Delph for England

[Ron Manager]

Delph put in a very good performance (after the first 10mins!) and didnt look out of place at all. He is very good on the ball and as I have said before has fast feet. Wilshire is obviously not a defensive midfielder and I find it difficult to justify his selection at this level. A few pieces of close skill are good on the eye but you need far more than that.

A very good performance from England.

[fredm]

The only ratings I saw last night gave Wilshere an 8 and Delph a 5.

Well whoever put those is a bl**dy idiot.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

the mirror this morning put Wilshire as an 8 and delph as a 6. Taking off the claret and blue specs, that is till ridiculous!!!

[Clampy]

the mirror this morning put Wilshire as an 8 and delph as a 6. Taking off the claret and blue specs, that is till ridiculous!!!

One paper gave Delph 5/10 and said that he disappeared into his shell once he'd got booked.

[Dante Lavelli]

At work, the first thing everybody has said to me (knowing I'm a villa fan) this morning is "Delph played well" so those 5/10 score do not seem to mirror public opinion.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I was arguing a lot last night with people on that stupid Sports Yapper, It seems to me that people just hate players that play for clubs that they don't like, Plus I was arguing on Facebook with Albion wanker friends of mine who (shock horror) said he was shit, that's utter bollocks. he does need to sort his tackling, his booking was stupid

[Lastfootstamper]

the mirror this morning put Wilshire as an 8 and delph as a 6. Taking off the claret and blue specs, that is till ridiculous!!!

It's as if the bloke stopped watching after ten minutes! Or didn't watch at all, and based his ratings on "right, who plays for Arsenal? They must be best".

[Simon Ward]

Only bit of the match I watched was when the ITV commentary team got soaked by the sprinkler system!

[tomd2103]

Wilshere is never a holding midfielder. His instinct is always to drive forward and play a one two. And his long range passing is poor. Carrick is the obvious choice there but I'm not sure who gets the gig long term.

A good performance overall but we still look very shaky defensively

I think that Huddleston and dare I say it Shelvey are more suited to that deep playing midfielder role.

As an aside, this must bring home to Milner the sacrifice he has made.  He should be first choice centre midfielder for England but as he never plays there for his club so this cannot happen...  He loss, his agents gain.

Huddlestone and Carrick are the two that stand out as being choices for the holding role.  To be honest, Westwood could probably do a job in there against the likes of San Marino.

[tomd2103]

the mirror this morning put Wilshire as an 8 and delph as a 6. Taking off the claret and blue specs, that is till ridiculous!!!

That's astounding.  Wilshere gave the ball away so many times last night, even when under little pressure.  His reckless fouls aside, Delph was good on the ball and hardly gave possession away at all.

[brian green]

I missed a lot of the game watching that fat pie eating bastard Chris Froome take on the combined Spanish and south American bike mafia and ride his guts out for the British team in the mountains of Asturia. Delph looked five times more effective than Gerrard or Fat Frank so a 5 out 10 is about what you would expect from the meedja.

[placeforparks]

Delph was great throughout.

Agree, very good performance, the only issue being that he let himself down with a couple of rash tackles early on and had to hang back from challenges later in the game.

you could have cut and pasted that from any of his games for the last 2 years!

[UK Redsox]

the mirror this morning put Wilshire as an 8 and delph as a 6. Taking off the claret and blue specs, that is till ridiculous!!!

That's astounding.  Wilshere gave the ball away so many times last night, even when under little pressure.  His reckless fouls aside, Delph was good on the ball and hardly gave possession away at all.

The Telegraph

England were in good shape with the midfield diamond and with Jack Wilshere, rather than Jordan Henderson, at its base. It allowed Henderson to use his running power and it required Wilshere to be more disciplined. England lack a specialist in this area there but Wilshere is the best candidate and could make it his own. He needs to be more comfortable in going deep to collect the ball from the defence and needs to know when to surge forward – as he did at the start of the second half when his low shot was saved. He has an eye for a pass and he can build the play from this position.

[pauliewalnuts]

As I said I thought he was excellent last night and gave a great account of himself. However it should also mean that Villa's most pressing issue is to sign him to a new deal.

Apparently we're going to sit down with him "later this month".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/11084052/Fabian-Delphs-new-Aston-Villa-contract-of-top-priority-for-Paul-Lambert-and-will-reopen-talks-with-midfielder.html

[Tony Erdington]

At work, the first thing everybody has said to me (knowing I'm a villa fan) this morning is "Delph played well" so those 5/10 score do not seem to mirror public opinion.

Same here , backed up with he'll be off to a top 4 club.

so I think we should side with the rags and say wilshire was better , utter tripe.