I know it’s ups and downs with international football and tournament form is another beast but the team wasn’t great against Malta either. Are the players just not that bothered? End of year playing in the motions?
Well these friendlies don’t mean much but it’s still a part of building team chemistry in the build up the Euros. The lack of creativity is still a key issue that has lingered since the Last Euros too, I think Maddisons badly missed and Sakas been far from his best.
One of the main problems of conversation around international football is it’s so spread out people have such short memories. We were very convincing against Italy and Scotland. We beat the same Macedonia side 7-0 in the home leg. But a couple of fairly dull games after we’ve already qualified and now the sky is falling again