The world champions are the first to depart from this tournament in spirit and not in body as they still have a game to play against Australia before bowing out completely from the tournament. A deserved victory by Chile leaves the Spanish team with no way back, their goal difference from two matches in minus six! Although not a comfortable win, Chile scored two goals before the half-time and Vicente Del Bosque's team found it very difficult to equalize.
Spain's Diego Costa missed a fine chance, and then set an equally good one up for Sergio Busquets who scuffed it wide while Chile's Mauricio should have made their goals three. Chile's work rate was phenomenal and most of their finish was clinical.
The question remains, is the era of tiki-taka over or was it just phenomenal players that made it work. Spain and Australia are out of the tournament, while Chile and Holland qualified to the next round.
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