England 3
Owen 7, 31
Ferdinand 84
Russia 0
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 86,106
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Assistant Referees: Stefan Wittberg and Henrik Andren (SWE)
Fourth Official: Martin Ingvarsson (SWE)
Well the 3 Lions roared tonight I think. Russia are no mugs - not as good as they once were since the break up of the USSR - but certainly no mugs. Even so, the first Russian team to visit since the break up of the Soveit Union, were crushed under the wheels of the England bandwagon, that has finally started rolling downhill, rather than having to be dragged up the proverbial mountain.
McClaren has shaken the hounds off for now. Long may it continue. If the boo boys and media hounds don't sink their teth into McClaren anytime soon, that will mean England are winning football matches, which is all good.
I thought Michael Owen played well aside from his 2 goals, very nice to see as an England fan. Owen's first goal came early, in the 7th minute, supplied by a cross from Gareth Barry. Nicely controlled, well finished off the inside of the post, clinical. His second was another clinical finish from just inside the box, over the goalie, just under the crossbar, fed by an Emile Heskey headed flick on. Heskey took out the Russian back 3 with one header, leaving Owen in space in the danger area, to do as he liked.
Even centre back Rio Ferdinand got in the action up front, with a nicely taken goal from quite close in, after a ball from Joe Cole left Rio with only 1 defender to get past. Rio duly moved easily past his opponent, and beat the goalie at the near post with a half reasonable schoolboy shot. I doubt the 3rd choice Russian stopper Malafeev will be very happy with his contribution.
# Robinson looked assured in goal.
# Terry and Rio played well together at the back.
# Ashley Cole and Joe Cole teamed up well on the left.
# Wright-Phillips and Mica Richards marauded down the right.
# Gerrard and Barry controlled the centre of midfield.
# Heskey and Owen were both clinical up front.
A team performance overall, that was too much for the Russians to handle away from home. In fact, if England play like that in Russia in a couple of games time, the plastic artificial pitch won't matter much. Actually, if England play like that on plastic, concrete, grass or broken glass, we'll win plenty more football matches than i've become accustomed to.
Come on England!
England V Russia
♠ England V Russia Minute By Minute (the fa)
♠ Owen Sinks The Russians (the fa)
♠ England 3 Russia 0 (bbc)
Posted at 12:22 AM, Thursday, September 13, 2007
Owen 7, 31
Ferdinand 84
Russia 0
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 86,106
Referee: Martin Hansson (Sweden)
Assistant Referees: Stefan Wittberg and Henrik Andren (SWE)
Fourth Official: Martin Ingvarsson (SWE)
Well the 3 Lions roared tonight I think. Russia are no mugs - not as good as they once were since the break up of the USSR - but certainly no mugs. Even so, the first Russian team to visit since the break up of the Soveit Union, were crushed under the wheels of the England bandwagon, that has finally started rolling downhill, rather than having to be dragged up the proverbial mountain.
McClaren has shaken the hounds off for now. Long may it continue. If the boo boys and media hounds don't sink their teth into McClaren anytime soon, that will mean England are winning football matches, which is all good.
I thought Michael Owen played well aside from his 2 goals, very nice to see as an England fan. Owen's first goal came early, in the 7th minute, supplied by a cross from Gareth Barry. Nicely controlled, well finished off the inside of the post, clinical. His second was another clinical finish from just inside the box, over the goalie, just under the crossbar, fed by an Emile Heskey headed flick on. Heskey took out the Russian back 3 with one header, leaving Owen in space in the danger area, to do as he liked.
Even centre back Rio Ferdinand got in the action up front, with a nicely taken goal from quite close in, after a ball from Joe Cole left Rio with only 1 defender to get past. Rio duly moved easily past his opponent, and beat the goalie at the near post with a half reasonable schoolboy shot. I doubt the 3rd choice Russian stopper Malafeev will be very happy with his contribution.
# Robinson looked assured in goal.
# Terry and Rio played well together at the back.
# Ashley Cole and Joe Cole teamed up well on the left.
# Wright-Phillips and Mica Richards marauded down the right.
# Gerrard and Barry controlled the centre of midfield.
# Heskey and Owen were both clinical up front.
A team performance overall, that was too much for the Russians to handle away from home. In fact, if England play like that in Russia in a couple of games time, the plastic artificial pitch won't matter much. Actually, if England play like that on plastic, concrete, grass or broken glass, we'll win plenty more football matches than i've become accustomed to.
Come on England!
England V Russia
♠ England V Russia Minute By Minute (the fa)
♠ Owen Sinks The Russians (the fa)
♠ England 3 Russia 0 (bbc)
Posted at 12:22 AM, Thursday, September 13, 2007
2 Comments
I'm glad england shoved a few peoples word right back up their throats loyalty seems to bea thing of the past,whatever ever happened to stick together through thick and thin.
Yes, That hit the nail on the head.
By 
Football Fever, at 1:51 PM
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