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I will start this in match order and that is the 2pm game between a strong looking Ecuador verses a timid looking Costa Rica……. Who am I kidding? England can you ever make your games less stressful to watch?
Crouch and Owen never looked strong up front and Lampard was trying to shoot the ball out of the ground but at least he was getting shots in and you know from past experience that he can hit those type of balls in. There were a lot of misplaced passes Crouch missed a sitter as Beckham played in a cross to his feet but with no one near him he chose to volley it with his shin sending the shot wide. Hats off to Terry for keeping a shot that beat Robinson out by clearing the ball off the touchline.
The first 13 minutes the English fans got their wish as Rooney came on for Owen and also Ericson brought on Lennon to play along side of Beckham. May I just say that Lennon played a very good game and better then most of us expected I would consider him to start in the next match!
But just when it looked like a 0-0 draw Crouch popped on the end of a Beckham cross to relive us all from what could have been an upset. After the England goal T&T looked wilted as Gerrard scored the 2nd goal with a brilliant left footed screamer from the edge of the area.
All in all a better performance by England who are now through to the next round and will play either the Germans or Ecuador who beat Costa 3-0 to guarantee them a place in the second round.

The other match played was Sweden verses Paraguay who failed to hold them to a 0-0 draw when Ljungberg scored in the 88th minute. Now if Sweden want to get the top spot then they need to beat us. May I just add that yesterdays Sweden match consisted of 7 yellow cards, bringing yesterday’s tournaments to 18 yellows. My sources now tell me that in 20 games there have been 95 bookings, does anyone else think that maybe a bit excessive?