World Cup: Germany vs England 4-1 27 June 2010

The match Germany vs England has just started. I'm not a fan of any of this teams but I think Germany is going to win.

So let's keep fingers crossed for David James and wish him that he is not going to throw himself a howler into the net.

Wow, it's 5' and James had already made one brilliant save.

Perhaps this match is going to be really interesting.

Edit: After 1st half. Already allowed Klose's goal which he should save. Podolski send the second between his legs. Well, after all James is just James.

Huge mistake of the referee! The second goal for England was in. What a game!

Edit 2:4-1. A slaughter! Despite the referee's mistake and good moments of England at the beginning of the second half, Germany showed how dangerous they could be. James has to put this match on shelf between "bad" and "fatal". At least two goals on his account, and close to a blunder when the third was scored. He turned away from the ball! Defenders also have nothing to be proud off. German counter-attack did with them everything they wanted.

'I don't fear penalty shoot-out', says James

England had never won penalty shoot-outs. Will it come to it in todays England - Germany match?

Found an interesting article in Dialy Telegraph. Some excerpts:

James's German counterpart, Manuel Neuer, talks of playing the "memory game" if Sunday's World Cup round of 16 game climaxes in a shoot-out. This involves Neuer remembering all the advice from the German technical staff on which way to dive for which player. At the last World Cup, Jens Lehmann frustrated Argentina by checking on their players' preference from a slip of paper shoved down his sock. (...)

James would not reveal his intentions, saying: "I'll probably look over to the physio!" Most of the information will be absorbed on Saturday, leaving him far better prepared than in Euro 2004. "We played Portugal [in the quarter-final shoot-out] and didn't have the access to as much information as we could have done." (...)

England bowed out of Euro 2004 because Portugal's keeper, Ricardo, swept in a majestic penalty. "Of course I am up for taking one. In the preparation, all 23 can practice. There's only 11 and three subs who can end up on the pitch and take one. Whoever the goalkeeper is needs to be prepared," James said.

Read full story here.

It's one of the top stories also on Polish page of Gazeta Wyborcza.



Ricardo is on the photo! But of course his name was even not worth mentioning in the article. Why they always write this or that player wasted a penalty? Beckham in 2004 did waste it shooting over the goal. Ricardo did save Darius Vassell penalty in 2004, and Gerrard's, Lampard's and Carragher's at World Cup 2006.

World Cup: England vs USA 1-1 12 June 2010 Robert Green photos

Robert Green - the unlucky goalkeeper







Robert Green shouts insturctions to the defenders

































Pictures like this always makes me sad





No goalkeeper has an intention to do something like this. Although the goalkeepers are catching such shots around hundreds times at the trainings, one brief moment of the lack of focus and the ball is in the net. Seeing this I had before my eyes an identical blunder of Łukasz Fabiański in Porto - Arsenal match...

































Green makes a save





After the match













Terry consoles Green