Re: England v Columbia
Thought the Colombia match was dreadful. England played appallingly, ball passing was all over the place and there were almost no moves at all toward Colombia's goal. They were extremely lucky to survive the distance to go to penalties. Had Colombia not have given away a penalty, we would have lost plain and simple.
Against any half decent opposition England is simply not going to get away with that kind of lacklustre performance, they will get absolutely creamed.
By the time the ordinary 90 mins were up I was struggling to remember any actual shots at the Colombian goal. Were there actually any at all?
Spain lost their match in similar fashion, just playing "patty cake" with the ball in the middle of the pitch and never making any concerted movements into the opposition penalty area. Games are not won without being creative and taking chances.
England will have to seriously up their game from here to stay in.