England vs USA
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To be fair, they were the better team for much of the game.
English players still seem to have trouble with the idea of keeping the ball.
It's quite simple, if the opposition doesn't have the ball they can't score a goal.
And scoring goals is the ultimate ambition, therefore......
English players still seem to have trouble with the idea of keeping the ball.
It's quite simple, if the opposition doesn't have the ball they can't score a goal.
And scoring goals is the ultimate ambition, therefore......
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Bayern Munich won the Champions League?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
They were the better team for 20 mins in the first half - during which time england scored. Other than that they weren't there.
That's a very good point.
In many ways that was the most fascinating thing about that victory and there's no way to fully explain it in any kind of concise, pointed way.
It was a victory built on rigorous discipline and tactical acumen but the general argument still stands - if you deny the opposition possession, you also deny them the chance to score.
Last night England were better than they have been in the past but there was still a tendency towards the hare-brained dash that has too often been there undoing.
They need someone in the middle with a bit of nous and influence to go with it. In other words, someone like Barry...
Until he's fit we don't stand a chance.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
Exactly,look at France ffs,they've gone from being WC and Euro winners to being cack in the space of a few yearsFuck's sake - get a grip
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Exactly - cunts.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
England are still a decent scalp to have for all their shortcommings
It's really weird, the Americans seem to think it's more of a shock than we do. They're only 6 places behind us in the FIFA rankings!
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Perhaps, but they didn't get our scalp! At best we both gave each other flesh wounds.
Gingerman
Is a great bunch of lads.....
Even a draw against England would constitute a good result for teams like the US,see how they celebrated at the end,almost as if they hada won the match
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Both Dempsey and Donovan seemed to suggest they were actually a little disappointed, felt if they'd played more to their potential they could have got more from the game.Even a draw against England would constitute a good result for teams like the US,see how they celebrated at the end,almost as if they hada won the match
Wha' a gwan!
About a quarter to five, chief.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Apparently after he came out he said something along the lines of "Well I think there's no serious question of me taking performance enhancing drugs tonight"
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
He was great and took the fuck-up as his. Didn't run.
ska invita
back on the other side
Apparently after he came out he said something along the lines of "Well I think there's no serious question of me taking performance enhancing drugs tonight"
might have taken a back hander though.
tbf it happens to all the best keepers at some point - just a shit time for it to happen to him.
Can anyone answer me this: when Johnson went off for 2 mins to stop his lip from bleeding, england started passing the ball round, keeping formation, etc, in order to keep possession while they were down to ten men. for a moment there they looked like a professional national football team.
why dont england play like this normally - the tactic seems to be headless chickens acting with a sense of desperation at every moment - wheres the coolness and wheres the possession? they can clearly do it if they want to - why isnt this the norm? its not just this squad, its always like this with england
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Exactly what I said earlier.
Bloody frustrating
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Even a draw against England would constitute a good result for teams like the US,see how they celebrated at the end,almost as if they hada won the match
This is exactly why the game hasn't taken off in the States. Who ever heard of holding a sporting event and calling it done while it's a tie game? It's like saying "never mind, then."
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
The entire rest of the world, apart from the US.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Nah, the reason it hasn't taken off in the US is cause they're too busy with their own sports, and calling their finals 'world series' even though the rest of the world couldn't give a shit and its mainly just american teams.
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
I know. You'all also have this silly ass thing called the Metric system.
Well, we don't really. In the UK people tend to use a mixture of different systems depending on what they're measuring.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
No. It isn't.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Heh, this comment reminds me of the time that the WC was in the US and some of the TV networks started asking things like can it be in quarters, can each goal score more than one point because Americans 'wouldn't understand' such a low scoring sport.
Tells us more about the US and it's culture than the rest of the world who play it, really.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
It's like having sex without an orgasm.
ska invita
back on the other side
one of thegreatest things about football is that you can havea thrilling 0-0 game
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
Also, 0-0s make goals more exciting.
