Football World Cup 2006 / Group B

Results of Group B of the Football World Cup 2006 :

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	3	2	1	0	005: 200	+3	07th
2.	Sweden	3	1	2	0	003: 200	+1	05
3.	Paraguay	3	1	0	2	002: 200	± 0	03
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	1	2	000: 400	−4	01

England - Paraguay 1: 0 (1: 0)

England		Paraguay		Lineup
	June 10, 2006 at 3 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main ( Commerzbank-Arena ) Spectators: 48,000 (sold out) Referee: Marco Antonio Rodríguez ( Mexico )   Match report
	Paul Robinson - Gary Neville , Rio Ferdinand , John Terry , Ashley Cole - David Beckham , Steven Gerrard , Frank Lampard , Joe Cole (83rd Owen Hargreaves ) - Michael Owen (56th Stewart Downing ), Peter Crouch Trainer: Sven-Göran Eriksson ( Sweden )	Justo Villar (8th Aldo Bobadilla ) - Denis Caniza , Carlos Gamarra , Julio César Cáceres , Delio Toledo (82nd Jorge Núñez ) - Carlos Bonet (68th Nelson Cuevas ), Roberto Acuña , Carlos Humberto Paredes , Cristian Riveros - Nelson Valdez , Roque Santa Cruz Coach: Aníbal Ruiz ( Uruguay )
	1-0 Gamarra (3rd, own goal)
	Gerrard (19th), Crouch (63rd)	Valdez (22.)
	Player of the Match: Frank Lampard (England)

Particularities:

• Gamarra scores the earliest own goal in World Cup history.
• The replacement of Paraguay's goalkeeper Villar in the 8th minute of the game was the earliest goalkeeper change in World Cup history.

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Trinidad and Tobago 0-0 Sweden

Trinidad and Tobago		Sweden		Lineup
	June 10, 2006 at 6 p.m. in Dortmund ( Westfalenstadion ) Spectators: 62,959 (sold out) Referee: Shamsul Maidin ( Singapore )   Match report
	Shaka Hislop - Dennis Lawrence , Brent Sancho , Avery John , Cyd Gray - Christopher Birchall , Carlos Edwards , Densill Theobald (67th Aurtis Whitley ) - Collin Samuel (53rd Cornell Glen ), Dwight Yorke - Star John Trainer: Leo Beenhakker ( Netherlands )	Rami Shaaban - Niclas Alexandersson , Olof Mellberg , Teddy Lučić , Erik Edman - Tobias Linderoth (73rd Kim Källström ) - Christian Wilhelmsson (79th Mattias Jonson ), Freddie Ljungberg , Anders Svensson (62nd Marcus Allbäck ) - Henrik Larsson , Zlatan Ibrahimović Trainer: Lars Lagerbäck
	A. John (15th) , Yorke (74th)	Larsson (90.)
	A. John (46th, repeated foul play)
	Player of the Match: Dwight Yorke (Trinidad and Tobago)

Particularities:

• This game was Trinidad and Tobago's first game at a World Cup.
• Avery John (Trinidad and Tobago) was sent off for the first time in the World Cup.
• The goalkeepers of both teams were injured during the warm-up before the game, so the substitute keepers had to go into the goal.

England - Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 (0-0)

England		Trinidad and Tobago		Lineup
	June 15, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. in Nuremberg ( Frankenstadion ) Spectators: 41,000 (sold out) Referee: Tōru Kamikawa ( Japan )   Match report
	Paul Robinson - Ashley Cole , John Terry , Jamie Carragher (58th Aaron Lennon ), Rio Ferdinand - Steven Gerrard , David Beckham , Frank Lampard , Joe Cole (75th Stewart Downing ) - Michael Owen (58th Wayne Rooney ), Peter Crouch Coach: Sven-Göran Eriksson ( Sweden )	Shaka Hislop - Carlos Edwards , Brent Sancho , Dennis Lawrence , Cyd Gray - Christopher Birchall , Aurtis Whitley , Densill Theobald (85th Evans Wise ), Dwight Yorke - Stern John , Kenwyne Jones (70th Cornell Glen ) Trainer: Leo Beenhakker ( Netherlands )
	1: 0 Crouch (83.) 2: 0 Gerrard (90. + 1 ')
	Lampard (64.)	Theobald (18th), Whitley (19th), Jones (45th + 1 '), Hislop (47th), Gray (56th)
	Player of the Match: David Beckham (England)

