Big Guns as we tell them those who have helped revolutionized the football playing style none other than England and Italy said goodbye yesterday to world cup 2014 after failing to qualify in the round of 16.England who were sure enough after their match against Uruguay that they are out of the world cup were playing for the consolation match against the most surprising team of world cup Costa Rica(Who had already beaten Big teams Italy and Uruguay) and drawn the match with them.
England were playing having most of the possession but then again Costa Rica were counter Attacking and were almost scoring goals but thanks to Joe Hart.England had numerous chances but none was converted which make the strikers frustrated.Though England were already out the supporters of England were chanting the names of the players and manager through out the match.Some of them even had placards to show their immense support for their losing team.Later on after drawing the match in a post match interview English Manager Roy Hodgson said that "England didn't deserved the standing ovations and appreciations that they have received from their fans"It also marked the last match for Steven Gerrard in World Cup looking up at his age.All in all i think England needs to develop their team wholly and try their luck in the next big international competition.
But the condition of Italians were somewhat different before the starting of the match yesterday against 2010's 3rd runner up Uruguay.Italy needed to draw the match and 1 points would have been enough for the side to qualify to the next round.Both the team started well though Uruguay was attacking more while Italy were playing defense minded.Lots of indiscipline happened in the match from each of the team.No goals had been scored till the 81st minute when the Uruguayan captain Diego Godin scored a goal to set his team right through the group stage matches to the round of sixteen.Claudio Marchisio
was shown Red card.Costa Rica and Uruguay qualifies from Group C.
In the other matches of Group D Greece and Colombia qualified with Greece beating ivory coast 2-1 and japan was beaten 1-4 by Colombia who won their all three matches.So,as we can see we have already lost three juggernauts this year in the Brazilian world cup as England,Italy,Spain are already in the group stages.So what we will see in the Knockout stages of the tournament may be either very exciting or maybe very Boring as well depends on what happens in that particular situation.But who dares to predict in football matches and that too after seeing some of the small cats beating the big lions.Anything can happen in football and so it will,we can just wait to see it.
Anuttam Chatterjee
England were playing having most of the possession but then again Costa Rica were counter Attacking and were almost scoring goals but thanks to Joe Hart.England had numerous chances but none was converted which make the strikers frustrated.Though England were already out the supporters of England were chanting the names of the players and manager through out the match.Some of them even had placards to show their immense support for their losing team.Later on after drawing the match in a post match interview English Manager Roy Hodgson said that "England didn't deserved the standing ovations and appreciations that they have received from their fans"It also marked the last match for Steven Gerrard in World Cup looking up at his age.All in all i think England needs to develop their team wholly and try their luck in the next big international competition.But the condition of Italians were somewhat different before the starting of the match yesterday against 2010's 3rd runner up Uruguay.Italy needed to draw the match and 1 points would have been enough for the side to qualify to the next round.Both the team started well though Uruguay was attacking more while Italy were playing defense minded.Lots of indiscipline happened in the match from each of the team.No goals had been scored till the 81st minute when the Uruguayan captain Diego Godin scored a goal to set his team right through the group stage matches to the round of sixteen.Claudio Marchisio
Anuttam Chatterjee
its good for football that small teams become more competitive and the game gets more and more interesting......
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