Louis Suarez scored two good goals for Uruguay tonight, after having a knee operation just four weeks ago, and the Liverpool man, who was short of match practice, was too good for England, who couldn’t handle a Uruguay team who were taken apart by Costa Rica in their last game, as the South American side conceded three poor goals in the second half.
Wayne Rooney – scoring England’s goal
It was another mediocre performance from England, and a great Edinson Cavani cross picked out Louis Suarez after 39 minutes of the first half, and the Liverpool man headed the ball brilliantly past England goalkeeper Joe Hart.
England had their chances and Wayne Rooney headed against the cross-bar from three yards out following corner and then Wayne shot straight at the goalkeeper, when he probably should have scored.
Suarez brilliantly heads home Uruguay’s first goal
But after 75 minutes as England pressed Uruguay for the equalizer,Wayne got his first ever goal in the World Cup finals, as he nicely tucked the ball home and it was all England for the next 10 minutes.
But then a long goal kick downfield and some terrible (make that pathetic) defending from England saw Louis Suarez get the ball and he hit the ball into the goal past Joe Hart from a narrow angle after 85 minutes – and it was just a terrible bit of schoolboy defending.
Suarez smashes home the winner after 85 minutes
England have now lost two games and conceded two goals against both Italy and Uruguay and once again they have massively under-performed on the World Stage.
This was the first-ever time in the World finals that England have conceded two goals in successive games, and we just were simply not good enough, in spite of all the big names in the side.
And you have to go back to 1950 since we lost two successive World Cup final goals. – and that was when we humbled 1-0 by USA.
It was not good tonight in Sao Paulo.
In the last four World Cup tournaments, only one country has ever gone through from the group stage with 3 points – which is the most points England can get now – if we beat Costa Rica next Tuesday – with the emphasis being on if.
But an Italy – Costa Rica draw tomorrow will see both countries on 4 points, and England will be formally eliminated.
The England press were kind to England after a decent performance against Italy, but that will not be the case after tonight – but Wayne don’t blame Wayne Rooney, who was England’s best player on the night – and he was a little unlucky not to score more than one goal.
There will be an investigation of what went wrong with England – and then we will massively under-perform again in the next European Championships in two years time.
Now we just have to hope Newcastle United do really great next season.
At least Newcastle have won something as recent as 1969, whereas England have won nothing since that World Cup win in 1966 on home soil.
Now – if only Newcastle can sign some top-class players for £5M or less – we could be in business. 😀
Comments welcome.
119 comments so far
Thump
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:02 PM
Comment #1#PardewForEngland
Big Pappa Cissé
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:03 PM
Comment #2Not easy being an NUFC & England fan 🙁 .
manxpie
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:04 PM
Comment #3catchy rooney sturridge wellbeck sterling and gerrard plus 60 odd % possesion = defensive to you?
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:07 PM
Comment #4Apparently Gerrard and Johnson were content with dashing the hopes of a city so had to go for the hopes of a nation as well
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:08 PM
Comment #5You were defensive, you just didn’t attack much
Oh well maybe next time, you can’t win them all
catchy in norway
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:09 PM
Comment #6manx
rooney not good enough
gerrard and henderson sat in our half for the whole first half
we have no one that dominates up front, sturridge runs all day, but needs a strong player next to him, same as he does at liverpool
wellbeck simply not good enough at this level, would have had milner on ,
again lallana should have started
and joe heart isnt good enough
Big Pappa Cissé
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:10 PM
Comment #7Need to ship out these players that are happy to sit in midfield, pass it sideways and never get anywhere.
We need a manager that plays attacking football and starts Barkley,Ox,Lallana & Shaw. Hodgson has been a nightmare.
catchy in norway
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM
Comment #8manx
they gave us possession,
we had our team out there but with no discipline
glen johnson was our best player, at least he tried
manxpie
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM
Comment #9tads don’t forget henderson absolute waste of a position today wilshire shoulda been in there
toonking
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:16 PM
Comment #10@manxpie85
last season was a good season for willo but he is still not a good enough CB for us.
the problem we have is that our attack is not very good and ashley himself will never play the money required for quality creative wingers attacking midfielders and forwards.
