Confident Eriksson says criticism is unwarranted and vows that the best is yet to come

Sven-Goran Eriksson has grown wearily accustomed to criticism of his team's performances and before leaving Stuttgart last night he found himself in the familiar position of having to fend off hostile questioning. England's head coach acknowledged that the victory over Ecuador had been another unsatisfactory performance but he also accused his detractors of having unreasonable expectations."If we expected to be controlling games for 90 minutes and creating 20 chances then we are in the wrong place," he said. "Today we were among the best 16 teams in the world. Next week it is the best eight. Of course there are going to be times in matches when we are going to suffer
My god this man is an absolute nutter, the only thing he has in his favour is he is lucky, England have so far played terrible football but because they came through the easier of the groups then met Equador,then have the fortune of meeting a Portugese side depleted through bans and injury.
They say its better to be born lucky than rich and Sven is the poster boy for that thought.