Barry Glendenning

Entertaining.

Ecuador hit the post twice.

Ivory Coast had a shot saved.

Bazumana Toure had a decent effort saved.

And then in the second half, the Ivory Coast hit the crossbar.

So the same crossbar got rattled three times.

Diamante had been playing on the right for the Ivory Coast to no great effect in the first half.

Second half, he was moved to the left so Diallo could come on.

He was starting to get decent crosses in, but then Ecuador moved one of their centre-backs to right-back and he sort of snuffed out Diamante's chances.

Good work, but yeah, in the end, the second half was not good.

It was nowhere near as good as the first.

Ivory Coast nicked it in the second minute of out of time.

He's got some left foot on him, hasn't he?

Yeah, yeah.

Any relation?

The only game that hasn't taken my fancy so far is Sweden-Tunisia.

That's because Wilson has indoctrinated me to have a pathological aversion to any game of football Tunisia are involved in.

So that may well be a thriller.

I'm looking forward to seeing how Cape Verde get on against Spain.

I presume they'll get battered.