Tonight's football thread

[IainR]

Re options.. Cleverly is injured.. Wiltshire injured.. not sure who else there is. Barry is also getting on. Jones? I'm not sure anyone knows his best position. and at the moment he's too head strong..

[Muddy Retriever]

Carrick has been United's best player.. we got 89 points.. Henderson played poorly for Liverpool who barely broke 50 points..

He's good on the ball, retains possession, keeps his shape. He's been the mainstay of a hugely successful United team for 5 years, so he must have some ability.. he's fustrating, could be more imposing, but we need him as the other 2 are out..

Disagree re Lamps, I think he can now play deeper, better than Gerrard can. Liverpool were better statistically without SG than with...

You would know better how Carrick has played for Man Utd than me. But I've often heard critical comments from Man Utd fans about him. In my opinion there is no way he'd bring the attacking verve that Gerrard (even past his best) still provides. I agree that Henderson underperformed for Liverpool.

I wasn't too disappointed when I heard that Lampard was ruled out of the tournament. He's been given so many chances by England and rarely delivered even though he's always been given his preferred position and Gerrard has been shunted out wide.

[IainR]

Carrick is frustrating, but he's still a class footballer who finds his man a lot.

He's different to Gerrard, not quite an anchor man, more a quarter back, but provides something we don't have in the squad at the moment.

[Alf]

So what's the chances of Croatia - Spain game ending 2 - 2 tonight

[Stagger]

Predictions for England score tonight?

[Nee Bother]

the way they're playing 0-1

Predictions for England score tonight?

[dominion]

Lucky goal, but we'll take it!

[Alf]

I was out running so didn't watch the game but it sounded like we gave Ukraine a good "defencing" and apparently the Ukraine disallowed goal was offside anyway?

[Danbert Nocurry]

Awful football to watch, we're going to do a Chelsea by the looks of things and fluke the whole tournament. We are 2004 Greece. :w00t:

[IanDarkpeak]

Job done though and even if we do a Greece 2004 maybe it will put a bit of pride back in the side.
Rooney looked a bit rusty, hopefully that will have blown away a few cobwebs. I bet Parkers got a few bruises.