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| quote: | Originally posted by Vigilante
I didn't watch the game so i can't really comment, but it is quite funny to hear you pomms whinge |
Maybe you should actually watch the game to understand the emotion surrounding it.
Key events:
38mins: Lampard scores an excellent header from a Beckham free-kick. 1-0.
72mins: All Rooney has to do is play a simple pass to Vassell and we'll almost certainly be 2-0 up. Instead he decides to take on Silvestre, he flicks the ball past him and as he's running onto it Silvestre brings him down. Silvestre is only booked and a penalty is awarded. England have another chance to make it 2-0.
73mins: Beckham misses the penalty, a decent pen but a great save from Barthez.
91mins: Zidane is outside the England 18-yard-box when Heskey needlessly challenges him from behind giving France a last-gasp free-kick in a very dangerous area.
91mins: Zidane scores a good free-kick as England's wall is badly arranged.
93mins: Gerrard, under no pressure, plays a ridiculous ball back to David James but as James and Henry chase for the loose ball James collides with Henry. He escaped a red card. Penalty.
93mins: Zidane scores his penalty, the last kick of the game.
It's not as if England were outplayed by a better side and none of us can accept it, as you are making out. France scraped a win out of nothing in the luckiest of circumstances in the dying seconds of the game.
But as I said earlier we have positives to take from this, it was a bizarre turn of events but as Eriksson said after the game you can't be unlucky all the time. We showed more ability than most have given us credit for and I imagine the confidence of most England fans has actually risen, despite defeat.
Last edited by evil_bastard on Jun-14-2004 at 01:56
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france the best team in the world now ? i don't think so 
