RICARDO COSTA SENT OFF! Portugal's full-back gets his marching orders and it looks like a travesty. Joan Capdevila goes down in the penalty area holding his face and the ref produces a red card, apparently for an elbow. I didn't see one, although the BBC commentary team claim there was some evidence of an elbow flailing in the overhead camera angle.

90+2 min: There'll be three minutes of stoppage time. Spain substitution I didn't get around to mentioning a couple of minutes ago: Villa off, Pedro on.

90+3 min: Spain substitution: Xavi Alonso off, not sure who went on.

Peep! Peep! Peep! It's all over. Spain are through to the last eight, having seen off Portugal in Cape Town courtesy of another goal from David Villa. They'll play Paraguay in the quarter-final and will be white-hot favourites to beat them and set up a semi-final against Argentina or Germany. Yum-yum.

Conspiracy theorist Dale K Privet writes again: "No proper replay for the red card incident, either," he observes.

They've shown the red card incident again. To be fair, the referee got it right. Before the ball came in from the left, Costa turned his head to see where Capdevila was standing, then violently swung his elbow back in a bid to hit him just as they went to contest the high ball. Whether he made anything more than fleeting contact or not remains unclear, but the intention was certainly there and if he had made proper contact with his opposite number, he could have done him a serious injury.

Darin Woolpert writes: "With Ronaldinho not playing for Brazil, Rooney, Ribery and Drogba already at home, it looks like the stars of Nike's new ad have been jinxed, no?" he asks. I'd have to disagree. If getting paid a couple of million quid a year to wear an unlimited supply of free leisurewear, trainers and football boots is your idea of a hex, you've got a very warped idea of what does and does not constitute good fortune.

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