England 2-2 Sweden

g jones · 20-06-2006, 23:21

Bit of a poor game. Svens contribution once again seemed bemusing. Back 4 were ok but the midfield was average and Rooney a touch sluggish.

Lampard is Englands problem. Hopelessly out of touch. If he was dropped Lennon could play and maybe we could get more out of Beckham in the centre than the sterile performances he is giving out wide. We need Lennons pace. Back 4 OK but Carragher out of position and lacks quality in possession.

V. Ecuador

-------------------------Robinson-------------------

Neville(?)--------Terry--------Ferdinand---------Cole

Lennon--------Beckham--------Gerrard--------Cole

----------------Rooney--------Crouch----------------

Bazf · 21-06-2006, 00:38

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Svens contribution once again seemed bemusing. Back 4 were ok but the midfield was average and Rooney a touch sluggish.

Sven contribution is a lot better then most managers would be in his position. Set him up to lose a multi million pound job, critise his every move, as a single guy watch his every step and report back all the bad bits.
I would have picked a 1-1-8 formation and put Walcot in goal then turned around and said up yours news of the world readers.

Campbell is over the hill as is Beckham, Hargreaves would be lucky to get a game in the championship but as a not needed to win game why not play them.
As a unit I thought they are improving with every game, Gerrard looks good, Cole is now starting to move with the ball but Fat Frank is the new Ray Wilkins, every thing sideways or backwards looked absolutly lost today.

entwisi · 21-06-2006, 06:22

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Originally Posted by g jones

Back 4 were ok but the midfield was average and Rooney a touch sluggish.

Back 4 were OK???? did you watch the same game I did? we were disgraceful at defending corners and free kicks and the second sweden goal was like schoolboys defending. It went over Terry, Campbell let it bounce and then tried kicking it at about 7 foot off the ground, and whilst Ashley Cole had a reasonable game overall, he got sucked right into the goal so had no time to react. The way they scored their first was poor defending and then alm,ost straight away they did it again! Luckily a combination of ref missing teh handball and Robinson instinctively lashing at the ball we would have been behind.

What I was disgusted at was when Owen went down(Hope hes alright but I don't think we will see him again this WC) and they brought on Crouch. What the heck is Walcott doing there? We didn't need to win the game, that was as good an opportunity to give the lad some real experience at no risk.

Rooney was tired, he hasn't played 90 mins of competitive footy for quite some time plus if he had picked up a knock we would all berate Sven for leaving him on. I did find it funny watching him chucking his rattle into orbit though. I'm glad he has such drive and ambition but he really does need to go on some anger management course or something