Yesterday is a big day for soccer, the opening match of the Hong Kong Soccer league, and also the world cup qualifiers for European and South-American region, I thought it would be an excellent night but I was wrong..............

First, the Hong Kong soccer league opening game is really boring, with the players(especially non-local players) did not have any improvements overall, the game is 1:1 finally. Although the goals were not all by luck, my impression to both teams are bad. They just cannot organize a better way to strike, everyone just waiting for everyone to do more for them, no one really moved to the right place and missed quite a lot of chances. And, of course, this is the so called Hong Kong soccer style.

After sleeping for a while, the highlight match for me last night was England vs. Wales, well, well, well, the line-up is not bad. And seems like all the players are quite ready for the match, but when the match started, I was quite disappointed because England just not right!! Without a proper pair of strikers, the power of Rooney is simply can be released as all the Wales defenders had their eyes on the poor Rooney!! Although Wright-Philips and Joe Cole is ok. but when the defenders only need to care about single striker, the game is much easy to play. Actually Wales do have some chance to get in a goal but resisted by fatty Robinson the goalkeeper. Finally Joe Cole, if not too lucky, scored for England and England win on that goal. After the match I am quite worried about England as seems like they lacked the right partner for Rooney(Owen just not right), and if they cannot get the first place in their qualifiers' group, I am a bit scared that England finally cannot get into the final 32 in World Cup 2006.