The Ukrainian national team coach has come out and put the weight of expectations on English shoulders before his team’s encounter against the Three Lions by saying that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 have nothing to lose in their final group stage
tie against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749...
Blokhin has taken the pressure off his players and put it in the English camp after he said in his latest press conference that England will be under more pressure than the co-hosts as Ukraine do not have anything to lose as they
go into their last group stage match against the Three Lions.
Ukraine need to win against England in order to make it into the quarterfinals but England only need a draw to set up a tie against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 in the knockout stages.
Ukraine lost their last group stage match against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 which has put them in the situation that they find themselves in at the moment whereas England gained an emphatic win over Sweden.
Roy Hodgson will be faced with a selection dilemma for England’s match against Ukraine as the Three Lions now have http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 available for selection after the Manchester United striker served his two match ban.
Not only that, with Walcott, Welbeck and Carroll, all three scoring in the win over http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015, Hodgson might be tempted to retain a winning formula and thus he will be forced to exclude Rooney. Alternatively, Ukraine are fretting
over Andrei Shevchenko’s fitness as he has been the talismanic figure for them so far in EURO 2012.
Blokhin said, “We should consider England as leaders in the European Championships. They also have problems because if they lose it will be unexpected. There will be big problems for them, but it's not the same for us. The England
team will be more nervous. We have nothing to lose.”
He added, "They are one of the favourites and are expected to play in the final. Nobody expects that we will fly to the moon. It would be fantastic, but that's another thing.”
England will indeed be under more pressure than the co-hosts as not only are they playing for a spot in the quarterfinals, they are also playing to salvage their reputation.
Tags: