Re: Will England move forward under Capello?

On May 29, 9:25 pm, mvagusta26 <mvagust...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In just a few days time the great and the good of European football
will be battling it out in Switzerland and Austria fighting for the
title of the best team in Europe.

Meanwhile, last night at Wembley, England played against the USA in
the third game of Fabio Capello’s revolution in the hope that they can
get back to the level whereby they might be allowed to join in with
Europe’s elite.

The fact that England comfortably won the game 2-0 was encouraging.
The fact that the side looked well organized was encouraging. The fact
that John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Steve Gerrard all played well as
usual was encouraging. After that little list though, there was little
to lift the heart of the deflated England fans.

The Capello revolution has not been an explosive one. The team he
picked last night, which seemed to be his first choice, contained
James, Terry, Ferdinand, A Cole, Beckham, Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney.
That’s eight players that have been the mainstay of previous failures
under both Sven Goran Eriksson and the hapless Steve McClaren.

Don’t get me wrong. With the possible exception of Frank Lampard, it
is difficult to see better English players than those that Capello
selected. The thing that I found depressing as an England supporter
was that we know these players are not good enough to succeed at the
very highest level. However well Capello gets them organized they are
a tried and not trusted team.

The aspect of the night that was even more depressing was the
substitutions the manager chose to make. With exciting young talent on
the bench like Dean Ashton, Ashley Young, Theo Walcott, Gabby
Agbonlahor and Phil Jagielka, who did Capello turn to? Peter Crouch,
Joe Cole, Gareth Barry and Wayne Bridge. Surely Capello didn’t need to
see what these players could do?

At half time, David Bentley was given his chance to stake his claim to
replace Beckham on the right side of England’s midfield. He didn’t
take it. In the first half the rare occasions that England looked
dangerous were all created by the LA Galaxy player. In the second
half, Bentley totally failed to create anything.

Well, you have just shown why an Italian was called in to take over
and englishmen tossed aside. The England team has not had any
confidence at all for about two years now. The first job is to bring
that back on the team. The way to do that is by winnig games. Capello
was not going to risk being up 2-0 and letting some kids ruin that. He
will do what he did last night for about anothe 5 games untill he
starts palying the "prospects" you talk about. Capello is coaching,
for the first time in his alife a team that is ***. And there is ***
waiting in the wings to take over. Confidence and organization will
help england win games. Will they ever win a WC or Euro. NEVER AGAIN.
Capello knows this. What he does know is he cam make the team exciting
at least for english fans.
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