Beckham secures England win
Sven-Goran Eriksson lives to fight another day but his England team do not look likely World Cup winners after David Beckham produced a long-overdue piece of free-kick magic to sink Ecuador and book his team into the last eight.
Eriksson's men huffed and puffed in the heat to overcome the unfancied South Americans, and it might not have happened but for a moment of vintage Beckham on the hour.
After Frank Lampard won a free-kick, Steven Gerrard was screaming for it playing to the back-post where he was unmarked but Beckham ignored him and sent the ball curling over the wall. Ecuador keeper Cristian Mora reached it but could not keep it out.
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