Why England vs Belarus is Actually Quite Exciting

October 13th, 2009 | By: Daryl | 6 Comments »

Weirdly, I’m kind of excited for England vs Belarus. Neither team has anything to play for, but with Rooney and Gerrard out injured (or as The Fiver put it yesterday: “Wayne Rooney has pulled out of the game against Belarus at Wembley with a severe case of having his wages paid by Manchester United.”) we get a chance to see some of the squad players have a run out.

Capello has confirmed that his starting strikers will be… Peter Crouch and Gabby Agbonlahor. Smart money would also be on James Milner to start on the left in Gerrard’s place, and Aaron Lennon to get the 90 minutes that was denied him on Saturday when he was the substitute victim of Robert Green’s sending off.

So it will be a different looking England team. Maybe even a different formation. Here’s what the boss man had to say:

“I want to see Agbonlahor and the other players,” said Capello. “I will do a lot of ‘experiments’. We need a different plan, and a different style sometimes. We have played more or less the same style in all the games we’ve played. Sometimes, during the friendly games, we’ve changed it but we need to practise other styles. I want to see some players in this game playing in a different set-up. We will need to play other styles, to have a plan A, a plan B and a plan C. The games before the World Cup will be very important for me to learn about the players and the different styles we can use.”

Rio Ferdinand definitly will play, mostly because he looks like he needs some match practice. Outside of that, who knows? And that’s why this game is quite exciting. The England team has picked itself for more or less this whole qualifying campaign, but looks like Capello will have a few surprises for us tomorrow.



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Username By Daryl | October 14th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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England lineup: Foster, Johnson, Ferdinand, Terry, Bridge, Lennon, Lampard, Barry, Wright-Phillips, Crouch, Agbonlahor.

So a 4-4-2 with SWP on the left. Crouch has scored in the fourth minute (Barry played Agbonlahor down the left, Agonlahor squared it, Crouch poked home) so 1-0 already.

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Username By Daryl | October 14th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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SWP and another from Crouch. 3-0 now.

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Username By Jack | October 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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Finally, a clean sheet. Our first one of this campaign if I remember correctl

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Username By Jack | October 15th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
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(cont. after accidental submit)
y (not including Andorra)

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Username By Daryl | October 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
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Nearly Jack. We got two against Andorra, and one away to Kazakhstan. But this is the definitely the first one against half-decent opposition.

I’ve heard a few people worry about our lack of clean sheets, but when we’ve scored so many goals I’m not going to lose too much sleep over it. Especially as so many of those were consolation goals for heavily defeated opposition.

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Username By Daryl | October 15th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
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In fact, just checked the stats, and we actually went through the group without conceding more than one goal in any game.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/europe/teams/team=43942/fixturesresults.html

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