Roy Hodgson has announced his
23-man squad for this summer's World Cup in Brazil, plus seven players on
standby.
It was refreshing to see Hodgson pick a number
of young players, but there were still a few questions marks.
For instance why on earth are Smalling and Jones
going? They’ve both been average at best this season and neither of them has,
since they moved to United, held down a regular first team place or had a run
of games in their preferred position. In fact in Jones’ case what is his best
position? From the outside looking in he seems to be jack of all trades master
of fuck all, and yet he’s going to the World Cup!
Also why has Hodgson gone with nine midfielders and
only one right back? Surely it would have made more sense to drop Lampard and
take back up for Johnson.
It’s so depressing to me that Johnson is the
best right back we can muster he’s awful, every time I see Liverpool he’s
always out of position and charging around like a headless chicken trying to make
up for being too far up the pitch when he should be defending!
Anyway, all in all this is an exciting squad and hopefully
the young players will:
a) get a chance
b) replicate their club form at the tournament.
As Hodgson has promised to take risks, I hope he
follows through on this and doesn’t play with Lampard and
Gerrard in the middle and Welbeck out on the left; hopefully he’ll go for a
starting XI more like this:
Hart
Johnson
Cahill
Jagielka
Baines
Gerrard
Henderson
Wilshere
Sterling
Rooney
Sturridge
I’ve gone for an XI set-up in the diamond Liverpool
play but it can always be changed to a 4-3-3 and then Lallana or
Oxlade-Chamberlain could replace Wilshere.
If England did play this way and
played at the pace Liverpool do then whatever happened we’d be a joy to watch,
and Hodgson wouldn’t be as cavalier as Rodgers so if we were 2-0 up he’d go
more defensive and see the result out.
I still think it will be a struggle to get out of the
group but playing this way would give us a better chance than if we did the
usual.
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