England 2-3 Croatia
Posted by Admin on 21/11/2007
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England are out of the European Championships after another poor display.
England were 2-0 down within 14 minutes after Scott Carson's 8th minute mistake and a well worked Croatian move finished off by Ivica Olic 6 minutes later.
And McClaren's team struggled to the break, looking unsure at the back and lacking in ideas going forward.
The second half started better and England were awarded a soft penalty, which Frank Lampard converted, before Peter Crouch equalised with a cool finish from David Beckham's cross.
But that was as good as it got for England. The team sat back, giving a quality Croatian team far too much time and space, and they were punished on 77 minutes when Petric's long range effort floew past Carson.
So England are out, failing to qualify for a major championship for the first time since USA '94. McClaren will probably loose his job. Beckham will probably not make 100 caps and English football has to take a long hard look at itself.
The brightside? Jose Mourinho is still out of work.
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