World Cup 2006

[Esquilinho]

Originally Posted by mw84

I think the Togo striker, Adebayor should of been taken off at some point though. He was constantly standing offside and hardly moving at all. He would play a ball to someone then instead of moving he'd just stand in the same spot and they'd loose possession needlessly.

Well, I guess Togo can be considered a modest team… Surely their game play is not as sofisticated as that from more experient teams, with more experient players, like France or England.

[bbloke]

Eeek, although England won 2-0, it was a close run thing with the match between England and Trinidad and Tobago! To be fair, Trinidad and Tobago did have virtually their entire team in their own half most of the time, and sheer numbers of their players in the penalty area made it difficult for England to get near the goal!

Crouch's goal was OK, but, to me, Gerrard's goal was the sort of thing we are used to in the Premier League, and the sort of thing we expect from an England team playing to their potential. I think they still aren't working together very well and they still make too many mistakes. They did, however, play a lot better once Rooney and Lennon were on, probably because there was more pace, the formation was broader, and because Lampard and Gerrard were more able to do their own thing again.

With regards to the Sweden - Paraguay match, I was hoping for a draw, for "selfish" reasons. Sweden, to their credit, did keep trying and eventually had the breakthrough.

[Esquilinho]

6-0??? Geeezz! Is this still normal??

[bbloke]

Originally Posted by Esquilinho

6-0??? Geeezz! Is this still normal??

Wow, is Argentina really that good at the moment?! (I didn't see the match.)

[nixgeek]

Good God!!! Almost sounds like a baseball game!

(And I didn't get to see the match either. )

[Esquilinho]

I didn't see it either - the only games we get to see around here for free are the ones with the Portuguese team…

Maybe they were just lucky! And also one of the Serbians was thrown out (? my English soccer vocabular isn't the best ) before the last 3 goals, so…

Still, I was already betting on Argentina and the Netherlands

[bbloke]

As well as watching matches on TV, it's also possible to watch the matches and/or highlights using the BBC web site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...06/default.stm




Edit: Ah, it says it is viewable to UK users only... Sorry!

[lilbandit]

bbloke, what do you make of Sven? He's getting a terrible time on Irish coverage of World Cup. I love football and would watch it all day if I had the chance (Thank God for World Cup!!) Summer is always hard, go into withdrawal every year! Have to say that Sven is imo an absolute joke. Remember the pictures of him meeting with Abramovich? I swear that he did it to score a pay rise for himself. Leaving Dafoe at home, playing an unfit Owen and Rooney and bringing a 17 year old who never played a first team game for his club to the greatest football stage in the world?? Won't play Carrick despite having a great season and being the only holding midfielder in the squad? Long balls to Crouch seem to be the only tactic and Beckham is looking more and more past it (dead balls aside). I'd play Lennon ahead of him. Beckham finished the last game playing right back!!