Capello names England squad to face Montenegro.

[crouchea.livejournal.com]

Fabio Capello names his squad to face Montenegro at Wembley.

Fabio Capello has named his squad to face Montenegro in the third and final Euro 2012 qualifier of the year.

After wins over Bulgaria and Switzerland, England will be looking to make it nine points from three games at Wembley on Tuesday 12 October.

Bolton forward Kevin Davies is called up for the first time by Capello, joining Darren Bent, Peter Crouch and Wayne Rooney among the attacking options.

Also returning for the first time this season are Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Aaron Lennon and Rob Green. In midfield Jack Wilshere has been named in both the senior squad and Stuart Pearce's England Under-21s. 


Squad in full

Ben Foster (Birmingham City), Robert Green (West Ham United), Joe Hart (Manchester City)

Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Joleon Lescott (Manchester City), John Terry (Chelsea), Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa)

Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Joe Cole (Liverpool), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Tom Huddlestone (Tottenham Hotspur), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Aaron Lennon (Tottenham Hotspur), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Manchester City), Ashley Young (Aston Villa)

Darren Bent (Sunderland), Peter Crouch (Tottenham Hotspur), Kevin Davies (Bolton Wanderers), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)


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Whilst we're talking about Englishmen, here is praise for some of the England dudes, Adam Johnson and Crouchie (well, I would) for their performances this weekend , as well as criticism of Karl Henry for his horror lunge on Saturday and the fair play rankings so far




How awesome is Adam Johnson?? He's had to make a name for himself at Manchester City, no easy feat by any stretch of the imagination, and manages to be the very definition of the word "super-sub".

 
Peterpoo =) =) I would have liked him to have not been so failtastic in front of goal and score a couple himself, but it's nice to see him having some input :))) ngl, when I first heard Van der Vaart was joining Spurs, I just fretted that he'd slip lower down in the pecking order, assuming VDV to be an obvious starter in their new 4-4-1-1 system, and Crouch to get fewer starts. But it's nice to see the two gelling. Pride for my beautiful robot <3

Now, onto something considerablly more sour, Karl Henry's lunge (and second red of the season already) bungs Wolves at the top of the foul play league:



And, staying with The Guardian, selected interesting post-match comments from Arsene Wenger:

Heheheh :p

So anyway. I'm putting this out there -- which was worse; De Jong's double-leg breaker, or Karl Henry's lunge?
(er. poll function failing for me. fail.) I don't wanna hear from anyone "he's just not that type of player"!!! :-p

Comments

[elemersglue.livejournal.com]

Yeah Hart.

[su20.livejournal.com]

Wilshere tweeted he is preparing for the U21s game on friday...
Glad he is called up tho. He can play in both games if need be.

[melj1213.livejournal.com]

Now lets hope Capello actually utilizes some of the new combination options rather than doing the usual of calling up a load of players only to play the same few players every game - even if they´re crap

[raichelisic.livejournal.com]

This, I really didn't get how he was so reluctant to change especially during the WC. Some things just don't work out everytime

[crouchea.livejournal.com]

Oh. Chelsea on the bottom of said list, I see??? :-)))) Speaking of Chelsea, I was wondering, does anyone fancy praising Chelsea for us passing one of our ~~real tests~~ yesterday?? Whenever Chels win a game, all I hear is comments touching on us having "no history", comments like "if they're paid that much, they should play well" or our fans being "glory-hunting chavs", and I'm getting a little bored of that, frankly. So I'm taking it upon myself to applaud my team for being simply awesome yesterday. Cos someone should . :p

(http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e212/GuitarPickQueen/footie/?action=view&current=bungchelsea.jpg)

♥

My inner ManUnited girl is stalking the shit out of you.

