mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
You'd assume Davies and Kenny will start on Sunday so also likely we've asked for them not to be involved after both playing from the start a few days ago
You'd assume Davies and Kenny will start on Sunday so also likely we've asked for them not to be involved after both playing from the start a few days ago
Decent the BBC are showing this. I quite like the talent in the Scotland U23 but shows just how strong England are that we're dominating with a reserve side.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Would've been good to see Hornby up against 2 1st team regulars
Dowell screamer.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Another tap in from Dowell
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
Great goal by Dowell with the last kick of the match.
..I only watched the 2nd half but he was much deeper than normal. Fine goal.
Thought Dowell looked sharp and involved , and he made his goal with good control before setting it up for his left foot.
..big difference for me is the physicality. I know I keep going on about it where Everton are concerned, but England just looked bigger, stronger and faster than the Scots.
Ring master
Player Valuation: £90m
yep,he did well tonight, and a very good finish
Cameron Manning
Player Valuation: £35m
Yes I wondered why he was playing so deep, still doesn't do enough for me but his goal makes you sit up and take notice.
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Also he was fouled for the first goal after a good interception.
I've said before, playing him deeper may be one way to get him more involved. It would have to be against teams that park the bus and he'd need somebody like Gana or McCarthy alongside him. But he's such a talent in possession it's worth a try in my book. We probably only have Siggy and possibly Bernard out of our whole squad capable of scoring a goal like that. Whereas he only scores goals like that.
Barca Blue
Player Valuation: £8m
Philw
Player Valuation: £50m
Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
I've just watched the whole game back focusing on Kieran's performance.
He had 83 touches during the game.
He attempted 66 passes with a 91% completion ratio. There was a high percentage of forward passes and a number of sweeping long range passes to the wing where he switched play effectively. But the most noticeable thing was how quickly he moved the ball on.
He made 9 crosses during the game (mostly from set pieces) and overall created 6 chances for his team mates.
He made 4 interceptions and 5 tackles during the game.
He only carried the ball 3 times which was disappointing. He lost the ball once and was fouled the other 2 times, one of which resulted in the first goal.
He also only had 1 shot on goal and we've all seen the result of that.
Without the ball I thought he worked very hard. He closed down space well when the opposition were in possession, and covered for both full backs when they went forward. He also worked hard making himself available to pass to when the ball went out to either full back giving them an outlet if they couldn't move the ball forward.
Overall, it was a very high quality but understated performance by Dowell's standards. I believe the stats prove that he was heavily involved in the game, but I thought he played far too deep for my liking. Whilst this was key to our keeping possession and moving it on quickly, he didn't get forward anywhere near enough for a player of his quality, and when he did we saw what happened.
Whilst I'd like to see us try him in a deeper role, I'd prefer to see him play alongside a proper DM with him given more licence to get forward in support of the forwards. Not as a number 10, but more box to box. It's probably too much of a risk to start him there in league games at the moment and, barring another injury crisis, I can't see Silva doing that. But I'd like to see him introduced from the bench when we're in control of games and see how he does. We have a very talented lad here and we need to at least try and integrate him into the team if possible.
He had 83 touches during the game.
He attempted 66 passes with a 91% completion ratio. There was a high percentage of forward passes and a number of sweeping long range passes to the wing where he switched play effectively. But the most noticeable thing was how quickly he moved the ball on.
He made 9 crosses during the game (mostly from set pieces) and overall created 6 chances for his team mates.
He made 4 interceptions and 5 tackles during the game.
He only carried the ball 3 times which was disappointing. He lost the ball once and was fouled the other 2 times, one of which resulted in the first goal.
He also only had 1 shot on goal and we've all seen the result of that.
Without the ball I thought he worked very hard. He closed down space well when the opposition were in possession, and covered for both full backs when they went forward. He also worked hard making himself available to pass to when the ball went out to either full back giving them an outlet if they couldn't move the ball forward.
Overall, it was a very high quality but understated performance by Dowell's standards. I believe the stats prove that he was heavily involved in the game, but I thought he played far too deep for my liking. Whilst this was key to our keeping possession and moving it on quickly, he didn't get forward anywhere near enough for a player of his quality, and when he did we saw what happened.
Whilst I'd like to see us try him in a deeper role, I'd prefer to see him play alongside a proper DM with him given more licence to get forward in support of the forwards. Not as a number 10, but more box to box. It's probably too much of a risk to start him there in league games at the moment and, barring another injury crisis, I can't see Silva doing that. But I'd like to see him introduced from the bench when we're in control of games and see how he does. We have a very talented lad here and we need to at least try and integrate him into the team if possible.
