I certainly don’t rate him for England. No one is quick scrambling for his England stats, wonder why. He was shit v Nigeria, if you don’t think he was then I can only imagine you thought rashford was world class last night? Or can you reasonably assess someone’s game if it isn’t Sterlings? For England he is worse than Rashford, feel free to do the research.
You have just to a tee described every performance from sterling in an England shirt but because rashford plays for United you can see it and say it. May I ask in an England shirt what sterling brings to the table to make him a guaranteed starter ahead of rashford?
Good point, can't believe he was crow barred into central midfield. Along with Kane on the corners it was one of the most ludicrous decisions I've seen a football manager make
Please don't remind me, that tournament still infuriates meYou mean you weren't inspired by the 15 yard out of play under no pressure against Russia? Or his 'run around and try to get some energy into the team" contribution vs Iceland? No pleasing some people!
Think that'sin reply to my Stones comment, if so how should a misplaced pass that gets intercepted neat the halfway line, shpuld give a goal away.
Yes he misplaces passes most weeks, name me a footballer with 100% pass completion every week.
Spot-on. Stones gets a lot of unfair criticism. He plays out from the back and that includes taking risks. Better than just hoofing it to the opposition as the so-called pundits want him to do. I see they repeated the lie that he has had four starts for City in four months without mentioning he was injured for three months. He was brilliant in the first half of last season and will be aa key player for us next season.Stones had the best pass completion stats of any player making multiple of starts in the Premier League last season and last night was in line with his usual average of 95% + completion.
I have and neither players stats are great in an England shirt, it's the way they are portrayed that's the issue here and you know it. Peter Crouch's stats are better than all the England strikers so by your logic he should still be getting called up.
Spot-on. Stones gets a lot of unfair criticism. He plays out from the back and that includes taking risks. Better than just hoofing it to the opposition as the so-called pundits want him to do. I see they repeated the lie that he has had four starts for City in four months without mentioning he was injured for three months. He was brilliant in the first half of last season and will be aa key player for us next season.
I certainly don’t rate him for England. No one is quick scrambling for his England stats, wonder why. He was shit v Nigeria, if you don’t think he was then I can only imagine you thought rashford was world class last night? Or can you reasonably assess someone’s game if it isn’t Sterlings? For England he is worse than Rashford, feel free to do the research.
Some of the best football players to ever play the game still had shit stats for england in the past and weren't close to as good for their club sides as they were for england. But even putting that to one side and looking purely on stats neither have been that great for england on that front. sterling has 2 goals 11 assists in 38app while rashford has 3 goals 2 assists in 19. So to say sterling has been worse for england even on just a statistical basis is wrong. But more so than that football is not played on stats and anyone who has been watching england will tell you sterling is often the drive behind many of england's attacks in their moves. He links, creates space and finds space so much better than rashford. Sterling was wasteful against nigeria and I personally thought he had a poor game but in the earlier friendlies against much better sides in Italy and netherlands he was pretty much the heart of englands best attacks. Just because he doesn't score enough and it doesn't show up in the goals stats doesn't mean he's not the most creative player on the team in most of the games. I mean he didn't score in the game below against Italy yet was far more influential in that game than rashford was against Costa Rica but you would probably think he was shit because he skied one chance and didn't score a long-ranger.