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Originally Posted by devilish
Honestly I think its too vague to answer. I mean take the world champions. They had a well balanced and experienced side, with the right mentality to succeed at this level and yet. What would they have achieved if Grosso havent got that controversial penalty against the Aussies? What would have happened if Zidane havent fallen in one of the oldest traps in European's football and got sent off for it? Luck has loads to do in football
Capello have came to England to change the mentality England's plays football. In England he will find loads of obstacles at Administration, staff (ie players) and club level. He will also discover that his superb way of doing things (ie kick the arses of those who arent suited for his system and bring in his own men) will not work this time because the pool of players is so small and he wont be able to replace Lescott with Cannavaro and Crouch with Ibrahimovic. Capello is a great manager but he is a total stranger in how the English football works. Its like taking Julius Caeser, put him in charge of the Gauls and tell him to invade Rome. Would he succeed? God knows
Honestly I would have loved to see England being lead by a foreign manager who had done well in England and knows the EPL players well. Managers like Wenger or Mourinho.
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I think Capello is looking at this in a far more simple way.
Park the bus in front of the goal. Keep the clean sheet and worry about the win later.
I think England's got some fantastic defenders and his job is already half there.
You saw the game against France and you could see immediately that Capello wanted to keep the clean sheet. Aside from the penalty, they didn't look like losing another goal which is probably the positive Capello saw coming out of the game.
France and Italy have shown that defence can bring championships and Capello is probably going to try knocking on that door.
If they improved on their penalty taking skills I think they have a chance of taking many top teams to extra time, nicking those odd wins England seemed to have lost out on all these years.
You look at their penalty record and you would have thunk they were part time players in that respect.