France V England Match Thread

[sean_lfc]

I thought they did a little better than I expected until we scored, then you literally had two banks of four, the first back four about a foot in front of Hart and the midfield back four a few feet ahead. Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they adopted that and encouraged France to play with the ball around the box. Took me straight back to Woys days at LFC.

Awful after they scored, average before.
I stil think they'll finish the group with 2 points and go out.

[Kenneth]

Nice Craig post there 'hyperbolic nonsense' - the new fashionable word when one disagrees. There was no one in between Young and Welbeck - 30 yards of space. When England attacked via the flanks there was maybe 1 player in the middle. It was the ****test game of the Euros and one of the most boring games I've seen. Anyways, England will be getting absolutely nowhere and that's a good thing. They played shocking football, France were little better and both teams seemed content with the draw. It's not even worth arguing about, any donkey could see how **** the game was, how devoid of any creativity, half the stadium was booing for a period in the 2nd half. Whatever. It's not a matter of 'if' but 'when'.

I used the word because it was literally accurate.

[Lee]

Yes weird that England would play the same as we would under the same manager

That was kind of my point.

[Bender]

the England ratings on the bbc :
DANNY WELBECK (FORWARD)8/10
Guy's view: "Star performer right from the start. Looks completely at home in international football at the highest level. Not just a good touch, but puts the work in too."
Did you know? Despite holding the ball up well, he did not have a shot at goal.
and that get's him the star performer award what a nation

[Kenneth]

Shearer, Hansen and Lineker were singing his praises before the Ukraine game. He played well for about 20 mins, the rest was meh.

[Exiled_red]

the England ratings on the bbc :
DANNY WELBECK (FORWARD)8/10
Guy's view: "Star performer right from the start. Looks completely at home in international football at the highest level. Not just a good touch, but puts the work in too."
Did you know? Despite holding the ball up well, he did not have a shot at goal.
and that get's him the star performer award what a nation

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

I must be really unlucky, I've seen Ribery play about 25 times and he's not had a good game yet.

Overrated and never seems to do it against the big boys

[Exiled_red]

Overrated and never seems to do it against the big boys

Do England count as the big boys

[Bender]

should have bought on wallcott sooner and carroll should have come on instead of defoe

[Lee]

Yup I agree.

That Walcott sub was a pisstake.

[Gingawaria]

Substitutions killed the game for me last night. Henderson came on because England have no other midfielders, which is understandable. But when they were already starting to play it long, why the hell didn't he bring on Carroll?

Also...Wellbeck MOTM?!? I thought he was completely ineffective.

[Bender]

Yup I agree.

That Walcott sub was a pisstake.

ref was a bit of a prick

[baitman]

is this the same ref that gives engerlund **** all in eurovision...

milner ****e, no surprises.
england defending too deep, midfield falling back into the trenches just in front of the defence, scared to step out and press the man with the ball/make an interception or tackle.
rubbery is very poo, overhyped.

if england continue like this they wont make it out of the group.

[Gingawaria]

I actually think Downing would have scored that chance that Milner had in the first half.

Throw my name into the group that has never seen Ribery play well, he must have a bloody good agent is all I can say!

[Phoenix07]

Going by the press reaction this morning, you would've thought England won yesterday.