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Re: Flop team

Postby Massa » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:16 pm

I think English players can hold their heads up high in regards to flops :thumbsup:
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Re: Flop team

Postby Yorkyblue » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:45 pm

Massa wrote:I think English players can hold their heads up high in regards to flops :thumbsup:


Team of the tournament are our boys. Most expected us not to qualify, never mind missing out on a semi on pens. Well proud of the boys.
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Re: Flop team

Postby Maxduke » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:50 pm

I think you'd have to be nuts not to expect England to qualify from the group stage.

Only thing that surprised me was that we came 1st in the group, I mean we had Ukraine who are crap, Sweden are average and France who've been poor in recent tournaments. People played down our chances massively prior to the tournament and made it seem like we had a real tough group when in reality besides Group A it was the easiest.

So yeah, they haven't done anything I didn't expect them to do and when we got to the knockout stage we failed once again, same old England.

Young and Benzema can have a fight for flop of the tournament.

I think only Hart, Johnson, Terry, Lescott, Cole and Welbeck played alright, the rest were poor to average.
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Re: Flop team

Postby CynicalGooner » Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:54 pm

Gerrard was the only England player to give a good account of himself. Cole and Hart were ok. Welbeck was good before Rooney came back, then looked shit afterwards. Terry and Lescott were pretty poor overall with the odd heroic challenge thrown in here and there.

I don't really understand people saying we defended well, cos we didn't. Anyone can park 8 players in front of their goal and not concede, there's no great defensive skill to that. We still gave away loads of chances in 3 of the games and played the worst offside trap I have ever seen
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Re: Flop team

Postby pawiel » Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:05 pm

Maxduke wrote:
Young and Benzema can have a fight for flop of the tournament.



both of them deserve to be in flop team
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Re: Flop team

Postby Arsenal~Fanatic » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:49 am

Rooney and Young take the cake for me.
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Flop team

Postby Arsenal Tone » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:15 pm

Rvp and benzema up front
Raya/Ramsdale
White/Tomiyasu--Saliba/Timber--Gabriel/Kiwior--???/Zinchenko
???/Jorginho
Odegaard/Smith Rowe----Rice/???
Saka/Jesus-------------------Martinelli/Trossard
???/Havertz
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Re: Flop team

Postby Massa » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:26 pm

thats actually a pretty sweet front two :lol:
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Re: Flop team

Postby mg86 » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:41 pm

Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:I might be flamed for it but Szczesny was the worst goalie in the Euros by far [only based on euros]. Cech might have been dismal but at-least he managed to stay on the pitch and do his job.

I thought Szczesny missed only the next game and then because the keeper saved that shot he stayed on for them.
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Re: Flop team

Postby Arsenal~Fanatic » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:47 pm

mg86 wrote:
Arsenal~Fanatic wrote:I might be flamed for it but Szczesny was the worst goalie in the Euros by far [only based on euros]. Cech might have been dismal but at-least he managed to stay on the pitch and do his job.

I thought Szczesny missed only the next game and then because the keeper saved that shot he stayed on for them.


Where did i say he missed the entire euros due to his ban? all i implied was that his foolish red card and penalty killed their campaign even before it started. isn't it funny that Polish second choice who was a literal nobody before the Euros was preferred to Szczesny on merit after he had served red his ban ? Just shows how much over-rated he he is by Arsenal fans.
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Re: Flop team

Postby Yorkyblue » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:49 pm

I think he gave their campaign a chance.

I think they would of been 2-1 down had he not got sent off. Getting sent off kept it at 1-1.
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Re: Flop team

Postby Arsenal~Fanatic » Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:53 pm

Yorkyblue wrote:I think he gave their campaign a chance.

I think they would of been 2-1 down had he not got sent off. Getting sent off kept it at 1-1.


LOL you mean he knew that his deputy would save the spot kick before hand ?

you mean he was confident his team would not concede with a man less ?

You mean getting a game ban in the first game itself did not throw polish plans off guard?
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Re: Flop team

Postby Yorkyblue » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:09 pm

Nope. I mean that I think it turned out they were in a better position for it, as I said.
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Re: Flop team

Postby Arsenal~Fanatic » Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:33 pm

--------- --Benzema----------------

Young-----Rooney-----Robben

---Van Bommel---Meireles------------

Maggio--Heitinga--Mexes--Van-Der-Wiel-

-----------Szczesny----------------------
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Flop team

Postby Arsenal Tone » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:20 pm

^ rvp has to be there!
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