Steve McClaren has been heavily criticised for using a 3-5-2 formation. Yes, England were poor last night, BUT...
Let's look at England's track record: We play the system we're most comfortable with in qualifying, beating lots of mediocre teams and qualify for the finals comfortably. Then we come unstuck at the finals when we come up against the decent teams. One of the reasons for this (and one of the main criticisms of Sven) is that we have been too predictable. We only knew one way to play so there were no surprises for the opposition. We became a one-trick pony and easy to beat.
Seeing this, Steve McClaren tries a system that the players are less familiar with. Doing so means that we will inevitably drop a few points in qualifying but we'll hopefully be more versatile at the finals because of it.
Granted, the defence needs more practice, but the FORWARDS would not go FORWARD. That is inexcusable and the blame there must lie with the players.
2006-10-12
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