The English Football Thread

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Not liking Southgate's Euro 2020 selections

 

England squad

Goalkeepers: Jack Butland (Stoke City), Tom Heaton (Burnley), Jordan Pickford (Everton)

Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Ben Chilwell (Leicester City), Michael Keane (Everton), Harry Maguire (Leicester City), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), James Tarkowski (Burnley), Kieran Trippier (Tottenham Hotspur), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)

Midfielders: Ross Barkley (Chelsea), Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Fabian Delph (Manchester City), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), Declan Rice (West Ham)

Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Callum Wilson (Bournemouth)

 

Tom Heaton over Angus Gunn???. Gunn has been, arguably, the best English keeper in the league in the EPL since he was finally made the starter. Heaton has been shit mostly in the games I have seen.

At CB, Gomez was left out due to injury, so that is understandable.

LB he picked the best we have

BUT RB...Trippier over Aaron Wan-Bissaka?????? Come the fuck on. Trippier has had a poor season overall. STUPID call to leave AWB off, as he is a perfect player when we are going against high scoring speed merchant teams.

now for Midfield

Delph, Henderson (I suppose Declan Rice (who does deserve the pick), Henderson, and Dier are the only DMF's we have who are remotely oki but do we really need all 3? Who knows.), and (here comes the flames) RLC (mostly due to his seemingly never-ending injuries atm) and Barkely. but NO James Ward-Prowse (or even James Maddison)  JWP has had a better year than any of those save Rice, IMHO. Delph in there is just shocking!

The forwards are fine, in terms of picks,

England is REALLY weak in terms of winger depth, as after Sterling and Sancho (imagine if he had not exploded onto the scene), we only have Lingard (not on the team) and then the other two teenagers (not on the team), CHO and Reiss Nelson (who just turned 19 several months ago). 

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3 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

We go away to United, Leicester, Everton and Liverpool. Won't be surprised if we get like zero points out of these games. 

Would not "easiest" be compared to Spurs and United too?

Also, wanna bet that we get more points from those away games than arsenal do from theirs?

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5 minutes ago, bakayokofan said:

Would not "easiest" be compared to Spurs and United too?

Also, wanna bet that we get more points from those away games than arsenal do from theirs?

If we do not beat the Toffees and Leicester (regardless of away)

we don't deserve top 4

have we really fallen THAT far

ffs

maybe

It is KILLING us here in Stockholm!!!!

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The Football Nerd

Fraser and Wilson can enter the record books By Alistair Tweedale

When you think of great strike partnerships of the Premier League era, you think Cole and Yorke, Shearer and Sutton, Heskey and Owen, Phillips and Quinn. These are duos from a time when playing two up front was more common than it is these days, and who would combine time and again to devastating effect. More recently, the most effective attacking combinations have tended to be an attacking, creative midfielder along with a lone striker, where the service tends to flow in one direction. Think Ozil and Giroud, Alli and Kane, Fabregas and Costa, Silva and Aguero. This season, the south coast has thrown up an interesting new addition to the list. Unrelenting overachievers Bournemouth are challenging for a top-half, top-flight finish for only the second time in their history and, with a strong end to the season, may even go one better than their ninth-placed finish in 2016/17. They sit 12th, two points off ninth, in spite of a woeful defensive record - the fourth-worst in the entire top flight - and thanks to the quantity of goals they score. Their killer combination of Ryan Fraser and Callum Wilson has played a significant role in that. After Fraser and Wilson both scored goals set up by the other in the 2-0 win over Huddersfield last week, the duo have now combined for nine goals this season. That is two more than any other pair in 2018/19, with Sergio Aguero and Raheem Sterling in second place, and not far off the most effective partnerships ever seen in a single Premier League campaign. Only five partnerships have combined to produce 10 goals in a Premier League season, two of which came before the league was reduced to 38 games in 1995, while nobody has done so since Dennis Bergkamp and Nicolas Anelka in 1998/99. Fraser and Wilson are one goal off double figures with eight games to play. Fraser is second only to Eden Hazard for Premier League assists this season, with 10, but what is so impressive about his relationship with Wilson - considering Fraser plays out wide on the left - is that the assists flow both ways. Fraser has set up goals for Wilson on five occasions, while four assists have gone in the opposite direction. These probably aren’t two players that we would normally consider among the greatest to grace the Premier League, but their stats this season place them among an elite group. Newcastle may have to make specific plans to stop them at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday afternoon.   no link, it was in an e-mail

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Watford  v Crystal Palace HD Streams

http://www.sportnews.to/events/2019/fa-cup-watford-vs-crystal-palace-s1/

https://www.vipleague.bz/watford-vs-crystal-palace-streaming-link-1

https://www.ronaldo7.net/video/bundesliga-live/bundesliga-live-stream.html

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Great goal by Bats

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Bournemouthv Newcastle HD Streams

https://www.vipleague.bz/bournemouth-vs-newcastle-united-fc-streaming-link-1

https://soccer-live.stream/bournemouth-vs-newcastle-united-fc-live/stream-1

https://premierleague-lives.com/live/everton-live-stream-47/channel-1/

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Insane stat

in his last 48 league games

Jefferson Lerma has THIRTY yellow cards

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Ake just won a pen for Bournemouth

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

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Great goal by Bats

Great finish!

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2 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Great finish!

if we get the absolute worst possible outcome (non deferral appeal denied by CAS so no summer 2019 window AND FIFA says we cannot renew Higuain's loan for 2019-20)

we surely have to recall Bats

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lol, this game has so many ex Chels and linked Chels players

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Such a shame Cardiff or Burnley will stay in the league.

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wow, 2 2 , basically last kick of the game the Geordies tied it up

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15 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Such a shame Cardiff or Burnley will stay in the league.

I wish Fulham hadn't collapsed and had stayed up

 

and that (this all cant happen in one season)

Burnley
Cardiff City  
Huddersfield Town

Leicester

Bournemouth 
Brighton & Hove Albion
Southampton  

all went down

 

and

 

West Brom

Villa

Leeds

QPR

Bristol City

Forest

Millwall (just for the cray games v tem for a couple years, really dont give a fuck if they stayed up, would rather Charlton eventually come back)

 

all came up

 

I always push/hope for more London teams, and those others, non London are big teams from the past (I admit like West Brom due to some of my best mates, lol, and they are ALL enraged with me that I rate Wolves, they hate Wolves and Villa as much as we hate Spuds and Victimpool and Manure)

 

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Swansea  v Shitty  HD Streams

http://www.sportnews.to/events/2019/fa-cup-swansea-city-vs-manchester-city-s1/

https://www.vipleague.bz/swansea-vs-manchester-city-streaming-link-1

https://www.ronaldo7.net/video/sports-live/sport-live-stream.html

https://www.totalsportek.com/chelsea-live-stream/

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my dog would Bernardo Silva be a beast for us at RW

 

and WOW

 

pen on Delph