I remember this World Cup was 16 and I remember the amount of hype and pressure and expectation. We had bad injuries within the team from the start and England fans deep down thought we were actually going to win the World Cup. We had a golden generation yeah but the other teams were much better then us and that’s fact. Italy, Spain, France , Germany, Brazil, Portugal they all had better teams and players and had better players in certain positions that we never had.
The pundits always blamed the manager and never once considered how good Portugal actually were. They talk of England as if they had a divine right to get to the final. These sort of pundits had decades of arrogance behind them. Did Ian Wright seriously think, not bringing on Walcott was the reason they didn't get to the semi final? Bizarre how these people think, Portugal were a GOOD side and England went toe to toe with them. They didn't get thrashed. They lost on penalties.
@@dararohan1209 nah italy outplayed us, we were lucky to get to pens. I'm proud of the lads for getting to the final but I'm gonna be honest, Italy were far better. If chiesa never went off it would've been game over long before pens.
Honestly he had Defoe who was a very good striker, and Darren Bent who was the highest scoring Englishman in the PL that season, yet Sven went "I know I will take Theo Walcott, who is 17 and has never played a single minute of PL football in his entire life". Later on he said his biggest regret at that WC was not having a mental coach, well judging by some of his decisions, he was most likely the mental coach himself
Sven should have been sacked after Euro 2004 but because the FA had stupidly panicked giving him a more expensive contract after fearing Chelsea wanted him, they couldn't afford to sack him for another few years. Only good thing Sven really ever did for England was the 5-1 win over Germany and then beating Argentina at the 2002 World Cup. After that he was a let down who overstayed his welcome and wasted what was our strongest generation of players in decades.
Not saying they would've won but it's the intention, Italy's subs didn't have much impact other than Cristante winning the header against Trippier at the front post, but the intention was there from Mancini and Italy deserved the win 100% but England were too defensive.
Walcott was useless as a striker with exception to his early breakthrough at Arsenal. But Crouch was actually very good for England and would have caused some trouble.
Taking Walcott to the WC just because of the crazy media hype backfired massively. I remember Defoe even talked about how he couldn't wait to go to the WC in some cooking show on MTV and then to go and pick a complete nobody who's not even mature enough to play first team football in EPL?
@@mesicek7I remmeber them announcing Walcott and I was shocked he was like 16 at the time never played for England and the likes of Darren Bent who scored 20 goals I think that season for charlot and defoe who missed out was ludacris
They just weren't professional enough. Before the 06 WC, I recall Rio was busy pranking players for a show called 'Rio's world cup wind ups' and Beckham was busy hosting a massive party for the whole team (in which Terry first met Bridges wife). They should have been at a boot camp and save the playing around for after the cup.
arrived in Germany thinking they were kings 1 million spent on the team hotel and then you had all the nonsense with the Wife's and Girlfriends it became a farce
The whole thing was a circus for England. The WAGs shopping and partying in Baden-Baden summed it all up. The football we served up throughout was turgid and it was like we were waiting to be knocked out
This was the best England team I've seen. The names on that team were unbelievable. But as always with England, they underperform in moments of stress.
Alan Hansen summed it up you look at line up you look at the players its miles better than the team that were beaten in the Euro 2020 final by Italy and you have ask yourself why were they so poor throughout this tournament right from the first game against Paraguay. Paraguay fell flat after a bright first half, Trinidad and Tobago lucky to win 2 late goals in the final 7 minutes saved them, Sweden when Joe Cole scored that screamer they were weak on set plays and got found out and then Ecuador they played 4-5-1 which everyone questioned and they never looked comfortable at all and Sven never changed it up.
Names that do well when they're surrounded by foreigners. Not so talented when they're all together, though. The epl hype machine makes people think these guys are better than they are, but they just can't play football like the serious nations can.
England were just happy competing and going toe to toe with top teams - they never had the edge and seemingly the desire was missing too , to really cross the line and winning a cup....
Don't forget the midfield supporting that Portugal side, won the champions league in 04, i am talking about costinha , maniche and deco. Then you had a ronaldo just about to explode and the experience of figo (ballon d'or winner) carryin the team over. An overall very good team, cohesive, solid and at that time, they could face any team in the world looking them in the eye
We have got better. We have won two penalty shootouts since 2018. World Cup 2018 in the quater-finals and in the 3rd place play off in Nations League in 2019.
@@carlybishop6160 2 out of 9 is still pretty bad (I mean Spain 1996 - which was v lucky indeed to go to pens - and Colombia 2018; the Switzerland 3rd place match for Nations League doesn't really count)
@@vampireducks1622 I count it as 2 out of 3. There has been a big shift in the last 5 years. Gareth Southgate has taken a new approach to penalties and even has got psychologists, etc involved
@@vampireducks1622 It's 3 out of 10. And it's not that England are bad at pens. Netherlands, Italy & Spain have exited a lot of tournaments on pens as well. If you look at the ones England lost they were all close shootouts including both Portugal shootouts where England were even handicapped for them not having Rooney in either and not having MichaelOwen as well in 2006. There was still never any 3-0 shootout losses or anything like that, the opposition always had to take at least 5 to win where as England won in just 4 vs Spain...(It was 1 lost 1 won at that point) and England had some kind of advantage in EVERY shootout before they eventually lost it so I don't get why people make out England are so bad at them?? The shootout vs Germany in Euro96 was 1of the most high quality shootouts ever in a major tournament for both teams so no one then could claim England weren't good at pens, it must've been harshly spoken about after this 2nd Portugal shootout. The first was in Portugal and again England on the whole did well on the beach pitch 6-5 it finished and England technically won before pens anyway but for UrsMeier. AshleyCole should've gone before Carragher in 2006. You mentioned Spain 1996 was lucky to go to pens. You could literally say the same thing about all of the shootouts England lost that the opposition were lucky to play pens or lucky to play an hour or more with a numerical advantage I.e Argentina 1998 75 mins England had 10 men. 2006 60minutes England had 10 men. 2004 England scored legit winning goal on 90mins disallowed etc...1996 vs Germany Anderton hit the post almost open goal in golden goal extra-time then Gascoigne was a centimetre away from tap in to win the game.
