Re: 2012 International Friendlies

by Art Morte Sat May 26, 2012 9:56 pm

England were dreadful when they had Gerrard, Milner, Parker and Barry on the field. There was no movement off the ball whatsoever! England played much better in the final 20 minutes when they brought Henderson, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott on. Young players who actually want to run to create spaces and make themselves available for passes.

If England go to the Euros starting Parker, Gerrard and Lampard it's going to be just awful.

by Zealous Sat May 26, 2012 9:57 pm

Portugal pretty happy with the results today :coffee:

by Jay29 Sat May 26, 2012 9:59 pm

We played our most threatening football in the opening twenty minutes, though, when we were playing direct to Carroll and he was linking well with Young, while Gerrard was using the ball well. It was after that we didn't play that well, which I think is more tactical than anything at the moment.

by Onyx Sat May 26, 2012 10:00 pm

Norway played well.

by Zealous Sat May 26, 2012 10:00 pm

England will do well if they can bunker down effectively.

by Freeza Sat May 26, 2012 10:42 pm

Well Denmark-Brazil was kind of a let down for me, but the guys i went with, almost got in a brawl with our some fans from Copenhagen, very lolworthy to fight your own fans.
All three of Brazil's goals came from horrible mistakes... Thomas Sørensen, Christian Poulsen (wth was he starting?) and the central defense was horrible