mikeyp102 Posted June 16, 2015 Posted June 16, 2015 Starts this week. Should be entertaining, with some of the group winners not making it, England have a strong chance as that front three will score.
VillaChris Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Think this is the strongest squad England have had for a long while. Berahino, Kane and Ings is an excellent trio of strikers who are all playing regularly in the prem and scoring good amount. Shame Bamford got injured and surprised Benik Afobe was left out. At the back you have Stones and Carl Jenkinson playing regularly, Calum Chambers less so but he did play a fair amount for Arsenal up to xmas. Shame Luke Shaw is crocked again otherwise they would be an excellent defence. Most interesting one for me is central midfield....not a lot of top level experience there but plenty of ball playing midfielders....Ward Prowse, Will Hughes, Bradley Pritchard. Finally England have some young footballers in central midfield instead of the dogs of war Pearce used to play there like one tournament where he had NRC, Cattermole and Marc Noble who all constantly gave the ball away. Not sure how the draw pans out but wouldn't shock me if England made the final.
rodders0223 Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 It is a decent squad with plenty of firepower, I am quite excited to see what we can do. Still think a few others should have gone along, namely Barkley.
dudevillaisnice Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Decent goal by Duricic, Serbia look a very good team.
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 will be watching for - denmark - hojbjerg, fischer germany - ginter, geis, volland, gnarby, knoche, kimmich, meyer (3 keepers are leno, horn and ter stegen ) italy - crisetig, rugani, romagnoli, berardi portugal - william carvalho, cancelo our game vs portugal is huge, dont think looking at the squads we should even fear italy that much, germany obviously stand out as a quality team but england wont have many places to hide if we bomb out
DanishVillan Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Nervous but good start for us yesterday. It is certainly the best danish team in a long time. Sisto, Christensen, Poulsen, Fisher and especially Hojbjerg are players to watch.
Milfner Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 John Stones is out for the first two games with a concussion and Berahino is out of the tournament and has been replaced by Benik Afobe.
Nigel Posted June 18, 2015 VT Supporter Posted June 18, 2015 Looking forward to this..... in the dirth of any propper footy!
BOF Posted June 18, 2015 Moderator Posted June 18, 2015 It looks like England have finally realised that the only way the senior side is going to progress in the long run is if the junior sides and particularly the U21 side are taken more seriously, so that the guys coming up through the ranks get some proper tournament/knock-out experience, preferably doing well in one by using their best players. And by keeping their players together as they progress through the ranks they learn how to play alongside each other. Obviously there are exceptions. If you get a once-in-a-generation freak like Wayne Rooney then you skip him ahead, but otherwise keep them together if you possibly can. Let them progress organically and you'll end up with a senior side that knows its onions and isn't like a disparate collection of blokes who've never played with each other before. Otherwise you continue the pattern of bringing the better U21s into a flailing senior side as some kind of sticking plaster or as a 'reward' for being in good form and they end up contributing precious little, so they end up not involved in the senior side and not involved in the junior side. Kane was dead right to want to go to this mid-season championships.
Mat Kendrick's Dentist Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Portugal are without some excellent players, most notably Andre Gomes, but I still fancy they'll have too much for England. Have put 50 euro on them at 2/1.
mikeyp102 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Posted June 18, 2015 Behramio will be a loss but afobe is a good replacement. I think Southgate manages them well and wouldn't be surprised to see them get to the final
VillaChris Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Stuart Pearce on Talksport "That William Cavarlho looks a decent player, I can see some big clubs interested in him after this tournament." Yes Stuart if you'd bothered to do some research you'd have noticed clubs like Man. United and Arsenal have been linked to him in the last year.
PaulC Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Just need to give Kane some service and he will score.
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Why does half the team play for championship teams? I just don't get it!
Mat Kendrick's Dentist Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Portugal are without some excellent players, most notably Andre Gomes, but I still fancy they'll have too much for England. Have put 50 euro on them at 2/1. Just after seeing it was actually 9/4
mikeyp102 Posted June 18, 2015 Author Posted June 18, 2015 Typical England. All that fire power and play with one striker for the majority of the game...
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