Case closed.
Posted on 06/15/2006 5:42:49 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Starting off the day will be Real Salt Lake's Douglas Sequeira and his Costa Rican teammates, who play Ecuador at 8:55 a.m. ET in Hamburg (ESPN2). The ticos showed pluck in their Group A opener against Germany on Friday, making a game of it by scoring twice against the hosts before falling 4-2. The Central Americans will need to have more players get involved in the attack against Ecuador, as Paulo Wanchope provided their only offense. The Ecuadorians got a huge weight off their shoulders by downing Poland 2-0 in their group play opener Friday. Previously, the side had been maligned for its inability to win away from the high altitude of their home ground in Quito, but that changed as Carlos Tenorio and Agustin Delgado each scored to upset the favored Poles. An Ecuador victory will guarantee they and Germany advance from Group A to the round-of-16.
Trinidad & Tobago looking to play giant-killer against England in the day's marquee matchup. The sides meet at 11:55 a.m. ET in Nuremberg in a match that will air live on ESPN2. The "Soca Warriors" made their World Cup debut Saturday, pulling off a surprising scoreless draw against Sweden in Group B play despite playing a man down for most of the second half.
The last match of the day comes at 2:55 p.m. ET in Berlin (ESPN) as Paraguay and Sweden meet. The Paraguayans were lackluster in their match against England and must get more out of their attack to have a shot to advance to the knockout phase. The Swedes had equal difficulty finding the net against Trinidad & Tobago; strikers Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Larsson will hope to be on target this time around.
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GOAL! Ecuador ahead 1-0.
BTW, thanks for the ping!
Commentator Dion Dublin mentioned on the BBC that this game was starting brightly and there were going to be goals. Right after that Ecuador scored.
Costa Rica needs to win and they attacked Brazil in 2002, so they will attack Ecuador. This will be some match!
I love it when Sweden plays Denmark all the names are the same, they are a first name followed by a last name which is a first name plus -sen.
Lars Andersen passes it to Anders Larsen
who passes it to Jens Hendriksen who then passes it to Hendrik Jensen
It is Stolen by Jans Gustavsen who feeds it to Gustav Jansen
Who dribbles by Martin Jorgensen who shoots and scores pass Jorgen Martinsen.
Oh what fun !
Case closed.
LOL.
If any team was over-hyped and over-rated it was the dear old US of A. ESPN told us they were the "best US team ever," led by the "best goalie in the World." Uh Huh
Personally, I like it when Poland plays. There is no way you can mistake the names on Poland's team for any other team! It must be a nightmare to cover the games on TV. There are just way to many consonants! Baszczynski passes to Szymkowiak. Now Zurawski goes for the goal!
Keller isn't even the best American GK.
The Brazil match was a real let-down. Ronaldo played worse against Croatia than I would have done :0(
I was very impressed by Croatia's dribbling and skill-sets though. Shame Olic was brought in so late, and the service to him was a bit irregular.
Really hope your guys (the US team!) get to round Two. Looking forward to their game against Italy - just hope the US keep possession and don't play a defensive game.
I'm of Swedish ancestry as well as Norwegian! Norway didn't make it, so look what I am forced to do!!!!!!
buy a vowel
Which raises the quesion of what was the best US WC side.
I am partial to the 1994 crowd, maybe because they are all working as commentators for espn now. Balboa, Lalas, Wynlada, Cobi, Harkes, not to mention Ramos, Wegerle, Meola, Stewart, Dooley. That was a good team.
Would it not be great if italian Roberto Rosetti officiated Ecuador's second round match. Payback for the imfamous Byron Moreno.
I can't rate the 1994 team as high as the 2002 team.
However, that 1994 team was essentially the same as the 1993 team that beat England 2-0 in Foxboro and finished Graham Taylor. Tony Meola kept stopping that Arsenal wanker Ian Wright, who couldn't score an international goal playing the USA women's side.
I really thought that Croatia outplayed Brazil for most of the match. They just couldn't finish their chances.
I don't suppose there is a live streaming audio anywhere outside of the BBC?
Germany's last gasp goal against Poland. Sakes, does it get any better?
So what does everyone thing? Will the Ivorians have some surprises in store for us foosball fans?
Well covering Duke Basketball games must be a nightmare too when they have to pronounce Krzyzewski.
England will win easily today.
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