Why do we never get those awesome compilations at the end of tv shows anymore? Nowadays it's like a 5 or 10 second garbage rapid-pace piecing together of a couple of highlights and that's it...
Almost everyone was betting both Brazil and England to reach the final due to their stacked lineup, but one team was more interested in partying while the other one couldn't find any cohesion. In the end, the two teams that played together as a true team were the ones that reached the final.
The analysis summed it up Sven Goran-Eriksson played a major part in England's demise in Germany 2006 because there was no balance, there was no cohesion. The system of 4-5-1 with Rooney up front solo was madness it didn't work apart from against Ecuador where it barely worked and it did play a part in the red card because he was playing a role that didn't suit him at all and was getting frustrated because he was isolated as Alan Hansen mentioned. He only bought 4 strikers to this tournament Owen wasn't fully fit and blew his knee out in the group stage, Rooney wasn't fully fit because of the broken metatarsal against Chelsea just before the end of the 2005/06 Premier League season, Crouch he didn't fancy at all and Walcott I do not have a clue why he was picked ahead Darren Bent who had a great season at Charlton scoring 18 goals with only 2 of the greatest ever Premier League strikers Ruud Van Nistelrooy with 21 and Thierry Henry with 27 scoring more goals than Bent that season that's how good he was. As Gary Lineker mentioned with Rooney suspended for the semi final if England had won and possibly the final if England had gotten that far hypothetically England were out of strikers completely. England couldn't create anything either Lampard was shocking Gerrard didn't turn up to the party either and their penalties were poor as well.
Exactly, I would have picked Bent or Defoe over Walcott I know Sven made some wild decisions but people disrespect him too much. Yes, he should have done much better with the England team he had at his disposal, but before he got the England job he had a good reputation
@@rohithraman6488 He got the England job because he was very good at Lazio he got them only their second ever scudetto Serie A title in 1999/2000 pulling back an 8 point deficit on Juventus to do it. Eriksson never built on the 5-1 demolition of Germany he played Paul Scholes out of position on the left of midfield to accommodate Lampard and Gerrard in the middle who never gelled at all. Also I wouldn't have picked Crouch either it took him 4 months to get his first goal for Liverpool that season after he moved from relegated Southampton.
I think Rooney and Owen should have gone to the tournament, but not as our main strikers. He should have taken Rooney, Owen, Defoe and Bent, and only used Rooney and Owen as options to bring off the bench if we needed a goal. Starting Rooney as a lone striker, when he was unfit was madness. Sven also managed Owen poorly by playing him in all 3 of the group games. We'd already qualified for the next round by the time we'd played our final group game, and only needed a draw to top the group, so surely it would have made sense to have rested Owen and then bring him back in for the knockout games. I think playing too many games within a short space of time is what led to his injury. Another big issue was Lampard and Gerrard playing together. Even in a midfield 3 it didn't work, because they were too similar. We needed a playmaker and Scholes would have been perfect for that role, but of course Sven misused him playing him on the left, and he retired before the 06 world cup. Carrick was the next best thing, he could have filled that role. A midfield 3 of Carrick, Hargreaves and one of either Gerrard or Lampard was the way to go at this tournament, with either Defoe or Bent up front. Then you have the option of Rooney and Owen coming off the bench if needed.
Rooney was unfit, Owen was consistently injured between 2002-2006 and his knee exploded in the tournament, Bent and Defoe were fit and surely should have been available for selection. Paul Scholes should have been name number 1 on the team sheet - Eriksson had no balls to stand down Lampard & Gerrard.
Shearer is talking BS as usual. Rooney stepped on a man's groin. That's a clear red card. Cristiano was willing to do everything to get the win for Portugal. If that meant he would aggravate Rooney and make sure he doesn't get away with stepping on his teammate, he would do it. And he did. If his Man Utd teammates or English pundits didn't like it, tough luck.
No question Rooney stepping on the man's nether parts was a red card, however I agree it didn't look like the ref saw that. The ref did see Rooney push Ronaldo as he was complaining. Without the push, it might not have been a red card. We'll never know. Either way, it wasn't a great England performance - Rooney was right to have been sent off -and Portugal did deserve to win. This coming from an England fan.
Late 90s and naughties we were very good but there were also many other good teams. Nowadays the other teams are not as good but our lads don't have the fight or passion for England. Bless Wrighty he always takes it hard
@@lurker-mq4fp He lived off Euro 2004 no doubt. Was injured in 06 and no more hopeless than any of the other players in 2010, 2012 or 2014! The only English player to have a great tournament in my lifetime (pre Southgate) was Lineker in 86 and 90..of course Gascgoine in 90 and 96 along with Shearer. Owen in 98, but we were knocked out after only a few games. Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes never delivered through a combination of reasons including bad tactics, injuries and pure over hype!
Had England not lost Glenn Hoddle as manager the structure, balance, the right system was in place to take England to the summit of World football. But sacked him for Non footballing reasons. That cost England very dearly as Hoddle was the perfect manager to get the very best out of That golden generation with his attacking brand of football.
@@andrewyoung1652 Not really..you try to play against 10 men parked on the box line, hard..it was an even contest though until last 10 mins of first half, Argentina started to pick it up...
England enter every tournament with arrogance and a hyperactive media. However we can always depend on one thing. When they face one of the top sides in the tournament; they lose. They got to the final of Euro 2021 without facing one of the best sides in the tournament. They got to the semis of Russia 2018 by beating Panama, Tunisia (in the last minute), Columbia (on penalties) and Sweden. Contrast their route compared to France and Italy who won the tournaments. They haven’t beaten a top side in decades at a tournament. That’s why they won’t win one. Also, they believe that playing their XI best players (particularly in midfield) actually makes a team. Tactical naivety at its best
The difference being this generation right now actually play as a team because of southgate. He doesn't put a best XI in a side anyway cos players like sterling were in poor form before the tournament. Clearly the mentality must change if we want to win qatar. We embrace failure mate that's why we've failed for so long. Other times we haven't played as a team either
@@junnaka9326 exactly people look at denmark and think "yeah they're shit" but when you look at their players you can see they're a good team, I mean they only got beat by 1 goal by us and defended really well.
Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark and Italy are all top teams that we never lost to in games. Obviously we lost to Italy on pens, but not in the game itself. I think you are incredibly disrespectful to the nations we played.
