World Cup Game #37

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England finally woke up for this game (except for Rooney who continued to nap all game) and hammered Slovenia for about 70 minutes, managing to score a solitary goal. Unfortunately, England then seemed to decide that one was enough so Slovenia streamed back into the game and very nearly scored but it was not to be so England won by that single, lonely goal. It was good to see Gerrard passing with pinpoint precision, Lampard cleaning up everything loose in midfield and the Milner-Johnson double act causing havoc on the left wing. Rooney snored on. Slovenia have to be bitterly disappointed with the result - when the game finished, they were through, only for the US to score a goal seconds later in the other Group C match and knock them out. England are through to the next round and Slovenia were eliminated.