EPTI'm actually hoping Roy has the balls to do what should be done; namely, get rid of the Old Guard. Terry, Ferdinand, Lampard etc - leave them behind. England do not have a serious chance in this tournament, so why not have the younger players get some experience in a major tournament? Wish Wilshere was fit, but I would have Parker as the captain and only player over thirty, and give the youngsters a chance. Look at Germany in the World Cup, plenty of youth that will benefit from that experience in the Euros.
The 2012 UEFA EURO - Page 9
| Forum Index > UEFA Euro 2012 |
|
Sanctimonius
United Kingdom861 Posts
I'm actually hoping Roy has the balls to do what should be done; namely, get rid of the Old Guard. Terry, Ferdinand, Lampard etc - leave them behind. England do not have a serious chance in this tournament, so why not have the younger players get some experience in a major tournament? Wish Wilshere was fit, but I would have Parker as the captain and only player over thirty, and give the youngsters a chance. Look at Germany in the World Cup, plenty of youth that will benefit from that experience in the Euros. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Oh well i have faith in Roy he is a good manager. solid experience too. | ||
|
tekos44
France280 Posts
Defenders : Philippe Mexès (AC Milan), Adil Rami (Valence), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Younes Kaboul (Tottenham), Patrice Evra (Manchester United), Gaël Clichy (Manchester City) Midfielders : Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle), Florent Malouda (Chelsea), Samir Nasri (Manchester City) Forwards : Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Hatem Ben Arfa (Newcastle) Abidal and Sagna would have been there if not on recovery/injured, and it seems Malouda and Kaboul suffered an injury on sunday, we'll see how it goes. The full list with Ligue1 players will be announced next week, but i can already tell we will have no international level defensive midfielders (Toulalan and Diarra from Madrid have never been called by Blanc and are already out of this list, so we'll end up with Mvila and Diarra from Marseille, really not on the required level) It will still be enough to beat England, but i dont see us going very far | ||
|
Ash
Malaysia1978 Posts
| ||
|
norlock
Netherlands918 Posts
<-- pretty nice football and recent. Of course a friendly  . | ||
|
alex_Kyiv
Ukraine5 Posts
My name is Oleksandr(Alex), Im from Kyiv, Ukraine. If you want come to Kyiv to UEFA 2012, I can help you with accompaniment. I have car, so I can meet you at aeroport, show the city, help with questions and follow you all your time in Kyiv. I can't help with residence. I can take no more than 4 mans. About me. Im 29 y.o. My English not very good, but a simple things Im will understand and can say something  My skype is : kpoisons GL | ||
|
La1
United Kingdom659 Posts
On May 15 2012 20:58 alex_Kyiv wrote: Hello guys. My name is Oleksandr(Alex), Im from Kyiv, Ukraine. If you want come to Kyiv to UEFA 2012, I can help you with accompaniment. I have car, so I can meet you at aeroport, show the city, help with questions and follow you all your time in Kyiv. I can't help with residence. I can take no more than 4 mans. About me. Im 29 y.o. My English not very good, but I simple things Im will understand and can say something My skype is : kpoisons GL Holy crap thats nice of you - Thoughts on this event - It looks like spain should walk it, it would be interesting to see how many teams adopt a chelsea play style to counter the way "spain" as a team play as an englishman i hate to say we don't have a chance, we will be lucky to get out the group, the english fa / managment / team is a shambles. | ||
|
sharkie
Austria18725 Posts
