Beckham Clock-watch

4 mins: Beckham whips a free-kick at pace into the Argentinian box from the left flank, but no England player can get on the end of it.

7 mins: Quick thinking and quick feet sees Beckham play a 50-yard cross-field pass to release Dyer down the right wing.

10 mins: A great in-swinging corner from the left, which Alan Shearer doesn't do justice to as he glances his header wide.

18 mins: World Cup deja-vu as a rash high challenge on none other than Diego Simeone earns Beckham a yellow card.

25 mins: Beckham tries his luck direct from a free-kick some 25 yards out, but the ball whistles just past the left-hand post.

35 mins: A good interception prompts Beckham to try an audacious 40-yard chip in the hope of repeating his famous goal against Wimbledon, but the ball never really takes flight.

70 mins: Beckham has been largely anonymous since the restart and he wastes possession for England from a free-kick by finding touch with a pass out to the right when he was aiming for substitute Phil Neville.

72 mins: Kevin Keegan replaces Beckham with Ray Parlour.