England warm up games Spoilers

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 19:07

Robinson
A. Cole
Terry
Rio
Neville
Carragher
Lamps
Becks
J. Cole
Gerrard
Owen

That's the line up tonight, I guess if it goes well it could be the line up for the group games:/

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 19:17

Brazil v FC Lucerne is on ITV4 now too

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 19:22

Gerrard in the role J.Cole should be playing in that formation with Carragher holding as discussed

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 19:27

Formation, not team

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 19:30

Now you've lost me, for a change

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 20:00

Good to see the Brazilian lady fans are of their usual high quality this year too

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 20:50

Great dive by Gerrard, wasn't he quite vocal about that sort of thing recently?

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 20:56

deSade said:
when was the last time you saw Lampard play well for England?

v Austria & Poland in the qualifiers?

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:00

deSade said:
I'd agree he had a fairly good game in one of those. But his country/club form is massively dissparate.

You could say the same about everyone in the team tonight except Robinson, J. Cole & Owen

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:05

deSade said:
I'd put G Neville with those as well. I know loads of people hate him - but he does a job for club & country.

I'd agree, that still leaves the majority of England's finest who fail to turn club form into country form. Beckham has apparently been outstanding at RM...

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:16

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:19

Cracker

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:34

ballistic said:
walcott is crap

Is that a joke?

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:37

ballistic said:
no it's a fact

How do you know that then?

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:45

ballistic said:
he hasn't played a premiership game, even adebayour has ahead of him, this entails he's crap and not good enough yet

This entails you know very little. You could say he's not good enough yet but you can't say he's crap, as you haven't seen him play

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:49

ballistic said:
I've seen him play against Belarus and Hungary, two absolute crap teams (Tunisia are at the moment 3-0 up against Belarus), and he has made no impact at all -> he's crap.

Now I know you're joking.

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:50

I smell Goldmember...

JohnnyG · 30 May 2006 at 21:55

BaZ87 said:
you really are talking ****

Ignore him mate

JohnnyG · 3 Jun 2006 at 19:23

quackers said:
edit: 125/1 Might be worth a punt

I'd happily give you more

Vandle said:
He didnt win many headers and I dont think he won one up against a defender with his back to goal.

I counted one, but to be honest he doesn't have to win them just put the defender under pressure so he just nods it down into the midfield where we picked up the majority of ball anyway

He is alarmingly poor in the air for a tall lad though

Vandle said:
As someone mentioned above Sol was awful , slow and cumbersome , decent forwards would have ran him ragged.

Agree with that, 4yrs ago he was named in the team of the WC (rightly so) he looks awful now

JohnnyG · 3 Jun 2006 at 19:50

I think his awkward Bambiness will have the same effect against most defenders. He doesn't actually need to win the back to goal balls, just make sure the defender has little control over where it goes. With Lamps & Gerrard in midfield we should pick up most loose balls anyway

He was conspicuous by his absence from corners though, one flick on was it?

England warm up games **Spoilers**

England warm up games Spoilers