England vs. Germany U-21s Live!
As usual FSC is treating us to the likes of Serbia vs. Belgium tomorrow, but they have seen fit to broadcast the England U-21s match against Germany today at 3 p.m. live. This will give us a chance to see the likes of Nigel Rio-Coker and Theo Walcott, who may well break into the squad in the next few years. Tune in with me to see how Peter Taylor's boys do today against the Old Enemy.
posted by gatorbob @ 3:04 PM
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Here are the sides lining up today at the Ricoh Stadium in Coventry:
England:
1 Scott Carson, 2 Micah Richards, 3 Leighton Baines, 4 Steven Taylor, 5 Anton Ferdinand, 6 Tom Huddlestone, 7 Nigel Reo-Coker (c), 8 James Milner, 9 Theo Walcott, 10 David Nugent, 11 Wayne Routledge
Subs: 12 Justin Hoyte, 13 Lee Camp, 14 Matthew Kilgallon, 15 Ben Watson, 16 Peter Whittingham, 17 Ashley Young, 18 Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Germany:
1 Michael Rensing, 2 Dominik Reinhardt, 3 Patrick Ochs, 4 Markus Brzenska, 5 Marvin Matip, 6 Gonzalo Castro, 7 Kevin-Prince Boateng, 8 Eugen Polanski, 9 Stefan Kiessling, 10 Aaron Hunt, 11 Mario Gomez
Subs: 12 Phillipp Tschauner, 13 Pascal Bieler, 14 Sascha Dum, 15 Sebastien Freis, 16 Roberto Hilbert, 17 Marc Andre Kruska, 18 Andreas Otl
Bags of attacking options for England today, with Wayne Routledge, David Nugent and Theo up front and Jamie Milner providing the width. Tasty.
Bloody hell, this stadium looks posh. If I didn't know that Wembley had been demolished, I'd think they were playing at Wembley today. A bit high and mighty for a Coke team. What happened to Highfield Road?
I know nothing about this German side - they must all be young journeymen in the Bundesliga.
I'd like to see a better outing from Scottie Carson today; he's looked a bit iffy the last few times I've seen him - I like to see my Leeds academy lads doing well.
I not going to be here long, I have to run practice for Jonathan. What I have seen, England have been passing it well. Some good attacking movement.
I am impressed.
oooh, they should have kept on side there.
Half-time: Impressive yes, but they need to get the ball in the net in this first leg in order to take some goals back to Germany with them. 0-0 so far and David Nugent really needs to learn how to stay on side. They've had the ball in the net twice, both times called off for offside.
Hoping for some goals in the second half.
The real star so far has been the German keeper Rensing, the understudy to Ollie Kahn at Bayern. He's made several good saves from Nugent, Walcott and Anton Ferdinand.
1-0 England! And after all of those intricate moves in the first half, England has taken the lead through a long range effort from Leighton Baines in the 76th minute. Still a slim margin to take forward to the second leg. They'll need another to feel comfortable.
Ooh, Germany nearly responding immediately there. A neat through-ball and Keisling just couldn't stay on his feet. A let off.
Full-time: 1-0; A good win for England but they may rue those offsides in the first half if the Germans do them over in the second leg.
Now on to the big one tomorrow at noon with Macedonia. Come on England!
What's good here is that I didn't realize that that Agbonlahor guy was English. I've been impressed with his play in the Prem.
Yeah, there are several of these first generation English kids with great names that you assume are French/African like Ameobi that can play for the Three Lions. I rate Agbonlahor too. Great player.
Ameobi's English? Now that's interesting. Has he ever been picked in a squad or is he youngish?
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