Yeah, we have a couple injuries at the moment, but none of these seem to be serious. Mane broke a finger - a little wrapping and he'll be fine. Salah could use a little refresher and get his head right. VvD will play through the discomfort. Keita hasn't exactly been vital to us, so if he's gone for a week are we really going to miss him?
These injuries we can deal with...little knicks...a week or two off once or twice a season should be ok...and this season it looks like we’ve got good players to fill in..
someone on Rawk was nice enough to list the internationals that matter to us: 14 Switzerland v Qatar (Shaqiri) 15 England v USA (AA, Henderson, Gomez) 15 Croatia v Spain (Lovren) 16 Egypt v Tunisia (Mo) 16 Brazil v Uruguay (at Arsenal) (Fab, Bobby, Alisson) 16 Holland v France (VvD, Gini) 17 Albania v Scotland (Robertson) 17 Equatorial Guinea v Senegal (Mane) 18 England v Croatia (AA, Henderson, Gomez) (Lovren) 18 Switzerland v Belgium (Shaqiri) 18 Guinea v Côte D'Ivoire (Keita) 19 Germany v Holland (VvD, Gini) 20 UAE v Egypt (Mo) (POSTPONED) 20 Brazil v Cameroon (Milton Keynes) (Fab, Bobby, Alisson) 20 Scotland v Israel (Robertson)
The Egypt game on the 20th has been postponed - so good news is that Mo will be able to come back and even get a little rest in after the game on Friday. Mane is also only playing 1 game, Keita as well. The Brazil games are in England so no travel of note for the trio there which is very helpful.
Germany Holland and England Croatia the only games that have anything riding on them. Ginuea needs a point in their next 2 games to qualify for cup of nations. Egypt and Senegal already through.
Late drama sees Qatar pull off shock win over Switzerland side featuring Shaqiri and Xhaka https://www.the42.ie/switzerland-0-qatar-1-4340284-Nov2018/
England's and Liverpools Trent AA scores his first international goal. The teams second after Lingard opens against the US. Pretty much one way traffic with 70 30 possession. Mostly a second strong England. A good PK call was denied by the ref. I mean good as Guzman ignores the ball to take the attacker out. Why TF did they send Twelman over????
Trent scores his first international goal against a poor U.S. side. The Trumpster fire that is America has infected everything. Even our previously mediocre national team...
Half time. England has backed off after going 2 up. No sense in getting anyone hurt. Twellman interviewing Pulisic now. He makes sure he gets the camera time.
The full time whistle woke me up. Somewhere there Englaland scored a third. Rooney was the only one trying at the end. Good work out for both teams. The US needs a full time coach though. They do have some talent that needs focusing.
The Dutch are 4 minutes of stoppage time away from beating France thanks to Gini's goal in the 1st half.
didn't stop them from coming back after WWI!*** ***in this age of PC I will note that I'm being very tongue-in-cheek