Fuego, it's boring uninspiring football from a boring uninspiring team made by a boring uninspiring manager selection.
I said that when Roy made his squad announcement, and it's obvious that England will most likely play dire, well drilled, sti deep football and fade out of the Euros via 0-0 or 0-1 type results ...
Look, we're not remotely blessed with a lot of top class players at the moment. We have one genuinely top class player in Rooney but very few who would get in say the Netherlands, Spain or Holland team. Additionally, while there were 3 or 4 players like Lennon and Sturridge who could have been included in the
sqaud and were probably unlucky not to have been, its not as if there are a lot of players sitting at home who would have genuinely made a messive difference to the
starting 11. Equally, there are very few young players say in the U-21s who I can think of who could have been brought in to stregnthen the team
WE're also probably much stronger defensively with Hart, Terry, Cole and Parker than we are from an attacking perspective. We dont have the attacking players to play teams off the park and score 3 or more against a decent international team, we would do well to put 2 past a decent team. With these players most of our games will be probably 0-0, 1-0, 1-1, a few games might be 2-0 or 2-1....we wont be beating teams 3-2, 4-2, 4-3 etc or drawing 3-3
Therefore, given that we have Ukraine last and will have Rooney for that game, I would think that Roy will be thinking that if he can get 2-4 points from the first two games, then a win against Ukraine will put us through. So our first two games will be quite boring as the worst case scenario for us would be that we would only get 0 or 1 points in total from them and then possibly not be in control of our own destiny for the final game, which is probably our easiest.
So thats why I think he'll play with Young off Welbeck in the first two games rather than 2 out and out CFs and also pick Milner who will play as a tucked in hard working midfielder rather than a proper winger. Woy's priority will be to not lose against France and Sweden, rather than really going for the win, and I cant see thats the wrong thing to do as we just dont have the players
