Yes best England player so far. He is much more dangerous than Cleverley on the right side. Smalling + Jones look strong at the back. Jones is very good on headers. Cleverley and Welbeck having a quiet game but its difficult for them against a much stronger Spain team.
Welbeck! . England central midfield was so bad that Smalling had to launch that attack. Hendersen didn't look like a 20 millions player at all. He was absolutely useless in that midfield.
Yes Walker made lots of very good runs down the right side and he's the one who made the assist to Welbeck's goal.
The back 4 was very good. Smalling and Walker were England's best players. Jones and Bertrand did well too. Midfield did not create anything at all. Hendersen and Mancienne made lots of stray passes, Cleverley had a quiet game and Rose tried some runs but his crosses were very poor.
Welbeck and Sturridge did well. Welbeck played the SS role and was defending too. Good overall contribution, and Sturridge did well to try some shots on goal. England played better with Rodwell imo. Mancienne didn't do much. England would've done much better with Wilshere and Carroll.
On Spain's side, they controlled the modfield as expected. Mata and Thiago were good. Their big flaw was defense. Unbelievable how much space Welbeck had on that goal. De Gea was a spectator for most of the game except for a magnificient save that he made just before half time. Looked destined to be an Own goal.
Welbeck's goal:
The build-up started with Smalling running from defense to the centre line and made a pass to Walker. Walker made the assist.
Just submitted the new United thread. It will look like this:
GOALKEEPERS:
29. Tomasz Kuszczak 34. Anders Lindegaard 40. Ben Amos
DEFENDERS:
3. Patrice Evra 5. Rio Ferdinand 6. Wes Brown 12. Chris Smalling 15. Nemanja Vidić (captain) 20. Fábio 21. Rafael 22. John O'Shea 23. Jonny Evans 30. Ritchie De Laet 45. Oliver Gill
MIDFIELDERS:
8. Anderson 11. Ryan Giggs 13. Park Ji-Sung 16. Michael Carrick 17. Nani 24. Darren Fletcher 25. Antonio Valencia 28. Darron Gibson 35. Tom Cleverley 37. Robert Brady 42. Paul Pogba 46. Ryan Tunnicliffe 47. Oliver Norwood 49. Ravel Morrison
STRIKERS:
7. Michael Owen 9. Dimitar Berbatov 10. Wayne Rooney 14. Javier Hernández 19. Danny Welbeck 26. Gabriel Obertan 27. Federico Macheda 32. Mame Biram Diouf 33. Bébé 38. Nicky Ajose 41. Joshua King
- Danny Welbeck[Back from loan - Sunderland] - Tom Cleverley[Back from loan - Wigan Athletic] - Nicky Ajose[Back from loan - Bury] - Federico Macheda[Back from loan - Sampdoria] - Ritchie De Laet[Back from loan - Portsmouth] - Joe Dudgeon[Back from loan - Carlisle United] - Danny Drinkwater[Back from loan - Watford]
- Gary Neville[retired] - Paul Scholes[retired] - Edwin Van der Sar[retired] - Corry Evans[Hull City - £500k] - Joe Dudgeon[Hull City - Undisclosed)]
LEAGUE:
First Division (until 1992) and Premier League: 19
EDIT: Looking back at the other threads, I realised that this thread (2010/2011) has the least number of posts since the first ever United thread. Previous threads had 5 000 - 7 000 posts meaning 20 posts per day on average.
Yeah, maybe a draft after the Copa America and make it an annual thing. Although maybe people won't want to do it again if we never get around to awarding a winner.