I disagree about Roy doing a fanstastic job

I'm not going to go into great detail because it could start a gay off or a never ending argument and I don't want that because it's late already!

One point I will make is that Roy's deep lying tactics alllowed Pirlo acres of space. If England were more positive and pushed higher up the pitch then he would have had less time and space to think on the ball. Simple tactics and an obvious problem from Sunday night, but Hodgson never changed our set up.

Pirlo produced a killer ball several times and Italy would have easily beaten England in the ninety minutes if they had somebody better (or more in form) than Balotelli up front. England were extremely lucky throughout the tournament and last Sunday was no exception to that in my opinion.

Posted By: Common Sense Police on June 28th 2012 at 00:05:07

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Interesting post-mortem of the England Italy game from the Zonal Marking guy (Other Football) - Cart Gap Disco, Jun 27, 23:32:41
- I think that most arm chair football fans had already worked that one out! (Other Football) - Common Sense Police, Jun 27, 23:39:07
  - But gives no credit whatsoever to a side who had two world class (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 27, 23:52:29
    - I disagree about Roy doing a fanstastic job (Other Football) - Common Sense Police, Jun 28, 00:05:07
      - To be honest I think it was about personnel. I don't expect him to play that way forever (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 28, 00:07:13
        
        I hope not, but he set Liverpool up like that! (Other Football) - Common Sense Police, Jun 28, 00:15:52
        
        Absolutely, and he changed nothing even with us getting stuffed (Other Football) - phrankin, Jun 28, 09:49:48

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