On May 14 2012 12:21 Sanctimonius wrote: Yeah not seeing England doing too much. Seriously hoped that the appointment of Hodgson would temper expectations, since the biggest threat to any English team of the past two decades has been the English media, inflating expectations to stupid levels then tearing apart the team for not performing as well as Brazil or Spain. Glad I don't live in England anymore to put up with that crap. I'm actually hoping Roy has the balls to do what should be done; namely, get rid of the Old Guard. Terry, Ferdinand, Lampard etc - leave them behind. England do not have a serious chance in this tournament, so why not have the younger players get some experience in a major tournament? Wish Wilshere was fit, but I would have Parker as the captain and only player over thirty, and give the youngsters a chance. Look at Germany in the World Cup, plenty of youth that will benefit from that experience in the Euros. While yes Loew supports young players a lot, the last WC is a bad example of that since most of his older players got injured pre-WC. | ||
|
Timurid
Guyana (French)656 Posts
Here's the lineup. http://www.fff.fr/individus/selections/der_selection.php?id_selection=1 | ||
|
Sanctimonius
United Kingdom861 Posts
On May 15 2012 23:59 sharkie wrote: While yes Loew supports young players a lot, the last WC is a bad example of that since most of his older players got injured pre-WC. Aye, but it doesn't matter how it happened, Germany had a great tournament with their youth. I'm hoping England can take a leaf out of that book, but I'll bet Lampard and Gerrard will play together, Terry will be at the back and Ferdinand will go along despite having a poor season. | ||
|
Intact
Sweden634 Posts
Goalkeepers: 23 Pär Hansson, Helsingborg, 2 National team appearences /0 goals. 1 Andreas Isaksson, PSV Eindhoven, 91/0. 12 Johan Wiland, FC Köpenhamn, 7/0. Defender: 15 Mikael Antonsson, Bologna, 4/0. 4 Andreas Granqvist, Genoa, 16/2. 2 Mikael Lustig, Celtic, 23/1. 3 Olof Mellberg, Olympiakos, 112/7. 13 Jonas Olsson, West Bromwich, 6/0. 5 Martin Olsson, Blackburn, 8/4. 17 Behrang Safari, Anderlecht, 23/0. Midfielders: 19 Emir Bajrami, Twente, 15/2. 6 Rasmus Elm, AZ Alkmaar, 22/1. 18 Samuel Holmén, Istanbul BB, 25/2. 9 Kim Källström, Lyon, 90/16. 7 Sebastian Larsson, Sunderland, 39/5. 8 Anders Svensson, Elfsborg, 126/18. 16 Pontus Wernbloom, CSKA Moskva, 21/2. 21 Christian Wilhelmsson, al-Hilal, 72/8. Strikers: 11 Johan Elmander, Galatasaray, 63/16. 22 Markus Rosenberg, Werder Bremen, 30/6. 14 Tobias Hysén, IFK Göteborg, 21/7. 10 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Milan, 75/29. 20 Ola Toivonen, PSV Eindhoven, 22/4. | ||
|
Selassie
Ireland58 Posts
| ||
|
ReiKo
Croatia1023 Posts
I love Italian football but Ireland has great team that can run for 120 minutes easy. They are also robust, UK style at it's finest. What about Giovanni Trapattoni their coach? Young Shane Long is great FW and Robbie Keane is old pain in the ass for every team even Spain. He dosen't play this game since yesterday! They have long tradition of playing football, they are nation of football and they will give their fullest. Do you think Spain and Italy stars want it so badly? They have loads of trophy and pretty big salaries. Of course they want it, but I think "lesser" teams want it so much more! I predict: Croatia > Italy Croatia vs Ireland (can't predict, Irish were always very good vs our play even if we have names on paper that are better) Croatia < Spain Ireland vs Italy - X Ireland vs Croatia (same) Ireland < Spain Spain - Italy - X (I don't like how Italy defends vs really good technique players and Italy has lots of them (Croatia loves this, but we hate faster play remember Ecuador?) Spain > Croatia Spain > Ireland Italy < Croatia Italy vs Spain (same) Italy vs Ireland - X Also keep in mind that when it comes to Croatia, if we start good - then we are very dangerous, we love to play "on the wings of victory" so if someone wants to crush Croatia it will be the first game. For our nation football is sport that you live and die for so our players are aware of that, it can be positive or negative pressure. If we win then they have full backup of masses and that gives them big boost. I can't stress enough how much support means for our players, it became fanatical thing, just look at this shit: P.S. - Putting Ukraine aside is really sad from you. Ukraine has powerful team and are host. After Shevchenko era they really play different football that can be so unorthodox that every team can fail vs them. Also they are WWDWW in last 5 friendly matches. btw: nice one | ||
