Friday, June 09, 2006

1st Half of the World Cup

Excellent stuff so far, although not much for defensive coaches to sing about!

Beautiful goal from Lahm, then Costa Rica hit back with a seriously onside goal which played the two centre halfs like the proverbials...Then the Germans hit back and now it's two-one...

Thoughts so far: Germany are going to REALLY struggle with that defense unless they improve a *lot* and quickly. Rumours of Klinsmann and Ballack falling out look to have been overblown - they're looking fairly chummy on the bench. Costa Rica look woefully inequipped to deal with the game at this level. Mark Lawrenson is woefully inequipped for comedy at this level, and Jonathan Pearce very briefly sounded extrememly Scottish when pronouncing German names...