England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France [R]

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

....................James....................
Brown.....Woodgate.....Rio.....Bridge
.....Gerrard.....................Barry......
Bentley...........Jenas.........Joe Cole
....................Rooney...................

That is the team i believe Capello will play.

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

Cappelo has only been in charge for one game so far, and i saw somewhat of a decent change. Stevie G is played out of position for England, but what we need is for him to be unleashed like he is for Liverpool. Bently had a good game against Switzerland and showed everybody that he is capable to cross and long pass with precision. Although I believe that Beckham belongs in the team. Yes, you can argue that he is not up with his match fitness, but you have to realize that he is still world class at his dead ball accuracy! France will be an interesting game for the mighty three lions and I belive that some serious changes at the back would be a great idea. Brown and Upson were so uncomfortable on the ball during the game against switzerland, if you think they will be able to stop Henry and Benzema, think again as these two are on fire right now. I hope England destroy France this coming month. ENGLAND FOREVER!

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

I'm not convinced that Gary 'I speak in the 3rd person' Neville will ever play for England again...he's been out of the picture for so long now.

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

We will have a fantastic game! England 6 and France 0. Do you agree? Let´s pray to see Beckham there, because Capello doesn´t like him!

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

Run away!!!

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

This would be my team without a doubt:

James

Richards Ferdinand A.Cole

Beckham Gerrard Lampard Barry A. Young

Rooney Owen

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

a back 3 ,containing 2 full backs.
leaving just one central defender.
this is one straight out mcClarens tactic book

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

The whole point of friendlies is that we learn from them, I remember when after much tinkering we found out that 442 with Barry and Gerrard in the middle really worked for us, and then we started messing with it again by increasing the number of people in the middle so we could get Lampard a game. When the real qualifiers finally started we were back to where we were, unconfident with too many people in the centre playing a formation they didn't really know.

It reminds me of a problem facing Manchester United at the moment, Alex (bless him) seems to change the formation to one up front for away (and sometimes home) European games. It is only when we go a few down at half time he reverts to 442 and we pull it back (1999-442!!).

Sven had it right on the road to us losing to the Argies using a formation he developed straight away which was a diamond 442- again this was lost as we started to rave about our world class midfielders that had to play.

I hope for our sake that the new manager sees past the names and starts to build the new side based on the old principles, on which our players are comfortable. My side bellow,

....................James

Brown/Richards...Ferdinand..Terry.....Bridge


Beckham/SWP...Gerrard...Barry.....Cole


.........Rooney........Crouch

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

Richards is recovering for surgery. He is not gonna be match fit.
Brown thriving under Capello is kinda funny

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

..........................James

.....Richards...Ferdinand..Terry.....Lescott


.....................Gerrard...Barry................
Bentley/Young.............................Lennon
..........................J. Cole

.........................Rooney

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

Or perhaps:

.......................James (by the end of this year it will be Foster )

........Richards...Ferdinand...Terry...Lescott

Bentley/Young...Gerrard...Barry.....Cole

...............Rooney........Agbonlahor

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

Who are some other leftbacks? Bridge, A. Cole, Lescott..?

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

You have no idea who the left backs are?

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

im sure fab will start with what he believes the strongest.

-------------james

????------terry----rio-----a. cole

bentley-----barry/hargreaves----cole

--------lampard-----gerrard

---------rooney

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

shuffle the pack depending on the opposition.
Although its hard to deal with a team like France who have enough depth to field about 3 top level teams.

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

3 lions, richards isnt naturally a rb ffs

hes pretty average at that position and is often out of position and too far up theif ield when attacks break down

hes is a much better centre ha;f

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

me too

but brown is also a good centre half

gj, wat about luke young?

 

Re: England v France (Friendly) Wed 26 March, Stade de France

glenda was money in the FA cup clash.