England vs. Brazil, Friendly: Wednesday 06/02/13, 19:30 Wembley Stadium, London [R]

Had a Brazilian finished like Frank the ITV commentary team would be, quite literally, wanking each other off.

 

Not been impressed with the defence for a while. That Cahill bungle summed it up.
But we're back at 2-1 .

 

Great cross by Baines, looked really sharp since he came on and big improvement over Cole.

 

Bossed it, bigger game coming up v Montenegro.

 

2-1 FT good game, some real positives a few negatives.

 

Good to hold on for the win. I thought we more than matched them over the game. They pushed at the end but then again they had no choice.

Team played very well. I should note the penalty save before it is forgotten, but that was a pivotal moment in the match.

Congrats to A Cole, winning 100 Caps is a great achievement that few have managed, so hats off to him.

 

[Bring on Johnny Haynes instead... ]

 

Not a bad performance. Big improvement on the Poland game, but hard to judge friendlies. Not good to see the defence totally lose the plot at the start of the second half...it's not the first time and it's a worry.

 

Wowzers! What a diff Wilshere makes! Great game from him. Hart did well. Always nice to beat Brazil!

 

Harsh, keeper is more than solid, defence were caught cold, we had far more than they could handle going forward.

 

Yeah, it might have almost been the decisive moment in the game. If they'd had scored first we might have started getting a bit nervy. As it was we could push forward knowing it was all square and then we were 1 up.

 

That was fun!

 

But Brazil is just some big joke.. where is TEAM? the only advantage that they have Scolari, who can prepare very team very well during a month.

 

It's amazing how he has got back to his best after such a long injury. What a game from him last night.

 

best English player since Gazza!

 

Speak for yourself!

 

I thought Oscar had a good game, this also pleases me because he plays for my club side!

 

When we go out to Brazil I hope we can select a strong team and not have a mountain of withdrawals. Every time we do a summer tour we get a lot of mystery injuries. I think we were down to our Z team last time we played in the USA in Chicago .

 

I thought Cesar was good obviously and Dante did well interrupting our attacking flow. Oscar looked good. Though I have criticized Neymar's performance, to be fair to him he looks capable of causing damage if you let him.

 

I thought Oscar was the player who caused us the most problems. Fred, Neymar and Ronaldinho all missed decent chances to score. On another day maybe they convert those chances. However England actually dominated possession against Brazil for long periods. I would normally expect Brazil to control the possession but that did not happen. It was the first time Gerrard and Wilshere had started together in midfield so we shall have to see whether they can continue to do as well against other midfields.

 

I'm not sure this is a particularly good Brazil team, tbh. I've seen better, anyway.

 

Don't most World Cup hosts struggle in the run-in with the lack of competitive matches and in Brazil's case organizational issues?