Your england Football team first choice 11 ?

[co55ie]

After the recent England / Lampard bashing threads etc if all players were available injury free what would your starting 11 look like ?

Mine would be as follows


David James


Neville Terry Carragher A Cole

Hargeaves

Lennon Gerrard J Cole


Crouch Owen

I am not 100% sure about wether to go for Ferdinand over Terry both make mistakes and dont read the game aswell as Carragher in my opinion. I would also make Gerrard captain as he is the one player that can turn a match around and he would also thrive given the resposibilty as he does for Liverpool.

[LFC_SL]

For Estonia I would play
Carragher, King, Terry, Bridge
Carrick
Beckham, Gerrard, J.Cole
Crouch, Owen

Shame about the injuries. I do not believe Gerrard requires the captaincy - at least he is still making an effort, *cough*

[Sicknote10]

Green

Neville Terry King Cole

Lennon Gerrard Carrick Cole

Rooney Owen

[LFC_SL]

Obviously Estonia are so poor I thought I would even things up by having an open goal

lol, England probably need that sort of help tbh

[Abbeygoo]

Not sure whether you mean for the game on Wednesday or in a hypothetical sense ..... my best XI at the moment would be

James

Richards Carragher Terry A Cole

Lennon Hargreaves Gerrard J Cole

Rooney Owen

[co55ie]

Its interesting to see people going for the owen Rooney combo, personally If I were using a nippy winger like lennon I would definitley have crouch in there trying to get onto the end of the crosses , even if he doesnt he causes the opposing defence to panic.

[Ultima]

Originally Posted by Abbeygoo

Not sure whether you mean for the game on Wednesday or in a hypothetical sense ..... my best XI at the moment would be

James

Richards Carragher Terry A Cole

Lennon Hargreaves Gerrard J Cole

Rooney Owen

Same as but I'd have Crouch instead of Rooney and Bridge instead of A Cole.

[dannius]

Robinson

G Neville Carragher Terry Bridge

Carrick

Beckham Gerrard Lennon

Rooney

Owen

I think a holding midfielder is a requirement these days, especially to allow Gerrard to bomb forward through the middle. Carrick is the natural choice for that imo.

I'm a fan of Joe Cole, and I realise that neither him nor Lennon are natural left wingers but I think that Lennon's pace could be of great benefit on the left wing. He's shown for Spurs he can play on the left.

I'd keep Beckham in at right wing for his passing and dead ball abilities.

[KevD]

With no injuries or suspensions, I think the best team we can field is :

Robinson
Neville
Ferdinand
Terry
A. Cole
Beckham
Gerrard
Hargreaves
J. Cole
Rooney
Owen

For the Estonia game Carrick, Crouch, Bridge & Neville in for Lampard, Rooney, Cole & Neville.


Second XI (for fun!):

Foster
Richards
Carragher
King
Bridge
Lennon
Carrick
Lampard
Downing
Defoe
Ashton

(Which would be a pretty good 1st XI!!)

[dannius]

Originally Posted by KevD

Second XI (for fun!):

Foster
Richards
Carragher
King
Bridge
Lennon
Carrick
Lampard
Downing
Defoe
Ashton

That's the thing about England isn't it, we've even got a good second string of players but we still can't win anything!

[danaldinho7]

David James


Neville Terry Ferdinand A Cole


Beckham Hargeaves Gerrard J Cole

Rooney .
Ashton

no injuries this would be the best team imo with this being the bench:

Robinson
Lampard
Carrick
Owen
Carrager
Bridge
Richardson

[thfccambs]

Robinson

Richards
King
Terry
A. Cole

Beckham
Gerrard
Hargreaves
Taylor

Rooney
Owen



Would like us to play 3 at the back more often.

Robinson

King
Terry
Carrager


Beckham
Gerrard
Hargreaves
Cole
A.Cole

Owen
Rooney

Originally Posted by KevD

With no injuries or suspensions, I think the best team we can field is :

Robinson
Neville
Ferdinand
Terry
A. Cole
Beckham
Gerrard
Hargreaves
J. Cole
Rooney
Owen

For the Estonia game Carrick, Crouch, Bridge & Neville in for Lampard, Rooney, Cole & Neville.


Second XI (for fun!):

Foster
Richards
Carragher
King
Bridge
Lennon
Carrick
Lampard
Downing
Defoe
Ashton

(Which would be a pretty good 1st XI!!)

If Mclaren could just stop J Cole embarassing himself with his stupidly slow stepovers, not to mention he nearly trips himself up in the process, those 2 teams will do for me.

[LFC_SL]

Like Lampard, J.Cole is a different player for Maureen

[johnscarlet]

For me

Robinson

Neville
Terry
Rio
Cashley

Beckham
Hargreaves
Gerrard
Cole

Rooney
Owen

Wouldn't start with Crouch . England would resort to to longball to early . Excellent as a sub to induce panic however. I'd like to see Lennon instead of DB , but he has had a bit of an off season . Again excellent as a sub , like in Germany . You could play Lamps instead of SG, put I go for the scouser because of his ability to grab a game by the scruff of its neck . Not sure Lampard can do that
After the Euros replace DB with Lennon , Nev with Richards , but I'd like to see MR move to see how he would fare in Europe .