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Only person I really disagree with is Lampard, other than that it's about as good as it could have been. The stand-by list is incredibly lightweight/poor though, let's hope nobody gets injured.
 
SideWinder said:
Agreed but Hazard comes from Belgium so we can't pick him.
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If only.

Glad the likes of Barkley, Sterling, Lallana and Shaw are in. Also a credit to Henderson considering how much he's improved this season.

MooMoo444 said:
Hope he ditches most of the old guys. Lampard, Cole, Terry etc and gets some young ones generating some experience for 2016 onwards. About time we had some freshness in the team.
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Agreed apart from Terry, would have been awesome to have him and Cahill as out starting pairing, they've been mostly solid for Chelsea this season. Jagielka for me, isn't good enough.
 
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Personally I'd have taken Carrick over Lampard. Very different player, but Wilshire and Lallana (especially) and Barkley and even Sterling can do the floating role well enough for me, Carrick would have given that bit extra time on the ball in the heat if needs be and can always slot in at the back in extra time if we've got an injury. Obviously Gerrard is going to play the old Carrick role, but I just feel Carrick would have given a more flexible option than Lampard.

Surprised Barry apparently hasn't even been considered. I'm not a massive fan, but he's been much better this season than many of the seasons he's been in the England set up.

A month or 2 back I wouldn't even have had Rooney starting. Sterling, Lallana and Sturridge would have been my front 3, but Sturridge has gone off the boil a little lately (obviously just come back from a little injury and scored a couple of goals, but he's drifted through games a bit too much since).

For me (433/451)

Hart
Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines
Gerrard
Wilshire, Henderson
Sterling, Lallana
Rooney
 
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benhaha85 said:
He's out for 5 months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26928782
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Totally forgot. :D:D

I even saw that injury.

Also forgot Walcott was injured, and was surprised at first why he wasn't included. :D:D

EDIT: Here is Algeria's 30 man squad. Only recognise a few of the more popular names. Bentaleb (Tottenham midfielder) has been included.


Goalkeepers: Izzedine Doukha (USM El-Harrach), Rais M'bolhi (CSKA Sofia), Cedric Si Mohamed (CS Constantine), Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche (USM Alger)

Defenders: Essaid Belkalem (Watford), Madjid Bougherra (Lekhwlya Club), Liassine Cadamuro (Mallorca), Faouzi Ghoualm (Napoli), Rafik Halliche (academica Coimbra), Nacereddine Khoualed (USM Alger), Aissa Mandi (Stade Reims), Carl Medjani (Valenciennes), Djamel Mesbah (Livorno), Mehdi Mostefa (AC Ajaccio)

Midfielders: Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham), Ryad Boudebouz (Bastia), Yasine Brahimi (Granada), Adlene Guedioura (Crystal Palace), Amir Karaoui (Entente de Setif), Medhi Lacen (Getafe), Saphir Taider (Inter Milan), Hassan Yebda (Udinese)

Forwards: Abdelmoumene Djabou (Club Africain), Rafik Djebbour (Nottingham Forest), Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia), Nabil Ghilas (Porto), Foued Kadir (Rennes), Ryad Mahrez (Leicester), Islam Slimani (sporting Lisbon), Hilal Soudani (Dinamo Zagreb).

EDIT 2: If anyone is interested, Russia

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan)

Defenders: Alexander Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg), Alexei Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergei Ignashevich, Georgy Shchennikov (all CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat, Alexei Kozlov (both Dynamo Moscow), Andrei Yeshchenko (Anzhi Makhachkala), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Andrei Semenov (Terek Grozny)

Midfielders: Igor Denisov, Yury Zhirkov (both Dynamo Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Gazinsky, Roman Shirokov (both FC Krasnodar), Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Pavel Mogilevets (Rubin Kazan), Viktor Faizulin, Oleg Shatov (both Zenit St Petersburg)

Forwards: Vladimir Bystrov (Anzhi Makhachkala), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg), Artem Dzyuba (Rostov), Alexei Ionov, Alexander Kokorin (both Dynamo Moscow), Maxim Kanunnikov (Amkar Perm), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Reading/ENG), Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y...tarasov-miss-out-on-russia-squad-2337510.html
 
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My starting 11 would be:

Hart
Johnson Cahill Jagielka Shaw
Gerrard
Sterling Henderson Lallana
Rooney
Sturridge

I do quite like the variety in the squad. Ox for an injection of pace, Milner as a work horse, Lambert if we need someone holding it up top.

