I didn't watch the Norway game the other night (the US Open was on at the same time) so I haven't seen our boys place since the WC.

We've got a good record in qualifying. A draw would so obviously benefit both teams as the group looks so Micky Mouse that they might as well agree on the centre circle!

1-1

Forgot it was on , but i do have some paint to watch dry.

3-0 win for England. We're only playing Switzerland, you'd think it was Argentina away they way people are carrying on!

Quoted from highcliff mariner

Forgot it was on , but i do have some paint to watch dry.

Cant say I am particularly interested either. For me there is only one game this week

0 -  0.    
zzzzzzzzz

2-1 win Sterling and Rooney. Not looking forward to it, got a feeling we'll stick 10 men behind the ball :(

I'd take a tight 1-0 win. Sterling to get the winner. Slightly off topic but, does anyone else think Nathan Dyer for Swansea deserves a chance with England? The guy has been performing well for a few years now but keeps getting overlooked by Roy.

Much as it pains me to say it, Switzerland are currently better than us and i can't see anything other than a defeat.

We were Scotland/Wales type standard the other night, especially the back four.

I think we can get a draw or possibly a flukey win, but there's no doubt that the Swiss have a decent team at the moment and we're rather weak.

The paucity of our midfield is clearly shown by one of the BBC headlines at the moment: "Henderson injury scare for England".

If Henderson isn't fit, we'll apparently be playing Milner in the middle. That's a one-paced grafter replaced by a (slightly slower) one-paced grafter. Playing alongside Wilshire (playing style: try to dribble past two players, then fall over).

Sheesh.

Speaking of England, did anybody see that interview with Rio Ferdinand the other day? Fundamentally, he blamed a succession of England managers for failing to take 'the Golden Generation' to the top of world football. The team was never set up properly, apparently. It has obviously never crossed his mind that his generation of players simply wasn't good enough. An amazing lack of self-awareness and humility, until you remember it is Rio Flipping Ferdinand we're talking about.

1-1-Rooney before ht and the cheese to level around the 70 minute mark.

1-0 Switzerland after "dominating" possession.

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Cahill 80

Home banker for me . Switzerland had a decent World Cup and their young team will only be better for the experience.  I'm lumping on the Swiss as I can't see anything other than defeat tonight . Roys living on borrowed time .

A draw at Best!  Switzerland are a better team than us at the moment. :o

A boring 0-0 draw,

BUT

I am English so I will watch and support our overpaid players.

Don't think we'll score, 2-0 Switzerland.

Draw written all over it ?
1-1.

Shrek could have had a couple so far. Didn't have the confidence to volley the first one (he's scored tougher ones than that in the past) and scuffed the second chance though Sterling's ball was poor.

If Delph manages to avoid getting a red card tonight, I'll be surprised.

Typical Welbeck. Good work down the right, had 2 relatively easy passes on or could even have shot, and somehow managed to avoid all 3!

Switzerland don't look very good tonight and we ought to have scored a couple by now.

Our defence looks like they've got a few more errors in them so we need to try and get a goal or two in the second half because I reckon they might well score.

P.S. Is Henderson actually playing? I think I've heard his name mentioned about twice in the commentary in the first half!

Welbeck's lethal, have always said it ;)

Quoted from Abdul19

Welbeck's lethal, have always said it ;)

Shin control that the late, great Keith Alexander would have been proud of.

2-0 Welbeck 2,

Good result, lets hope Town do the same tomorrow.

Biggest surprise for me is that the Swiss could be poorer than England manage on occasion.

Didn't think we would win there but glad to be wrong.

I have always liked Welbeck,

Sturridge is good but too one footed to my liking.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Home banker for me . Switzerland had a decent World Cup and their young team will only be better for the experience.  I'm lumping on the Swiss as I can't see anything other than defeat tonight . Roys living on borrowed time .

Ooops!  ;)

Hope that "lump" wasn't too big.

Everyone was wrong. Entertaining game as well. Lots of chances, especially near the end!

I thought that the Swiss looked pretty poor tonight and we could easily have scored a few more without playing overly well.

Well done to Welbeck for bagging a couple of goals and he also worked his socks off tonight. Perhaps the move to Arsenal will allow him to develop into a really good striker?

Rooney disappointing yet again (a couple of touches of skill aside). Not sure what has happened with him over the past couple of years as he used to absolutely work his socks off but seems to jog around a bit too much these days. He should be in his physical prime but he looks knackered all the time and there just seems something wrong there to me.

Good and bad aspects of play shown by Sterling - he needs to pick and choose when he takes men on and he lost possession a bit too often tonight rather than just keeping it simple. Lots of potential still.

Wilshire just isn't a clever enough player to become capable at the top level. Despite supposedly being selected as the anchor midfielder, he resumed his usual technique of dribbling into a couple of players and falling over and better teams will punish us if we keep giving possession away like that. Just can't see he's got it in him, I'm afraid. You can have all the skill in the world, but you need to be able to play the game intelligently or you're going to achieve nothing.

Well done to the young lad Stones who looked pretty decent tonight. At least he looks as though he knows how to defend which is more than can be said for many of our current full-backs!

Woy will be happy.

I was worried about Delph tonight, and that increased when he got a stupid booking early on. However I think he had a very good game after that, making some good interceptions and driving runs from midfield!
Agree with Maringer about Stones. Thought he was very solid, got forward when he could and I don't recall any mistakes made.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Ooops!  ;)

Hope that "lump" wasn't too big.

Whoops . I love football even when it costs me a few £ . Only saw 1st half before I had to go to work but it was obvious I was going to lose my money to mr corals this time . A lot better performance than we've been used to for a bit and some promise for the future . Let's hope the team takes this game as a confidence booster and even if not world beaters can make a game of it against the better teams around . Impressed with Delph , his early tackles rattled the Swiss and set the tone for the rest of them .

Having already negotiated by far the toughest game in this group, we now have 2 years and several games to perfect a system with the players available to us. There is no way on earth we will fail to qualify for the Euros from this group, so i hope Roy has a plan in mind to progress us to a level where we can compete with the best in Europe at the finals.

Roy seems to be trusting Wilshere to be the midfield controller, but even with 2 years to practice, i think he is wasting his time because the lad simply isn't intelligent enough IMO.

More optimistic than i was before the game but we still have a long way to go and i'm not sure we have enough good players to win anything, anytime soon.

Quoted from ginnywings

i hope Roy has a plan in mind to progress us to a level where we can compete with the best in Europe at the finals.

Yes, let's hope he can manage to sign some really good players.  :)