Former England manager Glenn Hoddle believes that there were a lot of positives to be picked up from the Three Lions Euro 2012 campaign following their quarterfinal exit, and Roy Hodgson needs to adopt a more positive approach instead of opting for
4-4-2 formation time and again.
Despite doing an impressive http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 in the rearguard throughout the course of the tournament, England struggled to retain possession of the ball in the midfield and the strikers lacked the finishing potency upfront. After pulling off a sensational 3-2 win against
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With the World Cup qualifiers looming over their heads, Hoddle thinks that the Three Lions need to put their Euro despondency behind them, and should pursue an alternate strategy to their tried and tested 4-4-2 formation in future.
He told the reporters in an interview, “When I was manager I used wing-backs and tried to change the shape of the team from 4-4-2 because I learnt from my own experiences as a player.”
“Roy will sort out which way and which system he wants to play but we need to give ourselves a better opportunity to attack.”
However, the 54-year old felt that there were a lot of positives to be picked up from his country’s Euro campaign, insisting that they were one of the best teams in the competition defensively, but admitted that they need to keep more possession of the ball
and add extra spice to their offensive ploy.
He added, “Looking forward to the World Cup qualifiers, we've got to keep the ball a bit better but there were lots of positives [from Euro 2012].”
Following their exit from the European Championships, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/San-Marino-c2998 and Moldova, and will kick-off
their campaign against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Moldova-c2957 on 7th of September.
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