@@JW-zr4juThey can't come to terms with the fact that england are better. Whenever we won during the tournament they said, "oh that team was poor" "that team is bad" but were singing their praises before the game. Everyone hates us and I get we have history and arrogant racist fans but every country in the world is bound to. Exactly we have to think about how poor we were against Italy yet we still took them all the way. I hope southgate is the one.
I disagree...They outplayed Portugal with 10 men and Owen Hargreaves was absolutely incredible in that game. One of the top individual English performances ever.
@@MindfulnessGamer Just not up to it. The history books for the last 58 years don't lie. I stopped expecting anything after Euro '96 and don't even watch them. They couldn't even win the European Championship at home in 2021 when going 1-0 up in 2 minutes. England have just never been that good at football.
Your right,never thought it was for the push , I love going online to watch classic International games again , got a difficult one to call, in france 98 van da sar brought down Ortega in the box , the reff ran over as if he was going to award a penalty to argentina, then Ortega head butts van da sar while standing up , THE REFF GIVES ORTEGA A RED CARD ,AND NO PENALTY AGAINST HOLLAND ,try figuring that one out ,😂.
If the red was for the stamp then fair enough but yeah it seemed like the ref only reacted after Wayne pushed Ronaldo, and to give a red for that is insanely harsh.
Slightly baffled at how down they all sound, and look to be fair. They don't seem like that now and that's probably something to do with modern broadcasting but it all seems a bit more natural this way and it's nice to see in a strange way.
Sven wasn't a particularly good manager. Only got the best out of them a few times. And clearly had his favourites. Picking Walcott for 2006 was a terrible idea.
The funniest part is how tactically inept English football was, 4-5-1 has been a widely used formation for years and years, but it had to be the 4-4-2.. I mean the space between Rooney and the rest of the players that's how wolves played under Nuno, long ball to a striker and hope..
It's crazy they never took strikers like Defoe, Abonglahor, Kevin Phillips. Those strikers were in their prime of the careers around that time. It's like the manager was forced to pick the squad from the top 4 back then. Good memories as a teen watching this tournament. It was Zidanes farewell that world cup.
England had big names at that time, but didnt know how to play football, pass, control and move, keeping the ball. But now after grassroot changes which took 15 years, they don't have big names like that time but play better football, but results are same (still get knocked out semi final Lol
yes and the funniest thing they were like the fifth best squad in that tournament names and individual quality wise... that's how good the 06 WC was and why the english media was crazy. While they did have a better team individually than Portugal although worse collectively if they passed Brazil and France both had better individual talent and so did Italy and Argentina overall. So all that golden generation talk was crazy, they may be great but by the standards of that era it wasn't golden at all
100% deserved red card for Rooney but it's penalties that cost us again in the end anyway. Mad to think we didn't win a euro or world cup knockout match for 12 years after this.
Too much criticism on the manager and not enough on how useless Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney were individually in this World Cup … players were nervous and struggling in heat, nothing Sven could do about that
"I think that the manager contributed to the downfall of England. At no stage did they ever get that balance and shape and structure right... it never looked like working and he never tried to change it. And certainly with the players at his disposal, you'd have to look and everybody will question the manager and quite rightly so." Sounds familiar.
Neville came out and said the reason they didn't play well was due to club rivalries and the team not gelling, that squad should have won everything on paper
England could have simply played 4-2-3-1 with Gerrard behind the unpicked Jermaine Defoe 🙄 with Rooney on the right and Walcott on the left. Hargreaves and Frank as the 2 in behind.
Idiot- They made the semi final of the 2018 world cup and the final of Euro 2021. Also unlike the Netherlands, Portugal and other great sides, they HAVE won a world cup. This is a truly global sport, not rugby or cricket.
They should never have taken Walcott to that tournament if they were never going to bring him on. And this was the perfect game to do so, against a tired Portuguese team in extra time.
Sven hadn’t seen him play, nobody had. He took him because Wenger (a god at the time) rated him enough to buy him for serious money. Reports say everyone was shocked how poor he was in England training.
Sorry Rooney sent himself off..Wright and Shearer are better pundits now by miles...England have sent better teams to a world cup then this...1. 1982 team..where a better manager than greenwood could have sent a stronger squad but they still had a quality outfit....2. 1990 squad...easily better...
But he’s right though. You can see the ref wasn’t interested in giving a card until Rooney pushes ronaldo. And when he does the ref immediately gives him a red. If he was going to card Rooney for the stamp (which I agree in itself was deliberate and a red card) what was he waiting for? Bad refereeing all round for missing the stamp and then actually sending him off for nothing.
Scolari back to back sends them home 2002 it was Ronaldinho who sent them home n in 2006 it was penaltys Rooney still thought Christiano was his friend😂😂 but Christiano does not play that friendship game on the pitch😂😂 hella competitive
As much as I hate you English clowns, this so-called ''golden generation'' would wipe the floor with the current England team who only went far in tournaments because they had easy draws and it is a weak era for international football.
@@handzar6402 Yh well a weak era isn’t their fault. It’s what the era is at the moment, get over it. I’m sorry but if England won the World Cup we’ll be having negative people being like “Yh well they won it in a poor era for international football”. who cares. Always gotta play down everything England does even if it’s something good.
They believed the hype. Problem was, there were a number of better teams at the time. Portugal was one. Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Netherlands……I could go on. England were a good side. That’s about it.
England were abject here. Why were they crying??? They were terrible in the tournament and finally found out as usual in the QF against playing peer opposition- and not Paraguay, Trinidad or Ecuador. Couldn’t believe the tears. This wasn’t 1990, 1996 or 98. Abject
England were so disappointing in this tournament. Nonetheless the thing they really should have highlighted here, rather than the sending off, was the Carragher penalty. The referee ordered a retake for absolutely no reason, having blown the whistle and clearly standing there awaiting the kick. Regardless of anything else, there is no way an Argentine referee should have been allowed to take an England match. Would that have happened to Brazil? No chance. I'm sure someone will pop up to say England were shit. The two things are not mutually exclusive. England had a run of extremely dodgy exits from 1998 - 2006 (I've left out 2010 which was the worst decision just because they were so far second best to Germany it was unreal) and it was hard to argue that they were given a fair crack of the whip with decisions. If putting the ball in the back of the net isn't allowed (Campbell twice and Carragher once) then you're going to struggle.
