What was worse in that first half? Slovenia's financial projections kit. Kampl's 80's action film villain haircut. England's defending for the goal. I'm going to go with the third one, I think.
Over cautious selection by Hodgson, our midfield's simply too defensive. Hopefully Roy will see the problem with playing ****e defenders now. Lousy throw from Jones, Smalling lets his main go on his blindside and Cahill puts the final nail in the coffin by trying to play offside when it was never on and was clearly a needless risk. You can't tell me Shawcross, Jagielka and Clyne wouldn't do better than that.
Great work from Lallana but was that a great strike from Wilshere? I thought it was just horrible 'keeping but Andy Townsend seems to disagree with me.
Rooney, finally scores. He's been poor for most of the night but fairplay he's kept going and stepped up when we needed him there.
Bentaleb scored in Algeria's 4-0 win over the Seychelles: Adebayor also scored, either once or twice depending on the report, as Togo came from behind to beat Liberia 2-1. Can't find any footage of it to clarify things, but the second goal was supposed to be a good one and definitely his. Any buyers? Please?
Seen nothing from England to provide any grounds for optimism come the Euro Championship. Beating poor nations unconvincingly is no preparation for the likes of Spain or Germany or even Holland or France or Italy.
Agreed. The only possible chink of light is going forward. The defence, however, needs radical surgery!
You can tell Harry Kane's a big deal, he features in the FIFA '16 trailer please log in to view this image
We also seem to be the only non-Champions League side to get any real time, for some reason. Imagine this at the start of last season, though. Pele, Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar and... Kane? The suggestion would've been laughable. Still pretty weird.
It can go one better - he could also be next to Messi on the cover: https://www.easports.com/uk/fifa/cover-vote please log in to view this image
