England vs Sweden - Group D Matchday 2 - Page 5

On June 16 2012 04:44 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
Anyone else find it sad we need to resort to defensive football and playing on the counter versus Sweden of all teams?

On June 16 2012 04:45 Hassybaby wrote:


Generally I'd agree with you, but Welbeck is pretty badass on the counter so

On June 16 2012 04:50 Denzil wrote:


That's won England the champions league

If it ain't broke don't fix it

On June 16 2012 04:51 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:


We're never going to play like Spain obviously.

But 10 years ago Germany were a fucking awful side who played crap football with a load of workhorses and one class player (Ballack). We're in that exact same situation with Rooney and we need a total rethink of the way we train our players in this country.

Hodgson might get results in the short term vs crap teams like Sweden but we'll never win anything or make any real progress without ditching long ball, 4-4-2 and punting it up to a big man.

We need a lot less Carroll's, Milner's and Parker's and a lot more Paul Scholes's.

On June 16 2012 04:56 MaYuu wrote:


Note that Englad has not beaten sweden since 1968 (besides some friendly game). Pretty cocky to call a team you can't beat crap.

On June 16 2012 04:59 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:


On my scale of teams playing the worst football in tournament I'd rate you as third:

1st Ireland
2nd Greece
3rd Sweden
4th England

It seems to me that you're the definition of a one man team and your entire game plan is to pass to Ibrahimovic and hope he runs past 4 players and scores from 30 yards. Failing that there's not really any plan other than to run around a bit and punt more balls into Zlatan it the hope he makes something happen from nothing.

On June 16 2012 05:04 gullberg wrote:
The fact that Granqvist is associated with Milan/Inter is fucking insane.

Oh and really I don't think Sweden is playing like shit this game, it's more the difference of 1 great player compared to several great players.