Lakenheath Old Boys

We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

You Be the Gaffer!

England head into two very different qualifiers in the next five days. Tomorrow afternoon at 4pm EST they face tiny San Marino away. That's followed on Tuesday afternoon by perhaps the toughest hurdle of this qualifying campaign - at home to Montenegro, who've looked a bit tasty in qualifying so far. So - given the squad below, who would you pick for these matches?

Goalkeepers: Ben Foster, Joe Hart, Fraser Forster. 
Defenders: Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Michael Dawson, Stephen Caulker, Glen Johnson, Chris Smalling, Kyle Walker.
Midfielders: Michael Carrick, Tom Cleverley, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Aaron Lennon, James Milner, Leon Osman, Scott Parker, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott, Ashley Young.
Strikers: Jermain Defoe, Wayne Rooney, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck.

I'll go first - against San Marino, it's "release the hounds" mode with a 3-4-3 formation:

Hart, Walker, Cahill, Caulker, Baines (pushed up into midfield and given license to bomb on), Cleverboy, Gerrard, Theo, Roon, Welbeck, Sturridge.

Against Montenegro at Wemberley, it's a wee bit more cautious, with a traditional 4-4-2:

Hart, Walker, Cahill, Caulker, Baines, Carrick, Cleverboy, Gerrard, Theo, Roon, Welbeck.

Your thoughts, gentlemen?

3 Comments:

Blogger United We Stand said...

Tuesday's game is not at home. Both games are away this week. Very nervous about Tuesday. A WIN IS A MUST

7:06 AM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Thanks for your clarification, UWS, but where's your starting XI for today and Tuesday?

9:26 AM  
Blogger manunitedrules said...

The lineup vs San Marino :

Hart,Walker,Caulker, Dawson,Baines,Clever Boy,Ox, Osman, Theo, Roon,Wellie


The lineup vs Montenegro
Hart, Johnson,Cahill,Dawson, Baines,Clever Boy,Stevie G,Carrick,Parker,Theo, Roon

3:15 PM  

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