Group B - Half Time

England are on top with a great goal from Joe Cole, which could've been doubled with shots by Lampard and Rooney. England have played better despite Gerrard being on the bench (rested on 1 yellow card). The weather (i.e. the heat, or lack thereof) is playing a big part of that for sure. the bigger news, perhaps, for England though is that Owen went off injured after just 4 minutes, with Crouch coming on. Expect to see Theo Walcott at some stage as Sven must surely not want to risk having Rooney play the whole game.

Meanwhile Trinidad's hopes are fading after giving up a goal to Paraguay. They now have to do the unlikely and put 3 goals past the South Americans and hope England hold their lead - there are other permitations, but they are just as unlikely as this one.

Half-Time Results:

• England 1 - Sweden 0
• TNT 0 - Paraguay 1

England v Sweden - Second Half:

• 51 mins: Goal 1-1 - Markus Allback equalised for the Scandinavians. Could England, yet again, fail to beat Sweden!? A draw at least will see them top, but a win will give the team more confidence.
• 56 mins: Ferdinand off in place of Sol Campbell. An odd subsitution unless Rio is injured or Sven wants to give Sol some playing time. Perhaps the critism about Ferdinand not going in for the tackle has made Errikson think that he needs the more aggressive Campbell against these Swedes.
• 69 mins: Interestingly Sven brings on Gerrard for Rooney, resting the play that he must and bringing on an aggresive midfielder. Of course if anyone can take control of a game, Gerrard can. Of course he must be careful (along with Lampard) not to get a yellow. Sven thinking must be that he wants to try for the win, but by having the midfielder he wants to sure up the game for at least a draw. Some good desicions here - is this the same Sven!?
• 76 mins: Hargreaves joins Gerrard and Lampard with a yellow card.
• 85 mins: GOAL 2-1 - It pays off as Gerrard heads in the ball from a Joe Cole cross. The man is just pure legend!
• 90+1 mins: Goal 2-2 - Aaarrgggghhhhh! Right at the death Sweden pull one back. England look destined to never beat Sweden! Surely the last goal of the game and unsurprisingly scored by that man Larsson.
  
• Full-Time: The game ends 2-2, and both teams go through to the next round (although with Trinidad being 2-0 down against Paraguay that was always going to be the case), with England taking top spot. Yet again Sweden avoid defeat to England and Sven will probably be the happiest man in the stadium, however, a lot of that must be down to Steven Gerrard who is now the leading goal scorer for England, perhaps resting Lampard for the next game might be a good idea.
  
  So England go on to face an impressive Ecuador team on June 25, while Sweden will have to beat the hosts a day earlier to make it to the quarter-finals.