Belgium V England – Head to Head

[Moros 86]

Hart is in my eyes better than Courtois, he's a world class keeper. Courtois is certainly becomming one. Hart has a better aerial command and I've seen him do a few thing I've never seen Courtois pull of. And I've been following Thibaut since his debut.

The central defenders for me are obviously all Belgian to me. Verthongen is defensive if not better at least on par with all of his English competitors. Attacking wise he is such a plus. Both as a header on corners and indirect free kick as well as a taker of direct free kicks. And then we even forgot to mention his trade mark attacking runs. Kompany might be the best CB in the world, if he isn't he's damn close to being it. Sadly Mancini doesn't allow him to show of the rest of his footballing skills.

Johnson and Cole are the obvious contenders for the back positions. Belgium doesn't have any true, natural backs of high quality anyway. Plus Cole might be aging and not be one of the best backs in the world anymore. He still is outstanding.

For the DM position it would be Witsel if you ask me. He's actually better at most physical duels than fellaini. Well I guess heading would go to Big Marouane. He's world class potential, sadly he is ruining his growth in Russia. He should've waited for a big English team or something to make a bid for him.

CM's I'd like to go for Wilshere and De Bruyne. Both are such great footballers with great vista. With those two in the midfield our passing and possession game would be world class. And like the wise Cruyff said: 'if we got the ball, they can't score.'

Wings would be Hazard and Mirallas for me. Sadly the latter hasn't really been able to show how good he is in the BPL yet, due to injury. But he will and he should.

CF well there's no one who stands out to much so I'd leave that open to form of the moment and possibly opposition tactics. Hopefully in a few years the answer would be an obvious Lukaku.

Thus:

Hart

Johnson-Kompany-Verthongen-Cole

Witsel

De Bruyne-Wilshere

Mirallas Hazard

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