[rose-of-love.livejournal.com]

(http://de.tinypic.com?ref=349b213)

If it weren't for Drogba's fine ass, Czech's fantastic goalkeeper skills and that amazing shot from Alex from yesterday's game, then I'd totally hate on you.
BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT I'M FRUSTRATED THAT YOU GUYS STARTED OFF SO WELL IN THE NEW SEASON AND MANUNITED IS JUST LIKE DOING DRAWS AND SHIT AND BERBATOV IS MY ONLY HOPE RIGHT NOW DUNNO. ;___;

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[who-love.livejournal.com]

DON'T LET STEVIE GET INJURED PLEASE GOD

[rose-of-love.livejournal.com]

*HUGS YOU*

HE HAS STRONG LEGS, HE WON'T HE WON'T

[su20.livejournal.com]

How are the guardian going to put Wenger on blast like that



lmao

[prisness.livejournal.com]

IKR plus the fact that he is shit. i do not get it.

[issyc.livejournal.com]

i'm always so impressed with people who read the guardian! i'll just be over here with the mirror.

johnson is a really impressive player and he seems to be behaving himself (as far as i know) unlike a lot of his england team mates!

[ashleyellisx.livejournal.com]

FUCK YEAH JAGIELKAAAAAAAAA.


Good team overall ha.

[abfabregas.livejournal.com]

still no news on who's going to be captain?

[i-am-a-dinasaur.livejournal.com]

im glad greens been put back in i know he messed up but he didnt deserve to be thrown out of the squad altogether

[furyyy.livejournal.com]

IA, he's not great, but he's better than some of the other crap goalkeepers that england has had. It's all good as long as capello doesn't start him all the time and chooses hart instead

[ben-superdetka.livejournal.com]

[rose-of-love.livejournal.com]

Literally DIED over this, honestly.

[furyyy.livejournal.com]

no defoe?

[i-am-a-dinasaur.livejournal.com]

i think he's injured

OT I'M SORRY

[traci.livejournal.com]

does anyone have a download link for yesterdays real madrid game? plsplspls.

OT: GTFO BITCH.

[ashleyellisx.livejournal.com]

Re: OT: GTFO BITCH.

[i-am-a-dinasaur.livejournal.com]

is that from yesterdays match?

DEAR FOOTBALL GODS

[youth-depraved.livejournal.com]

PLEASE LOOK OVER ALL OF MY LIVERPOOL BOYS. I CANNOT HANDLE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENING TO THEM. PLEASE, THANK YOU.

Re: DEAR FOOTBALL GODS

[furyyy.livejournal.com]

along with the spurs, we have the second most amount of players with three. (man shitty have five wtf)

[i-am-a-dinasaur.livejournal.com]

talksports complaining about kevin davies lol

[youaremylennon.livejournal.com]

imma go hunt down capello if any spurs player gets injured!

[ophelia-66.livejournal.com]

i'll gladly join you

[epouvante.livejournal.com]

i'm glad tom's getting his call-up but spurs haven't had good luck with internationals lately :(

ugh both tackles were awful.

[potterpie.livejournal.com]

yaaaaaaay johnson i can finally not feel dirty supporting him :D

[scarlet-ox.livejournal.com]

This is my first comment on here, so I'll try and be constructive. :)

Hopefully no one will return to their club injured next week, as Spurs haven't had any luck in the last two England games. I don't think there's many, if any, big surprises in the team, but that's probably because of the number of English players that are injured at the moment making way for players such as Kevin Davies and, because I'm almost certain Lampard and Milner would be called were they available, a couple of the midfielders.

Adam Johnson is an amazing talent. He's one of the most exciting players to watch at the moment.

Chelsea bottom of the fouls list? I like.

As for the tackles from the weekend, Karl Henry's looked awful and clearly a red. I didn't see the leg break at City and I don't want to. I've heard that a free kick wasn't even given? And for an injury that has been compared with Aaron Ramsey's, there is clearly something wrong with that (if that's true).

[crouchea.livejournal.com]

That is one niiiiice comment, gurl! Welcome to ontd_football :)

[alana2x1.livejournal.com]

I think they should make the actual league standings be based on best fairplay standings; Liverpool would be second! Lol.

Um...as for the England squad...Holy shit! Capello's gotten over his Joe Cole issues, haha. Also, glad Adam Johnson's there, though had no doubts really, lol.

Now I just hope England do well, would make up the whole Liverpool thing a teeny tiny bit (not much, but hey, gotta take what I can).

[bluemeadow13.livejournal.com]

joey's back in the squad!