Team in top forms

[Excape Goat]

1) England
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) Japan
5) France

[Colm]

Italy Brazil and Holland are the teams in top form

Italy have gone like 17 games unbeaten or something. Impressive.

[Excape Goat]

Italy Brazil and Holland are the teams in top form

Italy have gone like 17 games unbeaten or something. Impressive.

i am thinking of the form this month. Italy did not look good against switzerland. And that is why i put Japan. Japan has been horrible until the game against Germany.

[bobo81]

If you're talking about these past friendlies, I think Ukraine, Swiz, Iran, and France are looking good. Havnt seen much of Brazil.

[goliath74]

Italy is playing Ukraine today. We'll see who's got the form (which does not really matter all that much)

[sinner78]

1) England
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) Japan
5) France

I havent seen top form from since the argentina game.

for me the teams in form are

croatia
italy
Brazil

[tmlfan4ever]

one word: BRAZIL

[Holla at ya boy]

i know the team in the worst form is USA they are amazingly out of shape and alot of players look like they just woke up, when we lose to Morocco you know we are in bad form

[justboy]

1) England
2) Brazil
3) Argentina
4) Japan
5) France

England?

Played 2
Won 1
Lost 1

And you think they have the best record? Scotland has a better record over the past month!

[Pigs]

Actually the game against Belarus was official England B team. It was not a full international by FIFA. No Gerrard, No Beckham, No Ferdinand, No Terry, No Robinson, No Neville, No Lampard, and Owen and Joe Cole only played half the game.

officially, England have won their last five games in a row.

[leg_breaker]

England are in dreadful form. No cohesion, no fluency, no confidence, no anything.

[Pigs]

England are in dreadful form. No cohesion, no fluency, no confidence, no anything.

yet officially England have won their last five games, which included Uruguay, Hungary, Argentina, Poland and Austria.

[JAIME CHILE]

France and Switzerland.

[justboy]

Actually the game against Belarus was official England B team. It was not a full international by FIFA. No Gerrard, No Beckham, No Ferdinand, No Terry, No Robinson, No Neville, No Lampard, and Owen and Joe Cole only played half the game.

officially, England have won their last five games in a row.

You can sugar coat it however you like, ENGLAND still lost to Belarus.

Even if it is just the last month and you don't include Belarus there are still a ton of teams in better form that England. EVen if you do include WC qualifying, there are still teams in better form than England.

[Big balls]

One of the teams who really is in the worst form now is Sweden. Right now I'll just be very pleased if Sweden makes it past the group. I've never cared about friendlys but....the last friendly before the actual WC, and they looked very weak. It doesn't look as Sweden will manage to uphold their long unbeaten record against England.

[anitnegra]

I agree with justboy. England was afraid to lose so they made sure everyone knew it was their B side. No one else does that. It wasn't Netharlands B who beat Mexico, even though the majority of their big names did not start or even play. The same goes for Poland when they played Colombia.
The English are a punch of punks...they never win anything...with the exception of the '66 cup at home. They even started making excuses before the cup even started all because 1 of their best players got hurt. Almost every team in the cup is missing a starter or two due to injury.

[BSjanitor]

Brazil is training against unofficial teams as is the tradition for them before the world cup. I cannot make assumptions from that.

What I can take as a foreshadowing of the World Cup is the fact that Japan went 2-0 over Germany in Leverkusen and forced the mannschaft to squeeze out a draw, Iran gave Croatia a hard time, Ukraine and Switzerland both held Italy. Basically, my point is to watch out for some of these smaller teams because they are looking organized and strong. Ukraine in particular has done well even without Shevchenko.

I won't take friendly results seriously at all from traditional teams with World Cup experience like Germany, Brazil, England, Italy, France, Spain, even Holland. Once the real thing starts most those teams tend to kick into a higher gear sooner or later.

[BlazingHeader]

I agree with justboy. England was afraid to lose so they made sure everyone knew it was their B side. No one else does that. It wasn't Netharlands B who beat Mexico, even though the majority of their big names did not start or even play. The same goes for Poland when they played Colombia.
The English are a punch of punks...they never win anything...with the exception of the '66 cup at home. They even started making excuses before the cup even started all because 1 of their best players got hurt. Almost every team in the cup is missing a starter or two due to injury.

Actually it was Hollands B-side who defeated Mexico. I can't see how you can negate that fact when you can consider that only 2 starters (Kromkamp and van Persie) played (1 starter in the second half).

[owen&gerrard237]

hmm..england are in great shape. the 6-0 win over jamaica showed it...ok maybe they arent the best of teams. But look at the USA they drew to them.:eek:

[leg_breaker]

yet officially England have won their last five games, which included Uruguay, Hungary, Argentina, Poland and Austria.

Two of those were qualifiers, at home, against average teams, and by a single goal margin. Of the friendlies, two were home games against nobodies and the third was a fluke win after the opposition had taken many of their best players off.

I agree with justboy. England was afraid to lose so they made sure everyone knew it was their B side.

Afraid to lose to Belarus, ok. We can beat Argentina but not Belarus? It was a B game so the second string and players coming back from injury would have a game of football. No other reason. It was effectively a full-contact training session.

The English are a punch of punks...they never win anything...with the exception of the '66 cup at home.

Argentina don't win anything, unless they cheat. That's a proven FACT. The Copa America doesn't count because they play it every week and Brazil play their reserves (but then why would they waste their best players against mere Argentina?)

Another fact: Argentina are odds on for a consecutive first-round exit, and you've no military dictatorship to help you this time.