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Re: end of the line
I cant understand why rooney was playing up front on his own... Rooneys strengths are running at defenders with pace and power, he cant do that with his back to goal laying the ball off to the 5 midfielders, who are supposed to come running through. Why not have played crouch with Rooney off him and drop lampard? I just think Sven tried to accomodate everybody in the hope that one of the players would come good on the day. I am afraid to say that it was a lack of tactical know how and the squad selection was wrong. I really did think this time england would win on penalties. they had the initiative. Ten men and portugal still could not break england down. Surely at that point the players should have taken heart and enjoyed taking the penalties? Did the manager point that out? Probably not. A really big chance to have progressed against a weakened portugal team who lacked a true centre forward. Did anybody notice scolari put Ronaldo up front just after Rooney got sent off? I think he did that in the attempt that an England player (probably Terry who was on a yellow) would take revenge. He changed it after 15 minutes or so putting postiga on if i remember after nobody took the bait.
Hopefully McLaren will adopt a style of play that suits the players better
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