so, 5-1

accounts for what, one decision
and that's football always blame the ref

typical people who know nothing about PLAYING football

Lol,

On to something which matters: COME ON ENGLAND, not getting my hopes up though, be nice to be pleasantly surprised.



Edited at 15:23 Sat 14/06/14 (BST)

chiles was goal of tournament persies was a longball and a header with no one on him superb lol

countdown to Englands game

come on ENGERRRRRRRRRRRRRLAND

Hello there funkyenglandsupporters

I as you know am Irish..i follow an irish league and english Pl team.

However about tonights game..i feel if he starts with rooney and sturridge..and then come 60-65 mins no score..bring on sterling and barkley and go for it.

word is he starting sterling...id wait and let him loose after an hour..however i feel England can come through this match and will only struggle against uraguay and cost rica.

I would have chosen Barkley over Welbeck .... little disappointed.

i would of chose lalana over welbeck and dropped a few others

No one is really saying this, try to follow what's being said instead of distorting it in your head.



Rooney and Welbeck need to do a bit more defensively, particularly Rooney. Other than that it's been a good entertaining half, Sterling is on his way to Man of the Match

not hard rest have been useless played to cautious

Sterling were great 1st half, different player in 2nd - Johnson were useless once again. We looked better with Lallana and Barkley on, Baines had his worst match by far in an England shirt.

I agree, England were far too cautious. No possession meant they were completely exhausted. Masterclass from Prandelli and Pirlo. That free kick right at the end *wow*

The rest were fine. Roy made bad changes, Barkley and Lallana were decent changes but why Wilshere? That changed nothing. Poor decision to take off Henderson, Welbeck and Sturridge. Rooney did one thing all game and was shocking all game long. Can't take Sturridge off when we need a goal to replace him with a midfielder. We brought Lambert to get a goal when we needed it, we need a goal and don't bother putting him on. Then after halftime we stopped swapping the wingers around too. Sterling stuck on the right lost most of his effectiveness.

A disappointing second half from England after a good first half

agree ross

but
wellbeck went off
we had no penetration, sterling couldn't do it by himself

gerrard shouldn't have been on the pitch tbh
Henderson carried him

I like gerrard but if thats all we had from him its shocking

I said earlier this week about a 4-4-2

it defo wasn't

rooney is a number 10
totally wasted out left

I truly didn't get Henderson and gerrard both to negative

system

4-2-3-1 again no bloody natural width

I agree, I were thinking where's Lambert.

Rooney played out of position aint gonna get the best out of him, Sterling and Welbeck were surprisingly good, Wilshere were a waste of time. We need width, cross the ball in and get rid of Johnson - we need a proper Right Back.

Gerrard were shocking, he looked the most unfit out of the whole team and what's this cramp rubbish, only 1st match lol -

So how does a 35 year old, who played 42 games for his club and doesn't get cramp in first match at World Cup but a 19 year old, who as played 34 games for his club ends up with cramp?

Even when Rooney got in good positions he was awful, he's got a great work rate going forward but defensive work rate was by far the poorest on the pitch. Johnson wasn't too bad, he had a few bad crosses but he wasn't the worst on the pitch. The second Italian goal was Cahill's to deal with, Johnson HAS to track the runner else it's a tap in at the near post that the keeper can't even move for. Cahill has him and looks to see Johnson isn't behind him, as a CB he has to deal with the CF in the box like. The fullbacks have to be aware of the runners coming in before they can cover out wide of the CB's.

Gerrard looked tired in the second half, youth beats experience for stamina so Gerrard should've been subbed off not Hendo. The cramp comes from our pace, we play a faster game which is harder in the heat. We could've had a few goals early while that pace was too much to deal with for the Italians. As soon as they got their second they were always going to defend that so adding a midfielder for a midfielder was useless. Need to go for more than one up top.

Lucky for us Uruguay need a win also, which will suit us. If they had won their first game then they could've done a similar thing and we'd have been in real trouble. We should get a couple of chances against them at least. Get rid of Rooney, dropping him for a game could do him good because it seems like he got picked (and stayed on) because of his wage

The 19 year old ran far further, is used to cooler weather, took more hits and the fewer games means he is more susceptible to cramp

Plain and simple, people can say all they want about how well some players performed, but what did the 2 little numbers say at the top left?

The result is all that matters, and people saying that the youngsters played well, i do agree, but it's irrelevant, what would you rather have, a poor performance and win, or good performance and lose, its plain and simple... we lost, and it is imperative that we win the next game, but you already knew that

Totally agree, i would like a video of pirlo sprinting anywhere, but its what he does, and it's effective, which was a shame lol