28-06-2016, 14:14
(28-06-2016, 01:27)St Charles Owl Wrote: Shambles of a tournament from start to finish!! So many players getting nowhere near the form they have showed week in, week out for their clubs!!
Sterling is still young and may improve under Pep, but he should never have been on the plane let alone in the starting line up.
Hart is shocking, end of!!
Full backs are the only players to come out of this with any credit.
Cahill is a reserve squad player
Smalling is a good player and will keep developing
Alli, Barkely and Dier will improve with age, but let them play their game rather than restricting them!!
Kane has looked so jaded and tired but he will be class going forward.
Vardy is a one trick pony, but he should have been the pony used at this tournament, he will never be on better form than this season!!
Rashford was a breath of fresh air when he came on, took on his man and beat him most of the time, one fo rthe future, lets hope he develops at Manure.
Rooney, like Messi should just retire, he won't win anything now anyway.
Wilshire is a good player, like Maddix said I felt sorry for him in some ways due to his injuries and then being asked to play. He shouldn't have been taken this time round, not because he isn't good enough but because he isn't fit and has zero form currently. Still one for the team going forward.
Roy has done the right thing and resigned, and England should be able to find someone who can take the kids in this squad and make them into a team, but who is that person??
Shambles is a bit harsh over the whole tournament, against the Russains we were 30seconds away from winning and should've been well out of sight by the time they scored.
Against Wales a pretty even first half but let down by Hart, Roy went for it in the second half and it was pretty much one way traffic but in the end another game we deserved to win, even the Welsh pundits agreed on that.
Slovakia- another dominant performance and another game where the final ball or the strikers let us down, trouble with that game is Slovakia knew they were through with a point and didn't even try to attack. In the old system of 2 going trough they would've had to try and attack us and leave space in behind the Slovakia defence.
Overall we've probably created as many chances if not more than anyone else in this tournament but the finishing has been our problem, having said that who else would we have taken instead of Kane,Vardy,Rooney,Sturridge and Rashford(yes Roy should've given Rashford more game time)