Again, five soccer matches were on the pipeline on this Saturday. I started with the first televised Euro Cup16 Belgium taking Ireland. Highly ranked Belgium National Team owns several stars playing for EPL: Hazard, Lukaku, De Bruyne, Fellaini, Benteke, Kompany, you name one. Two star midfielders were very active and created goal opportunities for Lukaku one by each. Fellaini had never been performing very well since being transferred from Everton to Manchester United, he didn't play in this match either. Kompany couldn't play in this tournament due to injury. Benteke didn't play a turnaround role at Liverpool, so it might be the reason he wasn't a starter in this team either. With so many stars, Belgium won the match easily.
My Dad asked me to drive him to Costco to buy some necessities for this week, so I only watched several minutes of the second match of Hungary vs. Iceland. After grabbing all the stuff, I went through one of the registers to pay for the groceries. The cashier asked me if I had received the new Visa Card, yes, I got it last week. She reminded that I start using it from next Monday. I promised to put the new card into my wallet. We needed to buy cat litter, which only was sold at Costco Business Center in Lynnwood, so we drove there to pull two big bags from the shelf. Coming back home, I caught the last minute of the 2nd match. Hungarians seemed abnormally excited because they tied the match in the last several minutes as I would learn later and Icelanders were so disappointed.
The next match was supposed to be very entertaining, but Ronaldo missed the penalty kick he created by himself. Though he made several scoring opportunities but wasn't able to nail anyone down. Austria forced Portugal a draw at the end. It's not a surprise because Portugal isn't a dominant team.
Before the next Copa Centenario match would kick off, I could go to the gym to work out but decided to stay in bed to take a nap. Argentina led by Messi without injured Di Maria and rested Aguero easily beat Venezuela. However, Venezuela created quite a few opportunities. Next Tuesday night, USA will take Argentina in Semi Final. I hope it will be an exciting match, though it will be a steep uphill battle for USA.
The highly anticipated best match for the day became a massacre. My observation was that Chile played like a German team with Latin Americans' skills. Mexico totally gave up after they had lost 2 goals, so eventually they were defeated by 7 goals. 80 thousands plus fans on the stands were truly embarrassed. From a different perspective, it might not be a bad thing even to rational Mexican-Americans. Some Mexican fans had been trying to convert USA to be Mexico in any soccer match involving Mexico National team in the past. This is ridiculous. I believe Mexican players don't feel comfortable either. However, I had expected Mexico to win the match because I hadn't realized Chile National Team was so good, no wonder did they win the champ last year.
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