England not too bad a this old kick ball are they..
Internationals March (World Cup Qualifiers)
- Thread starter Samid
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It's the qualifiers mate, you will be shit in the main competition as is tradition.
Good stuff by England.
That was quite good
Just looking at the Germany game - Goran Pandev still rolling I see. The names you kinda forget about. Good on him!
Unlucky kane good football
I thought that before kick-off then looked at the bench, not many options.
When we come up against some decent opposition, they won't be letting us take liberties in their box, like these are.
We won’t make the main competition I’m Irish
Chilwell not doing himself any favours. Looks rubbish.
Cannot for the life of me work out what Phillips point is in this lineup. Think any of the other options would be better. Seems like Rice does everything that he does with more quality and more athleticism. He's a body out there at the moment.
Poland aren’t a bad side tbf to them.
Selfishly happy Luke will be fresh for Sunday but he damn well better be starting come Euros.
Rice been good.
Very
Rice showing how to master the art of a defensive midfielder. Only 22, too.
He's been shite.
Outrageous he’s starting over Shaw. Can just see it happening this summer.
England‘s pressing has improved so much
The fact he's started this pretty much confirms he's first choice.
Got to say England are playing some lovely football. It is them and Belgium that feels best managed in an attacking sense and play best football.
Although France, Portugal and Germany got the recent winning experience and quality needed for tight knockout games.
Although France, Portugal and Germany got the recent winning experience and quality needed for tight knockout games.
I think it's a byproduct of more PL teams playing that way now too
Rice a bit of a unit too never realised he was so big before.
The gap in quality on both ends of the pitch between Shaw and Chillwell is staggering. We still can't laugh at a club that got robbed by Leicester for an English defender though.
I'm not so sure. He's doing himself no favours tonight with his performance. If Shaw finishes the season strongly I think it's his spot comfortably tbh.
Watching Pope play out from the back is horrible, feels like a big error can happen at any moment. I actually want Pickford to come back in.
Sterling's got their right back on toast.
I agree. Shaw played well against Albania too. They are not vastly different players so switching to Shaw will not change the dynamics of the left hand side.
Don't get this obsession with GKs. Just play to their strengths.
Lee Dixon just stole your line.
Haha.
Rice has won the ball back loads of times. Really good so far.
Sterling is having them for breakfast, if he had a final ball, or some options in the box to aim at, we'd be well up already.
Rice has looked really good so far. Phillips has been pretty good too.
Pretty sure this would be Southgate's chosen 11 with Henderson in for Phillips.
Good first half from England, though should really be looking for a 2nd goal. Most have impressed apart from Phillips and Chilwell.
Shaw is better and isnt
For all the wide attacking players that are coming through for England right now we only have Lingard on the bench to change those positions! Hope we have got all our injuries out of the way in this international break.
Hope you're right. Feels like he has his favourites if he can't play Shaw over Chilwell ATM.
Hehe, nice.