Sunday, July 02, 2006

England vs Portugal.

Hahaha, now i'm blogging with a happier mood, because portugal is through to the Semi-finals after a 3-1 penalty shoot out win.

Portugal, as i've said, has the tactical advantage over England. Scholari has shown what a master tactician he is, and there is no way the crap handphone can win him in the tactical field.

Players wise, although portugal were without deco and costinha, they are still a very strong team because they have sufficient depth. This is shown in their first group stage game, where deco and costinha were also not playing, but they were still able to play as a team without missing their pressence.

First half on the way, nothing much, except that my father was confused which team was giving ball, as in the bookie betting side. England were supposed to be the favourites, and here portugal were attacking them like mad. England employed the 451 formation, with rooney upfront.

WHO IN THEIR BLOODY RIGHT MIND WOULD PLAY ROONEY AS A LONE STRIKER?

There's only 1 answer to that, the legendary world class hp. Apart from that, he still managed to screw up the midfield trio of gerrard lampard and hargreaves. Half the time hargreaves is roaming upfield with lampard defending. The other half the time you don't know what the hell they are doing, because i believe they don't even know what their role is.

Half chances through the whole game, with the talking point being rooney sent off. It was abit harsh caused it just looked like a push on ronaldo, but maybe he said something or what, you know he always like to "fuck off" here and there. Abit biased in that situation, doesn't warrant a straight red.

Portugal were the better side, they pass the ball around quickly, find space to run into and they have the urge to attack. It made me feel like as if i was watching a more modified version of argentina playing football. England were slow, with no urgency whatsoever, and played like they were leading 3-0 4-0.

In the end, England got what they deserved, and bye bye, its time to go home. The quality is there, but sadly, the manager failed them, and if people want to start pointing finger, all should go to my Manager of the World Cup, Mr Sven Goran Ericsson a.k.a HP.

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