Jun 24
What a roller-coaster game this is.
- First we go up 1-0 through a great Michael Owen goal
- Then we do the usual, and sit back and the pressure comes on us
- Rooney gets injured and has to go off
- They score to even the game 1-1 in the last 7 minutes
- We end up with extra time
- Then score to go up 2-1, and it looks over
- Lampard sneaks one in to bring it 2-2
- Penalties
- Beckham misses
- They miss
- Sudden death penalties after we are even on 4-4 after 5
- WE LOSE! :(
June 25th, 2004 at 3:45 am
Agreed. The ref was crap. We won the match really!
I couldn’t understand why Sven took off Scholes – he should have played him in Rooney’s position, deep just off Owen, then either put Hargreaves on the left or Gerrard there with Neville in the middle. Then we’d have kept a strong midfield, kept our shape & had a powerful world class attack.
Instead we ended up with 2 small & nippy guys up front & then just sat back & hoofed it up front (which given their small size was never gonna work). Sigh.
Still that 2nd Lampard goal was great – we all ended up soaked with beer and left with very hoarse voices after that.
I hate penalties…