What a shambles the qualifying stage has become for England it looks pretty bleak, but a closer examination of what has gone wrong reveals to me that we have really only had one bad result and that was the Algeria game.
I think the problem goes back to when the draw was made, when the opposition was announced it almost looked like a bye for England, after all it was only Algeria and Slovenia to get by for an easy 6 points and maybe 9 and easy qualification.
That’s where I see the problem the England squad have gone into the first stages complacent, not in a competitive mood, in their minds they were already thinking of the knockout stages, in truth they did not play that badly against the USA who incidentally are only two places behind them in the world rankings.
Nobody really turned up for the Algeria game because they expected to stroll through it what a shock when Algeria started to come at them, even then England should have been able to turn things around but Capello when it mattered failed to inspire with his substitutions, we lacked a plan B.
When it became obvious that we would not get things our own way we should have switched tactics and Capello didn’t, his substitutions were really just like for like, and why on earth did he not throw on Joe Cole I am not his biggest fan but why take him if you are not going to use him.
I see a different England coming out against Slovenia this Wednesday, after all this is the same squad that won nine out of ten qualifying matches they have not become rubbish overnight, now that the pressure is on us to get a result I believe we will, I see a comfy 3-0 maybe 3-1 result and then on to knockouts and who knows.
I still think Argentina will be the eventual champions but what’s life without a dream so COME ON ENGLAND.
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