View Full Version : What was England's best performance over the last few years?
ToonUSA
21 Dec 2006, 01:29 AM
I was thinking this earlier and couldn't think of a match in the last few years when they completely outplayed a class opponent. I am always finding myself wanting more from their performances recently.
Your thoughts?
Cloudkicker09
21 Dec 2006, 02:41 AM
ENGLAND 5 Germany 1
It was a beautiful day and Beckham was Awesome
Placid Casual
21 Dec 2006, 04:06 AM
ENGLAND 5 Germany 1
It was a beautiful day and Beckham was Awesome
We have had 3 tournaments since then. Hardly recent.
Prenn
21 Dec 2006, 05:07 AM
When we beat Croatia in Euro 2004.
Colm
21 Dec 2006, 06:12 AM
Some of of defending in that Croatia game at Euro 2004 wasn't very good but were very good going forward.
In recent terms then Argentina but that was only a friendly
in competitive matches I'd probably say Turkey march 2003.
When Hell Unfreezes
21 Dec 2006, 08:58 AM
v Spain at Old Trafford on February 7th - it'll be awesome...
............................James
Richards......Woodgate......Carragher............Bridge
Lennon.........Parker..........Reo Coker..........Downing
...............Crouch............Johnson
We'll win 12-0, with Johnson diving for a record number of 8 penalties (6 of which we'll miss) - all the regulars will be too tired, too injured, too busy elsewehere and just too too...........
And toooooooo top it all, none of these will feature against Israel....:rolleyes:
dustcowpoke
21 Dec 2006, 09:17 AM
In recent years....? Eeehhh. The Jamaica friendly.
sunny17
21 Dec 2006, 10:37 AM
v Spain at Old Trafford on February 7th - it'll be awesome...
............................James
Richards......Woodgate......Carragher............Bridge
Lennon.........Parker..........Reo Coker..........Downing
...............Crouch............Johnson
We'll win 12-0, with Johnson diving for a record number of 8 penalties (6 of which we'll miss) - all the regulars will be too tired, too injured, too busy elsewehere and just too too...........
And toooooooo top it all, none of these will feature against Israel....:rolleyes:
are u jose mourinho in disguise :D
three lions
21 Dec 2006, 11:06 AM
The Argentina Friendly, 2 goals for Owen, 1 for Rooney..England played a 4-4-2, with King in the lineup...
three lions
21 Dec 2006, 11:07 AM
ENGLAND 5 Germany 1
It was a beautiful day and Beckham was Awesome
Michael Owen, just might have possibly, had a pretty good game as well.;)
dustcowpoke
21 Dec 2006, 12:36 PM
I say that England should call up all those players that aren't retired from that Germany game and see what happens. My prediction... Heskey and Beckham score 3 between them and prove the doubters wrong. Euro 2008 here we come!
Cloudkicker09
21 Dec 2006, 02:47 PM
And toooooooo top it all, none of these will feature against Israel....:rolleyes:
Why? I mean as fan of the Israeli national team
three lions
21 Dec 2006, 02:57 PM
Also, England -Greece friendly...and England- Switzerland Euro 2004
Mikey10
21 Dec 2006, 04:34 PM
England vs Turkey at Sunderland. If it wasn't for poor finishing, and 2 hand ball penalties which weren't given by the ref, we could have won that 6-0 easily. It was a pure ass raping. It's no coincidence that when we play at a Premier league style like in that game, we always seem to play brilliantly.
Shame we have an even bigger clown than Sven in charge now.
Mikey10
21 Dec 2006, 04:35 PM
Also, England -Greece friendly...and England- Switzerland Euro 2004
Greece practically handed 2 of those goals to us. Less said about the shambles against Switzerland the better. We were dreadful.
Colm
22 Dec 2006, 04:46 AM
England vs Turkey at Sunderland. If it wasn't for poor finishing, and 2 hand ball penalties which weren't given by the ref, we could have won that 6-0 easily. It was a pure ass raping. It's no coincidence that when we play at a Premier league style like in that game, we always seem to play brilliantly.
Shame we have an even bigger clown than Sven in charge now.Spot on.
Chewmylegoff
23 Dec 2006, 04:27 PM
The Argentina Friendly, 2 goals for Owen, 1 for Rooney..England played a 4-4-2, with King in the lineup...
king was completely out of his depth and we didn't look any good until he was taken off and we played a flat 4-4-2. even then they shat all over us until they took riquelme off. it was a nice game to win but not really a great performance.
Chewmylegoff
23 Dec 2006, 04:35 PM
England vs Turkey at Sunderland. If it wasn't for poor finishing, and 2 hand ball penalties which weren't given by the ref, we could have won that 6-0 easily. It was a pure ass raping. It's no coincidence that when we play at a Premier league style like in that game, we always seem to play brilliantly.
Shame we have an even bigger clown than Sven in charge now.
agree with this, we absolutely battered them. much more of a domination that the 5-1 against germany.
sinner78
24 Dec 2006, 05:36 AM
king was completely out of his depth and we didn't look any good until he was taken off and we played a flat 4-4-2. even then they shat all over us until they took riquelme off. it was a nice game to win but not really a great performance.
stats show that possesion was even .we had just as many good chances to score as argentina in that game .The argies had two spells of pressure which brought them goals but no way was it a case of them dominating the whole game.
the last great game in competitive matches was england v turkey.
beckhams last great game for england
lost
24 Dec 2006, 10:13 AM
I thought the france game at 2004 was a magnificent performance, just a terrible result after 2 minutes of madness. We totally dominated them for 88 minutes of the game, they werer reduced to silly crosses deep into our area which went nowhere. we had 3 or 4 chances to score, took one, missed a penalty, they should have had silvestre sent off, and then heskey, james and gerrard pissed the match away.