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One thing that last night proved again and that is Peter Crouch as yet to score against quality opposition, they keep going on about him scoring 6 goals in his last 5 games but fail to mention the goals came against 1 Uruguay (didn't qualify for World Cup), 1 Hungary (didn't qualify for World Cup), 3 against the mighty Jamaica (again didn't qualify for the World Cup) and 1 Trinidad & Tobago.
Even most of his goals last season in the Premiership came against teams that finished well down the league like Fulham, West Brom, Portsmouth and Birmingham City even had 2 credited against Wigan Athletic when one was clearly an own goal.
No doubt he will score against Ecuador and be claimed a football great when in fact he has as much right as being in the squad as Owen Hargreaves which imo is zero, as Crouch is nowhere near as good as Defoe (number of goals scored last season proves it) and Hargreaves should have been dropped from the squad for someone like Bent (extra forward in the squad) as Carrick could easily have done the same job last night as Hargreaves and probably better.
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