Frankly it looks like England don’t based on the first half of tonight’s match against Poland. He might well be the best English player but the team seems much more balanced without him in it.
Not only that but the movement has been excellent as has the movement of the ball and the possession of it with the structured passing to build up the pressure on the opposition.
This is the England team performance we should have been seeing throughout the qualifiers not now that we are in a position of already having qualified. Perhaps the relative easy group that we found ourselves in was of detriment to the team performance as I think the team only truly shines when the pressure is really on against a difficult opponent.
Conversely now having qualified the pressure is off a bit so the team can relax and this also allows the team to play it’s best now we are playing for the honour of topping the group against the only truly worthy rivals in the group.
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