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Joe Cole by far the best player of the game
 

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Deserved victory for England...Paraguay has dissappointed me, I thought they'd be stronger... Only Joe Cole and 1st half's Beckham were very good in this game...
 

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England strong in the first half not soo convincing in the second..
 

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Lampard+Gerrard fkn sucks ass.

My words to Shahz and other fellow England NT haters...

Dont be too upset, England will get past the group stage easily, so no big deal if they win now, the real stuff is the knockout rounds, we can support against them then ;)
 

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England will draw against Sweden, and score less than them against Trinidad, causing the second place, and then it's Germany-England, a very much awaited game by both sides, and of course neutrals. I guess that FIFA will allow that to happen, unless they want England to do better than just the round of 16 :D
 

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Jeeezzz..what a boring match..I almost fell asleep..:rolleyes:

Is this the team that's suppose to be one of the candidates to lift the trophy?? I don't think so..Impotent attack, very defensive midfield and plenty of long balls coming from the back line..Just the kind of football I dislike..

Paraguay, even worse, no idea whatsoever..poor guy Gamarra, very unsure and unlucky today..And did you see that oldie Acuna?? He was exhausted in the 2nd half, barely walked over the pitch..
 

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wittman said:
Jeeezzz..what a boring match..I almost fell asleep..:rolleyes:

Is this the team that's suppose to be one of the candidates to lift the trophy?? I don't think so..Impotent attack, very defensive midfield and plenty of long balls coming from the back line..Just the kind of football I dislike..

Paraguay, even worse, no idea whatsoever..poor guy Gamarra, very unsure and unlucky today..And did you see that oldie Acuna?? He was exhausted in the 2nd half, barely walked over the pitch..

A lot of events were involved in causing a boring game such as this.
The unfortunate backward header for one, subing goalie and the REF really killed the tempo.

In addition, paraguay are a lethal defensive minded game..
 

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The ref was horrible today. In fact, the refereeing was horrible as well in the Germany game. Both ref's were against Germany and England respectively.

I don't want to start any theories, but yesterday the ref was an Argie and today it was Mexican. In both cases, Germay and England were playing against a central and south american team.

FIFA should get totally impartial referees. Get Asian or African referees for games like that. If two European teams play each other, then a south american ref can be in charge.
 

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I really thought in todays game that the ref was bad towards both teams,as for yesterdays refs it was mostly the linesman's bad calls..

Anyways I cant wait for Sweden to score..
 

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I don't know Ziyad, he was really harsh against England, specially Crouch.
 

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Yeah I agree there were a couple of good tackles that he called fouls..But there were other calls too that were strange that went for England too..

Anyways T&T is putting up a great fight,but I hope they breakdown after Sweden score in the first 5 minutes of the second half...
 

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or hopefully Sweden wont score at all :D
 

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First red card in the tournament.
 

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Where is the Aston Villa GK? Wasn't he Swedish.

It will be harder now for Sweden to score. Whenever a smaller team gets a red card while they are tied with a bigger team, it is wrose for the bigger team!

The smaller team basically goes into totall defence mode.
 

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Shaka Hislop is definately the man till now...COME ON SWEDEN !!!!
 

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and this was supposed to be the easy win game of the group.. Obviously not. T&T deserve this, theyve played with heart for sure, despite lacking the quality in the team.

Hislop :heart:
 

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Katiey86 said:
and this was supposed to be the easy win game of the group.. Obviously not. T&T deserve this, theyve played with heart for sure, despite lacking the quality in the team.

Hislop :heart:

I agree,too bad they couldnt get a lucky break like England;)

These two games however put the Germany game in a new perspective.
 

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Hardluck Sweden..Congrats and respect to T&T.

Hislop MoM
 

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and this was supposed to be the easy win game of the group.. Obviously not. T&T deserve this, theyve played with heart for sure, despite lacking the quality in the team.

Hislop :heart:

Yeah T&T truly deserved this, and I'm truly amazed a team which only have players from 3-4 english division as their best players drawing with a very strong swedish team.

Hislop Man of the match. he saved T&T arse in several occasions. :star:
 

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You just gotta love these guys, T&T is a very sympathic team! I wonder what the odds looked like after the red card, but they made it! Not only played with heart, but they were very disciplined apart from the last couple of mins of course, when they were really tired.

Big up, T&T! :star:
 
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