International Match Thread

[Beefymcfc]

Ha ha ha, I spoke too soon.

[guv111]

Wow! I am seriously impressed.

Oh bugger.

Oh well. It was fun for a second. But if England can play like this in the summer, they might be worth watching.

Great game!

[Alioune DVToure]

Robben has been deadly all night. Bet Chelsea wish they still had him. Can anyone remember why he ended up leaving? Pastures new or out of favour? Seems like a lifetime ago.

Kuyt has impressed as well.

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Ha ha ha, I spoke too soon.

haha, I was actually in the middle of typing "Ok, I'll eat my own words" then that happened

got to say Micah has done quite well at CB. Looks very calm and assured. Philly boy looks shit

[carl_feedthegoat]

Even with his goal..Young is the worst player on the pitch.

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Because while I lived in Manchester for awhile, I'm an American so I can laugh at this clusterfuck from afar. And in other news:

USA 1 - Italy 0

goal from Dempsey wooo hooo

Glad to hear it, my in-laws are American.

Dempsey (and Donovan) seem to get a lot of big goals for the States.

Was away in Italy too, without Donavon. Not a bad result at all

[Beefymcfc]

Wow! I am seriously impressed.

Oh bugger.

Oh well. It was fun for a second. But if England can play like this in the summer, they might be worth watching.

Great game!

Agreed. Game changed when Barry went off and without him covering it allowed them to walk through the CB pairing. Holland got a little cocky against a team selection that they probably thought was a piss-take and got their just desserts. Pity we left ourselves open, that wouldn't ave happened under [strike]Mancini[/strike]Capello.

Good game from most of our players. Joe will have lost a bit of Hart though.

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Silva's goal:

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[Alioune DVToure]

Silva's goal:

YouTube Link

Belting strike. Spain are finally waking up to the fact that they have the next best thing to Messi on their hands.

[Blue2]

Nigel has done pretty well tonight I reckon

MOM for me, excellent performance.

[Beefymcfc]

Silva's goal:

YouTube Link

Belting strike. Spain are finally waking up to the fact that they have the next best thing to Messi on their hands.

I think they always knew, it was just a matter of time for it to come to fruition.

[Ted Hughes]

Even with his goal..Young is the worst player on the pitch.

How the fuck did he stay on ?

I totally agree with that formation but the players used were wrong. However, England are not awash with talent so it's not easy to pick an 11.

When that useless old bag of shit Gerrard went off though, Pearce split up the two players who know that system & were creating ALL the England attacks: AJ & Micah. Apart from one run & cross, Sturridge did nothing out wide & he failed to combine with Micah at all. Meanwhile AJ is stuck in a position he never plays & the totally Shite Ashley Young is given the freedom of the pitch, which he uses to set up a goal for them. In fact I think I'll go on record in the Pearce thread.

Every fucking one of those rags picked today could be left out of the squad btw, & the standard would improve. They are not good enough; none of them. Only Rooney should get in.

[The Maine Man]

I thought wellbeck did alright but young and smalling were an embarrassment

[Ted Hughes]

I thought wellbeck did alright but young and smalling were an embarrassment

I thought he was dogshit but don't forget Dunc's Stephen Jordan impersonation.

When Robben got a shot off v Micah, everyone slaughtered him & they showed it over & over, explaining how he should of done better. He never got past Micha in the match. Against all the other cunts, he was like Dad playing against the kids, just running past as if they weren't there. Hardly a fucking word from the commentators.

[Beefymcfc]

I thought wellbeck did alright but young and smalling were an embarrassment

And what about Jones? The way you fail to mention him makes me think he wasn't on the pitch. The reality is he actually helped the oppo out, so he was a force in the game.

[The Maine Man]

Micah did a superb job and was arguably our most attacking player. Ran his bollocks off and was all over the pitch.

I'd forgotten about Duncan but then apart from his assist he was forgettable. And people are talking of smalling/jones as being the future CB pairing for England. So long as they're equally bad for the swine I'm havin' that all day long.

[phips]

guess i turned the england-holland match off 2 minutes early....


I hear Silva had a great game for spain..

[The Maine Man]

There's a link to his goal in this thread. V tasty

[1950]

Nice laser blue (ish) Spain kit there.

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