van Nistelrooij is on the bench, I see.
Maniche (my captain) has -3 for the yellow card (
) but +5 for the very fine goal (
), so at the moment it's OK.
Portugal illustrate why England are unimpressive; England are
almost playing perfect passes,
almost making perfect runs, whilst with the Portuguese some of the play
is perfect - that goal was a treat, far prettier than anything England have done thus far.
Portugal 1 - 0 up at half time, but - shock - Costinha has been sent off, so the Netherlands have a numerical advantage of their own for 45 minutes.