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I'm going with 2-1 too

 

France to score first, England equalize and France score again late on

 

Benzema and Young the goalscorers

I'm going to go with a draw 1-1

 

France to score first, with an early goal in the second half for England.

Well, here I am in the sports forum :o I'm gonna say 1-1 as well, I would like to say we would win particularly as I drew England in the sweepstake :P but I just can't see it, particularly against France.

 

 

Young, Welbeck and Chamberlain are looking lively
Lescott ALWAYS scores headers on FIFA 12!! Life imitates art
The French have to push forward now so hopefully they'll leave more space at the back
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Hmm few pointers. I did say earlier that if you defend deep, it doesn't matter how well you defend, one little bit of skill can catch you. France have the players to do that.

 

England playing well, but France grew in confidence after their goal and it seemed to effect the England players.

 

The Ox is completely anonymous. Seriously. I forgot he was playing.

 

Young and Welbeck are being a little wasteful up front. I know it's tough for them, but a few times they're just not on the same wave length and we're giving the ball away too easily.

 

Finally our players need to be more patient. Making runs too early to beat.

 

Hope Hodgson has got a rousing speech for half-time I think we need it.

We missed an earlier opportunity before the goal came, there was room to move forward, anyhow the free kick was brilliant executed from Gerrard and perfect for Lescott to net it, England dominated the first half until the goal came from Nasri, you couldn't really fault that or avoid it, it just curved in. Following that England just fell flat after the French scored.

 

I hope they don't fall off to sleep in the second half.

Think Carroll could do well up against Rami and Mexes. France don't look great defensively, but we haven't tested them enough

Getting a draw out of that is probably a good result taking all things into consideration, I never particularly felt like we were going to score at all during that second half. So, it was a matter of making sure France didn't, which we just about did. Not the most impressive performance from us, but a promising start!

 

EDIT: By the way, surely I'm not the only one, who thought that referee was ridiculous?

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Played for the draw. A draw is a good result. However the last 30 minutes was just absolutely painful to watch.

 

Despite what the commentators said, I thought our best two players were Johnson and Cole. Both good offensively and defensively.

 

We lack flair, massively.

EDIT: By the way, surely I'm not the only one, who thought that referee was ridiculous?

 

I thought that too, it seemed he was going far too easy on the French from what I saw.

 

But it's a good result for us, so I'm not complaining, and a rather enjoyable game as well.

Bit of a flat performance in the second half, there wasn't hardly any attempts to score, they just settled back. The referee has made some bad decisions, what was all the yellow cards aimed at England, were France got a ticking off.

 

Just hope Sweden or Ukraine don't score tonight, England need to win their next games to progress any further methinks.

Referee seemed to think we were much more physical than we were. We were well organised but lacked that extra creativity up front
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Reputation counts against you unfortunately. We made some physical challenges, and rightly got booked. Considering the amount of crap Cabaye gets away with in the Premier League, it was no surprise to see him get away with it in international football.

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