re: England 26 man provisional squad for Euro 2016

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Which should get you no where starting for England. But the lack of midfield talent is bad.

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Well it is about balance. If, and this is a big if, Roy build a team around Wilshere, then you have to make a sacrifice somewhere else. Wilshere is a better midfielder than Hendo, only because he's thoughtful with the ball and is good using it, but he can't be the deepest lying midfielder. He has to be paired with the right players. Dier might be a better option if they go with the double pivot, but it all depends.

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Roy is stuck in the Stone Age. He tries to look modern by going 4-3-3. He keeps staring Sterling which is mind blowing. Living off the one moment when he hit the side netting in the World Cup

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They have plenty of talent, and could, with a cohesive team, make it far into a tournament like this. It's less about talent in midfield and more about cohesion. Is Roy going to employ a rotation, where the midfielders move with one another to triangles so that the midfield is always balanced? Or are they going to sit back and let teams dictate play to them? I think it is going to be the latter, and in that case it might as well be a 4-5-1.