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Nice Try: An English Preview

June 21st, 2006 | By: Trent | 14 Comments »

Ivan Hurtado looked slow against Germany? The strikers weren’t as good as they were in the first two games? You don’t say.

In case you’re keeping score at home, Hurtado and the starting strikers didn’t even play against Germany yesterday. Which hasn’t kept the Times from noting that Hurtado and Espinoza “looked slow when they were turned around by Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski, the Germany strikers.”

Oy.

Update: In fairness, that same paper notes here that Ecuador did make several changes to its lineup against Germany. I suppose they just didn’t know who was who.

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By FRZ | June 21st, 2006 at 3:48 pm

Amazing, I hope the English team show the same cluelessness and disregard for Ecuador in their preparation for the match. If they do, they’ll never know what hit them come Sunday.

BTW, Trent, it’s actually not the same author in the two articles, the clueless moron seems to be an Oliver Kay, while the other is Owen Slot.

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By dar | June 21st, 2006 at 3:58 pm

Guess it’s hard to cover a game when your head is stuck up your ass.

The result shouldn’t come as a surprise. Any time Suarez fields a B-team we get pounded (3-0 against Poland last year, 4-1 vs Barcelona SC and 2-1 vs Uganda this year). The players don’t work as well together and always play to contain, never to win.

No one jump off the bandwagon just yet. A full-strength Ecuadorian side could give England fits.

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By Trent | June 21st, 2006 at 4:04 pm

Thanks, FRZ. Post changed.

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By kn | June 21st, 2006 at 6:11 pm

The best thing to do is for England to show disregard for Ecuador. That way we can surprise them, and take the victory! Poor England will go into a national depression.

By Gary Lineker | June 21st, 2006 at 7:07 pm

I’m just looking forward to getting this game out of the way to see who England will play in the quarter finals.

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By Trent | June 21st, 2006 at 7:11 pm

Now that sounds just like something Gary Lineker would say.

Fair play to England!

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By Antonio | June 21st, 2006 at 8:04 pm

This is by far the worst article I’ve read in this world cup. He has no idea what he is talking about, and his cocky style of writing is not even funny nor clever. I really hope that he usually writes Rugby articles, otherwise i can’t understant how such a meathead dares to write about football in that way. GL wannabe: England will never be champions again; simply because they are always thinking on the next game before they can even win. If they get to the final this time I bet they would be thinking on their thrid championship in South Africa and get slapped. Ecuador will imppress everyone this weekend!

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By El Simon | June 21st, 2006 at 11:00 pm

It’s funny that Gary Lineker would post seeing that England have more healthy strikers on their BBC broadcast team than they do on their World Cup squad.

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By Santiago | June 22nd, 2006 at 1:31 am

WHAT!? Oh man the english newspapers really stink! I can’t believe they didn’t even noticed that Ivan “Bam-Bam” Hurtado, who is the leader of the defence of Ecuador, did not played against Germany…Not just that but Neicer Reasco didn’t played also and he is extremely fast, that’s why Ecuador was getting penetrated on the right sideline.
I just HOPE they really believe that Ecuador is a bad team, maybe England will get destroyed (Unlikely but i hope so!) and humilliated to complete another chapter of their lame football history!

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By Robbie | June 22nd, 2006 at 2:03 am

‘It is also the stadium where England lost 1-0 to Ireland in the 1988 European Championship finals’. One of my two teams has beaten England in the same stadium already, let’s hope the other can do the same on Sunday!!! I have full faith in ecuador’s ability against a poorly performing england side. Sven is no tactician in comparison to LFS.

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By Dar | June 22nd, 2006 at 7:25 am

Nice bit of retrospect Robbie. You can add 1776 to that list, when the colonies shocked England in THE ART OF WAR. England has a rich history of flopping during pivotal moments. Saturday won’t be any different.

Sven, in case you’re reading, buy your tix now don’t wait til Saturday or you’ll be flying home with a plane full of angry hooligans.

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By Trent | June 22nd, 2006 at 7:48 pm

“It’s funny that Gary Lineker would post seeing that England have more healthy strikers on their BBC broadcast team than they do on their World Cup squad.”

Heh, very funny. Well done.

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By El Simon | June 22nd, 2006 at 9:54 pm

Gracias Trent. This is my nightmare matchup because I have grown up mad for England football. I am rooting against England for the first time in my life (well second as I was hoping Sweden would win to avoid this matchup)…

I think Valencia and Mendez will mess with England’s fullbacks big time. Everyone is talking about Ecuador’s victories over “weak” opponents but Poland was stronger than Sweden in qualifying as was Costa Rica over T&T. Ecuador wins were emphatic. England’s were not.

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By winston | July 1st, 2006 at 3:07 am

Ha, the usa banging on about our poor footballing nation. The Americans appear to be the last country in the world to have discovered football (or so they would have us believe). Their obsession with winning is ridiculous.
Btw England are in the quarter finals compared to america, whatever you say about them.

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