England v Israel Match Thread - TalkSoccer

**russe||** · 08-09-2007, 03:17 PM

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Teams

England
1 Paul Robinson
2 Micah Richards
3 Ashley Cole
4 Steven Gerrard
5 Rio Ferdinand
6 John Terry (c)
7 Gareth Barry
8 Shaun Wright-Phillips
9 Emile Heskey
10 Michael Owen
11 Joe Cole

Subs
12 Wes Brown
13 David James
14 Phil Neville
15 David Bentley
16 Stewart Downing
17 Andrew Johnson
18 Jermain Defoe

Israel
1 Dudu Aouate, 2 Yuval Shpungin, 3 Tal Ben-Haim, 4 Arik Benado, 5 Shimon Gershon, 9 Barak Yitzhaki, 10 Walid Badir, 11 Idan Tal, 14 Yoav Ziv, 15 Yossi Benayoun (c), 20 Yaniv Katan
Subs 7 Michael Zandberg, 8 Toto Tamuz, 12 Omer Golan, 22 Nir Davidovic (gk), 16 Yigal Antebi, 19 Gal Alberman, 17 Pini Balali

That team is shit. Heskey ffs, Heskey!

Oh and why the fuck is Barry playing? Carrick isn't even on the bench. As far as I'm aware he's fully fit.

**kyan** · 08-09-2007, 03:24 PM

have faith...

we have to win.

**russe||** · 08-09-2007, 03:35 PM

Our goalie is rubbish, we have possibly the worst international striker ever recalled after 3 years and we have about 10 different midfielders out injured. We might need to win but that doesn't make it any more likely that we will.

BlackNess · 08-09-2007, 03:41 PM

i think that England will not win easily , i mean look at the match Vs Germany .

our NT was playing with their subs .... and we won that ...

so its a very interesting match tonight !

**Podolski** · 08-09-2007, 03:42 PM

i regret betting on this now

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 03:53 PM

israel's line up:
GK: Dudu Aouate - the deportivo la curuna goalkeeper, a great goalkeeper, one of the best in la liga.

CB: Tal Ben Haim - a chelsea player, the most earning israeli in history. a class CB. very physical. remmeber his fight with rooney?
CB: Shimon Gershon - a joke. plays for israel's champion [beitar jerusalem], a fat guy, very slow, good in the air and a good penalty shooter.
RB: Yuval Shpungin - a talented young player. he's not good offensively and makes a lot of mistakes sometimes. a maccabi tel aviv player.
LB: Yoav Ziv - another beitar jerusalem player. a decent player, quick and a good tackler. can cross well.
DM: Arick Benado - I hate this guy, was the symbol of Maccabi Haifa for 10 years and then simply went for the big money at beitar jerusalem(haifa's enemies). he's a cb, not a dm. good tackling, bad ball control and movement.
DM: Waleed Badir - the only arab representative! very strong, good passing, scores many goals, good heading. an all round DM.
DM: Idan Tal - played for bolton last season. my favourite player (even though he plays for beitar jerusalem), amazing passes, great shooting and free kicks. hes better as a cm/lm though.
CM: Yossi Benayoun - liverpool quality. a very smart player, reads the game perfectly. Israel's leader and hero. dribbles well, and scores many goals for the NT.
SS: Yaniv Katan - Maccabi haifa's young captain. played a halfseason at west-ham but didn't get to play so he came back. strong, quick and good technique.
ST: Barak Yitzhaki - very young and talented striker that will get bought by a european team very quickly I think. beitar jerusalem also. I prefer him as right winger, but he's good at everything. weak physically, but excellent at anything else.

**kyan** · 08-09-2007, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by russe||

Our goalie is rubbish, we have possibly the worst international striker ever recalled after 3 years and we have about 10 different midfielders out injured. We might need to win but that doesn't make it any more likely that we will.

We'll win 2-0, a different strikeforce is good news, even if it Heskey, don't write him off before he's kicked a ball....

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Originally Posted by Blackness

our NT was playing with their subs .... and we won that ...

And?

1. That was 1 match.
2. Just because we were playing most of our best players doesn't mean it was our best team, we had no strikers left because of injury as well, and it was like Owen's first game of the season.
3. It was a friendly.
4. It should have been a draw.
5. If it wasn't for Robinson the scoreline would have been different, u can say Lehmann had a bad game as well, but he got lucky he didn't get punished for some of his mistakes cos Owen wasn't sharp enough.

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 03:56 PM

Israel's bench:
Nir Davidovich
Igal Anteby
Gal Albermann
Micheal Zandberg - a shame he's not starting. the manager doesn't like him.
Toto Tamuz - has a bright future.
Roberto Colautti - Injured, thats why he's not starting
Ilyaneev Barda

Manager: Dror Kashtan

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 04:01 PM

match under way.

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 04:05 PM

Benayuoun is the best player on the feild atm.

SWP is m,aking trouble for the defence..

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 04:10 PM

9' Heskey with a great scoring opportunity! goood assisting by owen. heskey with a harsh miss.

benayoun is unstoppable...

England are dominating

**russe||** · 08-09-2007, 04:12 PM

Any half decent striker would have at least hit the target there.

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 04:12 PM

heskey loses another good chance.

richards with a decent run.

**Podolski** · 08-09-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by kyan

We'll win 2-0, a different strikeforce is good news, even if it Heskey, don't write him off before he's kicked a ball....

And?

1. That was 1 match.
2. Just because we were playing most of our best players doesn't mean it was our best team, we had no strikers left because of injury as well, and it was like Owen's first game of the season.
3. It was a friendly.
4. It should have been a draw.
5. If it wasn't for Robinson the scoreline would have been different, u can say Lehmann had a bad game as well, but he got lucky he didn't get punished for some of his mistakes cos Owen wasn't sharp enough.

I agree that it was only one match and doesn't really have anything to do with this one but..

2. Germanys team wasn't close to their best team.
4. Why?
5. If Owen wasn't sharp enough it's too bad, same with Robinson. That's why you lost the game, because they wern't good enough, that's how you lose in football. You can't say if everything was perfect then we would have won.

**lionel** · 08-09-2007, 04:16 PM

Gerrard is way way faster than the israeli defence, and especially gershun, the fat bastard.

FK - gerrard had to shoot this but he chose a cross.
corner kick now, heskey heads it off target.