Yeah, agree with that.
Don't understand why though. Think a lot of it is to do with media/national expectation. Plus Capello himself. I respect what he's done in the past, but he gets England playing rarely.
Players have too big of Egos. Put them selves before the team. That ginger fella from Manc land, got it spot on. Players are more concerned about themselves, and how they portray themselves in the public media than the team. Also players would try to do the hard flashy stuff, instead of the simple pass. Expectations to high.
As someone said before, Carrick should be playing. He is a better CM than Barry and Milner.The older players of Ferdinand, Terry, Gerrard, Lampard need to phased out with the new upcoming players coming in. People moan when we don't play the youngsters. When they do, and they get played out of position to fit in the older players and normally have a poor game. Look at Henderson against Ghana was it?, he was played CM was it? Game flew by him, because he is a right midfielder (I think he is). Then people moan saying they arn't good enough.
Plus didn't help Scholes retired for international football so fucking Early. World Class player, and proper play maker. Something England have lacked for years, would have been useful for them over the years. Plus England don't have a very good defensive midfielder. Barry, no ta. Decent short range passing, slow minded, average tackling, not 'aggressive' enough for DM, slow and turns like an aircraft carrier. And Parker, not good enough.
And today, he had two wide men and Rooney up top. Fair enough. I think he had Lampard as the attacking midfielder, with Barry the holding midfielder, and fuck knows what Milner was doing. Lampard didn't support Rooney very well, and looked like a passenger. Barry was just being Barry, and Milner tried to get some pace into the midfield and failed. England lacked creativity in the center, which forced Rooney to drop into England's half
to try and get something going. We got the ball to the wings, and near enough every cross failed to find Rooney or Lampard because they weren't in the right positions.
Thought Downing was good though on the right, his intelligent runs creating space for Smalling to over lap on times and exploit. He grew into the game, and ran at Wales defenders. Put crosses into good spaces.
Hopefully on the right in the future, it will be Kelly and Downing for England.
Anyway, lets just see if Capello has the balls to drop the Lampards, Barry's, Gerrards (I hope he reties from international's and focuses on Liverpool
) and players under performing.
Carroll/D Bent
Young -- Rooney -- Downing
Carrick -- Wilshere
Baines/Cole -- Jones/Cahil -- Smalling/Jagielka -- Kelly/Johnson
Hart
England don't have Spain/Germany/Brazil/Argie standard players, but there not that shit that a poor Wales side should have drawn against them.
Anyway think I have rambled on for too long, enjoyed watching England play shite.
