I would hope that the reasons for some of the poor games have been the poor teams.

The USA-england match was good and the Germany-australia match was great. I remember argentina looking pretty good too. And I liked the opener because it's fun to watch the host country and the announcer kept saying "tshabalala--Owww" which was entertaining because I didn't know what the hell he was talking about...

Also, the games that decide for sure whether a team advances will be more tense.