Former Chelsea player, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marcel-c23507 Desailly feels that England can’t win the Euro 2012 and can only go on to make it to the knock out stages at best.
England have not won a major footballing competition since 1966 and the way things are going, it seems like Desailly doesn’t have any faith in the team breaking that barren run this year.
Despite England playing in the Euros, Desailly has insisted that the team just doesn’t have what it takes to go on and make it all the way to the finals.
He went on to insist that the way the Three Lions played against France was rather average and feels that anyone could cut them apart, should they be able to string a few passes together.
When talking about England and just what he thinks about the team and their chances of winning the Euro 2012, the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 player is quoted to have said: "I was not expecting at all an English team to be so feeble physically"
"They made no impact and were incapable of pressing their opponents.”
"In my opinion they will not win the European Championship, that is for certain, even if they succeeded in limiting the damage in this [France] match."
He then went on to claim that the game against England was not a test for France, considering the fact that no one can really assess their performance based on just one match, especially one that was played out in the manner that the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 vs England game
took place.
"This was not a test for the French," retired defender proclaimed. "They cannot really make a judgement of their overall performance in this type of match, they can only say there are some things to correct.
"However, it wasn't a test of a very high level neither in the pressing nor the intensity."
It is surprising to hear these comments, considering the fact that the critics are actually quite happy with how http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 played.
Nonetheless, the Three Lions will now look to fight even harder in their game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015 as they look to assess their authority on their group.
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