England captain David Beckham believes striker Michael Owen will come good in the World Cup despite his early substitution against Paraguay.
Dropping a captain is always hard. When he's your country's all-time leading scorer and it's at a World Cup, it's almost unthinkable.
Just as the weight controversy had began to die down, Ronaldo failed to impress in Brazil's World Cup debut on Tuesday, looking slow and even sluggish at times.