England v Holland friendly

England Women v Holland
International Friendly

7.45pm, Wednesday 14 March 2007
County Ground, Swindon Town FC


Tickets for the game on 14 March are on sale now
priced £5 for adults and £2.50 for concessions.

Tickets can be purchased from the Swindon Town ticket office
or by calling the ticket hotline on 0870 443 1894.

My predictions:

England 2-0 Holland

Kelly Smith, Sue Smith to score.

Do you like the name then, Agent Smith?

What the Smith are you talking about?


Kelly loves to score against Holland
which she's prooved in August 2006 (hat-trick)

Sue has not been bad in China (4N)
so I'm guessing she will want to score this time
which shouldn't be difficult as Holland is a much weaker team
than China, USA and Germany.

That's my train of thought

And A Smith will make it 3-0

England 0-1 Holland

Goal by Manon Melis (78')

I'd blame it on too many games in a row
The players are tired, that's all.
On the other hand they will have to play a few games in a row
at the World Cup too


Teams:

England:
1 Rachel Brown, 2 Alex Scott, 3 Casey Stoney,
4 Katie Chapman, 5 Anita Asante, 6 Emily Westwood,
7 Karen Carney (21 Stephanie Houghton 79), 8 Fara Williams,
9 Eniola Aluko, 10 Kelly Smith (c), 11 Rachel Yankey (19 Jo Potter 69)

Subs Not Used: 12 Laura Bassett 13 Siobhan Chamberlain
14 Rachel Unitt 15 Jill Scott 16 Vicky Exley 17 Jody Handley
18 Lianne Sanderson 20 Mary Phillip

Holland:
Loes Geurts, Dyanne Bito, Liesbeth Migchelson, Marloes De Boer,
Petra Hogewoning, Anouk Hoogendijk, Sherida Spitse,
Jessica Torny (Claudia van der Heiligenberg 89), Manon Melis,
Linda Bos (Karin Legemate 62), Sylvia Smit

Subs Not Used: Marije Brummel, Miranda Verrips,
Dionne Demarteau, Jennifer Voss, Nadja Olthuis, , Sanne Pluim

Referee: Amy Rayner <--- *cough* *cough*

Attendance: 5,957

Nice to see Amy Rayner as ref

I bet she did a better job than a lot of blokes would

Video highlights.
Another "We should have won this game" story
The game seems slow to me, England were definitelly tired,
and this means if they want to do well in China,
they need to start visiting fitness clubs and do it more often than so far.
Anyway, nice goal from Melis, poor defending from England helped.
Too bad Katie was denied the goal too