Quality game! The ref made some terrible decisions and why didn't he book Cabaye? He made 4 bad fouls and didn't get anything :/ Also I thought The Ox played superb! I'm happy with the draw to be honest.
I said in the preview that i would take a 1-1 and i would, pleased with the result if not everything seen for England. It was important really not to lose, and that is a good job done.
France edged it overall, but not enough to win it IMO. They seemed a little fitter too, its a real concern how tired England were after just 75 minutes. England have things to go work on. France had more possession, but England managed to hold them off quite well. France struggled to get a shot off inside the area, limited to a lot of long range strikes.
England need to try and keep the ball more as always, and feel less tempted to look for a long killer pass. We DO have players that can take people on with feet, Young and Chamberlain and Walcott etc, so we need to resist trying to hoof it.
Some bright points, Welbeck was excellent, everyone worked very hard. Defensively solid. Chamberlain was also very good. I would be very happy to see Young go back to the left, Chamberlain go to the right and have Rooney and Welbeck up front later in the competition.
Thats one thing to hang onto, knowing when Rooney comes back, we can have better threat from the flanks and the centre.
Quite a boring match if im honest besides some decent goals. England seemed to play too deep and with a lot of caution we can't have that if were going to play against the best teams
The Italy and Spain game set the bar in this competition. Standard here wasn't great, although the first half wasn't bad. I can see both of them getting to the knockout rounds.
yes the same sweden that got beat by ukraine coming 2nd lol
England had the better chances and while i feel we could of gone for the win(brought walcott and the others on sooner) a draw is a good result to say we was missing our best player by far.
kept the ball a bit better than usual but if a team was going to win that game it was france even though it was pretty much even they had a bit more threat. and the ref was a joke.
Roy playing Milner on the right was killer. Walcott could've been a great weapon against the slower paced Evra. Not much for England in terms of goal scoring chances but defense really made up for the offense's shortcomings. I was expecting to see two center forwards and it may have been a mistake by Roy not to consider Welbeck was alone up front with no one but France's defense since the midfielders were playing back far. I'll take the 1-1 draw but England are going to have to do better against Sweden but start off with 1 point against the biggest threat in the group isn't bad.
Am I the only one feeling upset at Woy basically playing a 9 man defense at times? Match was depressing to watch at times being English and a football fan.
Quality game!
The ref made some terrible decisions and why didn't he book Cabaye? He made 4 bad fouls and didn't get anything :/
Also I thought The Ox played superb!
I'm happy with the draw to be honest.
Bring on Sweden!
I said in the preview that i would take a 1-1 and i would, pleased with the result if not everything seen for England. It was important really not to lose, and that is a good job done.
France edged it overall, but not enough to win it IMO. They seemed a little fitter too, its a real concern how tired England were after just 75 minutes. England have things to go work on. France had more possession, but England managed to hold them off quite well. France struggled to get a shot off inside the area, limited to a lot of long range strikes.
England need to try and keep the ball more as always, and feel less tempted to look for a long killer pass. We DO have players that can take people on with feet, Young and Chamberlain and Walcott etc, so we need to resist trying to hoof it.
Some bright points, Welbeck was excellent, everyone worked very hard. Defensively solid. Chamberlain was also very good. I would be very happy to see Young go back to the left, Chamberlain go to the right and have Rooney and Welbeck up front later in the competition.
Thats one thing to hang onto, knowing when Rooney comes back, we can have better threat from the flanks and the centre.
England's defense was top-notch, except those last 15 minutes. And what a quality strike from Nasri for the tie, awesome game.
Liked what I saw today. When England get Rooney back they maybe will go all the way!
1st half: Awesome
2nd half: Boring, teams too scared