England Friendlies

[Seal]

Big fan of the Sweden away shirt!

Made a bet 18 montgs ago with a colleague that Walker would make it to the Euros so hoping he has a good game!

[cmonurz]

Nice to see we're trying to work it short. Shame we're failing to show good enough movement or passing as usual.

Well an axis of Barry, Rodwell and Jones is hardly going to be dynamic.

[Ian Royal]

Gary Barry. Who'd have thunk it.

[YateleyRoyal]

Any views on my commentary would be appreciated as you're all online anyway. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... ch_centre/

[Ian Royal]

How have we not scored a second? I can just about forgive Jones, but dearie me Rodwell.

[bobbybottler]

Fecking Chiles mouthing off about binning your Gareth Barry FGS slips - the market is still open surely....?

[Simon's Church]

Not England but at half time its Costa Rica 2 Spain 0...

[cmonurz]

Not England but at half time its Costa Rica 2 Spain 0...

Good team they've got out as well.

Uruguay won 1-0 in Italy.

[No Fixed Abode]

Gary Barry. Who'd have thunk it.

Was an OG m8.

[Ian Royal]

Not England but at half time its Costa Rica 2 Spain 0...

Good team they've got out as well.

Uruguay won 1-0 in Italy.

Just don't seem to do friendlies... is that their 5th friendly loss since winning the WC? Portugal, England, Italy, Costa Rica....?

[Simon's Church]

Drew 2-2 in the end with 2 goals in the last 5 minutes. So only the 4 defeats I think with another one against Argentina.

[Hoop Blah]

A decent enough performance even if we didn't convert chances into goals.

We still gave the ball away a little too cheaply and didn't quite create enough but it was still promising against a reasonable opposition.

I'm hoping that the last two games have given Walcott enough time on the pitch to do his chances of making the squad enough harm! Johnson, Young, Downing, Milner and even Lennon are ahead of him in my eyes.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Not England but at half time its Costa Rica 2 Spain 0...

Good team they've got out as well.

Uruguay won 1-0 in Italy.

Just don't seem to do friendlies... is that their 5th friendly loss since winning the WC? Portugal, England, Italy, Costa Rica....?

England 1-0 Spain
Costa Rica 2-0 Spain

Given the expected disparity between England and Costa Rica does that not show haw crap England really are

[Hoop Blah]

It might* if the result wasn't actually 2-2.

* well no it wouldn't.

[Barry the bird boggler]

[melonhead]

decent performance against a hardworking team, not without matchwinners
good to see us create more opportunitys from the middle, and from the wings
and some nice passing around in the last half an hour to kill the game off professionally


the performances of walker and rodwell were real plusses, and this continues to put pressure on established players

looking good, if we can just get the blend right, and not resort to the same old faces in every position, well do ok.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

It's fair to say that Zamora and Carson won't be anywhere near Poland next summer.

[melonhead]

carson did well with the one thing he was asked to do imo
and could still get the third GK berth

[Simon's Church]

I think the midfield 3 going into the Euro's should be Lampard, Parker and Rodwell/Jones.
Thought Lampard was excellent against Spain, used the ball better than anyone else in the team.

[melonhead]

pretty much agree

lamps and parker with an attacking player(rooney/rodwell) or defensive player- jones depending on the oppo