So if we are to see the entertaining football we need to have defenders who are quality that way the manager doesn’t have to make the midfielders play so deep because when they playing players deep it’s because a result is more important than lots of goals.
argentina for instance have poor defence but they still win because of that decent attack
urugray had a poor defence but they had suaez today so still got that win.
that is where the problem lies with both england and newcastle.
england’s defence have been shocking since terry was removed, the thing about us is we don’t have the strikers to give us them goals needed when we leak so much.
newcastle like england have the same problem ourselves. the first half of last season was good but we had a quality CAM and a very good forward but once cabaye left the goals were not going to be as easy, so because of our defence being a poor one we were starting to go for draws and lost more games.
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:17 PM
Comment #11manxpie
i don’t think that would have made any difference to be honest
toonking
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:18 PM
Comment #12manxpie // Jun 19, 2014 at 9:23 PM
thought this was quite apt
@nufcfans the only centre back in the Premiership who kept Suarez quiet over two games was Mike Williamson
@manxpie85
last season was a good season for willo but he is still not a good enough CB for us.
the problem we have is that our attack is not very good and ashley himself will never play the money required for quality creative wingers attacking midfielders and forwards.
So if we are to see the entertaining football we need to have defenders who are quality that way the manager doesn’t have to make the midfielders play so deep because when they playing players deep it’s because a result is more important than lots of goals.
argentina for instance have poor defence but they still win because of that decent attack
urugray had a poor defence but they had suaez today so still got that win.
that is where the problem lies with both england and newcastle.
england’s defence have been shocking since terry was removed, the thing about us is we don’t have the strikers to give us them goals needed when we leak so much.
newcastle like england have the same problem ourselves. the first half of last season was good but we had a quality CAM and a very good forward but once cabaye left the goals were not going to be as easy, so because of our defence being a poor one we were starting to go for draws and lost more games.
Belfast
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:19 PM
Comment #13Gerrard has been shite in both games. Time to start the likes of Barkley and Lalana.
manxpie
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:21 PM
Comment #14catchy but we were never out classed or really troubled we had the far better periods apart from early second half
it wasn’t a defensive team by any means
it was just gerrard was shit henderson was pointless and wellbeck was shit
ya can’t predict them kind of performances
next game wilshire and barkley to start instead of henderson and wellbeck for me
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:22 PM
Comment #15Omg Belfast i actually agree with you with that, and i was just going to type that it in perhaps we think the same how cool is that
Ha ha ha
Graeme
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:22 PM
Comment #16Oh, the thought of P45DUE leaving us for Engerland would be so wonderful – but against that, Engerland dont need that sort of punishment either.
Still, for the greater good, if England want him, I cant see many on tyneside objecting. Not even FCB as the compo would be wonderful for him lol
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:23 PM
Comment #17Manx
Thought Henderson did okay with scraps he got
Hodgson set us up wrong again, Uruguay did the carbon copy of Italy, sit back absorb our scrambled attack of players out of position all over the place, expose are ridiculously slow FB’s and ease it past the worlds most static goalkeeper
Once again listening to that w*nker Andy Townsend immediately scape goat the wrong players “oh Jagelka should of been tighter there”
Yeah? What about f**king Johnson Andy?
He was actually marking Cavani before going walkies and then thought na don’t need to pressure him, make a challenge or even block the pass
Then there’s Gerrard, no reason to challenge for that header, 2 CB’s behind you who had dealt with damn near everything thrown at them and had played the offside trap perfectly, well perfectly until you flicked it on Gerrard, ffs you train with this bloke everyday you must know he’s lurking for a stray ball
As for Hart……
The only real positives are that Gerrard and Johnson probably won’t make a major tournament again
Average_Contents
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:23 PM
Comment #18Not a chance that Gerrard can be blamed for that second goal! Our centre backs should of been anticipating that like suarez did but instead jakielka was stuck underneath and cahill wasn’t tight enough! Apart from that second half baines has been like a rabbit in headlights and johnsons not been much better apart from setting up rooney! Shocking defending from the back four
And what have I said time and time again! Henderson ONLY WORKS in the liverpool system! Should of started wilshire instead and Welbeck should be nowhere near an England shirt he should of started barkley
There we go rant over!
