Sideshow Bob
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Just switched on the second half to see Podolski score a screamer.
England are a tedious team to watch for sure. I've got no passion for watching them these days. 4-0 was good in the end though, the gloss added with three late goals.How awful was that half of football?
I think from a neutral point of view it is difficult for any team to go out and try to break down that sort of defence. Malta set out to frustrate, and for 45 minutes frustrate they did. Now all you England d fans will be crowing about how England should be able to break them down or pick the lock. Tell me what player England possess that does that for his premier league team? I think Ince was a bit disingenuous about Malta saying Spain or Germany would stick many past them. I didn't see that tonight. Yes Germany have Kroos who would definitely it Ely have moved the ball faster and smarter but against at least 10 behind the ball it is still difficult. So I think the 4 was a good result, was it flattering? No. Why England dominated and tired out a team then punished their lack of fitness/professionalism in the last 10. That is what England will have to do in near every match in their qualifying campaign. No-one comes out to play England, if they did there might be more early goals, but there is no guarantee they'd be for England!
ust wanted to say in here that 4-0 against Malta, looks a good result now as a neutral compared to France 0-0 against Luxembourg, no. They defo have better players against weaker defences so the 'not WBA' holds no water for me. As a neutral fed up with the moaning that 'world beaters' are not getting cricket scores against 'minnows', there are few minnows in international football now, as so proved in the last 4 days.
While in theory it would be nice to blood the youngsters in preparation for the Qatar WC in 2022, if we threw all the youngsters together now then they may struggle to qualify for the major tournaments, although we could still do it. I would blood a few more than we have been but a wholesale squad change isn't what is needed.
Even if we do go full scale youngster mad then to be honest a lot of those players you mentioned Max in the squad eventually won't be good enough and we could be saying again in 5-8 years, oh let's get rid of them and start again because it isnt working.
Oh and Jones not in your squad, BLASPHEMY!!
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