Top Stories

World Cup: Serbia vs. Ghana (Your Running Commentary)

Serbia national team  Ghana Crest
  

One of the more evenly balanced groups is set to kickoff on Sunday at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria when Ghana and Serbia do battle in the Group D opener (10am, ESPN).

Ghana looks to become the first African team to grab a victory in the tournament, while Serbia hopes to claim the three points before facing group favorite Germany in its next match on June 18. 

This match should have some added appeal for U.S. national team fans, as it could provide a glimpse of a future United States foe, assuming the Americans make it out of Group C.

If you will be watching the match, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and play-by-play in the comments section below.

Enjoy the match.

Comments

  1. I know sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference but I am just raising a question. You have to suspect such thing when the ball is so light and make all these awkward flights.

    Reply
  2. Ohhhh my, really, everyone needs a reason to complain because something is not the way they want it to be.

    Really, why don’t we just ban all musical instruments from all soccer matches from all over the world.

    The people that are against the Vuvuzelas just don’t understand.

    Horns have always been played during soccer matches and fans have always been rowdy and made alot of noise. Soccer matches are for passionate fans to make noise and have pride in their country (or continent) and cheer them on!!

    If you can’t stand the vuvuzela then turn the tv audio off and listen to the radio broadcast or put some ear plugs in. Anyone who bought tickets to this world cup honestly is ignorant to think that they won’t be making noise with the vuvuzelas or with any other means.

    Reply
  3. Budweiser became an official sponsor back in 2006 for the World Cup in Germany. After the World Cup, Budweiser stated that they were delighted because it had been the most profitable sporting event they had ever sponsored.

    Reply
  4. Nobody is talking about the form of the players taking these shots. Every shot I’ve seen that sails over the net has been hit under the ball, not behind it. When it’s struck well (Dempsey, Honda, Gyan on the PK) it knuckles, but goes pretty much where you want it to.

    Non issue. The soft goals were a result of TERRIBLE form from the GKs.

    Reply
  5. “Eastern European football seems to be in a decline, perhaps slight but trending down.”

    such a silly thing to say. why do you say that?

    Reply
  6. likely going home? they will beat australia, and theres a great chance germany will be qualified by the time they meet in the last group match. wouldnt jump to conclusions so quickly, martha.

    vidic will be around for the next world cup. not sure why you think hed retire. he’s just a few months older than landon. you think landon will be in brazil in 2014?

    serbia have many more good young players than the US does. Ljajic, Matic and Sulejmani are all quality. i think they will be fine.

    Reply
  7. I think the fact that as new countries gain independence, they get a smaller and smaller field of players to choose from PLUS more countries to have to qualify over is another big factor into the decline. Just think, Yugoslavia used to be able to pull players from what is now Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia

    Reply
  8. Have any one notices that players are missing a lot of headers by few inches? The hand ball was probably the ball deviating its course away from the player’s head. Even the long shots are going way out of the target. It is a strange ball.

    Reply
  9. Eastern European football seems to be in a decline, perhaps slight but trending down. There are many reasons some political. But I agree with you, that this may be Subotic’s one and only chance.

    Rossi on the other hand was given a raw deal and deserved a spot. I believe he was discriminated against because he was an American.

    Reply
  10. Yeah, I think the early complaints were before the actual test in play. I frankly don’t see how anyone can dismiss the issue now. (Although Lalas is trying…)

    And thanks for the response! I’m not an SBI regular but this site is well done…

    Reply
  11. “Just look at the scores.
    Scoobert, the early complaints were from goalies implying it would be harder to defend, so low scores do not support early complaints.

    However later complaints from field players may be more accurate.

    Reply
  12. The curse of the Benedict Arnold continues.Serbia loses and likely going home now. Serbia will have a tough time qualifying for future WC as Euro qualifying is hard and Vidic and Stinkovic are retireing.

    Heres hoping Serbia n Subotic dont qualify for the next 3.

    That almost number 2 goal where he hit the post was all Subotics fault.

    Reply
  13. I remember why I don’t like them. Serbia always seems to play the man and not the ball, but very cleverly, so they don’t get called for obstruction.

    Reply
  14. First time commenter here…just watched the game in a pub with a lot of anguished Serbian fans and singing Ghanaians. (No favorite myself.)

    It seems to me like the new ball is indeed becoming an issue. Just look at the scores.

    And go USA!

    Reply
  15. The guys on Univision were just talking about the vuvuzela ban and why. It appears that people in the stands, media and players have complained about the vuvuzelas and how draining they are.

    Reply

Leave a Reply to Brian S Cancel reply