Drawing against Russian Federation and narrowly beating Wales isn’t evidence of a squad which can sustain six changes.
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Slovakia, knowing a point could be enough to advance, rarely played in England’s final third.
Slovakia’s Peter Pekarik falls on top of England’s Dele Alli during the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between Slovakia and England at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne, France, Monday, June 20, 2016.
“It was only a matter of time before we would have got the goal”.
Slovakia’s defenders kept their team in the game, while goalkeeper Matus Kozacik made some decisive saves.
“You look at the England performances and, for me, they’ve been really really good”.
England wasted a very good opportunity to finish top of the group and that is what really counts, not the numbers behind the result.
“To go far in the tournament you need fresh legs”, Hart said.
There is no doubt that England have some talented players but you’ve got to feel that Roy Hodgson’s seemingly indecisive nature is holding them back, and it looks like it will cost England dearly against better opposition. “I don’t think France will be playing in the same way as Russia, Wales and Slovakia played against us. That’s the objective situation”, Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who is under pressure over the team’s poor performance, told Tass after the loss to Wales. They are young and, when they went into it, everyone was saying we lacked a bit of experience.
“We’re not doomed yet”, he said. We just get stuck in.
“The England boys over there are exactly the same – they don’t care”.
Henderson admits it is becoming a concern and wants Hodgson’s men to start taking their chances or face up to the prospect of going home.
Failing to kill-off teams has become the tale of the tournament for England following a campaign that promised so much but has delivered too little. The press have built him up to be the “man’s footballer” because he drinks Red Bull and doesn’t do weights.
It was an outcome that had seemed unlikely when England beat them 2-1 last Thursday, and the thousands of Welsh supporters could have been forgiven for a feeling of disbelief as they celebrated every touch of the ball with “oles” before finally feeling free to chant “we are top of the league”. “We have this habit of putting people up there and chopping their heads off”.
While some pundits and fans have tried to highlight positives in England’s performance so far at Euro 2016, the truth is that they have generally been miserable.
He was also the first player since Milan Baros in Euro 2004 to score in each of his first three matches at a European Championship finals, becoming the national side’s highest goalscorer in major tournaments in the process.
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“At times, Bale’s won games extraordinarily”, Coleman continued.
