KWP starts Onomah bench
where have you seen the bench? i'd heard that josh is injured.
I hadn’t just presumed as wasn’t in xi.
KWP just won England the game with an amazing block in the final minute of added time. Onomah looked great as well.
England U18s won 2-1 Vs Argentina
Skipp Eyoma on bench.
Does Parker seem to have made a difference coaching the under 18s ?
going back to this, i think it's a difficult one to answer. it's easy to say whether a manager is doing well for the first team as it's 95% about results but at youth level there are many more factors at play so it makes it hard to really judge. whilst results aren't of massive importance for the youth sides though, you're not going to find anyone saying the coach is doing bad if the team are winning all the time and likewise you probably won't find many saying they're doing a good job if they're losing every week. as it is we're currently upper mid-table but if we do look at it from a results pov we've gotten better as the season has gone on - which i think we'd all agree is far more preferable than the reverse, so you'd like to think that progress is being made and that parker's now getting his ideas across better. the only games we've lost since november were against chelsea, who let's face it, beat everyone and we've had some really impressive results recently like today's 5-0 at villa, or beating reading 4-0 with 10 men, beating arsenal 4-1, liverpool 4-0 etc.
one thing that's been quite prevalent in the past month or so in terms of tactical setups is we basically have the two full backs playing as centre mids when in possession which i think is quite interesting, i know it's something guardiola has brought over here but it's nice to see parker showing he's not afraid to try something different. a minor quibble is that we've failed to see out a result a few times but i'm sure that's something that has been worked on, all in all though i think he's doing a good job.