England v Italy

[MCFC4EVR]

The optimism after the loss was annoying making out Italy are World beaters when both their goals came from very poor defending the winning goal everyone could see coming apart from the manager. Two rags cost us the game one of which only gets in for supposedly being good at defending from the front.

 

[Bluekiwi]

I was delighted when Super Mario scored

I am English by birth but my pick is Argentina!

Glory hunter. Like a Norwegian supporting United.

No, I just want Pablo & Sergio to get World Cup medals.
And FYI I was born and lived half a mile from the swamp but it never crossed my mind to support the rags - from 1955 to 1974 (when we left the UK) I stood on the terraces at Maine Road week in week out.

 

[IH8MUFC]

Thought we did well in spells but we have no quality finishers at all. Italy were no great shakes, slightly better than us, and we had chances but no finishers.

Sturridge was the best finisher in the prem last season. Scored nearly 1 in every 3 shots.

 

[IH8MUFC]

Cracking dummy by Pirlo;

Sturridge left marking thin air.

No one within 15 yards of Marchiso

No reason to let Marchisio unmarked.

He is miles out to be fair. It was well worked and was a great finish.

 

[hutton who blue]

Great footage. A magician capturing and inviting an audience member to witness the finale.

 

[Cheesy]

I must be living in a parallel universe to everyone in the media and Woy & the players.

All I've heard since the match is how England were unlucky, that we deserved a point and that there were loads of positives to take from the game.

Seriously, I didn't see it like that at all. I thought it was a poor performance overall with our only plan seemingly being to hope for a moment of 'brilliance' from someone resulting in a goal.

Also, I fail to see how losing narrowly to an Italian team who weren't actually that good can be seen as a positive in any way whatsoever.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

We looked abit clueless. Roy just bombed everyone forward, completely forgetting that they also have to defend. It all looked very amateurish.

 

[bluemoon32]

I must be living in a parallel universe to everyone in the media and Woy & the players.

All I've heard since the match is how England were unlucky, that we deserved a point and that there were loads of positives to take from the game.

Seriously, I didn't see it like that at all. I thought it was a poor performance overall with our only plan seemingly being to hope for a moment of 'brilliance' from someone resulting in a goal.

Also, I fail to see how losing narrowly to an Italian team who weren't actually that good can be seen as a positive in any way whatsoever.

+1
Hopefully a much better performance against Uruguay

 

[waspish]

Apparently out of 46 teams that have lost there 1st game only 4 teams got out of there group! England are coming home after the cost rica game..

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I must be living in a parallel universe to everyone in the media and Woy & the players.

All I've heard since the match is how England were unlucky, that we deserved a point and that there were loads of positives to take from the game.

Seriously, I didn't see it like that at all. I thought it was a poor performance overall with our only plan seemingly being to hope for a moment of 'brilliance' from someone resulting in a goal.

Also, I fail to see how losing narrowly to an Italian team who weren't actually that good can be seen as a positive in any way whatsoever.

+1

Exciting start, followed by 80 mins of dominance punctuated by a few decent attacks, one of which nicked us a goal.

Italian midfield never put under stress for long portions of the game, Henderson and Gerard looked overwhelmed by the Italian midfield because we were playing with FOUR FORWARDS, rather than attacking midfielders.

If England want to play with full backs that get caught in the opposition half every time a midfielders technical inability gives the ball away, then we need to play a 5-3-2 defense that transitions into a 3-5-2 attack. The mere fact that a back SIX (4-2) were overrun by TWO ITALIANS breaking forward to support their lone striker is scary!

As for their first goal, great shot through traffic gave keeper no chance. Second goal....schoolboy error when you have two CHs marking one CF and he pulls off you to the far post for a header! Shearer made a career out of that move, as has every center forward who could head the ball since 1893, so far Cahill to be ball watching, when Jagielka was already in front of him is a joke! Easy peasy, unfortunately!

I honestly don't expect England to get a SINGLE POINT from the tournament now, and may not score again!