World Cup: Match 31 - Switzerland vs. Chile

The Swiss held out long enough for the record but not much longer (6 minutes), as Chile became the first team to score on them in the past 557 minutes (a little over 6 games) of World Cup play. The achievement is definitely heroic, as the Swiss faced the last 44 of those minutes with ten men (though they did sub out their captain for another defender ten minutes after the red card). Chile's victory extends the dominance of South American teams, who are 7-0-2 in the tournament so far.

Uruguay vs. France: 0-0
Argentina vs. Nigeria: 1-0
Paraguay vs. Italy: 1-1
Brazil vs. North Korea: 2-1
Chile vs. Honduras: 1-0
Uruguay vs. South Africa: 3-0
Argentina vs. South Korea: 4-1
Paraguay vs. Slovakia: 2-0
Brazil vs. Ivory Coast: 3-1
Chile vs. Switzerland: 1-0

That's 18-4 in terms of goals!

The Swiss can blame the Saudi referee, who handed out 9 yellow cards, including one in the 2nd minute, in addition to the straight red to Valon Behrami, whose heavily tattooed arms did help his cause with the conservative Arabian. For what looks like such a dirty game on paper, the opposing teams seemed to be getting along just fine. In fact, when a Chilean player was shown a yellow card, the Swiss teammate of the victim smacked the offender on the butt. This ref and the French one from the Brazil-Ivory Coast match should have traded places.