by Durhamfootman » Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:56 am
Don't get me wrong..... Very happy with the playing ethos that Roy is trying to instill into the side. There was a stat given in the first half that only Spain have made more passes than England in the whole of qualifying thus far. Sounds far fetched, but there you go. Happy with that. Not so happy that everything goes belly up whenever a team exerts any kind of pressure on us. Press England and they start to make mistakes... once they start to make mistakes they make more mistakes.... suddenly, and from a position of some strength, there is a full blown rout going on. That is disappointing really.
First half.... everybody looked good (except Wellbeck diving in the box.... ponce!). Second half Wellbeck, cleverley and Carrick went walkabout, Rooney got isolated, and everybody else got the jitters. We won no ball at all in the middle of the park, we lost every 50-50, and because we kept trying to push forward, every time we gave the ball away, and we gave away a lot of ball, we got caught out for pace on the counter. It was fairly horrifying really. Difficult to understand why, when under that sort of pressure, that it took well over half an hour for a change to be made.
In theory the way they changed tactics in the second half meant that we had an extra midfielder...... you'd never know it though because that extra midfielder was joining every other midfielder in trying the clear the ball off our own line for the bulk of the time.
This was Montenegro, not Germany, we were playing. My hoped for 3-0 win should have been very achievable. Certainly looked on at half time.
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