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Group B Team Profiles: England | Paraguay | Trinidad & Tobago | Sweden

England

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England has under-performed in the history of the World Cup. Inured to disappointment, however, its faithful supporters press on. While the English merrily continue to provide their own worst enemy, the potential to dazzle is undeniable in Swedish coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's well-balanced squad.

Well-balanced on paper, that is, and while the hiccups of Belfast and Copenhagen may be firmly behind them, neither the debate over an optimum formation nor the domestic appetite for accentuating the very same problem has been resolved.

Gary Neville may have been missed in Japan/Korea but the accommodation of both him and best friend David Beckham in conventional roles can lead to a reversion to the more predictable, while talents as formidable as Frank Lampard and Steve Gerrard are yet to truly deliver in harness.

The sublime Wayne Rooney may have to resist injury in the latter stages this time if a second tournament win, and on the most preferred territory of all, is not to remain in the realms of English fantasy. For once, the defence may emerge as the strong suit and not the Achilles heel, as the resources quite palpably exist to thrive on enforced rotation.

England Matches

Match # Date & Time Group Teams Result Venue
3 Sat 10th Jun 15:00 B  ENG  PAR 1 - 0 Frankfurt
19 Thu 15th Jun 18:00 B  ENG  TRI 2 - 0 Nuremberg
35 Tue 20th Jun 21:00 B  SWE  ENG 2 - 2 Cologne
51 Sun 25th Jun 17:00 R2  ENG  ECU 1 - 0 Stuttgart
59 Sat 1st Jul 17:00 QF  ENG  POR 0 - 0 aet
1 - 3 pen		 Gelsenkirchen

Match times shown are local times for Germany (CEST/GMT+0200). Click on match date/time to view match statistics.

Past World Cup performance

Key Players

World Cup 2006 Qualification

Squad

Total World Cup 2006
# Posn Name DOB Club Caps Goals Pld Goals OG YC RC
1 GK Robinson Paul 15-10-1979 Tottenham Hotspur ENG 27 0 5 0 0 1 0
2 DF Neville Gary 18-02-1975 Manchester Utd. ENG 82 0 2 0 0 0 0
3 DF Cole Ashley 20-12-1980 Arsenal ENG 52 0 5 0 0 0 0
4 MF Gerrard Steven 30-05-1980 Liverpool ENG 48 9 5 2 0 1 0
5 DF Ferdinand Rio 07-11-1978 Manchester Utd. ENG 53 1 5 0 0 0 0
6 DF Terry John 07-12-1980 Chelsea ENG 30 1 5 0 0 2 0
7 MF Beckham David 02-05-1975 Real Madrid ESP 95 17 5 1 0 0 0
8 MF Lampard Frank 20-06-1978 Chelsea ENG 46 11 5 0 0 1 0
9 FW Rooney Wayne 24-10-1985 Manchester Utd. ENG 33 11 4 0 0 0 1
10 FW Owen Michael 14-12-1979 Newcastle ENG 81 36 3 0 0 0 0
11 MF Cole Joe 08-11-1981 Chelsea ENG 38 6 5 1 0 0 0
12 DF Campbell Sol 18-09-1974 Arsenal ENG 69 1 1 0 0 0 0
13 GK James David 01-08-1970 Manchester City ENG 34 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 DF Bridge Wayne 05-08-1980 Chelsea ENG 23 1 0 0 0 0 0
15 DF Carragher Jamie 28-01-1978 Liverpool ENG 29 0 4 0 0 1 0
16 MF Hargreaves Owen 20-01-1981 Bayern Munich GER 35 0 4 0 0 2 0
17 MF Jenas Jermaine 18-02-1983 Tottenham Hotspur ENG 15 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 MF Carrick Michael 28-07-1981 Tottenham Hotspur ENG 7 0 1 0 0 0 0
19 MF Lennon Aaron 16-04-1987 Tottenham Hotspur ENG 4 0 3 0 0 0 0
20 MF Downing Stewart 22-07-1984 Middlesbrough ENG 6 0 3 0 0 0 0
21 FW Crouch Peter 30-01-1981 Liverpool ENG 12 6 4 1 0 1 0
22 GK Carson Scott 03-09-1985 Sheffield Wednesday ENG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 FW Walcott Theo 16-03-1989 Arsenal ENG 1 0 0 0 0 0 0