Definitely somewhat unlucky against Croatia but equally for a team that base's its whole style of play around been a solid defensive unit to concede against them after 4 minutes and then not to learn from it and to concede within the same time frame against the spanish is pretty much inexcusable.
We didnt trouble the spanish keeper once, I dont care how good spain are, we have a team of mostly premiership players and we should have been able to test them more than what we did.
Some of our players just didnt show up, whether it was nerves or injury, i just dont know. We played somewhat better against the italians, whether that was due to the pressure been off or the Italians just letting us tire ourselves out for the first 30 mins then picking us off is another topic for debate.
Spain and Italy, have proved themselves to be the top 2 but equally our tactics and performances were a disaster and we got badly found out . It doesnt make it any easier for me that spain and italy are in the final.
Trap needs a serious rethink for the WC quals
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