The reason why England WILL NEVER WIN A MAJOR TOURNAMENT. 1. International Football is the total PACKAGE. So it takes more than cobbling up TALENTED PLAYERS if a cohesive SYSTEM isn't in place. 2. It's all about pacing yourself properly with EACH GAME. In every tournament, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN "EASY" GROUP. 3. The K/O stages is where you earn you STRIPES and you must always expect the possiblity of ET/PENALTIES. In which the English team has failed time and time again to realise.
Hansen got us scotland knocked out in 82 we had to beat russia in final game score 1 1 hansen crashes straight into willie miller and ends up leaving the russian the freedom off the park to go on and score and make it 2 1 we did get a late one to make it 2 2 but wasnt enuf hansen dropped a right clanger
MOTD hasn't been same since Alan Hansen left them, he was by far best pundit in UK television.
Hopefully he is doing okay. I saw some news articles that he was very ill.
@@planahath 🙏 hoping he gets through it
Please watch apres matchs' MOTD spoof.
The impressions are off the scale.
Alan Hansen reminds me of Roy Keane. Firm, funny but very balanced and very insightful. Get well soon mate.
Alan Hansen is the best pundit.
I hope he makes a recovery soon
He’s brilliant. Hope he makes a strong recovery
Lmao, these guys focusing on whether the ref saw Rooney's foul. He stamped on the guy's balls, wtf are you complaining about!
Rooney should not have been at that world cup he was not match fit did Sven sabotage this world cup on purpose because he knew he was leaving?
I remember this World Cup was 16 and I remember the amount of hype and pressure and expectation. We had bad injuries within the team from the start and England fans deep down thought we were actually going to win the World Cup. We had a golden generation yeah but the other teams were much better then us and that’s fact. Italy, Spain, France , Germany, Brazil, Portugal they all had better teams and players and had better players in certain positions that we never had.
The pundits always blamed the manager and never once considered how good Portugal actually were. They talk of England as if they had a divine right to get to the final. These sort of pundits had decades of arrogance behind them. Did Ian Wright seriously think, not bringing on Walcott was the reason they didn't get to the semi final? Bizarre how these people think, Portugal were a GOOD side and England went toe to toe with them. They didn't get thrashed. They lost on penalties.
Portugal were lucky as fuck to win this match, as it turned out they just fudged their way through so that's a mad statement.
@@nigelbenn4642 you lost to us in 3 put 4 major tournaments. You weren't as good. Now go cry
@@pmaigotthat7211 Might go buy a North Macedonia shirt today, no one knows who they are so should be fairly cheap to buy.
Same thing happened when they lost in the Euro final to Italy.
@@dararohan1209 nah italy outplayed us, we were lucky to get to pens. I'm proud of the lads for getting to the final but I'm gonna be honest, Italy were far better. If chiesa never went off it would've been game over long before pens.
Sven's biggest balls-up that WC was leaving Jermaine Defoe at home. No doubt.
Honestly he had Defoe who was a very good striker, and Darren Bent who was the highest scoring Englishman in the PL that season, yet Sven went "I know I will take Theo Walcott, who is 17 and has never played a single minute of PL football in his entire life". Later on he said his biggest regret at that WC was not having a mental coach, well judging by some of his decisions, he was most likely the mental coach himself
Sven should have been sacked after Euro 2004 but because the FA had stupidly panicked giving him a more expensive contract after fearing Chelsea wanted him, they couldn't afford to sack him for another few years.
Only good thing Sven really ever did for England was the 5-1 win over Germany and then beating Argentina at the 2002 World Cup. After that he was a let down who overstayed his welcome and wasted what was our strongest generation of players in decades.
It was stupid ridiculous not taking Jermaine Defoe he definitely should of gone instead of Walcott.
Team full of top big name players couldn’t gell together as a team.
I could of done a better job than Sven.
Hansen was carrying this broadcast. Why the hell would BBC ever let
him leave.
BBC are now woke and only care about diversity quotas.
Hanson is a straight while male. The BBC hate him.
When you’re talking about Crouch or Walcott having to save your team at a World Cup then you’re probably not winning.
Not saying they would've won but it's the intention, Italy's subs didn't have much impact other than Cristante winning the header against Trippier at the front post, but the intention was there from Mancini and Italy deserved the win 100% but England were too defensive.
Walcott was useless as a striker with exception to his early breakthrough at Arsenal. But Crouch was actually very good for England and would have caused some trouble.
Walcott is not a target man by any stretch, but even he would have done better than Rooney upfront, who was diabolical.
Taking Walcott to the WC just because of the crazy media hype backfired massively. I remember Defoe even talked about how he couldn't wait to go to the WC in some cooking show on MTV and then to go and pick a complete nobody who's not even mature enough to play first team football in EPL?
@@mesicek7I remmeber them announcing Walcott and I was shocked he was like 16 at the time never played for England and the likes of Darren Bent who scored 20 goals I think that season for charlot and defoe who missed out was ludacris
They just weren't professional enough. Before the 06 WC, I recall Rio was busy pranking players for a show called 'Rio's world cup wind ups' and Beckham was busy hosting a massive party for the whole team (in which Terry first met Bridges wife). They should have been at a boot camp and save the playing around for after the cup.
You've been merked! 😅
arrived in Germany thinking they were kings 1 million spent on the team hotel and then you had all the nonsense with the Wife's and Girlfriends it became a farce
The whole thing was a circus for England. The WAGs shopping and partying in Baden-Baden summed it all up. The football we served up throughout was turgid and it was like we were waiting to be knocked out
Capello basically took boot camp attitude four years later - and it was a massive failure.
This was the best England team I've seen. The names on that team were unbelievable. But as always with England, they underperform in moments of stress.
Alan Hansen summed it up you look at line up you look at the players its miles better than the team that were beaten in the Euro 2020 final by Italy and you have ask yourself why were they so poor throughout this tournament right from the first game against Paraguay. Paraguay fell flat after a bright first half, Trinidad and Tobago lucky to win 2 late goals in the final 7 minutes saved them, Sweden when Joe Cole scored that screamer they were weak on set plays and got found out and then Ecuador they played 4-5-1 which everyone questioned and they never looked comfortable at all and Sven never changed it up.
