England skipper celebrates victory with a team mate
England beat Ecuador 1-0. The English victory was lacklustre. If I was Eriksson, I would certainly be very worried man. It was just a single moment of brilliance from Beckham, which took England to the Quarter finals. Lampard, Gerrard, J Cole looked ordinary. Rooney was heavily guarded and created a couple of chances, which could not be converted. A disappointing match for England. However, they will have a pretty good chance aginst Portugal who totally meesed up their match against Holland.
Portugal beat Holland 1-0. However, the match turned out to be the worst match of the world cup so far in terms of bookings. Russian referee Valentin Ivanov booked players 16 times which included 4 red cards – 2 each from either side. Portugal is likely to play without their star player Christiano Ronalo who is injured and will certainly miss Deco and Costinha who were shown red cards.
