Hasil imbang yang menegangkan melawan Ghana mengungkap keterbatasan Madueke dan Gordon | Barney Ronay
Pemain sayap terbalik tidak mampu menyesuaikan permainan mereka, bahkan ketika mereka terus berlari ke jalan buntu yang sama. Setelah euforia: penurunan semangat. Anda mungkin sudah bisa melihat ini akan terjadi. Seandainya saja euforia setelah jeda babak pertama di Dallas, di mana Inggris tampil dengan energi kreatif yang begitu memikat, tidak begitu menggemparkan. Namun, ternyata ini masih tim Inggris yang layak untuk turnamen. Tidak ada apa-apa…
Inverted wingers were unable to adjust their game, even when they kept running down the same dead end street
After the high: the comedown. You could probably have seen this coming. If only that rush after half-time in Dallas, where England surged with such alluring creative energy, hadn’t been quite so much of a buzz.
It turns out, however, that this is still an England tournament team. Nothing comes easily. The world will not bend to you. We can’t have nice things. Or only some nice things sometimes. By the end watching England struggle in Boston against a grisly and indigestible Ghana was like having your will, hope, sense of fun slowly sucked out of your body through a surgical drainage catheter.
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