Ronaldo's Portugal See Off England


By David Hobbs
June 25 2004

England have slumped out of Euro 2004 on penalties after drawing 2-2 after extra time with host nation Portugal in Lisbon yesterday. Manchester United's Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes all featured but couldn't find away past Old Trafford team-mate Ronaldo and his Portuguese side.

Hobbs in Trouble

Ronaldo's Portugal See Off England
England have slumped out of Euro 2004 on penalties after drawing 2-2 after extra time with host nation Portugal in Lisbon yesterday.

Manchester United's Gary Neville, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes all featured for England but couldn't find away past Old Trafford team-mate Ronaldo and his Portuguese side.

Michael Owen put England into an early lead after capitalisng on a defensive error to flick it past Portugal's Ricardo.

To mar a decent first half display from England, Wayne Rooney limped off just before the half hour mark with a broken bone in his foot.

With just 7 minutes of normal time remaining, substitute Helder Postiga nodded in an equaliser to make sure the game goes into extra-time. England thought they'd made it through however when Sol Campbell harmlessly poked home a winner that was somehow denied by referee Urs Meier.

Rui Costa makes it 2-1 with a fabulous strike from long-range but that was cancelled out by Frank Lampard 5 minutes after.

Two missed penalties from David Beckham and Darrius Vassell cost England to lose the penalty shoot-out and fall at the quarter-final hurdle in Portugal.

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