Against Ecuador they scored from a lucky free kick that could've easily not went in.
@@classicsportclassictiyl8547 they just crumbled under the pressure. As always. And people wonder why southgate plays cautiously
@@classicsportclassictiyl8547 Because they were not passing they were always hoofing it.
Names that do well when they're surrounded by foreigners. Not so talented when they're all together, though.
The epl hype machine makes people think these guys are better than they are, but they just can't play football like the serious nations can.
Thanks for the upload 👍🏽
England were just happy competing and going toe to toe with top teams - they never had the edge and seemingly the desire was missing too , to really cross the line and winning a cup....
And absolutely nothing has changed..
2006 Fifa World Cup Match Of The Day-Live On Saturday 1st July 2006 On BBC ONE.
Your uploads are great, thanks!
Don't forget the midfield supporting that Portugal side, won the champions league in 04, i am talking about costinha , maniche and deco. Then you had a ronaldo just about to explode and the experience of figo (ballon d'or winner) carryin the team over.
An overall very good team, cohesive, solid and at that time, they could face any team in the world looking them in the eye
Don’t forget prime ricardo carvalho who won back to back prems
Deco was suspended for this game
Here to watch this gem again😂
2:02 look at Wright. 3 weeks ago he said farewell
West Germany 1990
Germany 1996
Argentina 1998
Portugal 2004
Portugal 2006
Italy 2012
Italy 2021
We really don't like penalty shootouts 😂
We have got better. We have won two penalty shootouts since 2018. World Cup 2018 in the quater-finals and in the 3rd place play off in Nations League in 2019.
@@carlybishop6160 2 out of 9 is still pretty bad (I mean Spain 1996 - which was v lucky indeed to go to pens - and Colombia 2018; the Switzerland 3rd place match for Nations League doesn't really count)
@@vampireducks1622 I count it as 2 out of 3. There has been a big shift in the last 5 years. Gareth Southgate has taken a new approach to penalties and even has got psychologists, etc involved
@@carlybishop6160 Fair enough
@@vampireducks1622 It's 3 out of 10.
And it's not that England are bad at pens. Netherlands, Italy & Spain have exited a lot of tournaments on pens as well.
If you look at the ones England lost they were all close shootouts including both Portugal shootouts where England were even handicapped for them not having Rooney in either and not having MichaelOwen as well in 2006. There was still never any 3-0 shootout losses or anything like that, the opposition always had to take at least 5 to win where as England won in just 4 vs Spain...(It was 1 lost 1 won at that point) and England had some kind of advantage in EVERY shootout before they eventually lost it so I don't get why people make out England are so bad at them?? The shootout vs Germany in Euro96 was 1of the most high quality shootouts ever in a major tournament for both teams so no one then could claim England weren't good at pens, it must've been harshly spoken about after this 2nd Portugal shootout. The first was in Portugal and again England on the whole did well on the beach pitch 6-5 it finished and England technically won before pens anyway but for UrsMeier. AshleyCole should've gone before Carragher in 2006.
You mentioned Spain 1996 was lucky to go to pens. You could literally say the same thing about all of the shootouts England lost that the opposition were lucky to play pens or lucky to play an hour or more with a numerical advantage I.e Argentina 1998 75 mins England had 10 men. 2006 60minutes England had 10 men.
2004 England scored legit winning goal on 90mins disallowed etc...1996 vs Germany Anderton hit the post almost open goal in golden goal extra-time then Gascoigne was a centimetre away from tap in to win the game.
Bringing Walcott was mental
Why? He wasn't played.
and then to not play him at all 😂
@@flaggerifyprecisely. Zero point taking him.
Manager tactics were to blame. The tactic was route-one (hoof-ball) to Rooney. Thump long and hope tactics.
Why do we never get those awesome compilations at the end of tv shows anymore? Nowadays it's like a 5 or 10 second garbage rapid-pace piecing together of a couple of highlights and that's it...
2022 anyone?
Almost everyone was betting both Brazil and England to reach the final due to their stacked lineup, but one team was more interested in partying while the other one couldn't find any cohesion. In the end, the two teams that played together as a true team were the ones that reached the final.
Italy had bufon totti del piero pirlo and canavarro england had nobody in that class
The analysis summed it up Sven Goran-Eriksson played a major part in England's demise in Germany 2006 because there was no balance, there was no cohesion. The system of 4-5-1 with Rooney up front solo was madness it didn't work apart from against Ecuador where it barely worked and it did play a part in the red card because he was playing a role that didn't suit him at all and was getting frustrated because he was isolated as Alan Hansen mentioned. He only bought 4 strikers to this tournament Owen wasn't fully fit and blew his knee out in the group stage, Rooney wasn't fully fit because of the broken metatarsal against Chelsea just before the end of the 2005/06 Premier League season, Crouch he didn't fancy at all and Walcott I do not have a clue why he was picked ahead Darren Bent who had a great season at Charlton scoring 18 goals with only 2 of the greatest ever Premier League strikers Ruud Van Nistelrooy with 21 and Thierry Henry with 27 scoring more goals than Bent that season that's how good he was. As Gary Lineker mentioned with Rooney suspended for the semi final if England had won and possibly the final if England had gotten that far hypothetically England were out of strikers completely. England couldn't create anything either Lampard was shocking Gerrard didn't turn up to the party either and their penalties were poor as well.
Exactly, I would have picked Bent or Defoe over Walcott
I know Sven made some wild decisions but people disrespect him too much. Yes, he should have done much better with the England team he had at his disposal, but before he got the England job he had a good reputation
@@rohithraman6488 He got the England job because he was very good at Lazio he got them only their second ever scudetto Serie A title in 1999/2000 pulling back an 8 point deficit on Juventus to do it. Eriksson never built on the 5-1 demolition of Germany he played Paul Scholes out of position on the left of midfield to accommodate Lampard and Gerrard in the middle who never gelled at all. Also I wouldn't have picked Crouch either it took him 4 months to get his first goal for Liverpool that season after he moved from relegated Southampton.
I think Rooney and Owen should have gone to the tournament, but not as our main strikers. He should have taken Rooney, Owen, Defoe and Bent, and only used Rooney and Owen as options to bring off the bench if we needed a goal. Starting Rooney as a lone striker, when he was unfit was madness.
