Spain isn’t supposed to lose to Switzerland.
Spain has never lost to Switzerland.
Perhaps Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas believed that would last forever just a little too much.
In a 1-0 loss, it was his peculiarly complacent misjudgment that heaped the pressure of a billion expectations on a team that, for many, was the pre-tournament favorite.
If Chile beats Switzerland; Switzerland beats Honduras and Spain and Chile tie, Spain is out.
My favorite bit of Swiss cheese from ‘The Third Man’:
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”