There isn't enough I can say about England loss to Portugal on Saturday. I've talked about it with everyone of my friends and family who called to give their condolences. Between Ronney's hotheaded bad decison, becks exit, Lampard not showing up, Sven's continued 4-5-1 line-up, and our weak bench, I've had enough of the could of should of's.
John Terry's tears post match will haunt me forever, or at least untill Euro 2008.
Emotionally I was a wreak for this one. Of 'course theres no doubt that England is my team. but I can trufully say that I've and a place in my heart for Portugal since the last WC in 2002. I even featured Figo and Beto in my Sims neighborhood along with Oliver Kahn, Becks, Dietmer Hamman.
There's not one person out there who can deny Christiano Ronaldo was the man of the match for that game. He totally killed us, that super hottie. I don't know how he's going to come back to Man. United to play along with Rooney after this. I think he played on the right and Becks of course has bad D and only stopped him a couple of times and Neville was trying to attack and Christiano would alway counter. Simao was killer after he came on and how cool was it for him to get the captains band.
All in all, for England to have any saving grace Portugal must win the whole GD thing, so atleast we can say "well, we got beat my the champs, so, yeah".
Portugal will have their hands full with France, but if France plays like they did in their win over Brazil, Portugal is soo out of here. France dominated the entire match, leaving everyone (except me, 'cuz I never like them anyway) to say "Brazil who?" On the attack from minute une, there was no stopping them. Zidane is the gipher, and Cisse it's all for you buddy. I gave France not chance in the early rounds after their so so perforances (I didn't see them but I heard about them), and thought they'd again make an early exit, but WOW. I usually don't care much for Henry (he's an arsenal man, you know), and with all those offsides calls, I didn't think he'd ever put one in the back of the net that would be called fair. If it weren't for the magic master himself Zidane, I'd be over. I don't know what that man is on, but I want some. Everyone else is Fantasic as well, (don't feel like looking up all the spellings, except Makelele I know that that spelling).
I still hope Germany will kick the Azzurri in the pants (hey odin) and It'll be France and Germany in the Final, and France giving Zidane a happy retirement gift. But I way my favorite teams are going, I shouldn't root for anyone and just wish for a good game instead.
Oh and Becks stepped down as Captain. Maybe they'll pass the band to Gerrard, Terry is another good choice. All I know is that whenever Gerrard steps on to a Liverpool Pitch or even Carragher (who subs for Gerrard as Captain at Liverpool), they light up that field and they take charge of that pitch. I haven't seen Becks do that In a long time. So a change of guard is a good thing.
I'm a little disappointed in Ecaudor, I expected them to kick the #### out of England, and still have England ink out a win.
Anyway happy about the result. We've got Portugal up next. Boy will that be a mountian to climb over. Christiano Ronaldo and Figo up against my Gerrard and Becks. AHHH, attack of the hotties. (I know, I know I'm such a girl!)
This will be a tough game, England will have to do something spectacular to win. Um, how about taking out that waste of a kit, Lampard. How many Shots and Shots on Goal has he got with a result. It's called finishing####. Gerrard has way less and already has 2 goals this tourney.
I'd like to see Lennon and Becks on that Right side again, they can totally work at it together. You've got Joe Cole on the left, Gerrard in the middle pushing foward, keep Hardgraves middle back, Rooney up front (duh, he'd have a cow if you left him out), Terry, Rio, Ashely Cole, and Neville if fit or Carra on the right. Robinson in Goal (he's a little shaky but way better than David James, and Carson is still untested). That's 11 right? I know that would be a steady 11. Sven are you listening.
That's our best 11 without Michael Owen. Carrick did alright today, but he didn't do enough to make me keep him as a starter. Crouchy is still pidgon holed as a air only man, it's going to be hard to put him up there as a lone striker, and a rooney and crouch action is still untested. Both our strikers up there is a gamble, but we've got an ace in the pocket right? Walcott is supposed to be good right?
Speaking of which. Why is our bench so untested, when Portugal, Spain, Argentina and others are SO DEEP. Seriously deep, they can rest all the starters and play the whole bench and win! Is the EPL too full of foreign talent, or did Sven just pick a too young of a squad? He left out many usual suspects, Dyer, Wright-Phillips and others.
Carrick , Downing, Walcott, Lennon, Jenas, Carson are all untested in International level (Some in EPL for that matter). Wayne Bridge is alright I guess, and David James in goal scares the #### out of me, I swear he's as unpredicable as..i don't know what. I just don't trust him, as I would a Dida, Dudek, Reina, Keller, Friedel or Kahn.
Where is all the English talent? I guess our starting 11 or 12 is it. This is the last chance for some of them, or maybe not, if England can't produce The "Next Ronaldo" or next "Maradona", we'll just have to keep, Becks and Terry out there untill they are old and grey like Zidane. Or maybe we do have the next superstar, walcott and lennon, we just don't trust them to get it done, yet.
