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"Who will Sven play against Australia?"

I hope, we will see something like this:


Paul Robinson

G Neville R Ferdinand W Brown A Cole

Beckham Scholes Lampard errr dunno

Beattie Defoe/Vassell


Not conventional, and I really have no clue for left midfield. What we're likely to see though, is this:

Seaman

Neville Ferdinand Campbell Cole

Beckham Scholes Butt Le Saux

Owen Heskey

Which is gay. Nothing against Butt, but Lampard is the man in form, and Butt is still easing his way back from injury.

Owen and Heskey are crap, Campbell is over-rated and I hate Le Saux.

Opinions?

I would like to see:

GK Paul Robinson

LB Ashley Cole
CB Rio Ferdinand
CB Sol Campbell
RB Danny Mills

RM David Beckham
CM Steven Gerrard
CM Danny Murphy
LM Trevor Sinclair

CF James Beattie
CF Emile Heskey

SUBS:

David James
Frank Lampard
Kieron Dyer
Owen Hargreaves
Gareth Southgate
Ugo Eghiogu
Robbie Fowler
Michael Owen
Paul Scholes
Teddy Sheringham
Gary Neville
Joe Cole

I'm pretty sure that Steven Gerrard wil not be playing as either MotD or SKY Sports metioned that it was agreed he would be left out of this match.
Would like to see Seaman dropped for this game to try out new blood but he'll probably get some time on the pitch one way or another.

My choice line up

P Robinson
G Neville R Ferdinand W Brown A Cole (prefer Bridge but he's injured)
D Beckham P Scholes F Lampard D Murphy
J Beattie A Smith

Owen is just not on song at the moment and England have been lacking when no one has chased opposition defenders and ending up putting uneeded pressure on at the back like Liverpool.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Owen and Heskey are crap, Campbell is over-rated and I hate Le Saux.

Eh, Yep...Yep, Yep and Yep

How about

(Holt)

(G Neville) (Campbell) (Ferdinand) (Ashley Cole)

(Beckham) (Scholes) (Lampard) (Heskey)

(Owen) (Beattie)

Then again... Owen will definitley start!
Alongside Beattie, with Defoe and Vassel on the bench.

Owen always seems to start for England, no matter how badly he's doing for England. He'll probably be made Captain again, too, you know!

It's wrong. Very-wrong!

Eriksson's already said that we can expect to see some new-faces, when the squad is announced tommorow. Here's what I think the starting XI may look like:

GK: Paul Robinson
DF's: Ashley Cole; Rio Ferdinand; Sol Campbell; Gary Neville
MF's: Trevor Sinclair?; Paul Scholes; Steven Gerrard; David Beckham
ST's: James Beattie and... Alan Smith

I also reckon we'll see Bridge, Oakley, Vassell, Defoe, Joe Cole, Scott Parker, and some others on the bench.

Kirkland would've been in there, if he was fit, I'm sure!
But I think he'll see more sense that to put Wayne Rooney in at such a young age.


Graeme Le Saux? Apparently, Eriksson doesn't like him.
He's a decent player, and one of the most-experienced versitle left-sided players England still have available. But like the player himself has said, I don't think Eiksson likes him for some reason...?

Also I know im not the first to say it but Beattie deserves a shot, hes score alot of goals this season with the service provided at Southampton so who knows what he could do with Beckham, Scholes, Murphy and Gerrard feeding him.

I think Jenas and Murphy should be given a go. I wish Kirkland was fit and Owen Usually performs on the big stage.

eh? Veron's playing terrific this season

Or†ega wrote:
> Fergie let 5 man utd players go off on England duty in the middle of a
> hectic premiership season?! i think not!

Fergie shouldn't even have any say in the matter. It's not like he can stop any Scotland players playing. Being a Scotsman, you would've thought he would've signed some Scottish players but there isn't a single one worthy of playing for a top Premiership side.

Doubt he'll stop carthorse (Veron) playing for Argentina. He's not gonna miss him if he gets injured is he?

My choice would be:

GK David James

LB Ashley Cole
CB Rio Ferdinand
CB Sol Campbell
RB Danny Mills

RM David Beckham
CM Steven Gerrard
CM Danny Murphy
LM Trevor Sinclair

CF James Beattie
CF Michael Owen

SUBS:

Paul Robinson
Frank Lampard
Kieron Dyer
Owen Hargreaves
Gareth Southgate
Ugo Eghiogu(sp)
Robbie Fowler
Emile Heskey
Paul Scholes
Teddy Sheringham
Gary Neville
Joe Cole

I have absolutely no idea how many subs they are allowed but there you go. I think the starting 11 is possibly the strongest they could put out at the moment.