And that might have the happy side-effect of edging forward Northern Ireland's stalled peace process.
The visitors were soon on the back foot from an attacking Dragons line-out, the home side driving forward before spreading the ball quickly and accurately across the three-quarter line for Brew to speed in at the corner.
With two central midfielders behind him, a winger on either side and a prolific center-forward like Mr. Torres ahead of him, Mr. Gerrard had license to roam and freelance.
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The 19-year-old played on the left-hand side of a three-man central defence and ventured forward to meet Madjid Bougherra's cross and head Rangers ahead on 24 minutes.
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Toby Roland-Jones was lbw to Shakib, going back to a well-flighted ball when he should have been forward, and Neil Dexter - the home side's last hope - was brilliantly caught for 21 by Vikram Solanki at backward short leg off Moeen Ali.
John Daly, a prop-forward in the Australian national side (the Wallabies), is a case in point.
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West Ham played a lead role in England's success, with Moore captaining the side, forward Geoff Hurst scoring a hat-trick (still the only player to do so in a World Cup final) and midfielder Martin Peters grabbing the home side's only other goal.
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That served as a wake-up call to Moyes' side, who surged forward and came within a whisker of taking the lead.
Guscott gave an often dour side a much-needed element of glamour, offering a forward-dominated outfit some sensational running from behind the scrum.
Buoyed by their Champions League victory over AC Milan and the prospect of facing Real Madrid in the quarter-finals, Redknapp named a line-up full of attacking flair and his side flooded forward from the first whistle.
Dragons chief executive Gethin Jenkins said the Welsh regional side are looking forward to hosting their cousins from the 13-man code.
He got away down the left side and picked out Cole, only for the in-form forward to fire straight at Myhill.
Thomas himself is looking forward to packing down on the blind-side on Friday night, as Wales seek to derail France's Grand Slam quest.
The Carling Cup has provided some welcome relief from a horrendous start to the Premier League season for Portsmouth, and Paul Hart's side can now look forward to a place in the quarter-finals.
Play, reverse and fast-forward buttons are broken out onto the right side of the unit, which admittedly took a few attempts to get used to but quite quickly felt not only easy, but nicely ergonomic whilst held in the hand.
But South Africa insist they are glad to be playing a side that base their game on forward play after playing the free-running Pacific Island teams.
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But, after Bradford loose forward Elima's first-half brace kept his side in it, this time Leeds could not manage a single point after the break.
With Cowden happy to sit on their three-goal lead, Brechin, who remain in Division Two, failed to pose any real threat and Rory McAllister firing into the side-netting after rounding David Hay was the best they could offer going forward.
The in-form striker, who passed a fitness test before the game on an Achilles injury, collected a pass inside the area from fellow forward Zoltan Gera and stylishly set up a cool, side-foot finish past home keeper Diego Benaglio for his sixth Europa League goal of the season and 19th in total.
One of the products of the successful Everton Academy has been 18-year-old forward Toni Duggan, who was a part of the side that lifted the cup two years ago and has also won the Euro 2009 Under-19 Championships with England.
Healy pounced on a mistake and pushed the ball forward for Davis, whose perfect pass left Lafferty to provide the side-foot finish from 12 yards.
While the idea of moving forward and backward in-game with an analog stick on the side of a gun controller seemed unintuitive at first, its execution turned out to be practical.
The pass from the open-side, who was omnipresent in the opening stages, to Nick Abendanon was forward but they had attacked so swiftly the referee was too far behind to call it and the full-back set up Browne to thunder over from the 22.
Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez's team had time to launch a few balls into the Dutch box but van Marwijk's side survived and it is they who will go forward hoping it will be third-time lucky for them in a final following their defeats in 1974 and 1978.
The Ospreys were in danger of losing composure and captain Ryan Jones saw a penalty against his side brought forward 10 metres for complaining enabling Tovey to extend the Dragons lead to 11-0.
Keane has also signed forward El-Hadji Diouf from Bolton as he changes the look of his side that finished 15th in the Barclays Premier League last season.
And it was Hughes's side who came out quickest, flooding forward and putting pressure on the inexperienced West Brom back-line which contained three enforced changes due to injuries.
Halfway through the three-month truce, neither side seems to be trying to make the most of it to push forward the peace process.
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