Internationals, November

[Jeff]

Tielemans and Praet are on the bench in Russia.

 

[Blaarev]

Tielemans and Praet are on the bench in Russia.

Good. Don’t want them to come back injured.

 

[Blaarev]

Tielemans came on for Belgium after 52 mins

 

[Blaarev]

Jonny Evans starts for Northern Ireland in their home game vs Netherlands

 

[Blaarev]

Calf strain. Send him home then instead of having him travelling to Kosovo.

Maddison suffers injury blow as Liverpool hand Rodgers cheque

Leicester City latest - James Maddison has suffered an injury setback ahead of England's Euro 2020 qualifier with Kosovo on Sunday.

www.leicestermercury.co.uk

 

[Volpone]

So there wasn’t a MotM after all......

No. They have a player of the match now. Fifa and UEFA are getting ready for 2022 when all international and football league teams have to include women as well as men in their squads.

 

[Blaarev]

Ricardo starts for Portugal in their away game in Luxembourg

 

[Jeff]

 

[homer]

Brilliant....

 

[Miles Away]

Brilliant....

Sterling....hahahaha

 

[fitz]

That midfield 3

 

[Miles Away]

I like Southgate as a fella.

But he really appears to be cutting his nose off to spite his face re: Maddison

 

[Volpone]

I like Southgate as a fella.

But he really appears to be cutting his nose off to spite his face re: Maddison

Have they said he is injured?

 

[homer]

Have they said he is injured?

If he was injured he wouldn’t be sat on the bench watching Rice and Winks playing in front of him in utter disbelief - like the rest of us

what a complete **** Southgate truly is

 

[camberwell fox]

Harsh, ****s are useful.

 

[Volpone]

Totally agree. I was just about to mention his calf when the commentator beat me to it.

 

[homer]

I mean, seriously, this is ****ing rubbish, isn’t it ?

 

[Volpone]

I mean, seriously, this is ****ing rubbish, isn’t it ?

I'm amazed Kosovo don't realise how crap we are.

 

[sparky79]

Southgate is between a rock and a hard place. His holding midfielders Rice, Henderson, Dier arent strong enough (either not quick enough or bad positional sense when playing on their own). As a result he plays one of these holdera and one deep midfielder who is a bit more of a 'passer' (delph, winks, barkley) in front of the defence and then a number 10 / second number 8 floating: Mount, Ox, Alli, Lingard etc. All this does is mean that we arent great at closing down in midfield and our passing isn't crisp enough. It's the same as when we were playing Ndidi and Mendy in front of our defence. It slowed the passing up and invited pressure rather than making us more solid which was the intention.
Southgate needs to trust a holding midfielder to do that job and then get two proper technicians in front of him. I think in the long run it will be between Foden, Mount and Maddison - the Ox is not their type of player and should be used against shit teams in a more open set up.

My team for the euros would be

Pickford
Arnold Smalling Maguire Chilwell
Rice
Maddison Mount
Sterling Kane Rashford

 

[jb5000]

I'd agree with most of that. We should recognise that he's just qualified at a canter with a team scoring goals for fun. He always seems to be very enthusiastic over Winks though, so I'm sure that he'll want to fit him in as a deep laying playmaker. I think that does leave Mount and Maddison looking at the same spot in the team