Dogs Dinner Defending,Green Keeping & Midget Magician Ignite World Cup

Day 2 of World Cup 2010 provided us with some evidence of whether a couple of highly fancied teams have what it takes to lift the old ice cream cone on July 11th. The opening match saw 2002 semi finalists South Korea completely outplay the shock 2004 European Champions Greece 2-0 with Manchester United midfield dynamo & skipper Ji Sung Park scoring a pearler of a solo goal to copperbottom an excellent 2-0 win.
That set a mark for the group’s other duo Argentina & Nigeria & in all fairness they produced a cracking 90 minutes but how the 1978 & 86 winners didn’t score more was down to the inspired feline goalkeeping of nigeria’s doughty custodian Vincent Enyeama . The Super Eagles keeper seemed to be involved in a gunfight style shootout standoff with the midget magician Lionel Messi. Time & again the pint sized genius left Nigeria’s defenders with twisted blood before being thwarted by the magnificent Happoel tel Aviv netminder. A move to England could be on the cards should he defy the Greeks & South Koreans in such style. The Argentine goal came from an unexpected source. The veteran former Manchester United & Chelsea star Juan Veron was weaving a thread of passes with Messi which culminated with the goalkeeper diving cat like to concede a corner. Veron’s pin perfect cross found another former Old Trafford favourite Gabriel Heinze, whose bullet header almost decapitated the on line defender as it rippled the back of the onion bag. That came after only six minutes, over the next 84 minutes Diego Maradona’s men produced some rolls Royce moves but the opposition goalkeeper was in magnificent form. An opening win will have pleased the deity that is Maradona & the manner in which they played will have sent out a message that maybe Diego ain’t as dumb as he would have us believe. In the days most hyped match Engerlund shot themselves in the foot magnificently as they were held to a draw by the USA- no doubt the Yanks were peeved at the oil spill, but it didn’t show early on as skipper Gerrard netted after 3 minutes. Fabio Capello’s highly fancied charges were in control until Robert Green joined the numbed number one club following in the footsteps of Peter Bonetti, Shilts & Spunker Seaman by throwing one in. The gunslinging Clint Dempsey took a speculative dig from the edge of the area & Green managed to spill it into the net despite a fantastic comedy dive which failed to spare his or his country’s blushes & that was that.

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