Is it just me, or did the England goalie look like wanted to get out of the way on that second goal?

Ahhhh!!! C'mon!

Hart wanted to cover the far corner of the goal because he anticipated the ball going there, but Suarez chose the near corner.

Oh oh Engeland.
What have you done to deserve this...?

Yes, but none of them was "wow, what a team". They won but they didn't look that solid. Or at least not as solid as I remember them...

Is the end.

Now England need that Italy defeat Costa Rica and Uruguay on his next two games. And England must defeat Costa Rica
A tie between Costa Rica and Italy it would be the end for England.

A truly DEATH zone.

Germany looked more than solid to me.

I thought Germany was quite convincing in their 4-0 trouncing of Renaldo and friends.

It"s a tournament, a cup, and the difference between getting qualified for the next round and being ousted can be very very thin : a foul, a foot, a goal post...now, seems the latin America teams play an offensive and talented game, very nice ( with the exception of Honduras in the group where the lucky French team is playing)

Tomorrow we'll see in what shape Costa Rica is really in. Even though they defeated a (then) weak Uruk-hai in the first game, Italy should be more than able to win. Against the Uruks as well.

England also has the potential to win against Costa Rica. So all is not lost for England (yet).

Brendan Rodgers must be praying for no injuries in this tournament, half his squad is out there!

No coincidence that Roy Hodgson used to manage Liverpool FC

Oh what a surprise England lost...

LOL!

Still, being a little more serious, i must admit that on later years, specially the previous worldcup and this one, i saw, and ít's just an opinion, a decrease in the quality of England playing. It's like the team it's not living up to his history.
I was specting a lot more from England on this WC, but the same happened on the last WC, although they did classified the zone on 2010.
They have good players, but the playing just seems to have a lower performance of what do you expect considering the players they have.

Wow congrats to Uruguay and especially Suarez who was terrific 1 month after knee surgery.

I feel bad for England, better squad this time and they played bravely, but not enough quality on defense to stop the truly good strikers.

Arguably the biggest deficit was in the English attack. The current team's play style appears to be a marked improvement in the mid-field over the habitual long passes. But Rooney or not, all attacks but two or three petered out over the final 30 meters. Delegating the scoring to only two payers while the mid-fielders not even attempt to get close to the goal doesn't cut it. Those ten minutes of agitated play after Rooney's goal were quite watchable, but that still leaves eighty minutes where not much initiative was shown.

And what's wrong with you British anyway, splitting all your soccer talent into four different teams, of which only the English have a chance to qualify. Not much of a "United" kingdom if you can't even assemble a national team rather than four regional ones. Seriously, this is nuts.

Yeah, what would be needed to see a UK team at some point. Are there obstacles by the FIFA or UEFA?
Do the British want that?

Ssnake, Hansundfranz,

Apart from making Gareth Bale available, where would lie the advantage?

In any case, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales would most definitely not want to be part of a UK football team. National pride is gradually leading them along the path of devolution and a Disunited Kingdom, anyway.

Last night, we were knackered by the best and the worst from Liverpool FC.

I just wanted to mention that I saw a ridiculous amount of the thing we don't mention in this thread in the Japan game, unjustifiably ending the pitch time for player in his showing in the World Cup. It RUINED his World Cup experience. There should be price to pay for that kind of cheating, manipulation the kind we won't further discuss in this thread.

There should have been more than one that should have had their pitch time shortened with the continuous deliberate fouling by a certain team.

Bale is nothing to sneer at. Ryan giggs was a great player as well. Simply lot of talent wasted.