|
aseq
Netherlands4015 Posts
- bounces off the defender's legs - cross wasn't good but gets headed back in - i think he meant to control the ball and hit it hard, instead it chips and flukes in. Do they plan to score like this again?  I don't think matches vs Ireland or Ukraine are a walkover but you can't say they'll be favorites in a match either...but no match is a more than 75% win for any team. | ||
|
SwedishHero
Sweden869 Posts
On May 14 2012 12:03 Holgerius wrote: Goalkeepers: Buffon (Juventus), De Sanctis (Napoli), Sirigu (Paris St. Germain), Viviano (Palermo). Defenders: D Abate (Milan), Astori (Cagliari), Balzaretti (Palermo), Barzagli (Juventus) Bocchetti (Rubin Kazan), Bonucci (Juventus), Chiellini (Juventus), Criscito (Zenit St Petersburg), Maggio (Napoli), Ogbonna (Torino), Ranocchia (Inter); Midfielders: Cigarini (Atalanta), De Rossi (Roma), Diamanti (Bologna), Giaccherini (Juventus), Marchisio (Juventus), Montolivo (Fiorentina), Thiago Motta (Paris St. Germain), Nocerino (Milan), Pirlo (Juventus),Schelotto (Atalanta), Verratti (Pescara); Strikers: Balotelli (Manchester City), Borini (Roma), Cassano (Milan), Destro (Siena), Di Natale (Udinese), Giovinco (Parma) As much as I want to be optimistic, this is one of the worst italian squads I've seen. =/ Are you joking? I think Italy has a great team :=) They got 7 Juve players. The worlds greatest club ! Forza Juve | ||
|
SwedishHero
Sweden869 Posts
.. | ||
|
Enchanted
United States1609 Posts
On May 14 2012 20:03 norlock wrote: Everyone is underestimating the french. They are playing killer lately, so don't count them out. And I think with how i saw spain play they are the favourites together with Germany. Netherlands and france subfavourites. Italy is probably going to fail because of their static play, makes it hard to recuperate from a loss. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lih-r8jGwWo <-- pretty nice football and recent. Of course a friendly .It happens sometimes Normally in friendlies you're cycling through almost all your players. | ||
|
NuclearJudas
6546 Posts
On May 16 2012 04:17 Intact wrote: The Swedish squad has been announced:+ Show Spoiler + Goalkeepers: 23 Pär Hansson, Helsingborg, 2 National team appearences /0 goals. 1 Andreas Isaksson, PSV Eindhoven, 91/0. 12 Johan Wiland, FC Köpenhamn, 7/0. Defender: 15 Mikael Antonsson, Bologna, 4/0. 4 Andreas Granqvist, Genoa, 16/2. 2 Mikael Lustig, Celtic, 23/1. 3 Olof Mellberg, Olympiakos, 112/7. 13 Jonas Olsson, West Bromwich, 6/0. 5 Martin Olsson, Blackburn, 8/4. 17 Behrang Safari, Anderlecht, 23/0. Midfielders: 19 Emir Bajrami, Twente, 15/2. 6 Rasmus Elm, AZ Alkmaar, 22/1. 18 Samuel Holmén, Istanbul BB, 25/2. 9 Kim Källström, Lyon, 90/16. 7 Sebastian Larsson, Sunderland, 39/5. 8 Anders Svensson, Elfsborg, 126/18. 16 Pontus Wernbloom, CSKA Moskva, 21/2. 21 Christian Wilhelmsson, al-Hilal, 72/8. Strikers: 11 Johan Elmander, Galatasaray, 63/16. 22 Markus Rosenberg, Werder Bremen, 30/6. 14 Tobias Hysén, IFK Göteborg, 21/7. 10 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Milan, 75/29. 20 Ola Toivonen, PSV Eindhoven, 22/4. Will be interesting to see how we do. Very disappointed to see Rosenberg instead of Guidetti. Sure Guidetti is currently injured, but I thought he'd come back in time, something that is not guaranteed for Elmander. I'd rather have Guidetti as a wild card rather than an unmotivated Rosenberg. Also, we have no real good right back, which is unfortunate. Maybe Larsson will be moved down. Adding to that, Isaksson has been injured (unless I'm mistaken) and is very inconsistent. I still think we have a good chance of getting out of the group. We have a good midfield and Ibra has had a good season in Milan, so I'm hopeful. France's squad is looking pretty bad defensively and we have a good record against England (who lately choke hard at big competitions and will have to do without Rooney the first two games). Ukraine should be easy 3 points for everyone. Also, I love the fact that a Serie B dude is in Italy's team. I bet his stock is gonna rocket up. | ||
|
Timurid
Guyana (French)656 Posts
| ||
|
TranceStorm
1616 Posts
| ||
| ||
