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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

At international level we’ve not had a world class deep lying controlling midfielder since Scholes and even then managers were so obsessed with Gerrard and Lampard that they shifted him out wide. Carrick should have played an awful lot more for England than he did. Before that though you’re probably looking at all the way back to Alan Ball for a player who can take the ball off the back 4 under pressure and release it on the half turn and find passes.

Verrati did it last night. Pirlo has done it against us, Xavi, Modric, Kroos Zidane etc. They’ve all had that ability to do it. If you want to control too matches you have to have this type of midfielder in your team. England are obsessed with either box to box goal scorers like Lampard and Gerrard, or defensive shields like Rice. We don’t really value someone who pulls strings from deep. That’s why even though we have decent players now we struggle to keep possession under pressure whereas Italy played out our press numerous times through Verrati and Jorginho.
The failure of the Gerrard Scholes and Lampard midfield was England had a scandanavian disciple of 442.

Scholes.

Gerrard Lampard


That midfield setup would have easily worked but sadly the golden era of that ridiculous era of English talent with those 3, Rooney, Campbell, Ferdinand, Terry, A Cole, Owen, Hargreaves, J Cole, G Neville, Seaman was wasted by a one trick pony 442 merchant.

James.

G Neville Ferdinand Terry/Campbell A Cole

Scholes

Gerrard Lampard

J Cole

Rooney Owen

This team in a 442 diamond would have probably won Euro 2004 and would have been in the mix for 2006 world cup, like i said Sven Goran was influenced throughout his career by british coaching that was the blueprint in scandanavia in the 70's and 80's that laughably by coincidence ruined England's best era where he put that backwards coaching and ruined our golden era decades later, remember Sven's obsession trying to shoehorn a player to play left wing, he didn't have the footballing insight to go to a 442 diamond and still have Scholes and J cole in the same team.
 
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Are they just sticking something on top of that awful stand which is allready there?
Back of the away is awful, you can barely see and children sitting near the front get hit with coins and piss
No, they plan to build out from the existing footprint of the Road End to the edge of that existing staff car park which abuts Stanley Park. The old stand comes out and the new Stand will start at that furthest point, I'd guess.
 

At international level we’ve not had a world class deep lying controlling midfielder since Scholes and even then managers were so obsessed with Gerrard and Lampard that they shifted him out wide. Carrick should have played an awful lot more for England than he did. Before that though you’re probably looking at all the way back to Alan Ball for a player who can take the ball off the back 4 under pressure and release it on the half turn and find passes.

Verrati did it last night. Pirlo has done it against us, Xavi, Modric, Kroos Zidane etc. They’ve all had that ability to do it. If you want to control too matches you have to have this type of midfielder in your team. England are obsessed with either box to box goal scorers like Lampard and Gerrard, or defensive shields like Rice. We don’t really value someone who pulls strings from deep. That’s why even though we have decent players now we struggle to keep possession under pressure whereas Italy played out our press numerous times through Verrati and Jorginho.
Our 8 to 18 coaching isnt aimed at that, its about getting middle distance runners who are good at getting their stats up ready for PL teams.
 

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