Sven also managed Owen poorly by playing him in all 3 of the group games. We'd already qualified for the next round by the time we'd played our final group game, and only needed a draw to top the group, so surely it would have made sense to have rested Owen and then bring him back in for the knockout games. I think playing too many games within a short space of time is what led to his injury.
Another big issue was Lampard and Gerrard playing together. Even in a midfield 3 it didn't work, because they were too similar. We needed a playmaker and Scholes would have been perfect for that role, but of course Sven misused him playing him on the left, and he retired before the 06 world cup. Carrick was the next best thing, he could have filled that role. A midfield 3 of Carrick, Hargreaves and one of either Gerrard or Lampard was the way to go at this tournament, with either Defoe or Bent up front. Then you have the option of Rooney and Owen coming off the bench if needed.
Rooney was unfit, Owen was consistently injured between 2002-2006 and his knee exploded in the tournament, Bent and Defoe were fit and surely should have been available for selection. Paul Scholes should have been name number 1 on the team sheet - Eriksson had no balls to stand down Lampard & Gerrard.
@@lurker-mq4fp Scholes retired to concentrate on his United career
Shearer is talking BS as usual. Rooney stepped on a man's groin. That's a clear red card. Cristiano was willing to do everything to get the win for Portugal. If that meant he would aggravate Rooney and make sure he doesn't get away with stepping on his teammate, he would do it. And he did. If his Man Utd teammates or English pundits didn't like it, tough luck.
I could of done a better job than Sven goran erikcson
No question Rooney stepping on the man's nether parts was a red card, however I agree it didn't look like the ref saw that. The ref did see Rooney push Ronaldo as he was complaining. Without the push, it might not have been a red card. We'll never know.
Either way, it wasn't a great England performance - Rooney was right to have been sent off -and Portugal did deserve to win. This coming from an England fan.
@@RoadCone411 In fairness though it was a red card offence regardless of whether the ref saw it or not. Rooney more than earnt it!
It's a red card ,but like the Beckham one ,it was provoked ,and I fucking hate seeing refs punish the person who reacts.
Rooney placed his foot on the ground to keep his balance.
A Portugease player was lying beneath him.
Not deliberate or malicious.
Late 90s and naughties we were very good but there were also many other good teams. Nowadays the other teams are not as good but our lads don't have the fight or passion for England. Bless Wrighty he always takes it hard
seeing how hopeless Rooney was at major tournaments makes you realize how important Harry Kane is
Rooney was always found out at Tournaments. He is great against San Marino but in the big matches he disappeared.
@@lurker-mq4fp He lived off Euro 2004 no doubt. Was injured in 06 and no more hopeless than any of the other players in 2010, 2012 or 2014! The only English player to have a great tournament in my lifetime (pre Southgate) was Lineker in 86 and 90..of course Gascgoine in 90 and 96 along with Shearer. Owen in 98, but we were knocked out after only a few games. Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes never delivered through a combination of reasons including bad tactics, injuries and pure over hype!
Exactly, 38 goals and 13 assists in 60 England games for Harry Kane
In major tournaments - 10 goals
@@its_rick_james_bich2575 Don't get me started about the inability of England managers unable to choose between Scholes, Gerrard, and Lampard!
Rooney was rushed back at both the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, Harry Kane has still won nothing in his career. Know who I’d rather have
England and Portugal were so stacked on paper during this era and they both never won anything still baffles me
Deffo need the coverage of this
4:50 poor lad
Had England not lost Glenn Hoddle as manager the structure, balance, the right system was in place to take England to the summit of World football. But sacked him for Non footballing reasons. That cost England very dearly as Hoddle was the perfect manager to get the very best out of That golden generation with his attacking brand of football.
Go back and watch the 1998 World Cup games with England - they got outplayed by both Argentina and Romania
@@Chris-si4ox By Romania, yes..Argentina, it was even until the sending off of Beckham..
@@kailashpatel1706England were still the better team even after the sending off
He said disabled people did wrong in a previous life. Even if you believe it you don’t tell anyone that. He’s not a nice bloke
@@andrewyoung1652 Not really..you try to play against 10 men parked on the box line, hard..it was an even contest though until last 10 mins of first half, Argentina started to pick it up...
Hansen was the only one talking sense
7:00 mins🤣 just shows how much football has changed. You would never get shearer or Wright saying something like that these days
What did they say?
England enter every tournament with arrogance and a hyperactive media. However we can always depend on one thing. When they face one of the top sides in the tournament; they lose. They got to the final of Euro 2021 without facing one of the best sides in the tournament. They got to the semis of Russia 2018 by beating Panama, Tunisia (in the last minute), Columbia (on penalties) and Sweden. Contrast their route compared to France and Italy who won the tournaments. They haven’t beaten a top side in decades at a tournament. That’s why they won’t win one. Also, they believe that playing their XI best players (particularly in midfield) actually makes a team. Tactical naivety at its best
The difference being this generation right now actually play as a team because of southgate. He doesn't put a best XI in a side anyway cos players like sterling were in poor form before the tournament. Clearly the mentality must change if we want to win qatar. We embrace failure mate that's why we've failed for so long. Other times we haven't played as a team either
I’m sorry but shouldn’t Croatia and Germany count as ‘top teams’? And people should stop being mean about Denmark, should never underestimate them.
@@junnaka9326 exactly people look at denmark and think "yeah they're shit" but when you look at their players you can see they're a good team, I mean they only got beat by 1 goal by us and defended really well.
Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark and Italy are all top teams that we never lost to in games. Obviously we lost to Italy on pens, but not in the game itself. I think you are incredibly disrespectful to the nations we played.
@@JW-zr4juThey can't come to terms with the fact that england are better. Whenever we won during the tournament they said, "oh that team was poor" "that team is bad" but were singing their praises before the game. Everyone hates us and I get we have history and arrogant racist fans but every country in the world is bound to. Exactly we have to think about how poor we were against Italy yet we still took them all the way. I hope southgate is the one.
Let's be honest. We were rubbish in this tournament.
I disagree...They outplayed Portugal with 10 men and Owen Hargreaves was absolutely incredible in that game. One of the top individual English performances ever.
