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Paraguay scrape friendly draw

25/05/2006: Looking jet-lagged and disorganised, Paraguay stumbled to a 2-2 draw against Norway in Oslo.

Aside from a brief spell shortly after half time the South Americans, who face England in their first World Cup game on June 10, found the bruising battle tough going.

Norway took the lead midway through the first half through a Frode Johnsen header, with Paraguay equalising shortly after half time through captain Carlos Gamarra (Shirt Number 4). The game will be remembered by Gamarra as he broke the Ecuador record of international appearances, collecting his 105th cap.

Paraguay took the lead four minutes later through striker Nelson Valdez with Norway deservedly equalising on the hour.

Coach Anibal Ruiz was disappointed with the performance but took heart from a brief spell after half time when they dominated the match.

He said: "We have to improve our performance a lot because we didn't play well against Norway.

"In South America we are not used to this strong physical football, the type that Sweden and England will play,

"We played well in different moments of the game when we controlled the ball but we had to change many players and after that Norway were in control."

Ruiz chose to leave teenage sensation Jose Arnulfo Montiel as an unused substitute.

Paraguay's starting line-up (substitutions in brackets):











Goalkeeper
Justo Villar

Defence
Carlos Bonet
Paulo Da Silva
Carlos Gamarra
Delio Toledo

Midfield
Edgar Barreto (Julio Manzur, 74),
Roberto Acuna
Cristian Riveros
Julio Dos Santos

Attack
Salvador Cabanas (Nelson Cuevas, 46),
Nelson Haedo Valdez (Jose Cardozo, 58).

Paraguay's next warm-up game is against Denmark in Aarhus on Saturday.

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