IT'S all over and we have to admit that the best team won.

All the hype and belief that England were better than Brazil and good enough to win the World Cup were blown to pieces by a magnificent Brazil performance.

England ran the game until they scored early. After that there was only one team in it, even after Brazil had Ronaldinho sent off.

England tried and produced a decent team performance. But this was a day when they needed world class individuals and we didn't have any.

Marcos was not troubled throughout and England struggled to keep possession. The nation built up England to fever pitch and, once again, it has all come crashing down around our ears. Brazil set the benchmark today that England must attain and they have a lot of work to do.

The first job is to become more creative in midfield. David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt worked their socks off - poor Trevor Sinclair unfortunately had his worst game - but the poor strikers had precious little supply. The worst thing England could do was score in the 23rd minute. Before that there was only one team in it. Scholes was running the game and Brazil looked there for the taking.

The goal was coming and when Lucio made a terrible mistake that man Michael Owen was on hand to prove once again he always scores in the big games.

That goal transformed Brazil and England's answer was to sit back and let them come at us. That's suicide football against a team with the class of Brazil who pulled the inevitable trigger in the style fitting of the Samba Boys' legend.

David Beckham will have nightmares about jumping over the ball thinking it was going to go out of play. Brazil kept it in and fed Ronaldinho who took on the England defence, drew both centre halves and fed Rivaldo to finish off mesmerising move.

England had no answer. This was not the same England who polished off Argentina and hammered Denmark. They huffed and puffed but they couldn't hurt Brazil's back line.

Red carded Ronaldinho penetrated England like none of our players could. Five minutes into the second half he scored the goal which will give David Seaman many sleepless nights when he stunned everyone by floating a free kick over the England keeper's head in a moment of inspiration which will give the English many weeks of deflation.