Villa Park boss supports his number two despte rumours about Glenn Roeder joining the backroom staff.
Villa Park boss supports his number two despte rumours about Glenn Roeder joining the backroom staff.
Arsenal youngster Jack Wilshere is keen to play for the England under-21 side in their European Championships campaign in Denmark in June.
The 19-year-old made his starting debut for England’s senior side in their 2-0 win over Wales on Saturday in Euro 2012 qualifying, but the midfielder has stated his intentions of playing with the youth side in their bid to go one better than their finalist appearance at the Euro Under-21 Championships in 2009 in Sweden.”This is international football and I want to play in any international football,” Wilshere said.”It’s up to Stuart Pearce (under-21s manager) and Fabio Capello (senior England boss). They will talk and see what’s best for me.”"I always speak to the manager at Arsenal and I will again. I am sure Stuart Pearce and Fabio Capello will talk to him as well.”Capello, however, stepped away from a decision on Wilshere’s national-team duties, stating that it is a matter for club manager Arsene Wenger and Pearce.”This is the decision between Stuart Pearce and Arsene Wenger, ” Capello said. “I heard that a Barcelona player has told his club that he wants to play (for his under-21 side).”"Wilshere is really important for us but I don’t have exclusive rights over him.” “He is playing a lot of games this season and he will be playing in the summer.”Wilshere missed his country’s under-21 friendly with Denmark under-21 on the weekend – which the English side prevailed 4-0 – to be on senior national duty.
Mon 28 March, 2011Arsenal youngster Jack Wilshere is keen to play for the England under-21 side in their European Championships campaign in Denmark in June.
The 19-year-old made his starting debut for England’s senior side in their 2-0 win over Wales on Saturday in Euro 2012 qualifying, but the midfielder has stated his intentions of playing with the youth side in their bid to go one better than their finalist appearance at the Euro Under-21 Championships in 2009 in Sweden.”This is international football and I want to play in any international football,” Wilshere said.”It’s up to Stuart Pearce (under-21s manager) and Fabio Capello (senior England boss). They will talk and see what’s best for me.”"I always speak to the manager at Arsenal and I will again. I am sure Stuart Pearce and Fabio Capello will talk to him as well.”Capello, however, stepped away from a decision on Wilshere’s national-team duties, stating that it is a matter for club manager Arsene Wenger and Pearce.”This is the decision between Stuart Pearce and Arsene Wenger, ” Capello said. “I heard that a Barcelona player has told his club that he wants to play (for his under-21 side).”"Wilshere is really important for us but I don’t have exclusive rights over him.” “He is playing a lot of games this season and he will be playing in the summer.”Wilshere missed his country’s under-21 friendly with Denmark under-21 on the weekend – which the English side prevailed 4-0 – to be on senior national duty.
Mon 28 March, 2011After the adrenaline high from THAT goal and the win from yesterday, the sobering reality set in: we are coming toward the final third of our league schedule. In race terms, we’re turning the corner and heading down that last stretch.
Looking at what we have to face before we cross that finish line on May 22nd, there definitely seems to be some .
1.12 league games to play. 4 out of those 12 are against Chelsea (x2), Liverpool and Arsenal. 3 out of those 4 are away from home.
2.7 out of our remaining 12 league games are away from home. We have only won 3 out of our 12 away games thus far for a very unimpressive 25% win percentage.
3.Our goal difference away from home is +2. Our closest competitors (Arsenal and City) boast an away goal difference of +12 and +8 respectively.
4.Arsenal, who are in the best position to leapfrog us, have 6 home and 6 away games left on their schedule. Their toughest fixtures out of those 12 are against us and Liverpool. Both of those games are taking place at the Emirates.
I’m not saying that we can’t win the title. But we obviously need to pick up our away form especially since we know the quality of performance this team is capable of when playing at OT.
SAF has challenged his front 2 to start scoring away from home where the goals just seem to be in short supply. In his own words: “I have to say, what I need to get out of Wayne and Berbatov are performances away from home that are as good as they are at home.”
I hate to be a party pooper after all the excitement from yesterday’s derby win. It was a fantastic overall performance by the team, but it was also at home where we’ve generally been unstoppable this year.
Unfortunately, we can’t play every game at Old Trafford.
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