England v. Bulgaria Live!
Join me for all the Euro 2020 qualifying fun on the Deuce and here on the LOB!
posted by The Blue Devil @ 11:45 AM
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!
Saturday, September 07, 2019
Join me for all the Euro 2020 qualifying fun on the Deuce and here on the LOB!
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!
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143 Comments:
Morning(just) Bob
Let's hope for an easy England win!
Kosovo, Tuesday's opponents at St Mary's, beat the Czech Rep today to lead the group.
They are two points ahead of the Three Lions but England have two games in hand
The Starting Line Up
Pickford, Trippier, Keane, Maguire, Rose, Rice, Henderson, Barkley, Sterling, Rashford, Kane
Subs: Heaton, Pope, Alexander-Arnold, Chilwell, Gomez, Mings, Winks, Mount, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Maddison, Sancho, Wilson
Afternoon, chaps - this is England's first meeting with Bulgaria, who are 56 places below England in the FIFA rankings, for what it's worth, since Euro 2012 qualifiers when England beat them 3-0 courtesy of a Gary Cahill header and a Wayne Rooney brace. I'd take that again, ta very much.
Hiya, Dave! How are you, mate?
I'd like to have seen Mount or Maddison in for Hendo and especially Barkley
Surprised that Three First Names not in the starting XI
Link opened on my Apple TV...Lovely Jubbly... thanks mate
Teams in the tunnel.....out they come
Doing well Bob
One week done!
4th Test match on the 4th day
England only just avoided the Follow On
Australia 91-4 and lead by 287 runs
They will declare soon and England will have to survive the end of today and all of tomorrow to draw and keep the Ashes alive
They cannot get Smith of Australia out
He's scored 144, 142, 92....hit on the head and didn't finish the match, missed the next match and then 220!
He's 37 N/O right now
Away from Old Trafford and back to Wembley
COME ON ENGLAND
COME ON ENGLAND
COME ON ENGLAND
A must win
How things have changed
Before and during Russia 18, everyone wanted Sterling dropped...now he's "World Class"
Kosovo won earlier today, so they're on top of the group currently on 8 points. We'll go top again with a win.
England to get us underway.
Come on England score early AND often
We are off
My phone update buzzed for kick off before Plus did
Thanks for reading my group update earlier!
Early corner chance for England - Barkley to take...
Straight into the defender.
Wow...stunning... a player actually putting the ball in the arc
Woeful corner by Barkley.....professional!
The ball is standing still
Sorry, mate - Kate was nattering away in my ear about the dehumidifier while I was trying to get my head into the match and the blog. Honestly, it's like being married to Bob Villa sometimes!
I still am not sold on Sterling
He seems to make wrong decisions
Misses too many chances
Overrated because he is playing for Pep
To be fair, the Bulgarian wasn't 10 yards - should have been booked.
England haven't lost a qualifier in TEN years!?!?!
HAHAHA
Bulgaria parking the proverbial bus early on.
First chance.... to Bulgaria...that should have been buried
Bulgaria have a shot on goal! Pickers handles it easily.
I'm assuming that you don't consider Raheem to be world class, mate. Are there any England players who are? Kane?
Not a very good start from England
SO SLOW
Danny Rose had a chance to cross but his first touch was rubbish.
Rose gets the ball out wide... awful first touch and it ruined his chance to put in a decent cross
As for WC... not sure
Smith has another 50
Two Brazilians in the starting line-up for Bulgaria. No, not the likes of Neymar or Bobby Firmino. It's Marcelinho and Wanderson, who both play for Ludogorets.
Barkley's second delivery is better than the first - that could easily have been toe-poked in. Shame.
We're two weeks into the semester. 14 weeks to go in this one. It's my last as Chair and then I get to take a break. Can't wait!
What do you mean about taking a break?
Volley by Henderson....looked good...really really really WIDE
Oh - that would have been a spectacular effort from Hendo - got it all wrong.
Sterling went down in the box - nothing doing from the referee.
Not impressed by England so far
I could see Kane was offside!!
Why did Sterling pass it!!!!
Shame - Kane has it in the net but he's ruled offside. He just went a bit too early with his run.
I'd like to see Sancho on instead of Rashford. If Bulgaria are gong to drop so deep, we need players who can beat people. And Rash is in rotten form these days.
I agree wth you
England need to move the ball quicker and more forward
Too slow
Too sideways
Not sure what Rashford was thinking about there - shot from 30 yards.
YES!!
ONE NIL... WHAT A GIFT BY THE KEEPER!
Playing out from the back
MORONIC!!!
GOAL! Kane profits from a defensive error!
1-0!
Modern football, eh?
IT IS SO STUPID!
I just don't get it!
Why are people surprised? Every team tries to do it!!
England back on top
Again, they are saying about playing around at the back.....I just don't get it
I'm okay with playing out of the back when it's possible. But not as a hard and fast rule. Sometimes you have to welly it out of danger.
Everyone does it!
It is beginning to really annoy me. Nothing is wrong with a long goal kick
A lot of times, the ball is passed around for ten minutes, goes to the keeper... who kicks it long
I don't remember the last time I saw a keeper punt it from the hand
They used to try and take a short goal kick to get it back to the keeper so he could kick it
Keane in the book
Don't think it was a yellow
A chance for Bulgaria...again.. should have been buried
Oh - Marcelinho had a chance there. Headed straight into Pickers' hands.
