That would need the assumption that Southgate has a clue what he is doing and that he has picked a balanced squad to begin with. There is so much dross in the squad that even the most amateurish of managers would look at it and think '****! I've got to pick 11 players to start from this. Daniel Bleedin' Sturridge for gawds sake!'.
I sometimes think Sterling should be playing for the ladies team......with respects to the ladies! He runs like a girl,tackles like a girl and acts silly like that girl we used to know at school.
Apart from the fact that our injury-free players are featuring regularly in his starting XIs (one of whom won him the game yesterday) , a no-brainer to be doing as much as he can to de-risk possible summer 2018 injuries.
No. There was a like-for-like substitution of Oxlade-Chamberlain with Lingard (both were crap) and then he brought Keane (centre half) on for Sterling thus freeing Walker to play further forward which helped us score (but I doubt it was tactical genius). He could have played a lamp stand instead of Henderson and got the same level of creativity so Winks would have been a good change.
HK sidesteps Henderson beautifully after scoring. There's a career in Rugby if he wants to earn 5% of his current salary and risk life changing injuries.
Georgia v Wales is about to start, for anyone that feels the need to cleanse their palate after that dogs dinner. It's on Sky and the Welsh are starting Ben Davies and Chris Gunter at fullback.
England XI with none of the starters from last night: Butland; Trippier, Keane, Smalling, Maguire, Cresswell; Winks, Livermore; Alli, Defoe, Lingard. Subs: Forster, Pickford, Sturridge.
Not sure why Sterling or Oxlade-Chamberlain aren't on the list, as it's not like they played a match last night... Meanwhile, in Tbilisi
If this were 1017, Eriksen and the England players would be on the same team. Where's good King Canute when you need him?
Can he not rely on having great x40 English grandparent to satisfy the eligibility criteria? He'd certainly give some much needed creativity to England's midfield.
Daryl Murphy puts the Republic of Ireland 1-0 up against Moldova after a couple of minutes. Could make the game against Wales interesting on Monday. England U21s start with Walker-Peters and Onomah in the lineup. They face a Scotland side that's captained by Oliver Burke, who was being touted for great things. Had a patchy season at Leipzig and is now at West Brom.
England U19s lost 1-0 to the Czech Republic in Znojmo, which is apparently a place. No Spurs players got any game time, which explains the result, though Japhet Tanganga was an unused sub.
Znojmo sounds like a word you've made up to try to use a bad set of letters in Scrabble It would be useful, but you can't have proper nouns.
Daryl Murphy scores again, as Ireland make it 2-0. Really good header, after a scrappy opener. Josh Onomah puts England U21s ahead against their Scottish counterparts: Bloody hell.
