I don't think it was particularly bad by England, there's not much more you can do against teams like that. Everything was too crowded far too often, San Marino regularly had their most forward player well back into their third, and when they did have a chance to take the ball forward they showed no sign at all of wanting to, it did seem like players were trying too hard with daft trickery to get round them when often the simple ball was the better one, it was too hard to create space and too many players around to be able to have a run at them. I think our best player was Jonjo Shelvey, when he came on he seemed to play better passes and help others create more space which lead to goals. 86% possession, 32 attempts at goal. It didn't really matter what we did last night, whatever happens you learn absolutely nothing from it because you'll never play against another team that play quite like San Marino. The only important thing from last night was Ukraine drawing 0-0 in Moldova.

Lampard and Bertrand won't be involved vs. Poland

 

Think it'll be: Hart Johnson Jagielka Lescott Cole Milner Cleverley Gerrard Oxlaide-Chamberlain Rooney Defoe

 

Possibly Carrick in for Cleverley

Team news: Hart Johnson Jagielka Lescott Cole Milner Carrick Gerrard Cleverley Defoe Rooney

 

Cleverley out wide?

The England band have not been allowed into the stadium tonight, that's at least one thing I'm glad I won't be hearing tonight however I imagine Tyldesly and Townsend will have been allowed in.

Disgusting scenes in Serbia after England U21s win 1-0 to qualify for Euro 2013 on aggregate. Connor Wickham's injury time winner sparked missiles to be thrown from the crowd which ended in a huge brawl between players, coaching staff and delegates, with huge amounts of racist abuse being chanted to the England players, Danny Rose reacted and kicked the ball into the crowd and received a red card, before mimicking a monkey on his way off the pitch. England coach Steve Wigley was held back by Serbian coaches and prevented from entering the tunnel, and kicks were being thrown. Absolutely horrible.

 

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/conno...1-v-serbia-u21/

 

 

Big possibilty that the Poland v England game could be postponed due to the rain and looking at the pitch it is waterlogged. Kick-off delayed.

Edited October 16, 201212 yr by kenukcsfant2012

HA HA that pitch is water logged :lol:

Did anyone see Gabriel Clarke interviewing the Polish press officer? You'd think she was the cause of the rain with the way he was questioning her

 

Chill. It's not the end of the world

Some of the answers were utterly ridiculous though, the whole thing has been. It was clear she had absolutely no idea about anything that was happening at all!

I wish Scottish people on Buzzjack liked football, WHY NU1 CURR.

Disgusting scenes in Serbia after England U21s win 1-0 to qualify for Euro 2013 on aggregate. Connor Wickham's injury time winner sparked missiles to be thrown from the crowd which ended in a huge brawl between players, coaching staff and delegates, with huge amounts of racist abuse being chanted to the England players, Danny Rose reacted and kicked the ball into the crowd and received a red card, before mimicking a monkey on his way off the pitch. England coach Steve Wigley was held back by Serbian coaches and prevented from entering the tunnel, and kicks were being thrown. Absolutely horrible.

 

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/conno...1-v-serbia-u21/

Those scenes were an absolute disgrace. No doubt Serbia will be fined about €5.

 

Now we have the absolute farce in Warsaw. I'm intrigued by this heating the Polish spokesperson was on about. How long would it take after it has evaporated all the water for the pitch to cool down enough to be playabe? Ah well, at least I'm now watching Bake-Off only about 15 minutes behind broadcast time :lol:

Disgusting scenes in Serbia after England U21s win 1-0 to qualify for Euro 2013 on aggregate. Connor Wickham's injury time winner sparked missiles to be thrown from the crowd which ended in a huge brawl between players, coaching staff and delegates, with huge amounts of racist abuse being chanted to the England players, Danny Rose reacted and kicked the ball into the crowd and received a red card, before mimicking a monkey on his way off the pitch. England coach Steve Wigley was held back by Serbian coaches and prevented from entering the tunnel, and kicks were being thrown. Absolutely horrible.

 

http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/conno...1-v-serbia-u21/

Absolutely disgusting those scenes at the final whistle. Clearly Danny Rose was upset about racist abuse. I believe Serbia were fined in 2007 at the Under-21s European Championship over racist abuse over England's Nedum Onouha weren't they?

 

Any other unsavoury moments between Serbian and English clubs in the past?

 

Would be the England game be on ITV tomorrow night for definite?

Edited October 16, 201212 yr by kenukcsfant2012

Match postponed until 4pm tomorrow

I hope to god it's not the same team. Is that supposed to be a 4-3-2-1?

Good to see former Ipswich Town player Connor Wickham get the winner though. :D

I hope to god it's not the same team. Is that supposed to be a 4-3-2-1?

I'm guessing 4-4-1-1. I wouldn't expect Hodgson to change his system

 

Do not understand the logic in playing Cleverley and Milner out wide. How about play an actual wide man and try to win the game?

 

This match won't be pretty

This is a joke what the Serbian FA said:

 

And while most of the English team players celebrated the score, their player number three, Danny Rose, behaved in inappropriate, unsportsmanlike and vulgar manner towards the supporters on the stands at the stadium in Krusevac, and for that he was shown a red card."

 

 

 

England line up unchanged

Yep 4-4-1-1 when we're defending and 4-4-2 when we're attacking. I wonder if he's gone for a diamond formation in central midfield. Probably a little too high thinking for Roy, but could work. Why he insists on playing Cleverly I do not know. Even Fergie doesn't trust him in in the big games.