*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

[Scaly piscine]

Could have stayed on his line in the first place

Yea, that's the way. Forget about stopping half a dozen goals a season by being off your line so being able to get to some through balls before the attacker. Just make sure you're rooted to the line instead so someone can't score that one freak goal past you in your whole career.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Nah, 'twas when Scholes scored what was admittedly an excellent volley, but TBH it was pretty much exactly the same but hit harder and from closer in.

And besides, the keeper was woeful when Beckham scored from the halfway line, but people still raved about it.

Don't see your point. Keeper wasn't woeful for the Scholes volley, it was unstoppable. Taylor's goal required the keeper being woeful, otherwise it would just have been a pointless shot from the halfway line.

FWIW, I rate Beckham's goal > Taylor's, because Beckham actually looked up, and spotted the keeper off the line. Taylor, IIRC, just had his head down, leathered it and hoped, and didn't look where the keeper was, and required totally on luck. Correct me if I'm wrong, that's just how I remember it. Also, I vehemently disagree that it was dire goalkeeping for Beckham's goal, because, as has been pointed out, he was roughly where most keepers would and should be, because you intercept more balls that way.

 

[marc71178]

Nah, 'twas when Scholes scored what was admittedly an excellent volley, but TBH it was pretty much exactly the same but hit harder and from closer in.

Exactly the same except being more deliberate and actually having to beat the keeper?

And besides, the keeper was woeful when Beckham scored from the halfway line, but people still raved about it.

No, he was not. Beckham was extremely alert and saw an opportunity that Sullivan could do absolutely nothing to prevent.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Meh. I'll shut up then.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Dunno what van der Sar was doing getting wrong-footed there, pretty obvious he was going to shoot.

 

[Scaly piscine]

To call that schoolboy defending would be an insult to schoolboys.

 

[PY]

Terrible terrible terrible defending for the second goal.

I thought that the keepers have been lacking for all three goals but the defence was more at fault for 3rd than the keeper.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Gah, Evra now gets a yellow for nothing, misses second leg. On top of all the injuries...

Best bet I reckon is try and get a draw at least, and murder them away in Italy (obviously easier said than done) with some defence back.

 

[Matteh]

You have to be pretty **** to get lobbed from the half way line. With the distance that ball has to travel you can get back in time if you've been paying attention.

 

[Tom Halsey]

You have to be pretty **** to get lobbed from the half way line. With the distance that ball has to travel you can get back in time if you've been paying attention.

Not really, he had to turn and run back about 15-20 yards, that's going to take a while, plus the ball would have been travelling fairly quickly.

 

[Matteh]

Not really, he had to turn and run back about 15-20 yards, that's going to take a while, plus the ball would have been travelling fairly quickly.

15-20 yards is under half the 50 that ball has travelled. The only way that ball should be going in is if the goalkeeper hasn't been paying attention, in which case it's shoddy goalkeeping.

 

[Tom Halsey]

15-20 yards is under half the 50 that ball has travelled. The only way that ball should be going in is if the goalkeeper hasn't been paying attention, in which case it's shoddy goalkeeping.

I'd say the ball was going at over twice the speed the 'keeper was running, by a fair distance.

In other news, despite the fact that that's a shocking miss by Carrick, this is encouraging.

 

[PY]

Get in there.

What a ball from Paul Scholes...why the hell isn't he playing for England? if he wasn't retired, he's way better than some of the turd we have in the midfield at the moment.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Get in there.

What a ball from Paul Scholes...why the hell isn't he playing for England? if he wasn't retired, he's way better than some of the turd we have in the midfield at the moment.

Because he was abject for years before he retired (yea I know it was probably rhetorical).

 

[Tom Halsey]

What a ball from Paul Scholes...why the hell isn't he playing for England? if he wasn't retured, he's way better than some of the turd we have in the midfield at the moment.

Tbf I've been shouting to get him off, he's been dire in this game until now.

Rooney is a legend.

 

[Matteh]

Played by Scholes there.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Because he was abject for years before he retired (yea I know it was probably rhetorical).

Playing on the left didn't help.

 

[PY]

Tbf I've been shouting to get him off, he's been dire in this game until now.

Rooney is a legend.

That's exactly what England need IMO, someone who can do something different even if he hasn't been in the game.

Look how it has changed the game now?

 

[Tom Halsey]

Yeah, not denying it was a brilliant piece of play.

Wouldn't mind the game ending now tbh, 2-2 is ok, another goal for them and we're cooked, though if we managed to get a 3rd that would be very nice.

EDIT: Typo completely changed the meaning of the post...

 

[Tom Halsey]

Rooooooooooneyyyyyy!!!!!

EDIT: FT 3-2 United. Obviously far from over, but with that defence, 2-1 down at HT, that's a brilliant result. Should have something resembling a team back in time for the second leg (I pray).