Match Day Thread Lithuania v England

All Home Nations excelled

England comfortably won their group with a 100% record, only conceding 3 goals & minimising shots on target, against them, to just 12 over 10 games (Sky source).

Northern Ireland qualified with a game to spare. They only lost once & won their group with an away draw at Finland in the final game.

Wales also qualified with a game to spare. They won 6 of their 10 games, losing just the once in their penultimate game. They remained unbeaten against group favourites Belgium & Israel.

Scotland beat Gibraltar home & away which helped them to finish above both Georgia & Gibraltar in their group.

An excellent effort by them all.

 

That's on the back of Joe Gomez for the U21s. It has been pretty bad for England hopefuls Shaw/ Ings/Gomez.

 

Interesting
Can you post the article?
Do you remember when blades instead of studs were first coming out and getting blamed for lots of knee injuries?
( I snapped my ACL PCL and Hamstring but that wasn't due to the boots...it was due to the big fat bastard who landed on my standing leg and bent it until it was 90 degrees in the wrong direction!)

 

Was it this tweet?

Mind you I've no idea what the % of players that wear Nike boots in the first place is?

 

I have said for ages that there has to be some correlation between knee ligament injuries and these bladed style boots. The blades have less give when they are planted in the turf - so what's the next thing to give? Ankles and knees.

It has to be more than coincidence, it would be interesting to see the same exercise for Adidas bladed stud boots.

Glad I chose old school Puma Kings - moulded studs. Total throwback!

 

Could well be in a small sample size
The tweet I posted earlier has all of the knee injuries listed, and most wear Nike. However I've no idea whether most players wear Nike in which case it would be expected. If they don't then there are quite a few unhappy coincidences

 

Well there's more than 55% of the list of knee injuries wearing them, but it's still a small sample size so you can't really draw any conclusions from it

 

I don't think Matty James wears nike boots. He did his towards the back end of last season (might have even been against QPR last game, not sure).

 

Any data that says what he was wearing at the time?

 

That sole looks like that of the Nike Magista Opus.

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I do wonder whether it really matters what the make of the boot is but it is more due to the carpet slipper,light weight design of the boots which are so low cut they do not give any support or protection to the ankle and subsequently causes strains to leg muscles.