by Breathe! » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:09 am
England-Uruguay 90'+3 There it is! A nice rally from England at the end. They were forced to adapt with all those subs and they did so increasingly convincingly.
England-Uruguay 90'+2 Great work from Wright-Phillips who whisks in at the near post...Cole dinks in on the half volley.
England-Uruguay 90'+2 COLE!!!
England-Uruguay 90' URUGUAY: Valdez on for Vargas.
England-Uruguay 88' Fisticuffs! It ends up with the ref joining in the shoving and having a pop at goalscorer Pouso!
England-Uruguay 86' Forlan and Perez off. Median and Gonzalez on.
England-Uruguay 86 ENGLAND: Carragher.
England-Uruguay 85' Jenas almost through there after a silky turn from Wright-Phillips...it's scrambled out for the corner.
England-Uruguay 83' Two in fact. Diogo and Forlan are both rude to the ref and pay the price.
England-Uruguay 81' Bent off for Defoe.
England-Uruguay 79' Bent inches away from opening his international account after Gary Neville(!) goes on a slaloming run down the right.
England-Uruguay 78' Regueiro gets another one on the ankle from Cole...he hobbles off for treatment.
England-Uruguay 76' England buzzing now, more aggressive running from Wright-Phillips and he was lucky not to get a free kick on the edge of the box...he looked to be clothes-lined there.
England-Uruguay 74' Lovely footwork from Cole. He crosses to the big man who nods back from the far post. Textbook.
England-Uruguay 74' CROUCH!
England-Uruguay 72' England looking pretty ragged. Too many subs perhaps.
England-Uruguay 70' Wright-Phillips is seeing a lot of the ball out wide...
England-Uruguay 58' Bent again narrowly offside.
England-Uruguay 55' England pressing here, but still lacking the final ball. Carrick the latest man to pass harmlessly through to the keeper.
England-Uruguay 53' Bent is caught just offside after a great run into space...seconds later Varela slices wide at the other end.
England-Uruguay 51' Jenas goes down like a sack of spuds on the edge of the box...blatantly looking for the free kick there.
England-Uruguay 49' England slow and sure here. No real possession for Uruguay.
England-Uruguay 47' Rooney pings one along the floor from 25 yards and that was a sharp save.
England-Uruguay 47' First corner of the half for England after good Bent pestering.
England-Uruguay 46' And a whole lot of subs. Gerrard and Terry are off. King anf Jenas are on. Carini makes way for Viera in the Uruguay goal.
England-Uruguay 45'+3 A good open first half. Plenty of half chances for England. But the home side were lacking on the final ball. One devastating, brilliant, volley from Pouso keeping Uruguay one up. Expect a lot of substitutions now from Sven...
England-Uruguay 45'+2 Apparently Bridge's injury is to the right ankle ligament...
England-Uruguay 45' Beckham crosses to the D where Gerrard is waiting. He finds row Z. England have been trying that trick in various guises for a very long time. It has never worked.
England-Uruguay 43' David Beckham stamps on Regueiro's ankle from behind. That's was a bit naughty.
England-Uruguay 41' Bent hussles and wins a snap shot out of Godin...but, needless to say, it's pulled agonisingly wide.
England-Uruguay 40' Gerrard has a great opportunity to thread Bent through but the ball is woeful...bit of a frustrating half for Stevie G.
England-Uruguay 38' Terry runs from the back, gets a break and before he knows it he's one-on-one in the box...but he drags just wide.
England-Uruguay 37' An England attack breaks down but Beckham recovers and it's taken off Bent's forehead by the keeper.
England-Uruguay 35' Great work from Cole taking on two down the left but Gerrard was casual with the ball into the box.
England-Uruguay 34' Uruguay are on top here...Varela bossing it in midfield.
England-Uruguay 32' Perez fires just wide from 25 yards. A bit er...shaky at the back from the home side.
England-Uruguay 31' A bit of a worry for England's World Cup left-back spot... what with Ashely Cole struggling to come back from injury.
England-Uruguay 30' Jamie Carragher's on to fill in at left back.
England-Uruguay 29' Bridge is being stretchered off. It doesn't look too rosy.
England-Uruguay 26' ...That was an incredible strike! The corner rebounded to him he volleyed at pace into the top-right. Unstoppable.
England-Uruguay 26' POUSO!
England-Uruguay 24' Ferdinand fells Forlan in a promising position. Free kick Uruguay and a corner from the aftermath. Ferdinand's having a bit of a shocker.
England-Uruguay 22' Beckham is through one-on-one but Carini does just enough to put him off as he attempts to dink over with his left.
England-Uruguay 20' A great threaded ball from Carrick and Cole fires just wide. Good move.
England-Uruguay 19' Neville has a snap at Godin. Probably a yellow in a competitive match.
England-Uruguay 17' That was a decent swinger from Beckham but it evades a surge of oncoming Englanders.
England-Uruguay 16' Free kick England as Beckham is upended by Godin.
England-Uruguay 14' Forlan plays through Reguiero but again he unloads a long way out. Have Uruguay heard Robinson's dodgy from distance?
England-Uruguay 12' Carrick has a pop from distance after midfield ping-pong. Good...but wide.
England-Uruguay 11' Ferdinand caught in possession by Forlan but Neville saves Rio's blushes as Uruguay win a corner.
England-Uruguay 9' Corner after a decent shot from Cole following a Beckham centre. A great save from Carini.
England-Uruguay 8' Lugano and Diogo exchange nicely in the box but Robinson is alert.
England-Uruguay 6' Another 30-yarder from Forlan. Straight at Robinson this time. He's getting closer...
England-Uruguay 6' Neville gets some joy on the right and swings in to Bent, but the keeper's there just before him.
England-Uruguay 4' A complete lack of early possession from England...
England-Uruguay 2' Forlan has a pop from distance. He fails to trouble the keeper but that was a let off. He was given a lot of freedom by Terry there.
England-Uruguay 2' Great work from Bridge down the left, Rooney is hussled out on the cross. Goal-kick.
England-Uruguay 11:02 Former Spurs midfielder Gustavo Poyet says England will have to use the Uruguay friendly as a test-run against Paraguay: "The best team to play against to prepare is Uruguay. They play very similar in their style."
England-Uruguay 08:35 ENGLAND TEAM NEWS: Michael Carrick will start in midfield in place of the injured Frank Lampard.
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