Why are England not confident in penalty shoot outs.should they make this daily practice or not.?
405316
England are not confident in taking penalties because most of the England players lack the technique to take a good penalty (ie. the ability to shoot above the keeper on either side of the goal, preferably in the corner.)\n\nPractise would help (how could it not) but any player could take 100 good penalties in training and then fluff it at the big moment.\n\nAnd while Brazil don't have any problem with pen shoot-outs (they could probably win one in their sleep) it's worth remembering that both Italy and The Netherlands also have a poor record in penalty shoot-outs.\n\nNone of this is to say that all English footballers are rubbish at penalties - both Alan Shearer and Matthew Le Tissier could take a spot-kick as good as anyone in the world. Unfortunately, Becks, Lamps, Gerrard and Owen are not in their penalty-taking class. (I bet Rooney would smack one in if it came to it, though.)
1129635
Bad officiating to start.  Referees are having in general a very poor performance, today was not the exception.  As far as the goal goes, everyone knows Beckham is a free-kick expert.  He hits the ball the same way everytime, but no one has wisen up yet.  Ecuador's keeper should have fucking know better.  He did a horrible job on the wall, and even though everyone watching the game knew what was gonna happen, he let it happen anyway.  This should be a lesson to the future teams facing England.  We seen the Spice Boy score like that many times, wake up.
1150326
not this year England went to Germany with a lot of injuries and this will effect the play of England they are not going to make it.the swede probably deserved it .they have a couple of guys that think the yellow card is part of there uniform .check the Sweden England match for examples .Germany is strong but so is Brazil  Australia is the real sleeper they played Brazil up to the last minute and missed alot of potential goals but that's part of the game.Spain ,Italy and Mexico two struggling teams.England isn't able to face off with Brazil or Germany both would run them into the ground with England forced into a defensive game as with the Sweden match  second half when they still had some strikers that could walk.the depend on a young 18 year old to see them thru the world cup.alot of people thought England was gambling with the selection well it came back and bit them in the first round that they struggled out to advance.
1067563
I believe that England will win. After today, the Swedes have hopefully put the scare into England, and they will prepare for the upcoming games with much better strategy and tactics. NO more being scared of corner kicks, the defence better wake up.
36092
It's upto the players whether the want to play for their countries or for themselves. So, for me the team who plays well in the first two days will lose so waitttttttttttttt. ............... for the result................
1180838
Possibly three players missing! Aren't FIFA oifficials able to give Figo a red card retrospectively for his head butt, he got a yellow, but surely after seeing what happened he'll be given a red.  I was sceptical that England would be able to get much further (even though they showed more promise and glimmers of hope in the last game), but now they have a very good chance of progressing. \n I can imagine that it was the best possible outcome for an England supporter.
1101498
Oh there IS A LOT OF CONSISTENCY.  We don't understand it YET but there is a lot of purpose in all ll those seemingly crazy decisions.  I predicted, two days before the Portugal Holland match that there would be 8 yellow cards and 4 red cards .I was wrong on the yellows... there were 16, not only 8.  --- Referee had a job to do only he did it badly and not in accordacnce with whoever instructed him to act that way.  I read that Figo has never had a red card in his career that Deco has never had a red car.Costinha has never had a red card, so what happend IN THAT MATCH ?  English hero of 1966 Bobby Charlton said and I quote him "IT IS LOVELY TO PLAY AGAINST THE PORTUGUESE, THEY JUST GET ON WITH IT AND DON'T CHEAT OR DIVE !" So what happened against Holland ?  What happened is that is it is all been decided that England will wint the World Cup.  The whole thing of Football is beginning to stink.
677432
I think so too but this time there are some player in England the world watching them how they can play in national team specially one of the forward player he was making easy goal.\nbut England player they are really good in their league and in their own team but not in national team  because English soccer system is different than other country player they play as team they do not have a player has some trick like Brazilian player for example if England send just Arsenal as national team they can be more successful then sending their regular national team.
1185636
I don't think they really hold back... Let's just say that they do what they believe will be enough to get the result. (which is why they sometimes get jumped early on !)\n\nEven their manager says he isn't coaching them, he just facilitates talent. In other words - "here's a ball, go kick it into that net"\n\nThat mindset will get you past lesser teams but I think they will really struggle from now. Someone (or 2) really needs to step and make this tournament theirs, like Ronaldo did in France... and I can't see anyone doing that yet.
1095652
I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I didn't notice an obvious bias. Like anyone else, refs make mistakes. They probably made equally bad calls against Ecuador, but when you are a big fan in the heat of the match, you don't notice those calls as much.\n\nGood luck to England the rest of the way!
1060946
i can just post the same video and told you all it's from another team. it's somewhat common for manager at national team or in the club to instruct their player to dive at tackle. i don't agree either. but  that's the way footbal played. just like injuring some player with hard tackle, it's common also. either we think it's good or not. the team can only be blamed if they have some agreement with the referee of the game. as long as it's not proved, what happen on the pitch is the ref own responsibilities
990621
I totally agree. Firstly, the standard of refereeing has been appalling - players booked for what wouldn't even be a free kick normally. All because FIFA want to appear PC and have referees who have zero experience of officiating top class matches. As for england, I'm getting tired of hearing "we'll get better" - sven has been saying that since the first game, and we've had no improvement. Too much in the players pocket, picks his favourites, tactically inept, and to top things off takes four strikers - two who aren't 100% fit and one child who hasn't played a premiership match!
1135125
I did not actually see those questions although I did see a lot of negativity towards England.  I  see that England is one of the favorites to win and deservingly so. They have won 3 games and drew one and came out top of their group.  I would never say how many goals will they score but yes they will win by 1 or at least 2..ha...the less goals scored the better the sides are playing ...I believe England will do great in tomorrow's game against Portugal
1067900
I think they do in a bottom line situation. Many of the favoured teams have started slowly or been a little disappointing. Who really knows how that match would have gone or played out if they had a better referee. He truly was terribly inconsistent today and effected the game greatly. I think he had both teams in fear by half time and that must have had an effect in how they played their game. I think the coach needs to find better combinations on the field. Totti, Del Piero and others have played together in previous world cups but are hardly ever on the field together to lead with experience. Del Piero was in place to score on many occasions, however the ball didn't get to him all that often.
1150540
you're just looking at 1 game. Any one from the US's group can now make the 16. I hope to god that you're still rooting for the US (even tho I'm english & an England fan).\n\nCome the next stage, a draw will result in extra time, if it's still a draw it will go to a penalty shoot-out - if you have an ounce of patriotic blood, a shoot-out involving the US will wake you from your snooze-fest!
1105754
Because that is the English way. If we weren't so confident and determined then we wouldn't have such an infamous history!! XD\n\nAnd the same can be said of Germany, Italy, France...they've all had some dodgy performances in the knockout stages. They all have a chance to win too!
1183289
because our players are more then capable, they just arent lucky! its 2006, we won in 1966, its all in the 6's! they want the win more then anything and we always get far in the compertitions, maybe its about time we go all they way! And if its a Germany n England final it will be like history repeating itself, well worth watching! best of luck england!