Thursday 7th June - England vs Costa Rica

[PhillippaT]

Time for the end of the portugal-algeria match?

[foxes_rule1978]

Played very well, two great goals and there was atmosphere... it is better to put England on the road than just play every game at Wembley 

[Tuna]

Scenes on here when Vardy and Maguire start the Tunisia game on the bench.

[foxinmyhouse]

27 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

 

He needs to come deep to receive the ball apparently.

 

Fat chance of that when noone is picking him out with a sensible pass in the first place.

 

I'll just carry on watching an apparently different game then.

Im sure it was them that said the exact opposite about rashford before and during the fa cup final. I think I can remember ian wright saying that he needs to stop coming back and stay uptop and how hes not in a attacking position when needed. And if he wants to be a striker he must stay up top and be patient and wait for the chance. I couldnt care less what they say anymore, they all just seem anti vardy no matter what he does. If he scores a good goal they credit the player who made the pass. If he misses a chance they will say he should have scored and its not good enough at this level, but if sterling, rashford, kane etc miss it does not matter. The fact that they are in that position is what matters.  If anyone watches vardy with england  its clear as day that he makes runs but the ball hardly gets passed to him.

[martyn]

2 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Scenes on here when Vardy and Maguire start the Tunisia game on the bench.

Vardy will be on the bench and can't argue with that.

 

I'd be miffed if Maguire didn't start, he is better than Stones and Cahill.

[Bryn]

Maguire done well tonight, he starts.

[Bert]

Didn't Southgate say something about Maguire tonight? 

[CosbehFox]

Maguire pretty much played exactly as he did for us at end of seasons. Below average. Three times he was caught out with the right winger behind him. 

 

Vardy did a good job whilst he was on by stretching the play. Thus allowing huge space between Costa Rica’s midfield and defence. 

[Bert]

I would like to see 

 

Pickford

Stones Jones Maguire

Walker Henderson Alli Delph

Sterling 

Vardy Kane 

 

 

[brucey]

I'm not an England fan, but I thought they were both relatively poor today 

[Bert]

He's obviously not going to answer that question Gabriel, nom matter how many times you ask. 

[Leicesterpool]

Just now, brucey said:

I'm not an England fan, but I thought they were both relatively poor today 

We've been 10x worse. 

[TiffToff88]

30 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

I’d rather Vardy didn’t play, it’s too frustrating knowing how good he is and seeing him get zero chances.

 

I can't enjoy watching England when Leicester players are involved. I can't stop myself being biased towards them.

[brucey]

Just now, Leicesterpool said:

We've been 10x worse. 

I meant Maguire and Vardy, not the teams.

At least today's game was watchable, I've tried watching England before and barely managed to last 5 minutes.

[Shamomoa]

44 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

Fvck me are you lot England fans or Vardy fans? 

vardy fans obviously

[BlueSi13]

Let's be honest here.  If Vardy wasn't our player we'd be talking about him playing himself out of contention.

 

Far too passive when playing with England I'm afraid.  He doesn't look to impose himself on the game or on the opposition.  He looks like a completely different player unfortunately.

 

 

[theessexfox]

2 minutes ago, BlueSi13 said:

Let's be honest here.  If Vardy wasn't our player we'd be talking about him playing himself out of contention.

 

 

 

Only if we took an hour of a friendly against a side who sat deep as indicative of Vardy's potential at the World Cup.

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, Shamomoa said:

vardy fans obviously

That's cool. I think the love for Vardy on here is a beautiful thing 

 

I've resigned myself to the fact that him and Maguire probably won't get too much game time at the WC but I won't let that stop my enjoyment of it 

[Guest Col city fan]

35 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Completely forgot about this game but I figure I'll check in quickly because I'm sure @Col city fan is dying to admit he got it wrong about Vardy starting tonight.

Aye you were right. 

Alas I doubt we’’ll see him start again unless Kane gets injured.

And I say once more, I don’t know why Southgate is not playing his best 11 now and giving them game time together. To still be ‘experimenting’ at this stage is, IMO, bizarre.

[Guest Col city fan]

4 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

That's cool. I think the love for Vardy on here is a beautiful thing 

 

I've resigned myself to the fact that him and Maguire probably won't get too much game time at the WC but I won't let that stop my enjoyment of it 

You have gotten this quite wrong. You should go along with the FT faithful and ONLY enjoy games where Leicester players are involved.

Consider yourself told...

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

And I say once more, I don’t know why Southgate is not playing his best 11 now and giving them game time together. To still be ‘experimenting’ at this stage is, IMO, bizarre.

It feels to me like we should have had one more friendly planned before we start the WC.

 

He's had two games to experiment and played different sides so it makes sense to have a third and play your best 11 to me.

 

In saying that, I think he's probably known his starting 11 for quite a while...

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

You have gotten this quite wrong. You should go along with the FT faithful and ONLY enjoy games where Leicester players are involved.

Consider yourself told...

 

Right then, fvck it. I'm off to join the England Supporters Forum. See you all in August 

[Guest Col city fan]

1 minute ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

It feels to me like we should have had one more friendly planned before we start the WC.

 

He's had two games to experiment and played different sides so it makes sense to have a third and play your best 11 to me.

 

In saying that, I think he's probably known his starting 11 for quite a while...

I agree. Which makes it even more bewildering why he keeps on fielding different 11’s.

Pick the side, play them and let them know each other’s games and learn the tactics.

[trabuch]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

I agree. Which makes it even more bewildering why he keeps on fielding different 11’s.

Pick the side, play them and let them know each other’s games and learn the tactics.

We could have a hundred friendlies but Southgate still would be experimenting (as the FA would tell him to)

[AjcW]

Personally not really sure how anyone can defend Vardy tonight.

 

He did one thing of note in the second half when he hustled to set up Henderson’s pile drive. 

 

Absent for most of the first half whilst rashford shone above everyone. I’m sick of wathing him for England and being frustrated, no Alli to blame tonight, people tried to pass to him but he was stationary.

 

Sterling was annoying on Saturday with the missed chances but at least he put himself in a position to have chances.

 

Its Kane and Rashford starting for me, Rashford is world class in the making and we need to realise it! Shame mourinho hasn’t if you’re a united fan.

 

Also don’t really understand anyone criticising Southgate, this is the best we’ve played in years, we’re not going to concede many and there’s every chance we will shit house our way to a result. He’s also made England seem approachable and likeable for the first time in years as well! 

Edited 7 June 2018 by AjcW