Group B - England, Russia, Wales, Slovakia

[Scaly piscine]

Sturridge doing the Sterling role equally 'well' so far.

 

[vogue]

Yessss

Vardy too..cool

 

[Scaly piscine]

Now put 5 past this lot.

 

[Compton]

Chat **** get banged

 

[MW1304]

Lucky that came off Williams.

 

[Uppercut]

Hahaha that's a shocker from Williams. One of the worst headers I've ever seen.

 

[Furball]

Beyond that, we're entitled to expect a professional keeper to save that free kick. And to expect any of our forwards to be 100% more competent than Sterling has shown.

Perhaps the bigger picture is the failure of English players to develop into something more than promising youngsters. Sterling's the obvious example, but same could be said of so many others, some of them in the squad today.

A lot of that I reckon goes back to English players not playing abroad. A couple of years at a team like Roma, Leverkusen, Valencia or Lyon would be a really good education for a young player but why would you do that when you'll get more money playing for Stoke or West Brom.

 

[MW1304]

Chat **** get banged

Wonder how you say that in Welsh.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

No one on this forum, or even any of the pundits or commentators, have ever faced a free kick hit with that technique, but they all seem to know an awful lot about how easy they are to save. Even though he's hit them against a hundred or so different keepers and they've all found them very difficult to save. Apparently Bale just has mind powers that make established keepers turn shite.

Joe does this **** all the time for us tbf. Always sets a terrible wall and then stands unsighted.

 

[King Pietersen]

Ben Davies should be a keeper. Better than Hart

 

[Furball]

No one on this forum, or even any of the pundits or commentators, have ever faced a free kick hit with that technique, but they all seem to know an awful lot about how easy they are to save. Even though he's hit them against a hundred or so different keepers and they've all found them very difficult to save. Apparently Bale just has mind powers that make established keepers turn shite.

I agree with your point in general but Hart should have saved that.

 

[Uppercut]

I agree with your point in general but Hart should have saved that.

Yeah he should but it's more "good keepers keep those out 75%~ of the time" than "easy save".

 

[Scaly piscine]

FFS Sturridge making Sterling look good.

 

[GIMH]

A lot of that I reckon goes back to English players not playing abroad. A couple of years at a team like Roma, Leverkusen, Valencia or Lyon would be a really good education for a young player but why would you do that when you'll get more money playing for Stoke or West Brom.

No coincidence Eric Dier is one of our best prospects

 

[wpdavid]

Sturridge doing the Sterling role equally 'well' so far.

And again.

 

[Furball]

FFS Sturridge making Sterling look good.

What game are you watching?

 

[Scaly piscine]

What game are you watching?

What game are you watching?

All he's done is balloon the ball over the bar, miskick and lose the ball.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yes he's looked more lively, but he's been **** thus far.

 

[Compton]

Yeah he should but it's more "good keepers keep those out 75%~ of the time" than "easy save".

Nah I'm not having that. No way good keepers let those in one in four. It just wasn't that difficult a save.

 

[Furball]

What game are you watching?

All he's done is balloon the ball over the bar, miskick and lose the ball.

At least he's getting himself into position to have shots and is troubling the Welsh defence with his direct running.