A quick rant from me... ;)
I thought we played some poor football in the away end of the pitch at times. We seem to be so hell bent at making a pass as quickly as possible that the panic seems to cause us to pass to an England player that is either easily maked by two players or the pass is not good enough and it goes straight to the feet of Portugese player.
ARRGGHHH!
Its frustrating to watch, as teams like Man Utd don't play this poor yet they harvest a number of players who can play in the England team imo.
Also there was a distinct lack of crosses. Beckham at one point was about 5 yards away from the box on the right hand side, but kept passing it down the flank to Owen. He couldn't do anything with it so passed it back. This happened about two more times and I thought "why isn't he trying to make a cross? he is considered the worlds best crossed yet he's not doing it??!?"
I just feel we don't take on players enough in 1 v 1's and that some players appear to be too scared to take responsibility of the moment and do something good. Perhaps I'm going mad, but I swear that the team we had back in the build up to world cup 98 played far better and more confident football than the players are showing in the England team these days. We also got down the flanks far more and damn well got those crosses in!
Rooney looked good in places and I thought Ledley King did well too.
