Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
Think you hit the nail on the head. We're clearly technically behind a lot of the other countries but it's great to see the team showing fighting spirit and working so hard for each other. That's not always seemed to be the case in past tournaments when we're have had teams that were supposed to be better (on paper anyway!)
Aye.. a good togetherness, but I'm still worried by our lack of possession.. Italy have the players to hurt us. Gerrard is working hard, putting good balls in the box, but he's still going for roy of the rovers match winning passes too much.. we give away possession within 3-4 passes constantly playing an unnecessarily hard or long pass.. its like watching kids play at times; making passes when you can't see the man.

We've ridden our look, I'd be happier if we looked secure at the back, but we don't. Overall happy enough, think we've hit our minimum requirement so hopefully the players will have no pressure on them now.

So far only Germany scare me. I think Chelsea damaged Spain with what they did to Barca. But those 2 remain stand out the best, but although we're one of the weakest teams in the last 8 I fancy us against anyone else in there..