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:23 PM
Comment #19Totally disagree with you there manxpie
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:25 PM
Comment #20Belfast
Tbh Barkley was pretty shite too
toonking
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:25 PM
Comment #21BPC
didn’t you know all them achievements that our last england manager achieved?
fabio cappello won so much through his time as manager but then he came to england and we perform awful.
steve macclarean has did so well at his clubs too, the thing is he failed to get england into the euros.
roy himself played with 4 attacking players which to be honest is the number of attacking players most managers would play when the teams defence is as poor as england.
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:25 PM
Comment #22to be honest you can blame tom dick or Harry, very poor again tonight, if only you had Gareth Bale
Belfast
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Comment #23That’s not cool welshie.
Think you’ll have to milk manxpies cow blindfolded, as punishment.
Average_Contents
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Comment #24If only you’d qualified
Dickhead
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Comment #25AC
They had anticipated it mate, they had bang to rights on the offside trap, Gerrard doesn’t touch that ball, Suarez is offside
Trust your CB’s, they’d been solid all game he had no need to even attempt that challenge
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:29 PM
Comment #26I’m afraid to say it Belfast but I’ve had my punishment tonight by watching the game
Average_Contents
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:29 PM
Comment #27Tads
What cm isn’t going to jump for a ball in the middle of the park? What was he going to do? Oh how on mate you have,a free header? Never going to happen!
Toon Tang
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:29 PM
Comment #28Humid as fcuk, sat in me boxers eating a quiche
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM
Comment #29Belfast
Go easy on Welshie, he has no idea what is like to be involved in a such tournament and probably never will
lesh
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #30Newcastle inquire about two-goal Uruguyan striker – Liverpool dismiss speculation.
If only
manxpie
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #31toonking calm down lol i was only stating a fun fact i wasn’t calling for a willo england revolution mate
but to be fair he would have got to suarez’s 1st lol
but yeah i agree in some parts as the 1 experienced player i wanted at this world cup was ashley cole and he didn’t even make it where as lampard and gerrard has
1 hasn’t played and the other has been shit and so has baines tbf infact against italy he was shocking
i wouldn’t mind seeing sturridge, lambert,sterling as a front 3 tbh but thats probably an 80’s style lol
geordie157
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #32both games should really have been draws, but that’s football you switch off for a moment and you get punished.
Shame Oxlade got that injury think he could have made a difference. Not a fan of Johnson but thought he was decent tonight, Baines was poor for most of the game. Gerrard and Henderson though was the main weakness.
on the plus side, France are playing well.
Average_Contents
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:31 PM
Comment #33Toon tang
Too much info mate, as if the night wasn’t bad enough lol
Belfast
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:32 PM
Comment #34Shut it tads, you imbecile 🙂
Should be starting, instead of being a bit part player.
Toon Tang
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:32 PM
Comment #35The footy’s over for another tourney eh, back to the drawing board for Woy and the nevskin brothers…
welshgeordie9
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM
Comment #36if only you qualified is that right, because you are doing a grand job aren’t you
Toon Tang
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM
Comment #37AC hahahaaa sorry pal
toonarmydownsouth
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Comment #38AC
A free header in the middle of the park with no support when, who the f**k was he going to nod it to!
The whole back line was behind him, doing there job, a job he knows as it’s part of the set up
Trust your back line it’s why they are there, he even got a shout, he’s actually played Suarez on by knocking the ball on
He had no support no one to knock the ball to, he leaves it we retain possession through a free kick, it’s that simple, he’s the captain ffs he knows the system the team are playing and the tactics there carrying out
Belfast
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Comment #39Think Gerrard and Lamps will both retire after this tournament anyways
Tsunki
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Comment #40Oh well they tried and tbf not expected to do as well as they did. We only really have about three of four quality players so a the huff and puff counts for nothing when you have a smart team that presses, soaks up the pressure and pounced clinically when required. We have a team in between squads, the great team that should have won a trophy gives way to promising youngsters of the future. We’re just in between world’s atm.