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The Resurrection
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First and foremost I have to say that I’m pleased with the spirit shown by the side this tournament. It’s certainly got more general support by many people who had become disillusioned with the national side, myself included.
What I can’t accept however is the level of performance we witnessed yesterday against Italy. Yes I know we have injuries but that’s no excuse to how battered we were for large periods of the second half and throughout Extra Time.
I don’t care what anyone says this is one of the weakest Italian sides for some time and yet they made us look second rate. There is an unbelievable wankfest over Pirlo at the moment and yes he is a good player, but he will be made to look an absolute world beater when he is allowed all the time and space in the world to do as he pleases.
People say we lack quality and we have to accept it. Lack quality? Starting the game we had four players who have Champions League winners medals, other players with endless Premiership titles to their name and we put in a performance like that? I wouldn’t call it gutless because we defended like our lives depended on it, but you won’t see many a game where a side looks so clueless when in possession of the ball.
I think we’ve been caught up in the whole “we never expected to get out the group” thing. Why didn’t we? As bad as we have been recently I’d always expect us to get out the group stage of the Euros and into the QF’s.
There seemed to be a togetherness in this squad something we've not seen for sometime and we can take that with us, but I'm sure I'm not alone in worrying about the level of general quality we have shown.
"If the team are up for it and that crowd are up for it, they will give anybody a game down there and many players will be affected by their vociferous support. My dad told me once, nobody has an easy time there and their supporters are the fiercest in the land" - Nigel Clough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28SE0mUGjM
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The Resurrection
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| Slink. wrote on 25-06-2012 05:29 PM
I think at least (or I like to hope) that Woy has the basis on which to progress and build for the next tournament.
This team was pretty much thrown together and now that we're out of the game he can start looking at who else is available.
With a good video review of all the performances he can see wheere we went wrong. I like to think that Woy isn;t scared of the media and will make any changes he seems fit to progress just that little bit further.
ftr Res, did you not think that we played well for the first 30 mins? I think we outclassed them them but faded very quickly.
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First 25 we were excellent.
Pirlo was ineffective because Rooney or Welback was dropping back into the hole and near enough man marking him. He had no time on the ball and we benefitted from that.
Then for some reason we just stopped doing that.
"If the team are up for it and that crowd are up for it, they will give anybody a game down there and many players will be affected by their vociferous support. My dad told me once, nobody has an easy time there and their supporters are the fiercest in the land" - Nigel Clough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r28SE0mUGjM
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