England v Mexico dont expect too many answers

Filed under World Cup by on May 24, 2010 at 9:58 am {no comments}

England’s penultimate warm up match for the 2010 World Cup Finals is a match against a talented Mexico team, who themselves are in preparation for the finals. This is an interesting choice of game but it is unlikely to give much indication of how either team will perform in the finals themselves. This will no doubt be punctuated by substitutions and any hopes of free flowing football will be hampered by the disgraceful Wembley pitch.

Lets hope no player picks up an injury this close to the finals in what is a bit of a meaningless match, which could easily end up a draw as neither team will want to show their full hand at this stage.

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Mexico Struggle Past North Korea in World Cup Warm Up Match

Filed under World Cup by on March 19, 2010 at 11:44 am {no comments}
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Mexico looked far from impressive against North Korea during their a 2-1 victory in La Comarca last night. To be fair the North Koreans dit play 11 men behind the ball for most of the match but only  Javier Hernandez and possibly Braulio Luna looked anything like the standard needed to make an impression in the World Cup in South Africa especially given their tough group. On this showing North Korea will make things difficult for their opponents but it will take a miracle for them to progress through the group stages.

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Lucky 13 For England

Filed under World Cup by on March 5, 2010 at 3:19 pm {no comments}
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In their 13th game against African countries England managed a welcome win, but were far from convincing as their preparation for the 2010 World Cup Finals in South Africa got underway. Against a skillful Egypt team fresh from their 7th victory in the African Cup Of Nations England failed to impress and went into the dressing room a goal down at half time.

Fabio Capello made some inspired changes at half time bringing on Peter Crouch and Michael Carrick and this turned the game with Crouch scoring the equaliser and England’s third.

A 3-1 win look convincing but had the linesman spotted that Peter Crouch was offside for one of his goals and the goalie made a better effort at stopping Shaun Wright-Phillips volley then things would have looked very different.

Still Fabio Capello will be happy with was England’s 500th win, even if he has lots to think about squad wise.

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