but I would look at the positives of the game and try to execute in the rest of the games they have left. For Chile, they want to do to Spain in the next game what Holland did and it should be exciting.
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