Liverpool defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Glen-Johnson-c15050 has backed his Anfield teammate Andy Carroll to grab a place in the England’s national squad for the upcoming Euro 2012 and termed his performance in the recent games as ‘unplayable’.
The coveted European competition will kick off on the 8th of June, and will be jointly hosted by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032.
The newly appointed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 manager, Roy Hodgson will announce the national squad on Wednesday.
However, Johnson believes that the Reds most expensive signing to date, Carroll deserves to be a part of the English squad, and that his recent performances should be taken into consideration while evaluating his right to be a member of the team.
The Englishman told the club’s official website, “Should he go? Yes, definitely. In the last few weeks Andy has been fantastic for us – he has been unplayable.”
Carroll played an important hand in Liverpool’s 4-1 against Chelsea at Anfield on Tuesday, despite failing to get on the score sheet himself. Over the last couple of weeks, the player has lived up to his much talked about potential. He scored a late winner
against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Everton-c39043 in the semi-final of the FA Cup at Wembley and also scored the lone goal for the Reds in a 2-1 defeat against Chelsea in the final.
Johnson praised the striker on his remarkable performance against the Blues on Tuesday, indicating that the 23-year old dealt with Chelsea’s strong centre halves with relative ease.
He added, “http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 have got two big centre-halves and he just threw them around. He looks like he’s quicker and he’s working a lot harder. He’s doing really well.”
Johnson also mentioned that the 6 feet 3’ player has the ability to scare the defenders with his enormous size and felt that the Blues defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/John-Terry-c18895 seemed ‘petrified’ at times in front of him.
Meanwhile, Carroll himself revealed that he wants to secure a place in the squad for Euro, but indicated that at the moment his focus was on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809’s last game of the season against Swansea City on Sunday.
“It would be nice to go to the Euros, but I have one more game to go and we'll see what happens after that.” He said.
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