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The second paragraph in the International Career section of the page on Stephen Gerrard, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Gerrard, has a typo, marked below. Suggested change is included below that.

Gerrard scored his second goal for the national team in the Euro 2004 qualifier against Macedonia on 16 October 2002 in a 2–2 draw, his third goal was the opener in a 2–1 win over Serbia and Montenegro on 3 June 2013.[78] He was a regular starter in Euro 2004, scoring once to make it 3–0 in England's win over Switzerland in the second Group game of the tournament but England would

fortunately go onto[edit]

be eliminated by the tournament hosts Portugal in the quarter-finals losing 6–5 on penalties in a match when Gerrard was substituted off in the 81st minute for Owen Hargreaves.[79]

Change "fortunately" to "unfortunately" and delete "go onto" Newtonc88 (talk) 17:52, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've made the change to the article, removing the phrase "fortunately go on" entirely. (The word "unfortunately" is improper as well, for the same reason "fortunately" is.) For future reference, this is not the proper place to put an edit request like this - the correct place to do it is on the talk page of the article concerned. --ElHef (Meep?) 18:40, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]