Ahahahaha - Complete & utter disrespect!

Nah. We only had 4 subs due to injury/suspension. We'd used 3 subs, then Cattermole got injured. Either Loewis played up front or we played with 10 men, I'm glad we went with the comical option.

Ahahaha - Okay I fully understand now.
That must have been a good watch!

Did he do anything worth mention?
And exactly how many minutes was this for?

Was for about the last 15/20 minutes. Don't really remember him doing anything at all though.

wow - thats quite a run he got there...
But I guess its understandable that he didn't do anything worth mention, after all he is a keeper.
Matter of fact, some strikers could go longer than that without you realizing they're even there.

Under 21 Championships kicks off tonight with England-Finland. Huge win needed as I'm sure GD will play a part in this group. Come on you Lions!

England 2-1 Finland
Spain 0-0 Germany

England were down to 10-men after half an hour after Mancienne - who was **** the whole time - gave away a penalty for literally dragging aplayer down to the floor. Poor performance, but good win considering the circumstances. A win against either Spain or Germany will ne enough to qualify, a draw against both won't be, I don't think.

Group A
Swweden 5-1 Belarus
Italy 0-0 Serbia

Group B
England 2-1 Finland
Spain 0-0 Germany

Tonights games
Germany-Finland
Spain-England

Spain 0-2 England
-Campbell
-Milner ()

Germany 2-0 Finland

After 2 games each

England 6 (+3)
Germany 4 (+2)
Spain 1 (-2)
Finland 0 (-4)

..and the future of English football looks bad..

Or just the Spanish are not good

They were the pre tournement favourites. So unless the likes of Bet365 and co enjoy throwing money away, I'd guess they're a decent side.

Maybe they do

I'm sorry I just like riling up any English fan, don't know if you've noticed this but I'm not their biggest fan

What? You aren't English footballs biggest fan? That's weird, in FourFourTwo this month it had an article on English footballs biggest fans, you were listed as #1, followed by dst and Tennie as #2 & #3.

That must have been a misprint... surely

Quality.

Sweden 1-2 Italy
Belarus 0-0 Serbia

So what do you say kurt? Our teams draw, we both make it to the semis and play for the cup afterwards?

I'd take that. I'd guess that Italy and Sweden progress from the other group and whoever finishes 2nd in our group will play Italy.. so you take care of the Italians for us, and we'll meet you in the final.

How good are the German Under-21s now? Are you expecting them to win the competitions or make the finals at least or what?

It's the best team since 1982 I guess. And that was also the last time we made it to the semis. We have many guys who are already starters for their Bundesliga clubs like Neuer, Khedira, Marin, Özil, Beck and others. Most of these guys have also played for our first team. I think they're really good, although our big problem is that we don't have a decent striker. If we'd have one we would have easily scored against Spain.
TBH I'd be happy with a draw against your team, our U21 usually screws up against yours.

Ah yes, I remember beating you over 2 legs recently, maybe in qualiying for the last U21 championships. Hopefully Theo does it for us again.

Germany 1-1 England. Castro opened, Rodwell equalised.

Good result for both really. England win the group, Germany also qualify. Spain out. Chances are Italy will face Germany, while England will play hosts Sweden, maybe Serbia.

We were incredibly lucky in the end. England would have deserved more than he draw. We need to play a lot better if we wanna win this. Anyway, first U21 Euro semifinal in 27 years. That's already a success.

FT Sweden 3-3 England.

Penalties against the hosts int he SF again.. great.

YESSSSSSSSSSSS!! ENGLAND WIN A SHOOT-OUT!

Shame Joe Hart and Agbonlahor were booked for absoloutely nothing and will miss the final.

The times they are-a changing. Whatever next? Inter winning the CL??

You didn't get it...the problems start when they're grown up and start to think about their PK shootout history.

I don't believe it, it has to be fixed!!

See you guys in the final. Germany v Italy 1-0. Classic

Last time, and only time, our U21s played a final, we won over 2 legs. Hopefully we only need 1 leg this time.. should be a great final.

Nice goal by Beck but the Italy goalie should have saved it. I hope it's going to be a good final!

PS I did not know Özil was there.

now try doing that at the senior level

I'd heard quite a bit about Acquafresca before the tournement, but the guy just doesn't have the mentality to be a striker. Did you see how many headers he pulled out of so he wouldn't get hurt? You can't be succesful with a striker like that.

True, Acquafresca maybe talented but he isn't brave enough to lead the line.

Well, Italy would have deserved a draw after 90 minutes. We were lucky on this one.


Meh...

Nah, when you conceed and don't score, you don't deserve to go through.

at Neuer's save from Balotelli's free-kick in the last minute.

Yap..that was "special" but it worked. Anyway...I think your team is slightly better than ours though we're lucky as it seems that Walcott might not make it.
I already bow inf ront of our caoch Horst Hrubesch. he might not be the best tactician, but he surely is a great youth coach.

We're in a bit of trouble if Theo is out. Especially when you consider our only other 2 strikers are suspended!

Joe Lewis in goal. Crainie, Onuoha, Richards and Gibbs accross the back. Milner, Noble, Muamba, Cattermole and Johnson in midfield. Theo up front on his own. Rodwell may come in for Cattermole.. but if Theo is injured I have no idea what we'll do! Maybe put Rodwell on the right and have Milner up front on his own?

You have your main striker suspended to don't you?

Well...we haven't even palyed with a classic CF so far. Dejagah is normally more like an AM, but he's done a good job. Wagner, who'll most likely play for him is a symbol for mediocrity. The line-up should be somethign like this:

--------------------------------Neuer-----------------------------

-----Beck------Boateng-----------Höwedes---Boenisch-------

------------------------------Hummels---------------------------

----Castro------------Khedira-----------Johnson------Özil-----

------------------------------Wagner-----------------------------


The best part of our team is without a doubt the defense, especially our CB. Maybe Marin will start and Özil moves upfront for Wagner...

England vs Germany...

My my, is it possible for both teams to lose?

Well I'm off, will be my last post before the game so Come on you Lions, Rule Britannia, God Save the Queen, Footballs Coming Home and all the rest of it! COME ON ENGLAND!

The Queen is also playing?
Simply do it again Horst!

For a moment I acually thought that was Ray Parlour.

2-0 Germany. Including a howler from Roache (Why's he playing instead of Joe Lewis?

Classic England.

How is this classic England, these guys won a penalty kick shoot out and the seniors have never lost to Germany in a final before!! This is a whole new chapter!!!

I was more on about the GK error!

Milner has been amazing though. Had a red card type 'tackle' on him and just got up without complaining, true professional.

Wagner misses an open goal to all but win the thing for Germany.

Can't argue with that, this really is classic England stuff.

3-0..

When Wagner scores past you, it's bad..

Unfortunately it looks like our next generation have got faultering in the big games into their system nice and early. Great.

4..

Wagner again.

Stuart Pearce is a great coach, but picking Loache over Lewis in goal was an awful decision.

FT. Well done to the Germans, they deserved it. Just a shame we had so many suspensions for the final, what a joke.

Wow, that was some nice football by our team. Özil was by far the games best best player. And I bow in front of Hrubesch: First the U19 title, now the U21.
And that "assistance" by Englands Gk was unexpected.