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Hello!England "Reserves" beat Germany "Reserves" 2-1 on thursday morning, Singapore timeBoth of england centre backs provided the goods by scoring both goals for an understrength England team, while a stupid defensive blunder by john TERRY gave germany's Patrick HELMES a chance to replywas just thinking to myself abt a possible new england midfield?the line up for england wasGK: James (Carson 45)DEF: Glen JOHNSON, John TERRY, Matthew UPSON, Wayne BRIDGEMID: Stewart DOWNING, Michael CARRICK, Gareth BARRY, Shaun Wright Phillip (Peter CROUCH 90)
ATT: Jermaine DEFOE (Darren BENT 45), Gabriel AGBONLAHOR (Ashley YOUNG 77)as one can see, more than 75% of england's first team were out thru injuries..but i feel this could be a blessing in disguisefor many years, being an england supporter was rather irritatingthere was no success for any england manager to field both gerrard and lampard togetherthen came fabio capello, an italian coachand he had some success with the gerrard lampard combination, often fielding barry as a defensive midfielder to allow gerrard and lampard license to roambut in this recent match, i thought the Carrick-Barry partnership was superbCarrick, as always efficient, grabbed his chacnes and was my man-of-the matchand no, its not because he is manchester united star, but simply becasue his range of passing is superbhe may nt have the same powerful shot as gerrard or lampard, but i dare say his passing is much bettercontrolled sublime footballthats what england shd need in their midfield enginenot an overpowering one that threatens the midfield engine to overboiland barry, is becoming a phenomenensimply put it, the injury that ruled out gerrard, lampard, rooney, ferdinand, joe cole, walcott has proved only one thingno one has a guaranteed first team placeand with this showing, maybe, capello knows he has gt the answer to england midfield problems. drop gerrard, drop lampard.
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