*Official* Paraguay vs Spain (Quarter-Final Four)
 

Kick-off Saturday 3 July, 20.30 (local, 18.30 UTC) at Ellis Park, Johannesburg (weather: fair, 14 degrees)
Referee: Carlos Batres (Guatemala)

Just a reminder to Mork that June has 30 days, so have edited the dates accordingly. :p

Less than an hour to kick-off so time to whip yourselves up into a frenzy for the remaining quarter-final.

Paraguay
01 Villar
02 Veron
03 Morel
14 Da Silva
21 Alcaraz
08 Barreto
11 Santana
15 V Caceres
16 Riveros
07 Cardozo
18 Valdez

Spain
01 Casillas
03 Pique
05 Puyol
11 Capdevila
15 Sergio Ramos
06 Iniesta
08 Xavi
14 Alonso
16 Busquets
07 Villa
09 Torres

Drop Busquets, play Fabregas instead and play a winger instead of Torres. They can always bring him off the bench if they are desperate for a goal. This formation doesn't really get the best out of Spain but the quality of the players is papering over the cracks.

Come on Spain

If Spain don't beat this shower of plop they don't deserve to be world champions.

Although (thank you BBC) in their last 3 QFs they've lost to Belgium, Italy & South Korea, so who knows?

I hope Spain play Fabregas today.... Go Spain....

If anyone should be dropped it's Xabi Alonso. Del Bosque isn't getting the best out of Xavi - Fabregas is much more suited to the role that he wants Xavi to play.

Mark Bright is painfully anoying.

Couple of good crosses at both ends.

Ref disallows another goal. Goals are rare enough as it is without the refs making it even worse...

Been a fecking dire game so far.

All the dire games feature Mark Bright, coincidence I think not.

Spain very lucky not to be a goal down here. I was expecting them to take this one comfortably and give Germany a different sort of problem to deal with in the semis but I'm not at all sure of that anymore.

Get Cesc on ffs.