Lithuania v England - Sunday 8th Oct. @ 5.00

[davieG]

The Daily Start reckons southgate is going to experiment with a 343 formation as below

 

 

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/650297/England-Lithuania-preview-team-news-line-up-3-4-3-injuries-suspensions-sportgalleries

[foxy boxing]

We've already qualified so he might as well experiment and try out new formations and look at other players! start building a plan A,B,C

[Trav Le Bleu]

Can't be much worse.

[Lestoh1]

Experiment with a new system that wont ever get used at the world cup, with players that wont play when everyone is fit, against toss opposition that any formation would beat.

 

Harry bloody Winks.

 

Im done

[jammie82uk]

17 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

We've already qualified so he might as well experiment and try out new formations and look at other players! start building a plan A,B,C

You know that, I know that, everyone else knows that but we all also know that Southgate will play the same 11 apart from putting Dele Ali straight back in for Oxlade-Chamberlain 

[Fox92]

Doesn't matter who we pick we need to change from the slow build up/ball possesion style we seem to play.

 

Players like Stones, Walker, Dier, Sterling etc are used to quick, fast football. The lack of movement is astonishing though.

[chris_lcfc_85]

14 minutes ago, Lestoh1 said:

Experiment with a new system that wont ever get used at the world cup, with players that wont play when everyone is fit, against toss opposition that any formation would beat.

 

Harry bloody Winks.

 

Im done

Whilst I partly agree, at least he's been playing in a good Spurs team unlike Livermore who cant get in the WBA side!

[Dan]

Any money Butland drops a clanger meaning Hart's position is guaranteed. Always seems to work that way.

 

Winks is meant to be decent.

 

I'd rather see this tried than the usual garbage to be honest. 4-2-3-1 needs fvcking off. Cannot understand why we've persisted with it for so long.

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Why is anyone gonna bother to watch this? 

 

Scotland is the game to watch again. Least something riding on it 

 

I'm so sick of watching dire England games and fortunately I didn't watch the other night 

[Guest Col city fan]

I am genuinely not even going to bother. A more meaningless game you never will see, than this.

I'm just glad it's the last fookin one for a bit.

[Wymsey]

Just now, Col city fan said:

I am genuinely not even going to bother. A more meaningless game you never will see, than this.

I'm just glad it's the last fookin one for a bit.

But, if he plays, it'd give Maguire a great opportunity, despite it being a dead-rubber occasion, to show what he can do outside of English domestic games.

[Tuna]

That central midfield is worse than ours.

[Guest Col city fan]

9 minutes ago, Wymeswold fox said:

But, if he plays, it'd give Maguire a great opportunity, despite it being a dead-rubber occasion, to show what he can do outside of English domestic games.

I absolutely hope he don't play!

Imagine picking up an injury in a game that means literally nothing.

Maguire has been a little shining light in a poor Leicester side. We don't want him turning his ankle over in some nondescript fixture like this.

[Tielemans63]

I'd start Dean Sturridge over Daniel Sturridge. 

[davieG]

22 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I am genuinely not even going to bother. A more meaningless game you never will see, than this.

I'm just glad it's the last fookin one for a bit.

Any league structure will result in seemingly meaningless games as you get to the final rounds of games.

[Jimothy]

23 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

We've already qualified so he might as well experiment and try out new formations and look at other players! start building a plan A,B,C

Should have been doing this earlier. People wonder why we sail through qualification but struggle at championships, but other teams, while qualifying relatively easy might lose or draw the odd one, but storm the championships, it's because they try new things as they go along, they don't throw a load of fringe players and debutants into a meaningless game in a alien formation that tells the management nothing and doesn't really show what the players are capable off. We play the exact same team week after week, we have for years under various managers, mainly because the names sell tickets and shirts, but they get injured and we panic that we have no experienced replacements. Well of course we don't, nobody else gets a look in. 

 

Too little too late imo. 

[The Blur]

I already have that dread feeling in my stomach about this game even that I am not going to bother watching.  It is because all of moaning on social media afterwards really annoy me as well along with limp wristed performances and weak management of course.

 

That is how much apathy I have towards England at the moment.    

[Ross-Kemp]

My team would be:

 

Butland

 

Keane

Maguire

Stones

 

Walker

Rose/Bertrand

 

Dier

Henderson

 

Alli

 

Rashford

Kane

[AjcW]

 

actually like it if you take Henderson out! We might get some forward passes from Winks today  

[Webbo]

Good luck Harry 

 

Vardy, Drinkwater and now Maguire. sign for Leicester if you want to become an international.

[spacemunky]

Good to see big Harry starting. 

 

Why start Kane? Let Defoe play.

[Fox92]

3 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

Good to see big Harry starting. 

 

Why start Kane? Let Defoe play.

Defoe is 35 he'll not be going to the World Cup anyway

[Fox92]

Need to see if these are any good then. Maguire and Keane haven't been that good recently in the League.

[Stadt]

At least the back three are all very comfortable on the ball, Winks is a composed passer and Rashford's threatening 

[urban.spaceman]

8 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

Good to see big Harry starting. 

 

Why start Kane? Let Defoe play.

 

Here's my thinking on the matter and hopefully it's shared by Southgate:

 

1. Play Kane in every single game, let him prove how good he is (and let's be honest, he is very good)

2. Playing Kane in every international will tire him out and will eventually derail Spurs season, leading to their now almost predictable bottlejob around April/May which will see a meltdown of every Spurs fan in the world, for the betterment of mankind.

3. Vardy will remain match fit throughout the season and come next summer, Southgate will have no option but to play Vardy and build the team around his strengths, making England exciting and entertaining to watch for the best time in more than a decade.

4. Vardy scores the winning goal in the World Cup Final.

5. One of the kids off One Direction wins the Oscar for best actor in the feature film "Vodka & Charlie".

6. Steve Walsh, Craig Shakespeare and Nigel Pearson, adorned in tuxedos, each light a cigar and crack open a bottle of bubbly.

7. In the background, there is an ostrich.