Sweden - Paraguay 1: 0 (0: 0)

Sweden		Paraguay		Lineup
	June 15, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. in Berlin ( Olympiastadion ) Spectators: 72,000 (sold out) Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ ( Slovakia )   Match report
	Andreas Isaksson - Niclas Alexandersson , Olof Mellberg , Teddy Lučić , Erik Edman - Tobias Linderoth , Kim Källström (86th Johan Elmander ), Christian Wilhelmsson (68th Mattias Jonson ), Freddie Ljungberg - Zlatan Ibrahimović (46th Marcus Allbäck ), Henrik Larsson Trainer: Lars Lagerbäck	Aldo Bobadilla - Denis Caniza , Julio César Cáceres , Carlos Gamarra , Jorge Núñez - Carlos Bonet (81st Edgar Barreto ), Roberto Acuña , Cristian Riveros (62nd Julio Dos Santos ) - Carlos Humberto Paredes - Roque Santa Cruz (63rd Dante López ), Nelson Valdez Coach: Aníbal Ruiz ( Uruguay )
	1-0 Ljungberg (89.)
	Linderoth (14th), Lučić (48th), Allbäck (60th)	Caniza (3rd), Acuña (51st), Paredes (74th), Barreto (85th)
	Player of the Match: Freddie Ljungberg (Sweden)

Sweden - England 2: 2 (0: 1)

Sweden		England		Lineup
	June 20, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. in Cologne ( Rheinenergiestadion ) Spectators: 45,000 (sold out) Referee: Massimo Busacca ( Switzerland )   Match report
	Andreas Isaksson - Niclas Alexandersson , Olof Mellberg , Teddy Lučić , Erik Edman - Tobias Linderoth (90th + 1 ' Daniel Andersson ), Kim Källström , Mattias Jonson (54th Christian Wilhelmsson ), Freddie Ljungberg - Marcus Allbäck (75th Johan Elmander ) , Henrik Larsson Trainer: Lars Lagerbäck	Paul Robinson - Ashley Cole , John Terry , Jamie Carragher , Rio Ferdinand (56th Sol Campbell ) - Owen Hargreaves , David Beckham , Frank Lampard , Joe Cole - Michael Owen (4th Peter Crouch ), Wayne Rooney Trainer: Sven-Göran Eriksson ( Sweden )
	1: 1 Allbäck (51st) 2: 2 Larsson (90th)	0: 1 J. Cole (34.) 1: 2 Gerrard (85.)
	Alexandersson (83.), Ljungberg (87.)	Hargreaves (76.)
	The 1: 1 was the 2,000. World Cup goal
	Player of the Match: Joe Cole (England)

Specialty:

• Allbäck scored the 2000th goal in World Cup history.

Paraguay - Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 (1-0)

Paraguay		Trinidad and Tobago		Lineup
	June 20, 2006 at 9:00 p.m. in Kaiserslautern ( Fritz Walter Stadium ) Spectators: 46,000 (sold out) Referee: Roberto Rosetti ( Italy )   Match report
	Aldo Bobadilla - Denis Caniza (89th Paulo da Silva ), Carlos Gamarra , Julio César Cáceres (77th Julio Manzur ), Jorge Núñez - Roberto Acuña , Carlos Humberto Paredes , Julio Dos Santos , Edgar Barreto - Nelson Valdez (66th Nelson Cuevas ), Roque Santa Cruz Coach: Aníbal Ruiz ( Uruguay )	Kelvin Jack - Brent Sancho , Dennis Lawrence , Avery John (31st Kenwyne Jones ), Carlos Edwards - Christopher Birchall , Aurtis Whitley (67th Russell Latapy ), Densill Theobald , Dwight Yorke , Stern John , Cornell Glen (41st Evans Wise ) Coach: Leo Beenhakker ( Netherlands )
	1-0 Sancho (25th, own goal) 2-0 Cuevas (86th)
	Paredes (30th), Dos Santos (54th)	Sancho (45th), Whitley (48th)
	Player of the Match: Julio Dos Santos (Paraguay)