KennyPowers Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Suarez was stood in an offside position. His only chance of scoring is for some numpty England defender to flick it through or pass it back short. FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? Uruguay aren't actually that great to watch, they play more long ball than England but it works as Cavani and Suarez like to run onto things from wide positions. They've always produce fantastic players though....Enzo Francescoli, Recoba, Forlan etc. It's the hunger I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Where are the little triangles other teams have where they can pass and move? We just have two central midfielders sitting next to the centre halves and 4 attackers just waiting for the ball. Sadly predictable. I don't know who could take over from Hodgson. For some reason the players just don't look like winners, despite there being some exciting talent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) How has it come to the point where Baines, Jagielka, Henderson, Welbeck and Johnson are first choice starting 11 players? We'd be absolutely decimated by atleast 7-8 teams that'll go through to the knockouts. Will make this point again, these two in particular had brilliant seasons. For some reason, neither can play at that level on the international stage. There's something seriously wrong with the coherence of the team, players are not in tandem with each other. The number of times Baines got into a good crossing position, only to check back because players weren't making the right runs! And for some reason, Henderson played so conservatively...which doesn't play to his strengths at all. I can't see them playing so ponderously for their club sides, at all. Edited June 19, 2014 by legov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted June 19, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted June 19, 2014 The biggest thing out of this for me is that after 5 years, I will stop using England online on FIFA. I'm too ashamed. Only bad thing is, Villa will be the replacement. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) I think we would have failed to beat Costa Rica anyway We really are rubbish Edited June 19, 2014 by AshVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? because we overhype players from a certain club. If Henderson, Johnson, sterling played for villa they wouldn't be anyway near the England starting 11 - until we sort that we are competing with one hand tied behind our back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? Probably 5 times as many people watched the game in England than live in Uruguay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? because we overhype players from a certain club. If Henderson, Johnson, sterling played for villa they wouldn't be anyway near the England starting 11 - until we sort that we are competing with one hand tied behind our back Did you even watch Liverpool last season? They were scintillating, and it wasn't all Suarez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Godin the prick should've been off. We could've won then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Second rate players on superstar wages. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rino8 Posted June 19, 2014 Visiting Supporter Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? because we overhype players from a certain club. If Henderson, Johnson, sterling played for villa they wouldn't be anyway near the England starting 11 - until we sort that we are competing with one hand tied behind our back It's nothing to do with hype, they get that hype because they are the best we have coming through. It's that they're the best that's the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? That works both ways though. The US have over 300 million people and they're no more than half decent. India and China have never even qualified for a World Cup and they have over a billion each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? Probably 5 times as many people watched the game in England than live in Uruguay probably more than that. Uruguay only have a population just over 3 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Ref was terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? That works both ways though. The US have over 300 million people and they're no more than half decent. India and China have never even qualified for a World Cup and they have over a billion each. China has, oi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Gerrad to Suarez-----------------Goal Textbook Liverpool move. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 Class performance from suarez, the difference was, we aint got no world class players and uruguay have. Hopefully by the euro's we will be a better unit, got some decent players but I don't think we'll ever win anything again until we sort our academys out. Suarez stole the show yet again, pure class. Absolute bollocks IMO. Suarez was only class for a matter of seconds, the rest of the game was hardly good from Uruguay but England couldn't finish their dinner let alone enough chances to win the game. suarez was superb tonight, two good goals and a constant threat. His all round performance tonight was brilliant, as for the rest of the uruguay teamn they are very average. Infact they were terrible at the back for most part, suarez and cavani are lethal. Cavani did not do a lot in terms of excitement but I think he played a decent game. Back to suarez, imo he played very well. I've seen him play a lot better but he was good tonight. A class player can turn it on whenever, and he did. Yes I'm a huge suarez fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) I know the size of a country doesn't equate to how good you should be but Uruguay have a population of 3m. Croatia 4m. They are able to produce far better technically gifted players that we are able to. How is this possible? That works both ways though. The US have over 300 million people and they're no more than half decent. India and China have never even qualified for a World Cup and they have over a billion each. True but football is not the main sport in India or China. As for the States, i think they could be a force in years to come as the sport gets more popular. I think i was just getting at the lack of technical ability we seem to have in this country. Bit dejected that's all Edited June 19, 2014 by Xela 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted June 19, 2014 Share Posted June 19, 2014 It's more disappointing because they're really shit. Barely any shots on goal, completed about 5 passes all game and had no possession. We had nothing in midfield though, you can't play slow players like Gerrard in a midfield 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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