Showing posts with label Slovenia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slovenia. Show all posts

Friday, 25 June 2010

World Cup Diary Blog - ENGLAND v SLOVENIA (Wednesday June 23rd 2010)

ENGLAND v SLOVENIA
Wednesday June 23rd 2010
World Cup Group C - Final Match


TEAM NEWS: Pavlos the Palace fan is in for Heskey. He only popped into the the dressing room looking for a toilet. Millner back in (for Lennon).

Defoe in for Heskey up front with Rooney. James retains place in goal after clean sheet v Algerians.

4mins Twitter Over Capacity. Todays observations will be reserved for the blog then...

5mins The pub i'm in here in Basildon has four massive screens plus loads of smaller ones littered around the room, which is almost half the size of a football pitch. The drink prices are also MASSIVE (and it's not even PROPER Red Bull)

6mins The pub hasn't taken the chance on HIGH DEFINITION coverage. Then again, were in Essex, maybe high definition hasn't arrived yet.

7mins RED BUTTON - Choose match... er, thanks The England match is perfectly fine.


8mins Good tackle by John Terry, good to see he saves the 'big mistakes for the press conferences...


12mins Three dodgy tackles by England already. What are the last 10 minutes going to be like?

13mins Good effort by Frank Lampard, 35 yards out with a free kick. If only they (Slovenia) had Rob Green in goal.

20mins The good thing about BBC High Definition is they can't cut to adverts when england attack.
(they have been known to cut to a woman on a toilet when Torqay are playing though...)


21mins Guy Mowbray stats... Wayne Rooney and Jermaine Defoe have played together nine times for England, neither has scored, and Defoe has been substituted in every game...

22mins Millners crosses are getting better, he must have heard us slagging him off back here in Essex.

23mins GOAL! from Defoe by Millners cross.

The Millner we have been slagging off for 20 minutes and the Defoe that Sven Gorran Errikson never took to the last world cup.


27mins This is total football from England, just like watching Ley.. sorry Brazil.

30mins Seriously I haven't seen England play this well since... since... OK I HAVEN'T SEEN ENGLAND PLAY THIS WELL


HALF-TIME ENGLAND 1 SLOVENIA 0
and USA 0 ALGERIA 0

Group table as it stands... England 5, Slovenia 4 USA 3 Algeria 2 - England & Slovenia qualify..

61mins Can't remember an England performance like this so high tempo for so long... 11 Random drug tests at this rate...

67mins Three Slovenia chances blocked by Terry first, Johnson second and third one shot wide.

Not shot wife as my predictive text suggests. (That would be Columbia surely, were it to happen)

70mins Bit of movement/tactics discussion on the bench. Come on England, Come on Joe Cole, Come on Pyscho...

71mins Joe Cole on for Rooney. Has their ever been a game so dominated by one team that has finished 1-0??

The answer is probably yes, but anyway, I have put the question out there...

72mins Lot at stake here, If England win we will play on Saturday on the BBC.

Otherwise we're shunted back to the comical, sorry commercial broadcasters at ITV1.

80 mins credit to Slovenia still in it, we should have had about 5 by now. They deserve to go through in second place.

STOPPAGE TIME England playing it tight holding the ball in the corner. Not something we see regularly at England matches. Like a penalty shoot out win.

FINAL WHISTLE - all over ENGLAND 1 SLOVENIA 0

England qualify, but late goal by Lando Jason Donovan means we're pushed into second place in the group - and maybe DEFOE and co will face the old foe...


Final Group Points
USA 5 (winners)
England 5 (runners-up)
Slovenia 4
Algeria 2

STOP PRESS - Ghana 0 Germany 1 - It's ENGLAND v GERMANY
on Sunday June 27th at 3pm (as if you didn't know)

Until the next time
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

World Cup Diary - England v Algeria (+ Germany v Serbia + Slovenia v USA)


Friday June 18th
Early kick offs -
Germany 0 Serbia 1
It's times like this Germany must wish they were in a group with Algeria and Austria.


Slovenia 2 United States 2U - S - A win TWO to TWO!!

After the Slovenia v USA game the group reads as follows:
Slovena 4 pts from 2 games.
USA 2pts from 2 games
England 1pt from 1 game
Algeria 0pt from 1 game.


Group C - England v AlgeriaTeam news: James in for Rob Green. Carragher in central defence replacing injured Lead Knee.
Heskey retains his place alongside Wayne Rooney upfront. Gareth Barry replaces Milner in midfield.

Bloody hell england. 4 minutes gone and not scored yet. Sort it out..
Oh hang on, I'm watching on ITV High definition...
 

On the ITV high definition coverage, it's looks as if the green kitted algerians are naked.
The algerians are wearing green. Last time england blamed the ball. This time they can blame the kit.
John Terry goes down injured.
If he misses the rest of the tournament will FIFA let us replace him with Wayne Bridge?
Half time England 0 Algeria 0If we don't qualify from this group we should make the players return to England by ricshaw as punishment.

Substitutions - Wright-Phillips on for Lennon. Defoe on for Heskey. Is the end of Heskey's England career?
We asked the same question in 2006. In fact, we hope the same thing after every Heskey appearance.

Peter Crouch is brought on for Gareth Barry. Come on Crouchy, remember the spirit of 06, and the late goal v Trinidad and Tobago.

Final Score England 0 Algeria 0
"And so England's proud unbeaten record continues"
Clearly, ITV have signed Adrian Chiles for his stand up comedy.

Come on fab, david blunkets dog can see that this team is missing something from qualifying..
Get Matthew Upson on the pitch (oh, ok then, Joe Cole)

As the players trudge off the pitch Wayne Rooney mouths something about loyal supporters.
It's unfair to criticize our Wazza.
After all, it was his missus who presented "Coleen's Real Women"


Latest Group Standings
(For those with a nervious disposition, look away now...)
Slovania 4pts 2 games
USA 2 pts 2 games
England 2pts 2 gamesAlgeria 1 pt 2 games.
It's the group of death. And that's just for fans who are dying of boredom.

If we finish 3rd in the group do we drop into the FIF-OPA League Group Stages?


Permutations
In the second round England could still end up playing Germany, Serbia or Ghana.
Or be on the same plane home as the French...

Things are so bad, James Corden is being flown out to replace David Beckham as team mascot.
We need another rousing speech like he made at BBC Sports Personality of the Year, as opposed to the ballet lessons he had with Man United.
 

Ok, enough flaffing about Don Fabio... This should be the team for the next match:

Goalkeeper - Becks on cructhes. Defence - James Corden on his own.
Midfield Boris & the two Millibands
Forwards - Princes Harry and Wills with Michael Owen on crutches in the middle.

Until the next one
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