The Jack Grealish (and occasionally England) Thread: It's coming home attempt 5782570

[Adamm90]

If Maguire isn’t fit it’s concerning. Mings and Coady don’t fill me with confidence.

[The_jagster]

All of the right back chat and we have Ben Godfrey turning back and playing it back and inside every time he gets on the ball.

[skybluedave]

It's bugging me that ITV have Romania shortened to ROU and not ROM

Is there a reason? Roumania? That's not right is it. Where is the U coming from

[Andrew_]

1 minute ago, skybluedave said:

It's bugging me that ITV have Romania shortened to ROU and not ROM

Is there a reason? Roumania? That's not right is it. Where is the U coming from

Romania United.

[Marius_R]

That is the official country code, ROU. 

[ajw10]

That's some header

[The_jagster]

"Will that inspire England to up the tempo?" 

No.

[Rob1981]

What a ball in that was. Get him in Gareth.

[skybluedave]

I think I'd prefer Eric Dier over Tyrone Mings

[ajw10]

Mings is a disaster

[aiston]

Ming's should be nowhere near the England team, he is absolutely shocking.

[SteveUK]

5 minutes ago, skybluedave said:

It's bugging me that ITV have Romania shortened to ROU and not ROM

Is there a reason? Roumania? That's not right is it. Where is the U coming from

According to Wiki, We used to spell the country Rumania or Roumania but have spelt it as Romania since the mid 70's, the Romania Government requested the 3 letter code be changed from ROM to ROU in 2002.

[CMOZZA]

Bit of quality there between Sancho and Grealish. 

[skybluedave]

Streaker 

[Coulthard's Jaw]

 

[skybluedave]

I'm sure Godfrey is a good player but he ain't a right back  

[aiston]

England's defence is so easy to get through.

[Rob1981]

Good movement that from Romania.

[arenaross]

Not sure many are playing their way into the team based on that half. 

[Adamm90]

If Maguire isn’t fit, do we think Walker would play alongside Stones in a back four? 

[skybluedave]

There's not much to read into with these 2 games considering the line ups but if this is going to be our style for the Euros (slow tiki taki patient build up where we hope to win a free kick) then we ain't gonna go far

[themadsheep2001]

This is horrible

[bigdunk]

Luke Shaw probably the only one there who’s done anything close to staking a claim for a place. And that’s probably being slightly generous, he’s only been okay.

[aiston]

Boring as hell football, as usual from Southgate.

 

It's going to be a **** tournament.

[Marc Albrighton]

Pretty much as good as you can hope for given the lineup honestly. Little flash from 1 or 2 briefly but overall everyone was fairly poor.

[Baptista_8]

Ben White looks tidy. JWP done OK also.

[enigmatic]

22 minutes ago, skybluedave said:

Streaker 

More impactful performance than most. Gareth should consider calling him up as the Trent injury replacement 

Edited June 6, 2021 by enigmatic

[pearcey_90]

Can’t believe we’re going to be relying on Stones to be like a VVD/Dias to someone like Mings for the group stages  Just a disaster waiting to happen. Would say hopefully White has played himself into squad to line up alongside Stones, but it will be JWP in squad because Henderson is crocked  

[wkdsoul]

Sancho looking more and more like a better LW with every run inside..

[skybluedave]

Hendo 

[craigcwwe]

1 hour ago, av3ry said:

Why has he not gone for the team that is likely to play against Croatia?

We must be the only National Team resting the players from the Champions League Final. Understandable against Austria but not today.

Christensen is in the Denmark team today.

Christensen didn't play in th CL Final did he? I don't recall him playing. 

14 minutes ago, skybluedave said:

There's not much to read into with these 2 games considering the line ups but if this is going to be our style for the Euros (slow tiki taki patient build up where we hope to win a free kick) then we ain't gonna go far

Aye, thought the same about halfway through the first half. 

[Coulthard's Jaw]

It's mad we've included Henderson and Maguire isn't it? 7 days til the tournament starts and they aren't anywhere near match fit.

[arenaross]

Gotta get JWP into the squad really. 

[skybluedave]

14 minutes ago, craigcwwe said:

Christensen didn't play in th CL Final did he? I don't recall him playing. 

Played like an hour. Came on for injured TSilva

[EnterUsernameHere]

1 hour ago, ajw10 said:

I'm finding the criticism a bit bizarre tbh. It's not like Southgate alone has decided to not play them. He'd clearly have had advice from the medical team and I presume they felt it wasn't worth the risk

Not sure you can say that when Rashford and Hendo are playing.

[sc91]

5 minutes ago, Coulthard's Jaw said:

It's mad we've included Henderson and Maguire isn't it? 7 days til the tournament starts and they aren't anywhere near match fit.

But they're characters.

[AK22]

Can see us making a right mess of our group if this is anything to go by.

[Marc Albrighton]

I'd rather a half fit Henderson and Maguire than some of the alternatives we've had the joy of watching.

[Baptista_8]

Rashford is infuriating. In terms of the pacey players I'd have both Sancho and even an out of form Sterling ahead of him.

[craigcwwe]

2 minutes ago, Marc Albrighton said:

I'd rather a half fit Henderson and Maguire than some of the alternatives we've had the joy of watching.

I'd take them both if it meant them getting about the pitch on crutches than some of the other options we have. 

[craigcwwe]

Just now, Baptista_8 said:

Rashford is infuriating. In terms of the pacey players I'd have both Sancho and even an out of form Sterling ahead of him.

He's been like this since around the turn of the year. 

[martynlcfc]

3 minutes ago, Baptista_8 said:

Rashford is infuriating. In terms of the pacey players I'd have both Sancho and even an out of form Sterling ahead of him.

Agreed. At least if Sterling is off form he still gets in behind frequently and stretches the game.

Rashford like this offers nothing.

[RTHerringbone]

Just now, Baptista_8 said:

Rashford is infuriating. In terms of the pacey players I'd have both Sancho and even an out of form Sterling ahead of him.

Think they said he'd only scored 1 in 10 games for United at the end of the season. Not sure what his assist rate is but he hasn't looked right for weeks and weeks.

[EnterUsernameHere]

I only just turned on but commentators were saying Rashford has played himself into the lineup?

[Baptista_8]

1 minute ago, EnterUsernameHere said:

I only just turned on but commentators were saying Rashford has played himself into the lineup?

Yeah I've got no idea what he was on about with that

[Marc Albrighton]

Just now, EnterUsernameHere said:

I only just turned on but commentators were saying Rashford has played himself into the lineup?

Dixon did yea, even though hes been atrocious.

[aiston]

Everything Rashford touches completely breaks down. He is terrible.

[aiston]

Terrible shot

[Andrew_]

He's injured. What's the logic in playing him for 60+ minutes in this friendly?

[wkdsoul]

5 minutes ago, Baptista_8 said:

Rashford is infuriating. In terms of the pacey players I'd have both Sancho and even an out of form Sterling ahead of him.

Sterlings form off the ball has always been superb, just his on the ball form that let the end of his season down.