So I remember before the England-Croatia game yesterday. Everyone was trying to talk about how the players on this England team wasn't world-class and they are just not good enough to make other leagues or other national teams and the fact that Croatia will wipe the floor with them in Zagreb. And I would tend to agree with them and that maybe some of these players are the product of the foreign talent that they have on the clubs. Yeah, England has talented players but still they might just be as good as the players that are around them on their club teams. For example Jon Terry has his best performances with Chelsea and the portuguese Carvalho and the same with Ferdinand and Manchester United with the Vidic.
A day later after a Theo Walcott hat trick and a demolitioning of Croatia. Everyone is talking about this tean like they are going to win the World Cup and they have everyone in the media just peeing in their pants talking about this team. It was only a day ago where people said that they did not have a chance of winning and would probably be grateful with a point out of this game. Now they are currently on top of the world in their terms, but i'm going to stay cynical because there could be one game that brings back in the England sucks chants for the media. And don't forget you have to re-incorporate Steven Gerrard back on the team once he gets healthy or do you? I don't know these questions will be answered by the next year when qualifying will end and hopefully for football (aka soccer) sake that England will be in this world cup and prove the doubters (and that includes me) wrong.
Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard; that is the real question. What to do with him? Should you put him back in the lineup as an outside player or try to get him inside or to just leave him out of the starting 11 altogether. I think most England manager would be scared of leaving one of their "world-class" players on the bench but I don't know about Capello. He seems like he would be the kind of guy who would keep egos in check. I would think about doing this, when Gerrard gets healthy and they keep on with these results, leave him on the bench, because he should not be playing out wide I like Cole, Walcott, or Bentley being out there. They are natural born wide guys and they should be the ones playing their over just star guys. Maybe if Lampard isn't playing up to his capabilities you switch them on and off because it's obvious that they cannot play together, we've seen it many of times and it just doesn't work. And they play the same way with their club teams and probably both are on form with their club teams, then Capello should base what he should do with those two on national team training sessions and the games that they play with England. The best chance of England winning is either having one or the other on the feld not both.
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