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Topic Started: Oct 15 2013, 02:28 PM (382 Views)
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Back on topic. That game, I watched 25 minutes of highlights, seemed like a great spectacle with incident after incident. Credit to both teams for making a corpse (Wembley) come alive. England, with fewer top ranked players than ever before seem to be building hope for the WorldCup. I would look forward to HOPE not being upgraded to HYPE, but that's a rare occurrence these days.

It would be wrong not to concede that Hodgson has the structure, if not all the component parts. England line up and try to use the ball like Germany, Spain and Holland. The execution is inefficient. He is however making more with the sum of the parts than any of the previous four failures. And right on cue the moronic part of the media would like him to 'play to England's strengths', or in other words fail spectacularly clinging to old habits which never work. Can we not knock it?
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santry_gooner
Oct 17 2013, 01:57 AM
Back on topic. That game, I watched 25 minutes of highlights, seemed like a great spectacle with incident after incident. Credit to both teams for making a corpse (Wembley) come alive. England, with fewer top ranked players than ever before seem to be building hope for the WorldCup. I would look forward to HOPE not being upgraded to HYPE, but that's a rare occurrence these days.

It would be wrong not to concede that Hodgson has the structure, if not all the component parts. England line up and try to use the ball like Germany, Spain and Holland. The execution is inefficient. He is however making more with the sum of the parts than any of the previous four failures. And right on cue the moronic part of the media would like him to 'play to England's strengths', or in other words fail spectacularly clinging to old habits which never work. Can we not knock it?
Credit to Poland for adding alot of atmosphere to the stadium. Their 18-20,000 fans sounded louder than the rest of the English fans there. The constant whistling from the Poland fans when England had the ball came through loud and clear on my TV.

The Carrick/Gerrard partnership seems like a good one so far. The defense still have questions and the transition from the Rio/Terry partnership to the next wave may be a huge problem. Keeping Baines in there is a must over Cole. What you lose a little defensively, I feel is overcome by what he can do offensively for England. Be interesting to see what Hogdson does as I'm sure Cole feels like that spot is his.

Looking at the lineup this past week and going forward, their strengths aren't to "play the English way", it's too move the ball around and keep possession which they did effectively against Poland.

The hype as always will immense for England. That's just something that is going to happen.
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cruyff_turn
Oct 16 2013, 03:34 PM
How about this?

Giroud
Cazorla Rosicky Gnabry
Wilshere Flamini
Gibbs Kos Mert Jenkinson
SZCZ
I see what you're doing but I'd like us to rest Giroud as much as possible.
At home to Norwich is as good a time as any. But maybe it's too much of a risk.

And should we play Gnabry or stick with the 5 midfielder formation.
If we do go with Gnabry I'd drop Cazorla for Arteta. Give Cazorla 20-30 minutes for Rosicky and then start him against Dortmund. Same with Theo if he's available.
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jays712
Oct 17 2013, 06:44 AM
santry_gooner
Oct 17 2013, 01:57 AM
Back on topic. That game, I watched 25 minutes of highlights, seemed like a great spectacle with incident after incident. Credit to both teams for making a corpse (Wembley) come alive. England, with fewer top ranked players than ever before seem to be building hope for the WorldCup. I would look forward to HOPE not being upgraded to HYPE, but that's a rare occurrence these days.

It would be wrong not to concede that Hodgson has the structure, if not all the component parts. England line up and try to use the ball like Germany, Spain and Holland. The execution is inefficient. He is however making more with the sum of the parts than any of the previous four failures. And right on cue the moronic part of the media would like him to 'play to England's strengths', or in other words fail spectacularly clinging to old habits which never work. Can we not knock it?
Credit to Poland for adding alot of atmosphere to the stadium. Their 18-20,000 fans sounded louder than the rest of the English fans there. The constant whistling from the Poland fans when England had the ball came through loud and clear on my TV.

The Carrick/Gerrard partnership seems like a good one so far. The defense still have questions and the transition from the Rio/Terry partnership to the next wave may be a huge problem. Keeping Baines in there is a must over Cole. What you lose a little defensively, I feel is overcome by what he can do offensively for England. Be interesting to see what Hogdson does as I'm sure Cole feels like that spot is his.

Looking at the lineup this past week and going forward, their strengths aren't to "play the English way", it's too move the ball around and keep possession which they did effectively against Poland.

The hype as always will immense for England. That's just something that is going to happen.
I agree wholly with that, the only thing to add is that the transition was delayed too long and should have started ages ago.
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