Euro 2016 Thread

Alli obviously belongs in a more advanced position. Laughable he was deployed so deep.

Well if you have woy as manager....anything is possible........

On the bright side if we fail , Rooney will most likely be vilified in the media as the fall guy and we won't have to see him play again in an England shirt.

Everyone thinks he is ****, but we persist with him anyway. He is our very own Olivier Giroud. A useless lamppost.

Based on this dire performance, I think it's safe to say Rooney has passed it and quite simply can't play up front and down the middle anymore. Too many times did I see him come back deep, plus Alli had to play in a deeper role. Rooney has to make way and let the youth take the attacking charge.

Vardy Kane

Alli

Rooney Milner Dier

Rose Smalling Cahill Clyne

Hart


This is are strongest available side with the best formation.

I admit it's not too offensive, but hey ho!

I think the side and formation look great although I'm still not sure about Milners inclusion.......


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I do agree, slightly.

I think he gives touch more experience and he's a workhorse and provides, arguably, more threat than Rooney.

That Alli > Kane partnership will tear defences apart and then having Vardy on top of that is bloody incredible... Roy can't throw this all away by putting Rooney in CAM because it'll bring our team to snail pace.

Wilshere is England's best midfielder, you can see that his introduction and ability to dribble and make forward passes injected pace into the game and helped with Sterling to get the goal when before England were passing it side to side and trying to hit diagonals to Walker.

Vardy is great against the top teams who will play a high line otherwise I'm pretty sure he'll be useless.

Rooney shouldn't be starting but he'll start...

Rooney is going to start, so the best place to put him is deep imo. He can do the simple things well, although he excels at nothing. Essentially he should be playing the water carrier role and helping Dier defend/win the ball back quickly... then passing it to more talented players. Forget about him being Scholes and spraying balls across the pitch, as we have seen such attempts from him at the cross field balls have a high percentage failure rate.

Imo the leadership aspect is underrated and if we do hit hard times I think he is not a bad person to have on the field. And since the expectations are low with him, I think he will be fine. We do have a very inexperienced team when it comes to delivering trophies. The mentality aspect is very important given tight margins. Hence, Rooney needs to Deschamps. I do think he can be good in terms of his work rate and tenacity at the middle of the park... he's nullified Ozil a few times as far as I remember.

Now...

I think we should drop Vardy and put Sterling on the wing. And replace Milner with Wilshere (Wilshere is so very composed on the ball, that is priceless). That is the most sensible option I think. Sturridge should be coming on if Kane is not hitting exceptional form.

Roy has tried Sterling up top in the game against Australia, I think it can work as he can drift on the wings where needed. Being at City he will have picked up the tactical intelligence to adapt. Also, I thought Sterling gave a good account of himself against Real Madrid so he certainly is a very competent player.

Drop a PL winner for a flop - top logic.

Playing two strikers will not work as we will have no width in the team. Too narrow. Vardy is not a wide player. The problem with England is we always try to play people out of position because the coaching team are too afraid to drop them.

Also, Sterling made an immediately strong contribution when he came on, good assist.