England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

I know this wales game is a ‘Must win’ in some people’s eyes, but I would honestly use this fixture as a chance to try some fringe players out.
I’d want to see quansah get some game time and maybe Henderson in goal.
Hopefully Wharton is called up in place of rice and given some minutes too.
This is the perfect game to try them out in my opinion.

 

I would be pretty surprised if we didn't get wholesale rotations, we swapped out 9/11 last time in our last friendly.

 

It should but if Tuchel will I’m not sure. He might say he is keeping most so they get more time playing together after Serbia.

 

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It’s must win, in the fact we are a much better team than Wales and are playing at home, it’s quite far down the list of terms of relevant rivalries though, I think he’ll rotate most of the team.

 

And that losing would destroy all the momentum and optimism from the Serbia match and instead it be booing and concerns about how things will go in the World Cup.

 

And if they then lose to Latvia, there could be protests outside Wembley and effigies being burnt.

 

It really wouldn’t especially if it’s a heavily rotated team even though it should still be too strong for Wales but football doesn’t always work like that but losing a friendly wouldn’t destroy anything was my main point other than give Wales their World Cup final plus with all the players we have injured and left out, some realism is needed.

 

Wales will see this as their cup final. I'd start a semi strong test

 

Wales have a key qualifier against Belgium in their next game. That's their cup final.

 

I know but beating England is everything to them

 

Not in a meaningless friendly, and not in this particular specific scenario, they’ll rotate heavily, and they’d be stupid not too.

 

But you always get the impression that the Scots and taffys put beating England high on their list. It would be a huge scalp for them

 

Johnstone starts for Wolves There are no English players on the bench.
Dunk and Welbeck start for Brighton. Steele, Milner and Watson are on the bench.

Pope, Trippier, Burn and Gordon start for Newcastle. Ramsdale, Lascelles, Barnes, Willock, Miley and Murphy are on the bench.
Anderson, Yates and Gibbs-White start for Nottingham Forest. McAtee, Hudson-Odoi and Hutchinson are on the bench.

Pickford, Tarkowski, Keane, Garner, Dibling and Grealish start for Everton. Iroegbunam and McNeil are on the bench.
Henderson, Guehi, Wharton and Mitchell start for Crystal Palace. Hughes and Nketiah are on the bench.

Konsa, Rogers and Watkins start for Aston Villa. Barkley, Elliott and Jimoh-Aloba are on the bench.
Walker, Laurent and Anthony start for Burnley. Worrall, Humprehys and Edwards are on the bench.

I think Burn is at left back for Newcastle today.

 

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Doesn’t sound like Tuchel is really even thinking about recalling Grealish unless Rashford, Gordon or Eze need replacing for whatever reason.

 

Rashford starts for Barcelona.

 

Pickford pulled off two class saves

 

Wharton has been good again

 

Dibling looks lost.

 

Ghuei looks like a rock every game

 

Hope tuchel is watching Wharton's performance today and realising he's made a mistake omitting him

 

I don’t think it’s so much performance but Tuchel simply decided after the Serbia match he wouldn’t make any changes and Saka only got back in because Madueke is injured.

 

I think he must of liked the squad dynamic and thought theres no need to rock the boat by bringing new players in.

 

Palace doing a Liecester this season.