France v England Match Thread

Kylo Ren

Carragher as a pundit. God help us.

SirDelboy18

Keno 92 wrote: »

Carragher as a pundit. God help us.

The blinkers are well on anyway.

kryogen

Keno 92 wrote: »

Carragher as a pundit. God help us.

Hamann is on rte

bwatson

SirDelboy18 wrote: »

The blinkers are well on anyway.

"Croatia are nothing special. We can get at them"

Paparazzo

yomtea98 wrote: »

Reaction save from Hart

monkey9 wrote: »

Poor from Hart!!

This sums up Hart. He always seems to make a great save, but lets in a lot of goals that he really should do better with. Best keeper in the world me arse.

SirDelboy18

Trap and Roy traded tactics. Remarkable how similar both teams reacted to scoring a goal.

Giggsy11

kryogen wrote: »

The fall of Joe Hart beginning today it seems

He was poor for the goal and the flap earlier, thankfully he is the golden boy so shouldnt get much stick yet.

Speaking of goalkeepers, Lloris was poor also, the ball was inside the 6 yard box before Lescott connected with it, poor from the keeper and the defender there, ball went a long way.

Just now I made the same point on Twitter. For all Lloris this that, he was Shay Givenesque in dealing with crosses, at least for this set piece.

Dozen Wicked Words

Renn wrote: »

Games so far in Ukraine been poor enough atmosphere-wise, haven't they?

Yeah, very flat. Its such a massive country though, neutrals cant just decide they will go because if they are in the wrong side of Ukraine, or in Poland, they have a mammoth journey, on poor transport ahead of them. Whereas a Neutral wanting to see a game in Poland, its that much smaller, with that much better travel links its that bit easier.

And if the locals aren't interested, you get empty seats (like in Euro 96, any game not featuring home nation was often half empty, and England as a country doesn't have the same excuse as Ukraine)

Hank Scorpio

England to come out and play abit for 15 mins then sit back for half an hour and concede

G.K.

~Rebel~ wrote: »

England sitting back is only making France grow in confidence.


This is the problem with Roy teams. I actually really like the 11 and the shape he came out with. There was a huge amount of scope for dynamism, like we saw with some early moves and interplay amongst the front four. But now it's just reverted to two banks of four, deep defending and hoofing it away. Have a bit of ****ing faith in your players like! And as far as the players are concerned - have a bit of faith in yourselves and your teammates!

+1

Spot on.

Samich

Jeez, Benzema looked like Zidane in that replay.

SirDelboy18

http://fourfourtwo.com/statszone/share.aspx?i=083BR

Shows how deep England have been.

niallo27

kryogen wrote: »

Hamann is on rte

I find him good, he knows his football.

Hamann is a decent pundit. Johnny is more slumped than normal today. Must have upped the valium dose.

In Roy we trust.

Good to see Roys wife lending support.

klose

Think I just heard a pin drop there, awful atmosphere

~Rebel~

Jesus England!

There were 10 men marking 4 french men there!

Latchy

bwatson wrote: »

If Milner had slotted his chance away it could have been even better.

I know it was at an angle but I still expected him to slot it into the net

bwatson

England might as well chuck Carroll and Walcott on.

Instead of trying to take advantage of France's only real weakness they are letting them dominate the ball in the middle and final third, their biggest strength.

I worry that with Roy on a 4 year contract, we may see another 2 years and 2 weeks of this!

IvySlayer

Is that another whistle in the crowd?

~Rebel~

Better from England now, much more of what we should be seeing.

Renn

Gerrard

Mr.Crinklewood

Looked like another dive.

bwatson

This referee has not been kind to England, at all.

kitakyushu

A Gerrard special.

Mr.Crinklewood

Bad sign for a match when there is a Mexican wave during play.

~Rebel~

nope, no dive. body checked from the side.

keith16

This is an exciting game...

Milner and young off asap

Renn

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Bad sign for a match when there is a Mexican wave during play.

Meh. One during the Spain - Italy game iirc.

~Rebel~

With the poor English traveling support, I suspect there's probably a lot of neutrals in the crowd.

Hank Scorpio

keith16 wrote: »

This is an exciting game...

not a patch on the spain/italy game yesterday, good game tho alright

J. Marston

Nasri has such a slappable face.

kitakyushu

Ref likes France.

keith16

nuxxx wrote: »

not a patch on the spain/italy game yesterday, good game tho alright

I agree, brilliant tactical game played at a breathless pace. I think the referees in this tournament have let a lot of stuff go and the games have generally flowed very well!

Hank Scorpio

England getting nothing from this ref

SirDelboy18

Any time an English player goes down ITV call a foul. Very annoying.

bwatson

Another debatable decision from the referee, to say the least!

Fratton Fred

Ref is a bit comical.

uberwolf

nuxxx wrote: »

England getting nothing from this ref

that's either a corner because he got the ball, or a free kick because he didn't.

~Rebel~

Id like to see a slower replay of that challenge on Johnson, but I think Ribery might have nicked the ball before he cannoned into Johnson.

Think it should have been a corner.

Logically i dont know how it could have possibly been no free, and no corner...

Samich

That might have been a corner? :pac:

Mr.Crinklewood

'Allo 'Allo.

fullstop

Corner all day long

machiavellianme

This game is crying out for big Andrew to run around and cause havoc

HazDanz

The longer the game goes on like this the more I fancy England to get one. They need to commit more in the box for crosses though

Stevecw

Game is crying out for some Big Andy! Cud see him do well here esp v Mexes.

kitakyushu

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

'Allo 'Allo.

I am witching the game and Ongland haven't had a shít in a whale.

~Rebel~

Well worked chance there, good play.

Nuri Sahin

Good football.