I'm just really fascinated about the difference in the amount of players each club is producing. Arsenal are producing players as good as Chelsea eg. Wilshere, Akpom, Jebb, Hayden but Chelsea are producing an obscene amount of players especially internationals. This leads me to believe that it's not the coaching which is an issue at Arsenal but it is the scouting and recruitment of top local players.
since I do not have the chance of watching the games they play live/in flesh I'm making a rather guess that the reason(be it scouting/coaching) behind it has actually resulted in the observation that Arsenal has changed some of their philosophy(like the one discussed here by Juni n others about Arsenal has more physical players, more Frimpong than Yennaris), which has been discussed a lot here previously. Off topic: some results from this mornings Nike cup game Blackburn 1-1 LFC Newcastle 2-1 Everton City 1-0 wolves Bolton 0-0 Stoke Palace 1-0 Reading Celtic 2-1 west Ham Southampton 1-0 Villa WBA 4-0 Norwich
Incidentally, you can add another position to Connor Hunte's repertoire after this past weekend. He was the left sided defender (half CB half FB) in a 3-4-3...
I did mention some months ago (I think) that if things don't work out as planned he looks the sort who would suit the left back position very well. RE: England starting tomorrow: Hopefully they'll rattle up some good results and performances to confirm their chances of lifting the Euros next year.
He's been at full back on and off all season but this was a bit narrower and restrictive because it was three defenders instead of four.
He has continued there eh. As I said earlier in the season it is too early in my view to play him there. Presumably to accommodate someone else?
There's a lot of attacking players in the U16s and not so many defenders, so that might've had something to do with it. He has another year at 16s whereas many of those further upfield graduate this season.
Team Sheet 2 Arlen Birch 3 Ashley Smith Brown 4 Bryn Morris(C) 5 Callum Jones 6 Max Clarke 8 George Green 9 Jerome Sinclair 10 Jordan Brown 11 Conor Hunte 13 Dan Atkinson 16 Reece Brown Substitutes 1 Alex Palmer 7 Alex Iwobi 12 Josh Aina 14 Dan Crowley 15 Charlie Colkett 17 Kean Bryan 18 Alex Gilliead
Update from Joe - 20 minutes in, still 0-0 but #englandu16 just hit the side netting. Japan impressing, England a bit wasteful in possession.
This was our first half formation - .....................Atkinson Birch..........Jones....Clark....Smith-Brown .......................Morris ............Green............R. Brown J. Brown...............................Hunte ......................Sinclair