The English national team manager might turn towards Andy Carroll to exploit Sweden’s lack of aerial prowess in their defensive line as the Three Lions prepare to take on their European counterparts in their second group stage
encounter of the European Championships...
Hodgson has already admitted that Sweden are a different team to France, a team that England opted to contain rather than attack in their first match of the European Championships but now it remains to be seen whether or not the
English national team manager will go with a different game plan as well.
England do have Andy Carroll in their squad and given the fact that out of the last seven goals that Sweden have conceded, six of have been from headers, it might be a wise decision to start with Andy Carroll.
The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 striker had a disappointing season with the Merseyside giants but he might be of use to Hodgson if England are to go with an offensive approach. With the likes of Ashley Young in the squad, the Three Lions can use
Carroll’s height to their advantage and make life difficult for the Swedish back line.
Sweden lost their first group stage match against Ukraine thus they will be out for a win as well but for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749 it is important to get three points in order to take the pressure off them for their last group stage match which
is scheduled to take place against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032.
Hodgson said, "This game is a different opponent. Sweden will pose very different problems to the problems http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 posed. It is not necessarily a weakness to find crosses hard to deal with if the crosses are of a very good quality.”
He added, "Let's hope the message we are trying to put across will help us in that area because there is no doubt, a team like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015, who are very compact centrally, getting down the wings and in behind them in the wide areas
will be an important facet of our play."
England’s chances of doing well at the European Championships have been downplayed so far as they have been seen underdogs. Other teams such as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 have made a stronger case for being tournament favourites
thus far, something that England will want to do with a solid showing against Sweden.
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