England v Slovenia
A much, much better performance all round by England this afternoon, we started the game well and controlled the tempo with clever intelligent passes – every player can take pride in their performance. Wayne Rooney was much more fluid and it looked as though he was back to his best, with the exception of the last game against Algeria Steven Gerrard was faultless as usual and reminds me a lot of David Beckham in previous World Cups in his determination and fight. John Terry and Frank Lampard were outstanding in protecting the back but praise quite naturally has to go to the goal scorer Jemain Defoe who pushed forward to land on the end of a fantastic ball to blast it into the back of the net from the goal mouth.
Rooney had a great opportunity in the second half and was unfortunate to hit the post. If there are any negatives from this game it was the last twenty minutes where Slovenia fought hard for an equaliser and England defended strongly, but at the expense of sending more attackers forward to try for that second goal, but the win is what counts the most and today we achieved that – it was only for a late goal in the other game during injury time between the USA and Algeria to put the USA through to the final sixteen top of the group. England are through as runner up however, but considering the performance during our previous two games in this tournament, I doubt there’s an England fan who will be disappointed with that.
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