More Nil- Nil and Poor England

Well unfortunately I have missed one or two World Cup matches now, but I still have watched almost all of them. The action continued yesterday with some interesting games. England desperately needed a win against Luis Suarez and Uruguay, Greece and Japan both needed a win to catch up with the Ivory Coast and Columbia, and Columbia battled the Ivory coast to top group C.

I like England, I've seen them play in person at their home, Wembley. I know a lot of their players because most of them come from the Premier League, which is really the only league we get to watch over here. Although they have a lot of talent, they can never seem to get the most out of their talent. It happened again, yesterday, in Sao Paulo. Luis Suarez came back and started for his country, he proved why he maybe the best striker in the world at the moment. England didn't have a bad game. They created a lot of chances, but so did Uruguay. In the end it came down to who could finish off their chances and when you have a striker like Suarez, you will almost always win those type of matches. Wayne Rooney did secure his first ever World Cup goal, but it wasn't enough to overcome Uruguay who scored the winning goal in the 85th minute. It came from no other than Luis Suarez who scored both goals for Uruguay. Uruguay got their first win of the tournament after losing to Costa Rica in their first game.

The English press had been placing much of the weight on Wayne Rooney's shoulders. Why? I don't really know, but he didn't perform badly yesterday and he scored a goal. England's defense needs to improve a bit if they want to do some good things. I think their World Cup run is over this year, unless something amazing happens in the following group matches. Look for them in the Euro's in 2 years.

It looks like my prediction of the Ivory Coast winning their group will probably not be right. I didn't realize how good Columbia could be, even without their star striker Falcao. The Ivorians played Columbia well but Columbia came out on top with the 2-1 win. I would like to point out how well the former Arsenal man, current AC Roma member, Gervinho, has played. Defenses have had trouble stopping him and he has two goals so far this World Cup.

Japan and Greece also played yesterday in the other match from Group C. Both teams lost their opening match a greatly needed a win in this match. After Greece got a red card in the 38th minute their goal switched from trying to get 3 points to trying to get 1. That's what they came out with. Japan probably should've won as they had the better of the chances but neither team has an "outstanding" striker so the game ended 0-0. That's the third game that's ended 0-0.

Today Italy plays Costa Rica. Both teams got a win in their first group matches and the Italians will be the favorites but as we/Uruguay knows, the Costa Ricans can pack a punch. Honduras plays Ecuador and the Swiss take on France.