I really though swe gonna win during the 2nd half and i didn't noticed, they respect england a lot during the 1st, england was just playing better that's all.
today best match from the begining of this WC netherland vs argentina, don't miss this 1

Actually, Fredrik Ljungberg said in an interview just after the game that they had too much respect for the english players in the first half.

If you can, watch the first half again and see all swedish players backing away from J.Cole all the time and giving him a quarter of a football field for himself. Ofcourse they get a lot of chances. Second half Swedes started to push forward and defence started to get closer to for example J.Cole and not giving him the room.. Look at how much you could see of him in the second half

ye course the Swedish team respect the English team, they know they are not gonna beat them out of respect for statistics.

On a slightly more serious note, England have quite a lot of respect for Sweden also.

I do think the goal that was essentially a throw in, showed laughable mistakes by England.

Don’t you know its the English way, just do enough.... it makes for tense moments though

All in all I thought it was a good match and enjoyed the general respect and good natured play by all the players

Bring on Ecuador..who we will probably loose to

as i said a few posts back: the wc so far is bad.

predicted 0-0 unlike foks too sides of real quality will be hard to score against. i do think holland deserved to win this one though, despite riquelme's nicely worked corners.