England v Germany U21 European Championship Semi Final SS1 `17.00 K.O

[Simster]

Terry Butcher's comments on the BBC feed are magnificent:
"The shape of England's team now looks ragged while Germany look very, very dangerous. Aidy Boothroyd is saying to Jordan Pickford to calm it down. England need to re-group and string six or seven passes together. They don't want to go 2-0 down otherwise it will be game over."

a few seconds later:

"GOAL ENGLAND"


and then:


"Good start by Germany. They have got a vice-like grip on this game right now. It shows how much Germany are on top when Yannick Gerhardt, the left-back, is able to get forward so much."


seconds later:

"GOAL England"


Lovely stuff.

 

[stss30]

Hughes does well when up against kids but in first team games doesn't seem to have the strength required. Only a bit part player for Derby, will be interested to see how he gets on at Watford.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Terry Butcher's comments on the BBC feed are magnificent:
"The shape of England's team now looks ragged while Germany look very, very dangerous. Aidy Boothroyd is saying to Jordan Pickford to calm it down. England need to re-group and string six or seven passes together. They don't want to go 2-0 down otherwise it will be game over."

a few seconds later:

"GOAL ENGLAND"


and then:


"Good start by Germany. They have got a vice-like grip on this game right now. It shows how much Germany are on top when Yannick Gerhardt, the left-back, is able to get forward so much."


seconds later:

"GOAL England"


Lovely stuff.

Keep it up Terry, we need a third goal, to be sure.

 

[Hiney]

Great movement in the box from Abraham for the second goal

 

[Dave the OAP]

Isn't it great that these are the sort of players we could and should be looking at to bring in this season.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Worrying this is The German u21 reserves!

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

It's a little bit disappointing that our sole tactic after going 2-1 up appears to be park the bus and on the rare occasion we get the ball lump it forward.

Hughes looks very good when he has the ball in their half, not so good when the ball is in ours.

Edit: In a reverse Terry Butcher move, seconds after making this post germany equalise.

Lets see if we'll be more adventurous now...

 

[doogie004]

2-2


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[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Worrying this is The German u21 reserves!

To be fair, our u21 team should/could be Pickford, Holgate, Stones, Holding, Shaw, Sterling, Dier, Ward-Prowse, Dele, Redmond, Rashford. Not a shabby lineup.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

To be fair, our u21 team should/could be Pickford, Holgate, Stones, Holding, Shaw, Sterling, Dier, Ward-Prowse, Dele, Redmond, Rashford. Not a shabby lineup.

True - but the u21s in the German squad are there for practise rather than having to be!


They are on another level

 

[Captain Sensible]

England suddenly standing off and allowing Germans space. It's only a matter of time if that continues.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I've just seen who the England manager is

Lol.

 

[doogie004]

Germany 3rd disallowed offside tight


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[Dave the OAP]

That was never offside!

Btw. Palace scum flag behind the dugout

 

[doogie004]

6/1 on sky bet for England to win it in 90 mins


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[doogie004]

Extra time comming up


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[hart's shirt]

No penalties please.

We've been here before with Germany...

 

[McTavish]

Terry Butcher's "banter" is truly woeful - he keeps on making comments which are presumably meant to be funny but just aren't.

For example, the commentator told a story of a friend who went out for a pint of milk during the 13-12 U21 penalty shoot-out vs Holland intending to listen in his car but the shoot-out took so long that he had to sit in his car for 45 mins and his wife wondered where he was. Terry's comment: "Did he come back with cream?" What??!

 

[Wilko]

Germany have had 68% possession and 32 shots! Blimey.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

No penalties please.

We've been here before with Germany...

At the moment we'll be lucky to get to penalties ...