Just because I know that you love this statistic, England have had 71% possession. ;-)
Aussies 124-4... Smith as over half their runs
No one in the Ashes has ever hit a Double Ton and single Ton in the same Test Match
GRRR
Useless touch by Sterling... makes my point exactly!!
Oh - Sterling should have buried that one!
Yellow card from Rogorov. His name sounds like the punchline of a joke.
Good passing but for the final ball
Nice move from England but the final ball didn't find a white shirt.
Interesting - the match on Tuesday is at St. Mary's.
Brother of Whodja?
Barkley is upended by Marcelinho, setting up a free kick chance from about 35 yards.
Indeed, mate - nice one!
Come on, England - let's have another before half time.
Bark gets the ball at the back of the box... took forever to decide what to do with it
Barkley wins another corner. I'd love to see this one go in.
Oh - Kane should have buried that one. Didn't get over it.
This has been boring from England
Watford have sacked their manager!
Big shout for a handball there. Ref not interested.
Marco Silva, is it?
On the replay, it looked more shoulder.
No, Javi Gracia
I pick Watford to go down every season...until this!
HT
One Nil England.... not impressed
Peep peep! That's half-time. England is the driver's seat. I still expect them to run out 3-0 or 4-0 here.
Man City women beat Man Utd women 1-0 in the first every Manc derby
I'll have to look at the PPP to see if anyone picked Gracia.
England players in the tunnel now about to come out.
Smith is out!!! As England is coming out
Trying a slog at 82....his lowest score all summer!
We are off for the second half
Please be better England
We're away again in the second half.
What's Up Wheaton Simon was the only one to get Javi Gracia.
Bulgaria should have scored two
I would think that Kane would have finished both of those chances... England haven't created much at all! They were gifted a goal
Another chance for Bulgaria....Pickford saves England!
PENALTY ENGLAND!
Penalty to England! Rashford with a great run and Rogorov, our comedy legend, takes him down as he turned.
Rashford or Pogba should take...alas it is Kane to take..... TWO NIL
Kane with the penalty chance now....
Goes right this time and scores!
2-0!
Kane's 24th for England. Who would bet against him beating the record at some point, if he stays fit and in form.
Barkley luckily gets free...his cross was to no one
Oh - Barkley wriggled his way into the area but then couldn't find a teammate with his ball.
Yes!!!!!!
Sterling taps in England's third goal!
THREE NIL!!
Was it Kane or Sterling?
Did Sterling steal Kane's hat-trick....not it was a pass
Great work from Rashford again before dishing off to Kane who squared it unselfishly to Sterling to score! Lovely jubbly!
SoGate should bring on Maddison, Mount and Sancho
That's nine goals for Raheem at international level.
Totally agree, mate. I'd love to see that trio get a run-out.
I've just noticed in looking up Raheem's stats that he was actually born in Kingston, Jamaica and then moved to London at age 5. He could have played for the Reggae Boyz!
doesn't look like the change will happen....there is only 30 minutes to go
Uncle Bulgaria about to make a change
Sterling is caught offside, otherwise that would have been a super chance.
Mount about to come on ?
Not sure the Bulgarians will bother to press forward now - the match is over. It's damage control for them now.
Surely it's time for the Bulgarians to stick on Nickabollockov.
Mount is coming on for Henderson
Henderson is yelling at the Ref for making him go off on the other side
Hendo comes off and Mason Mount comes on for his international debut.
Australia declare 186 for 6
England need 383 runs to win
What they really need to do is bat out the rest of the day and all day tomorrow
Where is the Manchester RAIN!!
Mount with his first England shot.... a Johnny Wilkinson effort
First effort from Mount - "gotta lotta air," as Lexi Lalas would have said.
England(cricket) have to hold on for a while tonight without losing a wicket
Sancho replaces Sterling
Jadon Sancho on now for Raheem. Nice move, Gareth!
Kane was about to take a shot... leg taken away... pen
Is it a penalty there for England? I can't tell from the commentators.
Yes, it is - Kane to take for his hat-trick.
3-0!
Kane...hat-trick!!
4-0, rather!
Not sure it was a pen
Kane's 25th for England.
Silly foul there while England were casually stroking it about the back. No need for that.
Decent effort saved by Pickford
Oh - Popov dinked it toward the corner and Pickers was forced to tip over.
What an atrocious dive there!
Despedov should have been booked for that dive.
Kane coming off...on comes the Ox
The Ox comes on for hat-trick hero Kane.
England lose their first wicket from the third ball!!
GEEZ
OMG... The captain is off for GOLDEN DUCK
ZERO runs for TWO TICKETS!
Not an auspicious start for England.
It's Four Nil England.... and I haven't been that impressed
One last change for Bulgaria now.
Rose with a chance... blocked
I have been. Up until recently, England teams were beating these sorts of teams 2-1 or 3-2. Now the Southgate team is really putting them to the sword. Total domination. The only reason that it hasn't been more is that Bulgaria set out to frustrate.
England are still 0 for 2 in the second over....the Ashes is gone... AGAIN!
Oh - lovely one-two there with Rashford and Barkely but Rash hit the keeper.
England almost get another... Rash with at one two...saved
ENGLAND SCORE A RUN!!
2 for 2
This could have been 6 or 7-0. I'm impressed. Bulgaria aren't exactly San Marino.
Into two minutes of stoppage time now.
That's it... England have won!!
I am off to the movies
TTFN
That's that, mate. 4-0. Quite pleased with that. We're back on top, with 9 points from three matches. Next up is Kosovo on Tuesday night, which should be more competitive.
Enjoy the cinema, mate!
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