England Under 21 Discussions Thread (2002+ born) #8

Right, so playing someone who is clearly struggling and not making much impact on the games anyway is the best way to go! Ridiculous!

 

A shame for Wharton because it reflects badly on him also (though I'd assume he's been assessed by the fa at this point). A difficult situation to be in for sure. For his own sake he's going to have to put his foot down with Glasner if he is actually injured because the long term repercussions on it are going to be far greater on him than a manager who has a good chance of not making it till Christmas.

 

I’m not sure if he has. Some tweets have said he has but the FA announcement just says him and Hackney have stayed with their clubs on medical advice without confirming anything.

 

Stream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/tRh_RfK1EPM?si=7qt_vg8GoJwUbjx4

 

Lining up tonight... 🥁

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No sign of Callum Doyle, Teden Mengi or Jay Stansfield. Sam Tickle left out as the third choice goalkeeper as well.

Morgan Rogers only on the bench is a bit of surprise as well.

 

Is Jaden Philogene usually listed as just "Jaden"? Can't remember seeing that before.

 

His Villa shirt name is ‘Jaden’. Not sure if that’s a recent thing or not though.

 

Morgan Rogers picked up knock #AVLMUN, trained for first time with #ENG U21s only yesterday, so on bench v Ukraine tonight. Callum Doyle, Jay Stansfield and Teden Mengi not involved after picking up minor knocks in training. pic.twitter.com/3BTk6xzzUB

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) October 11, 2024

Did they all crash into each other? How do three players all get minor knocks in a few days of training?

 

Players get minor injuries regularly, that's really not surprising, but is unfortunate.

 

I actually think this lineup looks incredibly balanced. Not to say I'm that confident about the game because we weren't all that impressive in the last break. Assuming it's Gray right-back, Hinshelwood in midfield and Hutchinson wide right.

 

I’ve never seen three players missing for a team all with minor trianing injuries that have occured that week.

 

Hinshelwood RB, Gray midfield

 

Morton has easily been our standout. Hall's been decent too.

Hutchinson has been desperately poor with the ball and I don't think McAtee is offering enough in that role either.

 

One of the best games I've seen from Hall so far, won the ball back so many times and a few nice runs forward.

 

We’re a little bit unlucky in front of goal, things just not going our way in that regards but our actual play has been pretty good.

 

Yeah it’s a bug bear of mine promoting too early just to sit on the bench when they could be contributing to trying to get us to the Euro finals.

 

We really should be winning this! Jaden has to finish that chance.

 

Got to be careful we don’t lose from here, game has drifted.

 

Whatever happens with Carsley, Futcher can't be getting this job permanently. We should have scored a few tonight but everything is so basic tactically. A lot of our chances have come from big errors from them, we haven't created enough from open play of our own doing.

This is twice in three games where we've looked average against a defensive team. That hardly happened under Carsley regardless of who played.