Hoping no one gets injured between now and then as the back ups are pretty weak imo.
 
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I guess you could make a case for Sturridge instead of Rooney, or Rooney behind Sturridge instead of Barkley, but these are how I expect us to line up (and they're likely the best two options).

Pick based on difficulty of opposition/requirement of goals, etc.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Gerrard played deeper during the Euros so I'd expect Hodgson to continue playing him that way.
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He won't but if Hodgson had any sense he'd build the side around our diamond/4-3-3 system with Rooney coming in for Suarez and Lallana, Barkley or Wilshere for Allen/Coutinho.

He's got the foundations of a very good side and system ready and waiting for him.
 
I'd rather see Sturridge up front than Rooney, all Rooney ever does is drop into midfield and leave us toothless in attack.
 
Well, that's the exact squad I picked last week on the Telegraph app. So you can all blame me if we're crap...

Really looking forward to this World Cup. I much prefer being underdogs and having a crack at it rather than being perennial under-performers. Also, being unemployed at the moment I'm pretty much going to watch ever single game!

On another note, it's brilliant that there are three players from Southampton in the squad - two former youth players, and a former non-league striker! Seeing as they were in League One not too long ago, it shows the strength of their youth system. Good stuff.

Edit - got some very good penalty takers int he team team. Rooney, Gerard, Lampard, Baines, Lambert, etc. all take penalties for their respective clubs (when they're on the pitch).
 
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Robbo said:
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I guess you could make a case for Sturridge instead of Rooney, or Rooney behind Sturridge instead of Barkley, but these are how I expect us to line up (and they're likely the best two options).

Pick based on difficulty of opposition/requirement of goals, etc.
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Sturridge easily deserves to start ahead of Rooney.
 
this_is_gav said:
Personally I'd have taken Carrick over Lampard. Very different player, but Wilshire and Lallana (especially) and Barkley and even Sterling can do the floating role well enough for me, Carrick would have given that bit extra time on the ball in the heat if needs be and can always slot in at the back in extra time if we've got an injury. Obviously Gerrard is going to play the old Carrick role, but I just feel Carrick would have given a more flexible option than Lampard.

Surprised Barry apparently hasn't even been considered. I'm not a massive fan, but he's been much better this season than many of the seasons he's been in the England set up.
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What, Carrick is a very different player to Lampard, that I can agree with... Lampard being a football and Carrick being something else entirely. Carrick would give extra time in the ball how? He's slow as crap, crap under pressure, painfully painfully awful when against a opposition closing him down. He's awful at providing extra time on the ball. Lampard or Fabregas type player would receive a pass and turn away from an incoming tackle and run in to space and pick out the right pass. Carrick would simply pass back to a keeper or lose the ball.

Carrick is one of the worst midfielders(in the form he's had in the past 3 years) ever to start consistently for a top four team that I can remember. He's god awful and Lampard is significantly better both defensively and offensively.

Barry really hasn't been great, he gives away SO many cynical fouls when he's caught out for pace and while he's had patches of good form, he's had some terrible games. He's being helped massively by one of the most solid defences in the league and a much much more mobile and very strong defensive players along side him in midfield, helping to cover his lack of pace and general meh-ness. Without having two of the best fullbacks in the league, solid CB's and a massively under rated central midfield alongside him, he'd struggle in other teams... and has.

At City and for England when CB's go forward for corners and you have stupid(ie, Glen Johnson) as a fullback his role becomes critical yet he was terrible at defending counter attacks in such situations, his utter lack of pace costs him. In a highly organised Everton, with two brilliant fullbacks with bags of energy and a hell of a lot more sense and quality than Johnson Everton don't get caught out by Barry's pace and just not being good enough. For England, he would be caught out and would provide very very little.
 
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