England vs Czech Republic
Seeing as Sky wanted to be ass holes and let someone nick the rights to play England games I couldn’t watch the game live so I had to wait until 10:45pm to watch the England game on the highlights even tho I already know the score.
After not even getting to Euro 2008 England had to start to repay the faith the England fans have kept in the side, so going up against Czech Republic the last game before England start the road to the World Cup 2010, well to start of the match we found out that England are ranked 15th in the world, and to be honest I think that is a bit unfair on the ranking as over the last couple of years there have been more then 14 clubs better then us,
we have a strong looking line up the only thing I do go for is that we still keeping Joe Cole on the bench when he is a gifted Left Midfielder something that England have been missing for some time now even tho we have Stuart Downing and Joe Cole just the top of the list that can come in and come up to the level
Czech Republic took the lead in the match and to be honest we gave them the goal, at first I don’t know where the hell our right back was leaving the right side of defence that open that Czech Republic was able to get the ball down there and play with it, but overall Czech was lucky to get the goal as the wrack it took off Ashley Cole it should have really gone down as a own goal, seeing as James would have had the ball if it didn’t hit Cole
After the goal England did look like they wanted to get back into the game, just a chance that we still feel that we can score goals out side the box when at the moment we cant, we just don’t have the shooters they may do it for there clubs but they don’t do it when it comes to the National side, all the pressure we put one Czech did pay off in the hell when a corner from the right from Beckham was met superb by Wes Brown to knock it in the back of the net
seeing as the goal come from a corner I just would like to know why do Terry and Ferdinand even bother to come up for a free kick when its Beckham standing over the ball, I will never understand that as for some reason Beckham thinks he is the only player on the pitch when he gets the ball for a free kick, don’t get me wrong Beckham for me is still one of the best Right Midfielder we have had for some years now,
Half Time England went in level, the player of the half for me as to be Steven Gerrard he played great out of place on the left wing, knocking some great balls into the box for Defoe just sadly Defoe couldn’t make anything of the balls that he was getting, the restart of the match was with out Defoe which for me was the wrong move, Defoe was 2nd on my list for player of the half but then again I have been wrong to question subs that the England manager has made before,
Czech Republics 2nd goals was a great free kick don’t get me wrong but it should have never been given in the first place, England where 5’s at the back and made a silly tackle and gave away the lead, but at least again since the goal went England didn’t drop there head they attacked and tried to get the game back on lead pecking,
England 2nd sub was Joe Cole to come on for Steven Gerrard I have to say I know this is a friendly but my god what the hell is Capello was thinking by doing this taking off one of the better England players on the night when you have Barry and Lampard in the middle of the park who have done nothing to be honest for me,
the Czech could have been 3-1 if it wasn’t for the fact that the Czech player took to long with the ball and ended up in a back spot to shoot, as the hole of the England back line stop as they fought it was offside but one of the Czech players carried on and silly James come shooting out of his box and was run pass like he wasn’t even there.
I know the England 2nd goal was a mess but a goal is a goal and England will take that one even tho it looks like it was a own goal, this is probably the only England game I can not pick a man of the match but then again I was only watching the highlights
Full Time Score England 2-2 Czech Republic 2
Last night we saw our boys go up against the mighty France and lose 1-0 thanks to a cock up by David James in goal who brought down the one and only cheat Nicolas Anelka, when the match started and I knew he was playing I turned to Alan who was watching the game with me and said that big nose twat will score, so I was half right he got the spot kick that won them the game,