Monday, December 19, 2011

Are you sure that england will be champion in WC 2010?

England just doesn't have enough in the attacking third. Only Rooney represents a major threat. Crouch, Heskey, Cole, Defoe and Agbonlahor are just not world cl enough. Goalkeeping is also an issue. James, Green and Hart can't be comfortably relied on to be rock-solid for an entire tournament. England is much better than they have been with this current crop of players (Terry, Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney, Ferdinand, etc.). It appears they have finally found the right coach (Capello). But unless one of the non-Rooney strikers steps up and has the tournament of his life and James (or whoever) is rock-steady in goal, I don't see England winning it all. Also, they've historically had a bad record in penalty shootouts (and they're going to have to win one of those to win the cup). I think the semis is their ceiling.

No comments:

Post a Comment