@@HowayTheMags Still lost
Rubbish in every tournament
@@HowayTheMagsevery game before that they were terrible and first half against Portugal. Defended well second half that's it.
@@MindfulnessGamer Just not up to it. The history books for the last 58 years don't lie. I stopped expecting anything after Euro '96 and don't even watch them. They couldn't even win the European Championship at home in 2021 when going 1-0 up in 2 minutes. England have just never been that good at football.
That’s what happens when the manager persists with a formation that didn’t work and has no tactical adaptability
Never realised until now that the red card was probably for the push...wow
Ikr crazy. For 15 years thought it was the stamp. But never a red card imo
@@JJJJ-fi9dg The stamp is a red though.
Your right,never thought it was for the push , I love going online to watch classic International games again , got a difficult one to call, in france 98 van da sar brought down Ortega in the box , the reff ran over as if he was going to award a penalty to argentina, then Ortega head butts van da sar while standing up , THE REFF GIVES ORTEGA A RED CARD ,AND NO PENALTY AGAINST HOLLAND ,try figuring that one out ,😂.
If the red was for the stamp then fair enough but yeah it seemed like the ref only reacted after Wayne pushed Ronaldo, and to give a red for that is insanely harsh.
Bring back Alan Hansen. A real man
I saw a news headline earlier saying he's seriously ill in hospital.
He's croaked it hasn't he??
@@bobstermaher still hanging in there thankfully
Slightly baffled at how down they all sound, and look to be fair. They don't seem like that now and that's probably something to do with modern broadcasting but it all seems a bit more natural this way and it's nice to see in a strange way.
Sven wasn't a particularly good manager. Only got the best out of them a few times. And clearly had his favourites. Picking Walcott for 2006 was a terrible idea.
he was a great manager. won trophies with a number of sides. a lot goes into national team coaching
Putting pressure on the ref, "we don't do that in England, are we too honest ?.... are you on Geordie glue ?
The funniest part is how tactically inept English football was, 4-5-1 has been a widely used formation for years and years, but it had to be the 4-4-2.. I mean the space between Rooney and the rest of the players that's how wolves played under Nuno, long ball to a striker and hope..
Alan Shearer's voice is several octaves lower, here, than it is now (February, 2022).
A touch peculiar.
Happens over time
@@Ruscococo1and look at Wright
Age. Listen to John Motson in the 80s
It's crazy they never took strikers like Defoe, Abonglahor, Kevin Phillips. Those strikers were in their prime of the careers around that time. It's like the manager was forced to pick the squad from the top 4 back then. Good memories as a teen watching this tournament. It was Zidanes farewell that world cup.
Not up to it at international level. Red/white/blue blinkers.
4-5-1 with rooney up top and Gerrard supporting should be good enough. Probably ahead of its time
This match in my opinion is the reason why English media is always hating towards Ronaldo even now in 2024
And it went all downhill after this 🤦🏾♂️
It's been downhill since dodgy 66"
England had big names at that time, but didnt know how to play football, pass, control and move, keeping the ball.
But now after grassroot changes which took 15 years, they don't have big names like that time but play better football, but results are same (still get knocked out semi final
Lol
yes and the funniest thing they were like the fifth best squad in that tournament names and individual quality wise... that's how good the 06 WC was and why the english media was crazy. While they did have a better team individually than Portugal although worse collectively if they passed Brazil and France both had better individual talent and so did Italy and Argentina overall. So all that golden generation talk was crazy, they may be great but by the standards of that era it wasn't golden at all
Spot on they didn’t
@@tristanwhite347205:45
100% deserved red card for Rooney but it's penalties that cost us again in the end anyway. Mad to think we didn't win a euro or world cup knockout match for 12 years after this.
That wink lol remember the outrage!!
Crazy Shearer complaining about how they took 4 strikers & now days 3 strikers is enough, mad how football has changed
alan shearer voice is so different compared to now. Gary is exactly the same
Too much criticism on the manager and not enough on how useless Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney were individually in this World Cup … players were nervous and struggling in heat, nothing Sven could do about that
16 years later and we are still talking about the same issue of a penalty miss.🤔
5:22 cute stamp
Bizarre it’s always penalties
Was a painful one this. But until this game we’d played so bad. We wouldn’t have been good enough to beat France or Italy back then mind.
the second most awaited even of every national competition. defeat of high flying england
"I think that the manager contributed to the downfall of England. At no stage did they ever get that balance and shape and structure right... it never looked like working and he never tried to change it. And certainly with the players at his disposal, you'd have to look and everybody will question the manager and quite rightly so." Sounds familiar.
England many the player star
4:47 Shearer talking as if England's saintly players wouldn't react to their own defender being stamped on
Always nice to see, England crying. Their consistency for not winning a World Cup is remarkable.
And the obsession of people like you with England is just pitiful 🤣
Better than the sweaty socks though
@@leehaslam57513:52 who is 19?
Having crouch and Walcott there and Defoe and Bent at home is absolutely absurd
Neville came out and said the reason they didn't play well was due to club rivalries and the team not gelling, that squad should have won everything on paper
Absolute nonsense excuses all the major countries had club rivalries, englands squad wasnt a patch on france or italys in 06
England could have simply played 4-2-3-1 with Gerrard behind the unpicked Jermaine Defoe 🙄 with Rooney on the right and Walcott on the left. Hargreaves and Frank as the 2 in behind.
3:54 - 4:00 English football at its finest.
Name of the song at the end?
Numb Pet Shop Boys
Wanted to beat France so bad heartbroken
How many more excuses do England need before they realise they are no good at international football
Idiot- They made the semi final of the 2018 world cup and the final of Euro 2021. Also unlike the Netherlands, Portugal and other great sides, they HAVE won a world cup. This is a truly global sport, not rugby or cricket.
Rooney was still injured at this World Cup wasn’t he? It showed. Plus he always seemed to get the ball around 2-3 seconds after he wanted it.
They should never have taken Walcott to that tournament if they were never going to bring him on. And this was the perfect game to do so, against a tired Portuguese team in extra time.
Sven hadn’t seen him play, nobody had. He took him because Wenger (a god at the time) rated him enough to buy him for serious money. Reports say everyone was shocked how poor he was in England training.
