World Cup Qualifiers | October 2017 | Play off draw on Tuesday

5 defenders and Jordan fecking Henderson. feck off Southgate.
 
Why is he starting Rashford ? Surely he could give him a break? Maybe use him as sub?
 


Butland

Keane Maguire Stones
Trippier Henderson Winks Cresswell
Dele Rashford
Kane​
 
Why is he starting Rashford ? Surely he could give him a break? Maybe use him as sub?
Guess he wants to see how England do with the Spurs formation and as there's no Lallana, Rashford is the next best thing.
 
Guess he wants to see how England do with the Spurs formation and as there's no Lallana, Rashford is the next best thing.
I guess... would prefer him to have a break though....
 
To be fair, Southgate's playing other players crucial to the big six clubs. It's not like he's singling out Rashford.
 
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To be fair, Southgate's playing other crucial players to the big six clubs. It's not like he's singling out Rashford.
Imagine if Kane got injured. Our meltdown over Fellaini would pale into insignificance. It would be like the end of the world according to the press.
 
Good luck for you, thank God I will not be able to watch the match, so when I will arrive at home we probably will be waiting for our next opponent on the playoff, sick and tired of Santos, the man is depressive.

We needed Cristiano to beat Andorra, Santos is probably wanting to break the World Record of who can make more crosses vs David Moyes, football from the 90's allright. :lol:
I understand what you are saying, I will be watching purely as a neutral, hoping for a great game with both teams going for it. Switzerland are a decent side, wouldn't be surprised if it was a draw...although I would rather see Portugal win.
Just about to watch the Scotland game just now, waiting to see if they revert to type by getting themselves into a good position then managing to screw things up e.g. conceding an own goal or penalty in the 94th minute to level the game or some such.
Northern Ireland game later on, the permutations for the play off places seem to vary depending where you read them, I read that even if Northern Ireland lose 1-0 they still make the play offs. They should have enough to get a result against Norway who have nothing but pride to play for.
 
Apparently Ireland secure a play off spot if Scotland fail to beat Slovenia today.

What happens to Wales then? I am a bit confused.

Northern Ireland secure a play-off place if Scotland fail to win, not Ireland.
 
Bit harsh not to give Lingard a start considering he played quite well when he came on the other night.

Could have come in for Rashford
 


Butland

Keane Maguire Stones
Trippier Henderson Winks Cresswell
Dele Rashford
Kane​


Change the four in between to:
Walker Dier Wilshere/RLC/Winks Rose

and it looks pretty exciting. Rashford will get a brace.
 
Northern Ireland secure a play-off place if Scotland fail to win, not Ireland.
Yep. It also means that Wales or Ireland will make it if they win the game tomorrow. That was the group which looked like being the one where second might not make it but Scotland's result the other night has given hope if they cock it up tonight (they've cocked it up before recently to help Ireland).
 
Younger and hopefully hungrier England side tonight.
 
Scotland playing in pink tonight. Thats good news as we usually play well in pink.

Mon Scotland
 
2:0, Grosicki scores. Beautiful attack and assist for Lewy.
 
Don't understand how every game England's involved in ( the France friendly aside ) feels like Dark Hole. The atmostphere is shite, the football is boring. God damn man.
 
Don't understand how every game England's involved in ( the France friendly aside ) feels like Dark Hole. The atmostphere is shite, the football is boring. God damn man.
Its quite easy to understand. England are quite simply not very good and they play really dull stuff.

The sooner that the English realise this and embrace the mediocrity of their game, the better. Scotland have been terrible for as long as I can remember, but hey ho, we might qualify, but the journey has been fun.

Join the dark side England, acceptance of your actual ability is the only way to make international breaks bearable.
 
 
Scotland now have an hour or so to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory.....