Rooney's Injury and The World Cup
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:25 pm
As I type this there are only 5 weeks to go until the biggest football fest on the planet, a month of non stop football.....brilliant!
Yet at the weekend, our English hopes were, in my opinion broken like Rooney's 4th metatarsal.
What are your opinions on our English chances now?
Who do you think Sven should play?
And who do you think will win?
Personally I don't think we stand a chance, even less chance without Wazza but will gladly eat great slices of humble pie if I am wrong.
The feasible solution would be to put Carrick in a holding role infront of the usual back four allowing Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham (although this system would not suit him, and if he wasn't the icon he is wouldn't be playing at all) to 'roam' in front of him. If we meat a team with a superb attack, such as Brazil, Becks cna drop back to hold alongside Carrick while we hit the good team on the break, either with long balls or pace andinginuity. This would leave Joe Cole as a second striker playing off Owen (another who get in on reputation rather than present merit).
I am deliberating on putting money of the Czech Republic to win. They were the best team at Euro 2004, the climate will suit them, most of their starting X1 are at the peaks of their powers. You can't look past Brazil either, but I just dont think the European climate suits them, and with aging fullbacks and a leaky defence are looking strong but not unconquerable.
Any thoughts?
Yet at the weekend, our English hopes were, in my opinion broken like Rooney's 4th metatarsal.
What are your opinions on our English chances now?
Who do you think Sven should play?
And who do you think will win?
Personally I don't think we stand a chance, even less chance without Wazza but will gladly eat great slices of humble pie if I am wrong.
The feasible solution would be to put Carrick in a holding role infront of the usual back four allowing Lampard, Gerrard and Beckham (although this system would not suit him, and if he wasn't the icon he is wouldn't be playing at all) to 'roam' in front of him. If we meat a team with a superb attack, such as Brazil, Becks cna drop back to hold alongside Carrick while we hit the good team on the break, either with long balls or pace andinginuity. This would leave Joe Cole as a second striker playing off Owen (another who get in on reputation rather than present merit).
I am deliberating on putting money of the Czech Republic to win. They were the best team at Euro 2004, the climate will suit them, most of their starting X1 are at the peaks of their powers. You can't look past Brazil either, but I just dont think the European climate suits them, and with aging fullbacks and a leaky defence are looking strong but not unconquerable.
Any thoughts?