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Originally Posted by Scucca  Just not as good a defender as a fit King |
You're talking about the most expensive defender in the world, a player who's won numerous titles and just captained his side to a Champions League victory. Ferdinands defensive records are soooo superior to King in practically every category you could imagine. King has never even played in the Champions League and has next to no experience at international level. Ferdinand is completely the opposite, and he is at his best at that level.
Quite simply there is no manager in the world football who would even consider King above Ferdinand.
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Nonsense. The only problem with him is that he headers sometimes like he is heading a cannon ball.
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Nope his problem is poor movement, poor agility and limited link-up ability (limited because of his poor movement and agility). He's not a prolific finisher and he's yet to impress at the highest level, hat-tricks against Jamaica and winners against Macedonia and Trinidad and Tobago don't win you World Cups. PLus when he is playing the team inevitably end-up punting it up to him and losing the ball all the time.
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England do best with 442. If Owen returns to his previous form, he is obviously one of the best strikers in the world (as shown by his record)
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Against technically superior teams like Brazil, Portugal, Argentina etc when England play four in the middle the oppostion dominates possesion too easily. 4-4-2 is good against lesser sides who are happy to surrender you possesion in the middle of the park, but against the top sides you need numbers in there. It's the same with Scotland.
Wes Brown has excelled for Man Utd this season whereas Richards has suffered injuries and lack of form. Richards was also terrible vs Croatia and showed embarrisingly little composure on the ball (just like most other England players that night though). Richards might be one for the future, but if England were playing their best side tomorrow I'd have Brown in there.
Robinson is the best keeper you got, doesn't mean he is brilliant, just the best you got. Kirkland is unproven at a higher level and far too injury prone.
Frank Lampard while overrated by most in England is still a valuable player, he needs disciplined players behind him, and he isn't great at breaking up attacks, but his distribution and goal scoring should get him a place in the team. His movement has also improved dramatically in the past few years. He's realised he doesn't need to charge towards the penalty spot every time his team has the ball, now he actually contributes to the build up.
Tell Rafa that. Gerrard in a two man central midfield is recipe for disaster, he doesn't receive the ball well with his back to goal so never takes it off his defence, his first touch lets him down far too often and he goes headless chicken at least once every game.
You need players like Alonso or Mascherano behind him to get a hold of possesion and then bring Gerrard into the game higher up the pitch. Can you recall him playing in a two man central midfield for Liverpool in a big match? I can't.