We hype up Rooney so much and when he is in a Man U shirt he is brilliant to watch but in an England shirt he fails to impress me. Andy Carroll was like a unorganized donkey at times last night. Milner is a pointless waste of a player- when you have someone of that stature in midfield you would expect some commanding presence and attacking, even on the wing he was not making great runs and passes like he should have, I undertsand he is chosen over Walcott because he is better defensively but surely that should have been different in last nights game.
Instead of taking off Parker, Hodgson should’ve taken off Young-Parker was one of the stronger players in my eyes. Every time Italy had a shot and our defence cleared it our midfield and forwards were far to slow on getting it up the pitch. Pirlo was continuously able to find space and no one was willing to challenge him or anyone else for that matter.
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The defence and Joe Hart were the stars of last nights game and this tournament. They have ALL played to the best of their abilities and well deserve praise as does Gerrard-he has been on great form this time and held together what he could have of a failing midfield. But and it’s a big but, we played far too defensively through the whole tournament, There was never any real long periods of attacking play. We never conceded an offside for 4 games and that offside stat is pure proof of the fact we defended too much. This needs to change in the future.
We are set to lose some of our more experienced and older players by the next tournament and this means relying on the young un’s and they definitely show more promise, with the additions of Jack Wiltshere, Oxlade Chamberlain and Kyle Walker we’ll do a lot better I reckon but we still need to improve. Overall we looked tired mentally and physically. We are a shadow of the team we used to be and if we do not improve by the World cup 2014 I can guarantee we won’t even make it to Brazil let alone win the World cup.
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