Tunisia v Spain

Eight minutes in, Ziad Jaziri running downfield shakes one defender off of him, takes the rest of the defenders down with him into the six yard box, turns around and comes back, still fighting off three guys, and chips the ball across the box to Mnari arriving out of midfield. Casillas saves Mnari's first shot, but Mnari is the only one to follow the rebound, and pounds it past Casillas to take an early lead for Tunisia. God I was laughing my ass off at that, given how built-up Spain is in the media every tournament. They're everybody's favorite dark horse, but they always melt down at some point. It's hard to play football with two hands around your throat. Spain's talent will probably still win them this game, because it Tunisia couldn't put away Saudi Arabia they're not going to put away Spain, but I can't help but enjoy seeing the Carthage Eagles put a goal like that past them. Supposedly there's a major issue in that for much of the Spanish team, there is no such thing as "Spain" they all want to bring home a trophy to, because most of them think of themselves as coming from Valencia, Catalunya, Euskadi, etc. Anyways, it's just a theory I've heard.

Apparently according to Spanish coach Luis Araagones, Spanish striker was not on the bench because he's an overrated player who goes missing in big matches for Real Madrid and Spain. In fact, he just didn't particularly want to play in a world cup. Well, apparently they coaxed him out onto the field in the second half of this game, because he came on as a sub to score the equalizer for Spain. In the 71st minute a pass across the top of the box by Joaquin, and a step-over by Torres left the ball with Xavi Alonso, who took a weak shot across the ground. The Tunisian keeper gave up a huge rebound, which was a huge mistake, and Raul, following up on the play got to it first and banged it into the net.

The Tunisian keeper really was the difference, and five minutes later Fernando Torres gets a bit ahead of the defense on a long pass, and the keeper comes way out to the corner of the box to contest it, whereupon Torres, who looked like he was positioning himself to hold the ball up to wait for teammates, just fires it past him into the empty net. Torres came up with a third goal in stoppage time when he was hauled down in the box for a penalty. The keeper got to the shot as well, but knocked it down underneath himself without slowing it down, so Torres scored. On Tunisia's only real chance to tie things back up, they had about 4 guys offside, and still got a player booked for dissent for arguing the call.

But what I want to know is what the deal was with the guy waving the confederate flag in the Spanish supporters' section after the third goal? Andalusia shall rise again?

Spain 3-1 Tunisia
'8 Mnari
'71 Raul
'76 Torres
'90 Torres