England warm up games Spoilers

Balb0wa · 30 May 2006 at 20:53

Germany losing to Japan

74 mins gone Germany 0 - 1 Japan

The_One · 30 May 2006 at 20:54

Its a waste of time judging an england team on friendly matches, the players dont have a high incentive to win them.

At the end of the day, in proper competitive matches when it counts Mr Eriksson has a great record for england.

That being said i'd be surprised if england make the semi's, were not even the best team in europe so dont know why people talk about winning the world cup

Andybtsn · 30 May 2006 at 20:54

deSade said:
I wish I'd said this before the pen, but I've been saying this to my mates for a long time now - when was the last time you saw Lampard play well for England?

True...

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?

Stag · 30 May 2006 at 20:57

The_One said:
Its a waste of time judging an england team on friendly matches, the players dont have a high incentive to win them.

At the end of the day, in proper competitive matches when it counts Mr Eriksson has a great record for england.

That being said i'd be surprised if england make the semi's, were not even the best team in europe so dont know why people talk about winning the world cup

Who would you say is better in Europe then?

deSade · 30 May 2006 at 20:58

JohnnyG said:
v Austria & Poland in the qualifiers?

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

atpbx · 30 May 2006 at 20:59

This is so very very poor.

Same old same old, no pace down the sides, no one to commit players, no one to go past players, Hungary sit back, not a lot happens as we either have Beckham losing possesion straight away with his stupid long passes, or we hit a dead end playing up the middle.

Yes, Beckham made ONE good cross that half.
Not enough to warrent his place.

PLEASE change it.

The_One · 30 May 2006 at 20:59

Stag said:
Who would you say is better in Europe then?

Spain, portugal, czech republic

need i go on??

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

Balb0wa · 30 May 2006 at 21:00

82' Germany 0 - 2 Japan

Andybtsn · 30 May 2006 at 21:01

Stag said:
Who would you say is better in Europe then?

True, I'd say all of the England team would walk into most European nation teams, and I bet the top European clubs would like an England player in their team (talking from England's best 11 here)

It's just about making them play together well is the problem.

The_One · 30 May 2006 at 21:02

You summed it right up.

England imho are just like real madrid, great talented individual players

but cant play together for love nor money

Andybtsn · 30 May 2006 at 21:02

The_One said:
Spain, portugal, czech republic

need i go on??

Why Spain? What have they proven?

Portugal, lost to Greece in Euro final, again, what have they done to be better than England?

Silent-Lucidity · 30 May 2006 at 21:02

atpbx said:
Yes, Beckham made ONE good cross that half.
Not enough to warrent his place.

Two

FeFiDoh · 30 May 2006 at 21:02

Its just such bad football, yet the premiership has in my opinion the best football in the world. But you can tell most of it is foriegn players. England just dont know what to do when they have the ball and are on the break. They just scramble it away from the box (when they managed to do that) and then do bugger all. As a team were so outclassed its unreal.

deSade · 30 May 2006 at 21:03

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

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

The_One · 30 May 2006 at 21:04

andybtsn said:
Why Spain? What have they proven?

Portugal, lost to Greece in Euro final, again, what have they done to be better than England?

It isnt about whos won more, were talking about whos better team at this moment in time and i'd rate all of them above england.

Czech republic are currently ranked number 2 behind brazil in world rankings and i have a sly bet on them for the world cup so im going to say there better than england any day of the week. (Based on current form and how they play as a TEAM)

deSade · 30 May 2006 at 21:05

andybtsn said:
Why Spain? What have they proven?

True. Spain **** themselves whenever they get into the knockout stages!

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...

vanpeebles · 30 May 2006 at 21:07

R5Rich said:
Its just such bad football, yet the premiership has in my opinion the best football in the world. But you can tell most of it is foriegn players. England just dont know what to do when they have the ball and are on the break. They just scramble it away from the box (when they managed to do that) and then do bugger all. As a team were so outclassed its unreal.

totally agree, for such amazing players as sky and the bbc always tell us. A lot of them have a poor touch and struggle to pass to well. its all good and well to look great against duff premier league fodder, but the international stage really does show a lot of them up

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