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By the time this game had come, the World Cup campaign of England’s “Golden Generation” seemed to have been dominated so much by the WAG circus in Baden Baden that the football had almost been forgotten. England were almost lucky to be at that stage after a dour 1-0 win against Paraguay and a less than comfortable 2-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago in the group stage, when Peter Crouch tugged on Brent Sancho?s dreadlocks for his goal. Fortunately England would have had no trouble getting past Portugal since, according to Alan Shearer, only Michael Ballack, Thierry Henry and Zinedine Zidane would get into the England team – Gianluigi Buffon, Carles Puyol, Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka all missing out. Obviously it didn?t turn out that way. Sven-Goran Eriksson chose to send England out in a 4-1-4-1 formation, with captain David Beckham deeper on the right than Joe Cole. Owen Hargreaves replaced Michael Carrick in front of John Terry and Rio Ferdinand with the infamous Steven Gerrard-Frank Lampard partnership ahead. Eriksson seemed to have decided that a single player behind Lampard and Gerrard with Wayne Rooney as a lone striker was the way to go having scraped through […]
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