La Manga U23 tournament

From the FFF website :

There will be a triangular tournament between France England and Norway from the 10th to the 17th of February.
Apparently England will sent some of the fringe players from the senior squad there.
I think it is a good idea as any international game is always a good opportunity to learn, especialy in a World Cup year.

I'd give England 50% to win it,
Norway 35% and France 15%

England have lots of talented young players, that's for sure.

U-23?!

It's good news for the fringe players who may be able to push for their places in the WC squad and give them some more experience

I think it is a U21 tournament where you can have like 3 under 23 players registered.

No, u-23 is u-23. I think you can have 3 overaged players in every u-team.
I might be wrong though

There's a u-everything these days

I reckon England should put a few regular faces in there too, maybe Sue Smith she only played one game out in China and I feel she has more to proove!

LOL @ U-23!

Definitely U23

http://football.lamangaclub.com/weblet/RAWeb?case=clubs

the U everything is a denomination, in France we used to have category name instead before :

Poussin U11
Pupille U13
Minime U15
Cadets U17
Juniors U19
Espoirs U23

Yeah and now there's u-23, u-21, u-20, u-19, u-18, u-17...
And they still allow 3 oldies...

It is the same rule for the Men at the Olympic games.

Norway 2 France 0
Giuro ( 43 ) Bergie ( 88 )

England squad

Danielle Hill (Everton), Carly Telford (Sunderland)
Rachel Axon (UAB Blazers,USA), Kylie Davies (Chelsea), Michelle Hickmott (Charlton Athletic), Katie Holtham (Charlton Athletic) Stephanie Houghton (Sunderland), Danielle Bird (Birmingham City), Gemma Davison (Arsenal), Amy Kane (Everton), Kelly McDougall (Everton), Josanne Potter (Charlton Athletic), Lynda Shepherd (Blackburn Rovers), Heather Scheuber (Birmingham City), Carla Cantrell (Doncaster Rovers Belles), Natasha Dowie (Charlton Athletic), Lianne Sanderson (Arsenal), Ellen White (Chelsea)

I have put in bold those who I think my get on the plane to China next summer.

Hi!

I watched the game Norway - France at La Manga and Im going to watch Fridays match between France and England. Norway was the better side, but it was not a good game. Not many shots at goal and some bad play, but Norway with the ball posession. Defender Giske is a good player and striker Wiik is quick. I have no idea about England, how are they?

England have a lot of promising youngsters. Some of them may play in the world cup in china.

Norway wins the tournament, they beat England 2-0 today.

Didnt watch the game, but a friend did. He said Norway dominated the first half and should have been up with at least 3-4 goals. England better in the 2nd, hit the bar twice.

France need to beat England ! We cannot finish bottom lol

France - England 1-0, scoring in the 2nd half. England missed a penalty in the first half.

Pretty even game with France as a little better than England. Both sides strikers were through and all alone with the goalie a couple of times but very poor finishing by both teams.

I would say Norway was better than both of them especially because of their way of handling the ball. The norwegian defense and midfield played calm, while the two others often rushed the attacks by sending long balls to the strikers. Some nice piece of play by England some times, though.

thanks for the report , great result
goal scored by Corinne Lebailly 75th minute from a Jessica Houara cross.

The teams:

FRANCE : 16-Véronique PONS ; 17-Julie SOYER (4-Morgane COURTEILLE 46'), 5-Ophélie MEILLEROUX (cap.), 9-Coralie DUCHER, 3-Laure BOULLEAU ; 7-Jessica HOUARA, 18-Sabrina DELANNOY (15-Caroline PIZZALA 58'), 13-Nonna DEBONNE (13-Julie PERUZZETTO 68') ; 6-Alexandra GUINE ; 10-Gaëtane THINEY (14-Claire MOREL 85'), 11-Julia DANY (8-Corinne LEBAILLY 46'). Entr.: Yvan DAVID
Not used : 1-Aurore PEGAZ, 19-Audrey ARRABY

ANGLETERRE : 1-Carly TELFORD (12-Danielle HILL 46') ; 2-Stephanie HOUGHTON, 5-Rachel AXON, 6-Katie HOLTHAM (15-Kylie DAVIES 60'), 3-Michelle HICKMOTT ; 4-Heather SCHEUBER (16-Amy KANE 73'), 8-Kelly McDOUGALL, 10-Emily WESTWOOD (cap.) (18-Ellen WHITE 60') ; 7-Gemma DAVISON (13-Danielle BIRD 61'), 11-Josanne POTTER (14-Carla CANTRELL 61'), 9-Natasha DOWIE. Entr.: Brent HILLS
Not used : 17-Lynda SHEPHERD