Pathetic. Ask around the world how England plays? Aggressive, fast, full of passion. Where was that? In the last 15 Mins when they realised time was running up they increased the pace a bit.
Apart from the total lack of motivation (nor MacClarens fault I just think the players don't want to play...when they play teams like France, Argentina all of a sudden they play better...) a defensive midfielder was missing. I was surprised McClaren didn't go with a 3-5-2 it would have stopped a lot of the dangerous counter attacks. But when the team passes like a pub team even that won't help much.
Rooney is still way off form and that's noticed in the lack of creativity up front, as with Joe Cole missing.
Crouch surprisingly was one of the better players, even putting in some very good passes.
Don't we have another right back? With all due respect to Neville who has been a very good player over the years but he is too slow for that position. The amount of times they just ran past him...
A SWP or a Lenon should be playing instead of Downing, especially in games where you need to get past a defender or two.
Have to feel sorry for Gerrard, that was probably the 10th time he's hit the woodwork this season...
Overall the team needs someone to kick them up the behind. Whenever the defence has to work down to a poor mistake I wanna see a defender or anybody give someone a rollicking. There's hardly any fire in the team unless the crowd, or the ref gets them upset...cause the manager is definetely not gonna shout their ear off...
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