POSITIVES from last night

[Common as Mook]

1. John Terry was immaculate and looks back to his best.
2. Glen Johnson was fantastic. Finally we have two world class ATTACKING full backs.
3. The captaincy seems to be bringing the best out of Gerrard
4. Heskey' hold up play
5. Lennon getting to the byeline on a number of occasions.


Plenty to be positive about and if it wasn't for poppadom hands Green, that was a comfortable 1-0 win. No dramas needed just yet.

 

[Trigger]

Heskey was by far the biggest positive of last night.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I was worried about Jonson before the World cup but if he plays like that he will be brilliant.

Lennon was good last night, wish he shot in first half though.

 

[webbyson]

we did not lose

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

We'll gloss over the Heskey one on one then...

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Adrian Chiles

 

[Meade's Ball]

You just have to compare last night to the performances giving against Mexico, who totally outplayed us, and Japan, who deflected crosses in to even things up. We were lively and endeavourous, never perfect or the surest of footed, but for harder-working than we'd been. And that's what Capitan Pello demands.
Gerrard looked to take charge, and no player has done that for a while. Lampard was his normal dithering self. Lennon scurrying. SWP letting himself down with the ball, but still racing around. Rooney will come good. We all know how annoyingly good he is. Heskey was vibrant and elephantine. Cole was tenacious and difficult to pass. Terry was solid enough. Carragher came on and looked a little out of his league, but should still be ok enough. Johnson was nippy and attack-minded. And Green was Green and doesn't believe in clean sheets.
We were ok. Better than i thought. Even if not as good as the press promised we would be in their salesmen ways.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Lennon is sooooo frustrating though. Time and time again he ghosted past his man but couldn't find the final ball ever. We were the better team though and should have won.

The real things that need fixing are central defence and central midfield. Lampard and Gerrard cannot play together in the middle. In fact I don't think Lampard is suited to being part of a 4 man midfield personally - he doesn't work hard enough. We either play 5 in midfield or drop Lampard

 

[SI 4 BHA]

1. John Terry was immaculate and looks back to his best.
2. Glen Johnson was fantastic. Finally we have two world class ATTACKING full backs.
3. The captaincy seems to be bringing the best out of Gerrard
4. Heskey' hold up play
5. Lennon getting to the byeline on a number of occasions.


1. Yes, Terry did look a lot better.
2. Glen Johnson is a good attacking full back, but lets wait until we play a team that wants to attack. USA played for a draw, they were solid and well organised, but no attacking stars.
3. Gerrard was ok, in a very average team.
4 Heskey's hold up play was fine, but he had 2 of our best chances and fluffed them both. Also, all this talk about how he helps Rooney play better is nonsense based on last night. Don't think Hesley and Rooney worked well at all and Rooney had one of his least effective games for England.
5. Lennon and SWP are a waste of space. There is no way we can play 2 wingers and 2 attacking full backs against any of the teams likely to get into the last 8, we will get murdered.

We looked like an Ericson side, pretty clueless, has Capello leaned nothing, I though he was better than that.

 

[jimmypbha]

Adrian Chiles

The Lampard - Gerrad partnership finally working properly.

 

[Sheebo]

Nice to see people took the positives. Our hardest game has gone. Let's chill.

 

[Acker79]

We'll gloss over the Heskey one on one then...

It was a thread about the positives. I presume that's why so many other negatives (lennon's crosses, SWP, Rooney) were not mentioned ("glossed over")

 

[Billy the Fish]

I was so pissed I can't remember any of the game. I had quite a nice chicken balls and singapore noodles on the way home

 

[Chesney Christ]

The biggest positive for me was that Rooney was rubbish yet we still played pretty well. An on-form Rooney makes us a totally different proposition, and I have no doubt he will play better than that in all our remaining games of the World Cup.

 

[Stumpy Tim]

The Lampard - Gerrad partnership finally working properly.

Really? Not what I saw

 

[Sheebo]

The biggest positive for me was that Rooney was rubbish yet we still played pretty well. An on-form Rooney makes us a totally different proposition, and I have no doubt he will play better than that in all our remaining games of the World Cup.

Was absoltutely smashed so don't remember much but watched the highlights and we did play fairly well... Obviously you know there are so many twats on here waiting to put us down - it's nice to see some peeps on this thread talking sense

 

[Sheebo]

Really? Not what I saw

You didn't notice that Lamps and Gerrard played well?

 

[sydney]

I was so pissed I can't remember any of the game. I had quite a nice chicken balls and singapore noodles on the way home

if you can't remember the game ,how the f*** did you manage to walk and eat noodles at the same time and how can you remember the chicken balls ,did you find one in your top pocket 'asmornin'....

 

[luke17]

The fact i was too drunk to actually remember anything about the game apart from the 2goals was my only positive.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

It was a thread about the positives. I presume that's why so many other negatives (lennon's crosses, SWP, Rooney) were not mentioned ("glossed over")

Just giving a counter-argument to Heskey played well. The assist aside, I've seen him play much better then that.