Sorry Rooney sent himself off..Wright and Shearer are better pundits now by miles...England have sent better teams to a world cup then this...1. 1982 team..where a better manager than greenwood could have sent a stronger squad but they still had a quality outfit....2. 1990 squad...easily better...
But he’s right though. You can see the ref wasn’t interested in giving a card until Rooney pushes ronaldo. And when he does the ref immediately gives him a red. If he was going to card Rooney for the stamp (which I agree in itself was deliberate and a red card) what was he waiting for?
Bad refereeing all round for missing the stamp and then actually sending him off for nothing.
Scolari back to back sends them home
2002 it was Ronaldinho who sent them home n in 2006 it was penaltys
Rooney still thought Christiano was his friend😂😂 but Christiano does not play that friendship game on the pitch😂😂 hella competitive
Euro 2004 as well.
@@notoriouseagle1074
06:20 should have rolled over
For a competitive guy he sure is allergic to contributing anything beyond useless friendly
ENGLAND: All the gear no idea.
We had more famous players back then. Players now are not so famous.
Never learnt how to cheat properly that's been England's trouble all the years they've played.
Nah England just sucks
@@tcbbctagain572 Yeah probably
Not keeping their discipline is probably a bigger problem. No one cheated to make Rooney stamp on someone's groin.
@@paulwilliams8389England could have three stars on their three lions if they'd just cheated as much as Portugal
@@nigelbenn4642 How did Portugal cheat?
I remember Crouch giving a post match interview ,. He said " we had just finished a long season and we felt a little tired out there" !! Pathetic
If only England had used Michael Carrick correctly.
The two main strikers where injured...
If I must quote Kipling, then I will: what do they know of England, who only England know?
Ronaldo knew from the very off that Rooney was the danger man.
Still having the same problems now a manager that refuses to change system
'golden generation' lol
at least southgate's bunch are humble and made two semi's in a row!
And they play as a team unlike our 'golden generation'
Golden Generation actually tried to win matches instead of defending for 70 odd mins. And never using any of their firepower
@@jeffrejr1 This England team would get destroyed by Brazil and Portugal.
As much as I hate you English clowns, this so-called ''golden generation'' would wipe the floor with the current England team who only went far in tournaments because they had easy draws and it is a weak era for international football.
@@handzar6402 Yh well a weak era isn’t their fault. It’s what the era is at the moment, get over it. I’m sorry but if England won the World Cup we’ll be having negative people being like “Yh well they won it in a poor era for international football”. who cares. Always gotta play down everything England does even if it’s something good.
They believed the hype. Problem was, there were a number of better teams at the time. Portugal was one. Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Netherlands……I could go on.
England were a good side. That’s about it.
Believed the hype 😂 this England team should’ve won something
Awful penalties too. Carragher, Gerrard & Lampard - experienced players who couldn’t put the ball in the net.
We were complete crap this World Cup. Great team on paper but played like shite in every game
England were abject here. Why were they crying??? They were terrible in the tournament and finally found out as usual in the QF against playing peer opposition- and not Paraguay, Trinidad or Ecuador.
Couldn’t believe the tears. This wasn’t 1990, 1996 or 98.
Abject
The tournament Hargreaves came from nowhere and played out of his skin
England were so disappointing in this tournament. Nonetheless the thing they really should have highlighted here, rather than the sending off, was the Carragher penalty. The referee ordered a retake for absolutely no reason, having blown the whistle and clearly standing there awaiting the kick. Regardless of anything else, there is no way an Argentine referee should have been allowed to take an England match. Would that have happened to Brazil? No chance.
I'm sure someone will pop up to say England were shit. The two things are not mutually exclusive. England had a run of extremely dodgy exits from 1998 - 2006 (I've left out 2010 which was the worst decision just because they were so far second best to Germany it was unreal) and it was hard to argue that they were given a fair crack of the whip with decisions. If putting the ball in the back of the net isn't allowed (Campbell twice and Carragher once) then you're going to struggle.
Get ready for this all over again in about three weeks time 😂
The reason why England WILL NEVER WIN A MAJOR TOURNAMENT.
1. International Football is the total PACKAGE. So it takes more than cobbling up TALENTED PLAYERS if a cohesive SYSTEM isn't in place.
2. It's all about pacing yourself properly with EACH GAME. In every tournament, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN "EASY" GROUP.
3. The K/O stages is where you earn you STRIPES and you must always expect the possiblity of ET/PENALTIES. In which the English team has failed time and time again to realise.
Portugal was excellent that whole damn tournament.
they weren't...they cheated england out of the tournement, imagine fucking over your own teammate because the opposition are killing you....
@@MrA340fanyo chill out kiddo rooney deserved that red card
🥺🥺 end of England
Iceland beat them yesternight
Messi, campeon del mundo 2022👏
Panalties u cant blame its luck and theres lot pressure
Get ready for more of the same in the next 3 weeks guys
Hansen got us scotland knocked out in 82 we had to beat russia in final game score 1 1 hansen crashes straight into willie miller and ends up leaving the russian the freedom off the park to go on and score and make it 2 1 we did get a late one to make it 2 2 but wasnt enuf hansen dropped a right clanger
England players back there didn't care. They were more bothered about Clun rivalry which is a fact as they admitted it.
And it doesn't matter now because there is no rivalry with city's oil money dominating the league. May help now they are all best pals eh?
This was hilarious
08:45 Trinidad where are my people
Lol the whole wink debate 😂😂. It was a clear red
Definite red, but in today's game with VAR Ronaldo also gets sent off before kick off probably.
@@josephcole8046 how tf is it a red are you blind
@@JJJJ-fi9dg Which one? Rooney's obviously was. The Ronaldo one would probably depend on who's doing VAR and if the ref saw it.
Then why wink? If it was a clear red there's no doubt and no need to wink
@@nigelbenn4642 wtf are you on. You genuinely think a wink means it wasnt a red? HE STOMPED ON HIS NUTS NIGEL
Look how skinny Wrighty still was here.
1:30 David Beckham looks pretty suicidal here.
😂😂😂😂
@@nkosanamakhubela2586look at Ferdinand crying
Most over-hyped team in the history of football....hard facts were they simply weren't good enough
Scottish by any chance? I can smell the "jealous little brother" odour.