（6月16日）英格蘭隊的射手歐文承認，在最後一場小組賽中對瑞典的比賽中，他可能會被排除在首發陣容中。在上一場對特立尼達和多巴哥的比賽中，歐文在上半場錯失了一次絕佳的破門機會。隨後在下半場由於表現平平，不久，歐文被傷癒復出的魯尼替換下場。而魯尼在比賽中也發揮出了較高的競技水平，傷已無大礙。最終，憑藉克勞奇和傑拉德的入球，英格蘭隊戰勝了對手。

　　歐文在接受採訪時表示，“我不會著急的，如果教練安排我做替補席，那我會服從安排。因為我們有23名球員。”

　　原文：Updated: June 16, 2006

　　Pine riding okay by out-of-sorts Owen

　　England striker Michael Owen accepts he could be left out of the starting line-up for the final World Cup group game against Sweden.

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　　Michael Owen is replaced by the fit again Wayne Rooney

　　Owen was substituted early in the second half after disappointing performances in both England's opening Group B victories over Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago.

　　With Peter Crouch on the scoresheet against Paraguay and Wayne Rooney fit and available again, Owen - short of his best after recovering from a broken metatarsal - could miss out.

　　Owen told BBC Radio Five Live: 'I'm not worried. If I'm sat on the bench, I'm sat on the bench. I've been on the bench in my career before.

　　'If the manager thinks that is the right thing, then he'll obviously do it. That's football.

　　'We've got 23 players and if I'm on the bench then so be it.'

　　The 26-year-old missed a good chance in the first half of the Trinidad game in Nuremberg yesterday before making way for Rooney after 58 minutes.

　　England won with late goals from Crouch and Steven Gerrard.

　　鏈結：http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=371310&cc=5739

　　作者——岳東興，北京第二外國語學院，英語系

責編：佟杉杉