This morning England fans all over the country have woken up with the post match blues from last night. A lot of the blame seems to be aimed at Cole and Young for missing penalties and I couldn’t disagree with this more. Why blame two players when for 120 mins previous to that our team failed to turn up and play any decent amount of football.
Without Joe Hart and John Terry, we could have had a very embarrassing game. This whole tournament was doomed from the start for England and it’s all the FA’s fault. Bad organisation and definitely not the best handling of the managerial situation to be begin with left us in the underdog position from the start.
Am I gutted that England didn’t make the final- Yes I am, but I’m not shocked by this. We only had our new manager grafted in just weeks before the tournament started. As I have admitted before, I didn’t think this was the greatest choice of manager for this England team to have, but let’s be fair to Roy, he hasn’t had much time to organise and I actually think Roy has done a lot better than I and many other people were expecting him to do.
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I can’t honestly blame Roy for much this tournament apart from continuing to go down the defensive tactical route when we needed a more attacking approach. But I can blame him for the silly statement saying “that he cannot fault the England players” – yes you can Roy, they didn’t play well, and if it’s not their fault then it’s yours, in which case take the blame.
Watching England this tournament has produced some of the most boring football I have ever seen us play. If you take the 2nd halves of the France and Sweden games then we can say we played some decent football but everything else was just a boring blur. There was no excuse for the lacklustre performances from most of the team last night. There was no attacking presence at all, no counter attacking and barely any shots on target compared to Italy’s attempts. The players didn’t even look that frustrated, they looked like they just didn’t care, no passion and no drive.
Towards the end of the first half we looked really good, we were fighting them and playing well but Italy dominated the 2nd half. They were given space, we didn’t have any choice but to defend and our forwards were far to slow to get into their positions in time for shots to be passed.