Will get done by any team that's properly tactically savvy.I know exactly what's gonna happen in the WC.
We'll look alright against top teams, playing on the counter but this team will look utterly clueless when we play someone who will sit back and soak it up.
3 CBs with Dier and Henderson in front. No tempo and no penetration.
That team is horribly lacking in creativity. It's actually scary that we don't even have any options on the bench.https://team-picker.files.bbci.co.uk/england-xi-f6f584f630e01cfb362a704a683a07c9.html
My starting XI
-------------------------Pope-------------------
---------Walker-----Maguire----Stones---
Trippier----Henderson----Dier------Rose
------------------Sterling------Alli---------------
-------------------------Kane------------------------
I know people will be smiling because Wilshire isn't in the squad, my question is this,
Whatever you think of him and however badly you think he does what he does, who is it in the squad that does what he does?
That team is horribly lacking in creativity. It's actually scary that we don't even have any options on the bench.
We'll beat Tunisia and Panama (well, I fucking hope so...), but it'll inevitably get frustrating when we come up against a half-decent defence.
Shelvey would have been my choice.I know people will be smiling because Wilshire isn't in the squad, my question is this,
Whatever you think of him and however badly you think he does what he does, who is it in the squad that does what he does?
Reckon the plan is to let better teams have the ball and counter them at pace.
I don't disagree and I'm not really arguing he should be in the squad, I just can't see the alternative, it seems to me that we have decided what he does isn't important.No-one but the thing that he does isn't effective anymore, if anyone has watched Wilshere will know this season he hit peak in Jan/Feb but has since then gone downhill and has become just another average midfielder, doesn't influence games enough anymore and plays on the periphery of matches.
Plus he's not fit and hasn't been 100% fit for a long time.
On form I agree with you absolutely and I thought he would have at least have made this initial squad, especially with Vardy ready to make the runs ahead of him.Shelvey would have been my choice.
No, seriously. When he has time and space, he can be majestic on the ball. He was pinging balls around like no ones business against us. Certainly would have him over Loftus-Cheek or Welbeck.
Delph is and should be in because he can play left back too. If only Southgate utilised this strength of his and dropped Rose or Young to make room for more creativity.I don't disagree and I'm not really arguing he should be in the squad, I just can't see the alternative, it seems to me that we have decided what he does isn't important.
On form I agree with you abso and I thought he would have at least have made this initial squad, especially with Vardy ready to make the runs ahead of him.
I must have missed the games where Delph proved himself the better player.
So are you saying he should be in but not for the reasns Southgate seems to have put him in?Delph is and should be in because he can play left back too. If only Southgate utilised this strength of his and dropped Rose or Young to make room for more creativity.
I don't know why he's been picked by Southgate but he'd be in my squad because he's a decent CM and he's a great option for back up left back. It would then mean only one of Rose and Young would need to be selected, making room for a useful extra player or a wildcard pick.So are you saying he should be in but not for the reasns Southgate seems to have put him in?
Sounds like you are saying he is the better player but Southgate is right not to pick him.I think Southgate would have recognised Shelveys form and ability but he wanted to go with solid players that he could trust to do a job
Shelvey has such a fragile mentality you never quite know what your going to get and I don’t think he’s shown a consistent enough run of maturity
Chances are he’d do very little and or get himself sent off so Southgate obviously came to the conclusion that he couldn’t trust him with one of the jerseys
Also squad dynamics on a pressurised World Cup away tour with different personalities
Danny fucking Welbeck. We might as well not bother boarding the plane
I don't agree with the defensive selections. Why do we need 3 Rbs? And 4 centre halves plus Dier?
I'd have taken out Cahill and brought in another midfielder, probably Wilshere. I'd have also gone for Sancho and Sessegnon over Welbeck and Young. Glad Loftus Cheek is in again.
Wilshere surely. Especially with Lallana being a doubt.