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Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf
eh I dont blame Hodgson there, I don't think these two games are meaningless
England need to go up against a possession team like Spain, and a team like France with quick moving midfielders, so that they can see what it's going to be like next summer
they played the whole game on the counter yesterday on purpose, even after going down, because they hadn't been able to practice it at all in qualifying
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I'm not saying that the games are meaningless (on the contrary), I'm just saying that Hodgson sucks at man management. Carrick is by far the oldest player in the team and he barely even plays 90 minutes for United nowadays (only twice this season), so there's absolutely no reason to have him on the pitch for 90 minutes. I understand that Englands midfield options are very limited, but he still had Shelvey on the bench and if he had actually started Dier next to Carrick (which would have been the obvious thing to do), he could have brought on Alli und Delph for them later.
Now Hodgson calls up Jesse Lingard for the France game. Why not Young? Way too early for Lingard, but it seems 2-3 good games for a decent team are enough to make the England squad nowadays.