Pre-tournament friendlies

[Furball]

Huh.

Swiss leading Jerry 5-3 if the Beeb website is correct.

ITSTL as they say round here.

None of Bayern Munich's players are involved, which is basically the goalkeeper, 3 of the first choice back 4, 2 central midfielders, Muller and Gomez.

Germany are experimenting and using the opportunity to give their fringe players a chance to stake a claim.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lovely bit of skill and a better finish from Young.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Comedy defending, but well taken yea.

 

[Eds]

Hilariously soft goal. Well taken, mind.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Trouble is everyone one of these challenges by Carroll will be a free kick to the defending side come the competitive matches, because the game is glorified netball.

Green still looking kinda rubbish.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Trademark Milner there. That's why he's just not good enough at international level. Gets a great position to pick a cross and just floats it chest high to the first defender. He'll do the same thing over and over again.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Green still looking kinda rubbish.

Effing clueless, tbh.

Mind you, why Jones left the near post so quickly I don't know.

Well, I could hazard a guess, but I'm far happier in denial.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jagielka looking the best defender in the team.

One call Woy got right.

No, wait...

 

[Scaly piscine]

And there's a red card tackle from Gerrard.

 

[wpdavid]

And there's a red card tackle from Gerrard.

Astonishing that Gerrard didn't even get a yellow card for that one. Possibly the cleanest contact he's made all night - his ball retention has been as dire as ever. Obviously Lampard's been in better form than Gerrard lately, but for some reason Stevie's been given an automatic starting place with the captain's armband.

Parker's been light years ahead of the rest of the midfield. Milner simply isn't good enough, but he is still better than Downing.

And I hadn't realised how poor Jones' control is nowadays.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh wait no we've all been watching a different game. Mr Hollywood Pass linked up really well with the rest of the team in the first half according to Andy Townsend.

By far the worst thing about Gerrard being captain is he's an automatic pick when he should be struggling to make the bench.

 

[Furball]

Someone find that trumpeter and insert the trumpet up his arse.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Club move there from Walcott and Ox, trying to walk it into the net and not even getting a shot off.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Jesus Christ whatever Downing does Townsend tries to make a criticism out of it. The same dickhead who spends the entire matching saying how great Gerrard has been, or when he does mess it up it's an "uncharacteristic error".

 

[Furball]

Jesus Christ whatever Downing does Townsend tries to make a criticism out of it.

Reckon the fact that Downing is complete and utter **** is probably related.

 

[wpdavid]

Club move there from Walcott and Ox, trying to walk it into the net and not even getting a shot off.

Walcott looks completely bereft of confidence. The 2 or 3 times he's been in decent positions, he's simply bottled out of making a telling contribution.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Walcott looks completely bereft of confidence. The 2 or 3 times he's been in decent positions, he's simply bottled out of making a telling contribution.

Yea, that cross just now from a good position was an absolute nothing play. The sort of attacking contribution I'd expect from Milner or Jones.

Still can't believe Adam Johnson wasn't in the squad.

 

[BoyBrumby]

"Perfunctory" is the word.

Plus side is Rob Green improved as the game wore on; commanded his area second half.

Johnson looked so much better than Downing it was embarrassing for both too.

Typical Feo; positional play was ok, but no end product.

 

[Uppercut]

Walcott looks completely bereft of confidence. The 2 or 3 times he's been in decent positions, he's simply bottled out of making a telling contribution.

That's not a lack of confidence, that's what he always does.

 

[cpr]

Jagielka looking the best defender in the team.

Carroll was IMO. Got on the end of pretty much every corner Jones gave away