United players on int'l duty - 10/7-11 [R]

[Achtung]

Surprised no one started a thread for discussing the current Euro 2008 qualifiers and other international matches. I guess the first crop of matches have already passed. As always, its nice to see our guys do well and most importantly come back in one piece.

England - Ben Foster (loan), Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Michael Carrick, Kieran Richardson, Wayne Rooney

Scotland - Darren Fletcher

Northern Ireland - Jonny Evans

Ireland - John O'Shea

Portugal - Cristiano Ronaldo

France - Louis Saha

Norway - Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Netherlands - Edwin van der Sar

Those are the ones I thought of more quickly... feel free to add if I missed any.

[benni...]

Ronaldo had a brace yesterday, and had one good goal disallowed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yref4GArfao

All our England players (Rooney, Neville, Carrick) were shit, and Rio was injured.

VDS had a good game.

[musicl]

Carrick was the best player on the pitch. Lampard got in his way always, Lampard kept dropping deep and wanting short passes from Carrick.

Lampard cant play with Gerrard
Lampard cant play with Ballack
Lampard cant play with Carrick.............who next

[Charleysurf]

Carrick was the best player on the pitch. Lampard got in his way always, Lampard kept dropping deep and wanting short passes from Carrick.

Lampard cant play with Gerrard
Lampard cant play with Ballack
Lampard cant play with Carrick.............who next
You can't say Carrick was the best player on the pitch. I thought Carrick did OK, but the the combination of him, Lampard, Gerarrd and Downing in midfield did not work. The problem is that Carrick is not the Engergizer Bunny that Hargreaves has been for England.

Hargreaves makes up for the defencies of Lampard and Gerrard, i.e. all they want to do is get forward and take shots. Carrick has a more languid style that needs someone else beside him to do a lot of running and making tackles.

I think we are not going to see the best of Carrick for England (or United?) unless he has someone like Hargreaves beside him. Carrick and Parker could work well but I'm guessing Carrick will be the fallguy and Lampard will get to stay in CM with perhaps Parker coming in.

I thought Gary Neville did OK, considering Steven Gerrard gave him no protection. It was bad miss from that chance he had though.

Rooney showed great workrate but he just seems to have lost his touch. He'll come good again but it is not going to happen for a while yet. A goal for England would be a great help to his confidence but I don't see England getting too many chances against Croatia.

[Uniteder]

Carrick was the best player on the pitch. Lampard got in his way always, Lampard kept dropping deep and wanting short passes from Carrick.

Lampard cant play with Gerrard
Lampard cant play with Ballack
Lampard cant play with Carrick.............who next
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[Numquam Moribimur]

I hate International Football, it's boring as ******** .....:mad: :D

[Joelzinho]

I hate International Football, it's boring as ******** .....:mad: :D

Lies!

[SirManchester]

I hate International Football, it's boring as ******** .....:mad: :D

Don't hate it because you don't know anything about football outside of United.

[holytoledo]

Don't hate it because you don't know anything about football outside of United.

Laugh riot. There's football outside of United?

[littleman]

Laugh riot. There's football outside of United?

SirManc knows a fair bit of Scouse football, and owns some of their goods too.

[Bryanmufc]

Don't hate it because you don't know anything about football outside of United.
Hey sirmanc how about Sweinstiger(big spelling mistake) goal. The kid is great, how he didn't get shortlisted for fifapro awards, I don't know.

[prymetyme]

A good international match, can beat almost anything

[holytoledo]

The only problem I have with the International break is the lack of games to watch on the tube. I watched N. Ireland-Denmark but the only other game FSC was showing was Serbia-Belgium, which I could give two shits about. The fact that the USSF is still spinning their wheels to get a new coach isn't helping either.

[sdotsom]

I heard Vidic had another great game.

edit: Hey Achtung, add Vidic to your list.

[JC7rox]

A good international match, can beat almost anything

Ugh. Club > Country, all the time.

[SirManchester]

Hey sirmanc how about Sweinstiger(big spelling mistake) goal. The kid is great, how he didn't get shortlisted for fifapro awards, I don't know.

There's a raging bias against German players.

[holytoledo]

There's a raging bias against German players.

Explains why Podolski won the Young Player award at WC2006 over Ronaldo. :rolleyes:

[DutchFootballRulez]

Explains why Podolski won the Young Player award at WC2006 over Ronaldo. :rolleyes:

Yes, bias against German players.

Not Polish. :D

[JC7rox]

There's a raging bias for German players inside my pants.

FYP:D

[holytoledo]

Yes, bias against German players.

Not Polish. :D


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