So the general opinion of the England win against Paraguay, especially from the Yankee pundits on ABC and ESPN Deux, is that they were boring and lacked imagination or any creative spark. This is from the same people, mind you, who called Sweden "The high scoring Swedes", I kid you not, Sweden have scored one goal in their last seven games...! As for England, they have performed no worse and no better than the other favored teams so far. Argentina had a nice first half but if Crespo is your number 9 forget it, I don't care how good Requelme is... Crespo is not the answer, the second half was more representative of how Argentina will perform in this World Cup, let's face it... unlike in past world cups they lack that creative cheat they really need to win a big game. Portugal looked OK today, but they do seem a little small, a big physical side with some smarts - unlike Angola - will give them fits. Having said all this, it is the first round of the group stage and a win is important as shown by the refusal of the bigger clubs - see Holland - to lose no matter how ugly they looked.
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